How to Turn Your Home into a Personalized Wedding Venue
Wedding at home!
Money is usually the biggest factor that prevents engaged couples from having a large wedding that accommodates all of their loved ones, but you can still have a beautiful, low-cost wedding by planning for a wedding at home.
Your backyard is a special place because it’s unique and meaningful to you and your family. It’s a one-of-a-kind location that other weddings will never share.
Turn Your Home into a Personalized Wedding Venue means you’ll save money on the location, and you’ll have complete control over the space.
Maloos Photography invites you to consider these elements as you prepare for a wedding at home.
Decide What You Can Accommodate
How many people can you fit standing and sitting? Is your backyard suitable for an outdoor wedding, or will you need to keep it indoors?
Indoor weddings tend to have smaller guest lists because of the lack of seating space, but large, fenced-in yards can be the perfect venue for an outdoor wedding.
Is your kitchen large enough to be a food prep station? Regardless of whether you decide to make food at home or hire a caterer, the kitchen will need to be put to use.
It might even become the serving station for buffet trays, for which a large kitchen island or dining table can be put to use.
Prepare Your Home to be a Personalized Wedding Venue
If there are renovations you’ve wanted to complete, there’s never been a better time than now to do them. Leave enough time for both indoor and outdoor renovations. This could mean replacing the bathroom tiles, refinishing the cabinets, or landscaping the property.
Think about functional and stylish additions that can enhance the wedding and remain useful to you after the event is over.
For example, making the investment of building a wooden deck on the grass could have a great wedding and personal ROI, since it could be used as a ceremony altar, reception dance floor, and outdoor dining patio for the summer.
Designate and Optimize Spaces
Every wedding site needs a station and a house won’t be any different. There should be a bridal suite (probably the master bedroom), guest bathrooms, a welcome area, a ceremony site, reception tables, and a dance floor. If you have guests staying over, sleeping quarters will need to be arranged.
If you’re flipping the ceremony space into a reception party space, you’ll need to move the guests to another part of the property for cocktail hour while the transition is happening. An alternative to avoid the manual transformation is to have guests view the ceremony from their reception tables.
Use DIY Décor for your wedding at home to control the budget
The first thing you’ll want to do before the decorating begins is remove any personal items that don’t fit the theme of the wedding.
Family photos don’t need to adorn the space unless those photos would be used in an off-site wedding anyway. The Spruce points out that you can easily go low-budget with decorations by making the most of them yourself. For example, rather than hiring a florist, purchase the flowers and create your own arrangements.
Tips About Family Pictures on the Wedding Day
Brides magazine suggests considering design elements such as mason jars with flowers, and succulents, wooden platforms and risers, picture frames with table numbers, lanterns with candles, and string lights or paper lanterns hanging from the trees.
Use the foliage on the property to your advantage. backyard weddings with natural elements are beautiful regardless of what else is there. You just have to know how to enhance its natural beauty.
Hire a local photographer for your backyard weddings
When it comes time to enlist the help of a professional photographer, consider hiring photographers from local, small businesses like Maloos Photography instead of a huge franchise.
Art is subjective and is, by and large, in contradiction with the concept of a big franchise. Behind a small business, typically there is a passionate person who cares for the quality of the work they deliver and you get to have a human connection, which is very valuable, especially when it comes to weddings.
Your wedding is the best party you will likely ever throw. It’s the one time in your life that all of your family and friends will gather together to celebrate you and your partner, so it’s natural that you’d want to make a big impact on your guests.
You want them to remember your wedding as a special day, and you want it to be worthwhile aesthetically. Make a splash, but save yourself the financial stress by bringing the celebration home.
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Maloos Photography is a professional Chicagoan wedding photographer specializing in lifestyle, documentary, and storytelling photography.
I can guide you to turn your home into a personal wedding venue. My main goal is to portray each couple’s wedding story by capturing the detailed moments and emotions during their special day. Reach out today! (408) 775-5636
