Weddings as a happy occasion
usually held on good day, this term can have lots of meanings but lately a
beautiful wedding date or in Indonesian “tanggal pernikahan cantik” does not
necessarily mean a result of a complex calculated birth days or to avoid
unlucky days, but simply a memorable numbers. Like the wedding of Indonesian
celebrity, Irfan hakim, which held on 07-07-2007 all with seven on it, this
seven-theme extend to the dowry, which also had seven numbers in it. Last year
we even had the chance to do a wedding church décor for a couple who married on
11-11-2011 at 11.11 AM, cool huh?
These memorable wedding date had
been a phenomenon for quite a few years and might continue in the future. Of
course, the same number on date month and year will end this year at 12-12-2012 but lots of other combination
can be made to make a memorable wedding date such as 11-12-2013 (11-12-13) or 20-12-2012 for instance and many others.
Since getting married on memorable date becomes a trend, it’s interesting to
see if memorable wedding date is really a good idea after all…
The most reasons for picking out
a wedding date with memorable number is to make the couple easily remembers
their wedding date, so no more excuse for forgetting your anniversary date. The
other reason is because it's a trend and since lots of people have to compete
for booking venues and stuff on a memorable date, thus being able to get
married on memorable day is considered an achievement.
Whatever your reason, we would
like to share with you a few things to
be considered if you’re trying to get a memorable number for your wedding date
:
1. Cost
Yep, the economy
rules. The more people wants to get married on a certain date, the bigger
chance for venue or ballroom owner as well as caterers to increase the price.
Why? For venue it’s because they have more bargaining power when lots of people
want to use a hall or ballroom. For caterers because more demand will increase
the ingredient price, this of course will effect the end price.
As for wedding
décor, especially the ones using fresh flowers, the price will increase 50 to
100%. If you’re on very tight budget, consider artificial flowers with basic
design instead.
2. Quality
Flowers are
harvested annually according to season so the supply is basically constant. In
case of high demand, to fulfill orders many planters substitute full bloom
flowers with smaller buds or give lower grade flowers. We experienced this
ourselves, for the same price, the quality of the flowers declined. This might
also applied to food so you must consider this too.
3. Time
When lots of people
want to get married on the same date, the competition begins. Most venues,
caterers and decorators must be booked a year maybe even two year in advance,
so the wedding must be planned far way ahead. What will you do if on the date
the church can be booked, decorator can be booked but the venues had already
fully booked or the rental price had increased unreasonably?
4. Schedule
On 11-11-2011 last year, we
noticed significant traffic jam in Bandung
area eventhough it’s not weekend. Reason? The wedding guests' vehicles J. In
St Peter’s Cathedral itself held 5 weddings, (we haven’t counted weddings
occurred that day in other churches and mosques all over Bandung ) so lots of guest’s
cars parked overflowed to Merdeka
street , just like Christmas mass. So consider
traffic in your schedule, you might get late to the church or reception venue
because of it.
Also prepare in
case you have to rush. Usually, after the wedding mass, the couple and family
will have a photo session (with the pastor and by themselves) inside and
outside the church. Afterward, most guests would like to congratulate the couple before the crowd
dispersed. Depending on guests numbers, this usually takes time between 30
minutes to one hour. On 11-11-2011, since there are 5 weddings held that day,
after the mass the couple only had time around 5 minutes to take pictures
inside the church, then the church committee announced the couple and guests to
went outside before congratulating ritual so that guests for the next wedding
can come in. When we step outside, whooaa!! There’s already crowd standing
there waiting and rushing inside.
Lesson : on days
when lots of wedding occurred in church, less leisurely time to take pictures
and stuff… younger people might not overly concern with this, but older parents
and relatives might get a bit miffed when they have to rush here and there.
Reception time must
be well planned too. The couple who got married at 11.11 AM held their wedding
reception at 12.30 PM. Hence the traffic and so on, the couple arrived at 01.00
PM to the reception. A little past the lunch time, resulting in the guests already been hungry and a little grumpy. This might not happen if the
mass occurred at lets say 10.00 AM or
at least give enough lag time between the ceremony and the reception so that
the guests can go home or find to eat by themselves. So, the memorable wedding
hour had its consequences too. That's why, plan the reception time carefully.
Pheww, quite a lot to be
considered huh? I'm personally not to keen
on this memorable wedding date trend, since for the same budget you must
put more effort and compromise on lots of things, unless you prepared to pay
more. For me, I prefer a leisurely wedding in good quality. But don’t be
deflated, this post are not intended to discourage you from choosing a
memorable wedding date, just for consideration only. If you think the wedding
date is well worth to be fought, then go for it!! Wedding is one in a lifetime
anyrway.
These are few pictures of the day
before the event 11-11-2011 during the arranging flowers' time. Lots of flower arrangements must be made by Margriet that day since
one of the wedding was held for the family of the biggest supermarket chains in
Bandung and few
special requests have been made. Some of us worked from morning untill evening.
In the morning only the base of
all the wedding flower stands had been covered with foliage, but at noon...
Tadaaa!!!! all of them are done, pretty huh? These flower arrangements were for the main aisle. We’ll show you the detail next post!
This is what the main altar flower arrangement look like before it's finished.
Note:
Church Décor by Team Margriet
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