The Frisco Heritage Museum is hosting it’s second annual bridal open house on Sunday, March 25th. This free show allows you to tour all of the venues they have available at the venue, as well as mix and mingle with their favorite wedding vendors. We’ve been included in this list and are honored to take part in their open house.
The Frisco Heritage Museum is truly unique, including a prairie-style farmhouse and a one-room schoolhouse, that each recreates a piece of Texas history. The centerpiece of the museum’s living village is the Frisco Lebanon Baptist Church, which is over 100 years old! It was literally rolled across town and set down in its new home after the congregation outgrew its original building. The original pews are still in place, as is the tin ceiling and wooden floors. Chandeliers and sconce lighting add to the venue’s charm, and the original bell tower can still ring out at the end of your ceremony.
For more information, visit www.friscovenues.com, or click here to register. We hope to see you there!
photo by Frisco Heritage Center
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One of the biggest hurdles in planning a wedding is deciding who goes on the guest list and how many guests to invite. Creating a guest list, whether you’re thinking of inviting 5 or 500, can be a process fraught with family negotiations. Plus, the number of people you invite has a huge impact on your wedding budget and your choice of wedding ceremony and reception venues. We suggest starting off with a “draft list”. This is the first list you make, which allows you to start visualizing who you want to invite.
It can be difficult to figure out where to start when listing potential invitees. The best way to start is to first pick a total number of guests that you want to attend. Yes, we said attend, not invite. (We’ll talk more about this later.) Make it a logical number – if you know the groom has more than 30 close family members, a total guest count of 75 probably isn’t going to be realistic. Think about the style and feel of your wedding as well. If you know you want a small, intimate ceremony in the tiny chapel you grew up attending, then starting off with a guest list of 300 is going to lead to a lot of heartache later. When deciding on this number, also keep in mind your overall budget. Here are some useful statistics:
- The average spent per wedding in the U.S. in 2011 was $25,000.
- The average number of guests was 150.
- That means the average amount spent per guest was $166.67.
So, if you have budget of $25,000, you can easily see that you may not be able to afford to invite 250 – 300 guests. Once you’ve got a nice round number in mind, divide the list into four pieces: a quarter of the list to the bride, a quarter to the groom, a quarter for the bride’s parents, and a quarter for the groom’s parents. If either set of parents is divorced, split their allotment evenly between the father and mother. Make sure the bride works with her parents and the groom with his to ensure all family members make it onto the list.
After everyone has a list of names, ask each person to go through and make a realistic projection of whether or not each guest will attend. This doesn’t mean you need to start emailing or calling people – in all likelihood, you don’t have a date yet! But most people know, for example, that the groom’s Uncle George never comes to family events, or that the bride’s college roommate is deployed overseas and just can’t get that kind of leave. Take a look at the lists and make sure that no one’s portion has been decimated by the probably-won’t-come estimates. Adjust accordingly. And voila! You have your draft guest list for wedding invitations.
Of course, it’s not all about numbers. You – the bride and groom – should have the ultimate decision-making power when it comes to guests. If you don’t want someone at your wedding, do not feel obligated to invite him or her. If you attended someone else’s wedding, you aren’t required to invite them to yours. Close personal friends or your boss from work are fine, but don’t ask the entire office if you would rather they not share in your special day or you are restricted on head count due to venue or budget. Set some ground rules with your parents about who they can include on the list. A good rule of thumb is that either the bride or the groom should have met every person that will be invited. Whatever rules you decide to follow, once they have been established, stand firm! Don’t let yourself be bullied into adding extra guests or people you’ve never heard of once you and your parents have agreed on the boundaries.
We’ll be talking more about this and other great ways to get started on your wedding planning at our free info sessions next weekend. For more information or to register to attend, click here.
photo by Katie Cassidy Photography
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One of our friends, Janice Hopkins with Artisan Florals, recently partnered with Michael’s in McKinney to start offering fresh and silk floral design. One of her first classes will be a “DIY Bridal Bouquet” class, where Janice will show you how to create the bouquet you envision using fresh floral. The class will be held on February 11th from 10am to 1pm. The fee for the class is $125 per person, and it includes all the supplies for the class. If you bring a friend, you can get $25 off when you register.
Seeing how a bouquet is made and the effort that goes into it is a great look “behind the scenes” of what a florist does for you. So while we don’t normally encourage you to try and make your own bouquet on your wedding day, we know you’ll learn a lot and have fun doing it! Thanks to Janice for letting us know about her classes! To register, call Janice at 469-443-2279 or email her at freshfromheaven333@hotmail.com.
photo by Sherry Peters Photography
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It’s that time again! Come visit us at the McKinney Bridal Show this Saturday, January 21st, from 10am-3pm. This is a great opportunity to get to know McKinney vendors, and of course spend some time on the fabulous square!
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So you just got engaged and now it’s time start planning your wedding. We bet you have questions!
Who do we call first?
What does a wedding cost?
When do we start?
Where do we begin?
How do we get started planning our wedding?
These are a lot of the questions we hear from engaged couples, whether they are calling us, sending us messages on Facebook or they see us at a wedding show. Planning a wedding can be completely overwhelming and it’s hard to even know where to begin! While we would love for each one of these couples to work with us as our clients, we know that some will never hire a planner and some will choose a date we are booked for. So, we’ve added a new info session topic to our line up:
The Keys of Wedding Planning
Like all our other sessions, this one will be free. This two hour info session will provide you all the information you need to get started, from how to create a budget, what to look for in a wedding venue to how to find the right vendors for your wedding. We’ll also cover some basics on how to navigate the guest list, mistakes commonly made by engaged couples and much more! Followed by a half hour q&a session with our certified planners, you will leave with all your questions answered!
For 2012, we’ve decided to offer our info sessions in Dallas and McKinney! Bonus! Choose the location best for you and reserve your seat today. With all the newly engaged couples from the holidays, we expect these to book up fast.
McKinney: Sponsored by the Grand Hotel, this session is on Saturday, February 18th, from 2 to 4:30pm. Visit wedplankeysmckinney.eventbrite.com to register.
Dallas: Sponsored by Edison’s, this session is on Sunday, February 19th, 2 to 4:30pm. Visit wedplankeysdallas.eventbrite.com to register.
We hope to see you there!
image by F8 Studio's Carter Rose
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