If you have recently become engaged and have already started planning your big day, before booking the wedding venue, musicians and others involved, it would be important to answer the question of what style you have planned for your wedding. At a time when you can get lost in Pinterest and the vastness and abundance of the Internet, nothing can be more important than answering the question of what you really want.

First phase – dreaming

In order to get to your wishes and further to real action, you must first allow yourself to dream. In addition, one should dream widely - regardless of existing circumstances and other people's wishes.

In the dreaming phase, it doesn't matter how much it might cost, nor what others say about it. The only thing to do is to allow yourself to imagine your dream wedding.

• Will it be a big wedding attended by all the people you know or will it be a small celebration with only your closest friends?

• Will it be an outdoor or indoor wedding?

• Maybe it will be a destination wedding, when you go to an exotic destination with your guests and a photographer?

• Which style is closer to you - classic, romanticism, glamor or maybe vintage ?

• And finally - at which time of the year would you like to say your "Yes" words to each other?

Second phase – collect and collect ideas and inspiration

This is one of the most creative stages of wedding planning, during which couples collect and compile all possible wedding ideas and inspiration. Both the already mentioned Pinterest and photos from other weddings will be useful for this (in addition, they can also be viewed perfectly together in the wedding story section of the portal LĪGAVĀM ), and wedding inspiration magazines, including book magazine LĪGAVĀM .

When collecting your ideas, it is important to find a special place for them - it can be a wedding mood board or an inspiration tablet, where you can attach even a piece of fabric for the planned wedding dress, or a wedding planner, where you can write down all your ideas.

Third phase – formal or informal wedding?

Here, you and the groom should answer how you feel most comfortable - in classically elegant and formal events, for example in a palace, or in an intimate and more personal-oriented dinner, for example on the beach.

Weddings are events where you absolutely have to find your own vibe, because ultimately what looks great on paper (or in this case, other people's weddings) won't always be right for you.

The fourth phase – the more detailed the better!

It is great if you have understood the approximate mood of the wedding, however, the more detailed you manage to structure your wishes, the more it will facilitate the further planning process. If you want a wedding celebration with a glamorous feel, then understand whether it will be the glamor of modern Hollywood or the glamor of the past. If you like both options, it would be advisable to choose one - a wedding is not the right time to indulge in various experiments and exaggerate with an abundance of details.

The fifth phase - the real color!

Sometimes finding the right color means getting close to the right wedding style. The color of the wedding is very important, because it will appear in decorations, details, invitations, bridesmaids' dresses.

If you want your wedding to be dominated by, for example, shimmering gold elements, this will make it clear that you are not likely to have a rustic charm wedding. Color matters. If you are still looking for your right color, then you should know that Pantone color institute recognized ultraviolet as the color of 2018.

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