Look at Your Wedding Through Realistic Eyes

When planning your wedding, you will receive more opinions then you are willing to bear. I would like to be the one that provides you with the, "realist's," view.

In reality, I hate weddings. They are the most boring ceremony that we have in today's society. I am the guy that is going to be hoping that there is a TV at the hall where I can catch the game. I am the guy who is going to have too much to drink so that I don't have to bear with all of it. I am going to be the one that is outside smoking more often that I am inside.

I realize that weddings, realistically, are boring. I am the one that you should please the most.

There are only two things that most people are going to remember about your wedding. They are going to remember the food, and the DJ/music. They are going to forget almost everything else. Keep this in mind when you spend hours trying to figure out the minute details.

First off, do not hire a wedding planner under any circumstances. If you cannot deal with the stresses of planning a wedding, you should not be getting married in the first place. I can say this from experience, because my wife used to be a wedding planner. Most of those people should have stayed, "just friends."

When you are choosing your invitations, remember to take your elderly relatives into account. Elderly people have problems reading a lot of the styles of fonts out there. The fancier a font looks, the harder it usually is to read. Do not pick light colors for your fonts. These make them harder to read also.

If you are not going to have an open bar at the wedding, please put this on the invite. There are fewer things that can tick people off more then going to a wedding without enough cash to get at least slightly buzzed. Better yet, make sure that you have an open bar. It may be the only way that come people can get through all of the boredom.

When it is time to pick out your centerpieces, make sure that they are small. Nothing ticks me off more at a wedding then having to move a large centerpiece because I can't see the person sitting across from me at a table.

Make sure that you have a seating arrangement at your wedding. Granted you have to spend a little more money to get place cards printed up, but it will save a lot of aggravation. I have been to weddings where close family members have to sit at the back of the hall because some friends thought that they had the right to sit in the best seats in the hall.

Don't have a lot of speeches at the wedding. In fact, try not to have any at all. No one wants to know about how the people in your bridal party met you. They just want to get things moving so that they can eat.

Do not have a long, drawn out procedure for the throwing of the garter or bouquet. Many people are getting bored with this and would rather not even have them anymore. You may have a few people cheering and carrying on, but most will be on a smoke break.

Do not hand out gifts to your guests. The little bells, shot glasses, pens, notepads and such are just going to end up in the garbage drawer in the kitchen to be forgotten about until moving time.

Make sure that you do not give out cds of the music that was played at your wedding. Your parents and grandparents may want this, but no one else. If I liked the music in the first place, I would already have bought the cd in the past.

Keep all of these things in mind when you are planning a wedding. If you can please the person that is going to have the least amount of fun at your wedding, then you can please everyone.