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What did you do?
I have some wedding related questions. I know I could be asking this over at the knot but I find them to be a little crazy?
1. How far in advance did you send the invites? I keep hearing 8 weeks from websites and such but I am thinking 3.5 months in advance for non-albertan residents and 2.5 months for Albertans.
2. Did you do anything to make your wedding stand apart from the typical cookie cutter weddings? And if so, what was it?
3. Would you of done anything differently?
Thanks for your help ladies 
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Re: What did you do?
1. I think 8 weeks for locals and maybe 10-12 weeks for out of towners should be good.
2. Not really, I just went with the flow and tried not to stress over minor details.
3. I wish we would have done a DW.
1. 8 weeks. Although my sis is getting married this June and she's inviting a few folks from England (who may actually come and turn it into a vacation) so they'll be getting theirs in February.
2. I know it sounds cheesy, but we had a magician perform at our reception and do slight of hand afterwards...awesome! Our photog said it was the most fun he ever had at a wedding. lol People are still talking about it 7 years later!
3. I would have had an outdoor ceremony. We were married at a beautiful old hotel but it was late July and the sun was shining, I would have preferred to have taken advantage of the weather!
We sent our invites out quite early. I was so in love with our invites and was dying to send them out. We had a destination wedding, though, so I'm sure our guests appreciated the extra notice. I think we sent them out three or four months in advance. I just couldn't wait anymore.
Stand apart? Probably, although I'm having a hard time thinking of specific examples of that. We didn't do anything crazy different, but we did have small unique touches. For instance, the first time we met was at my husband's house- he was throwing a party and I was invited by a mutual friend. Halfway through the night my husband had to run to the store to buy more food and drinks or whatever and he came back with a bag full of 7-11 5 cent candies for me, just as a way to show me he was thinking about me. We had just met and I thought it was sweet. At our wedding, we used 5 cent candies as our favours, and told everyone the story. Also, we had a cake that wasn't a traditional wedding cake- it was a fieldberry charlotte and it was delicious and I thought it stood out more than traditional wedding cakes. We had a harpist perform the ceremony and dinner music.
I would have hired a better photographer. At the time I felt that this was an area to skimp on, as anyone could take pictures. Not true. Our photographer was horrible. She showed up really late and we had to pospone the ceremony waiting for her. And the pictures sucked. There's only a couple of hers that I like. I wish I would have hired someone better.
1. Oh man I can not remember. We had to give meal choices to the mill a month in advance so I think we sent them out at 10w.
2. No one had been to our location before so that was pretty unique. My BIL played accoustic guitar during the ceremony (and not typical wedding songs either). Our guest book was baseballs that everyone signed. We named the tables after the places we were going on the honeymoon and on the tables we had a write up about what we were doing at that location. Our table chart was a map of where we were going and each table was on a cruise ship that was along the bottom of the map (wanted to have each ship "docked" at the place it was named after but it was too cramped to work).
3. I would make sure the DJ knew that he should play the father daugher dance song when the daughter is in the frickin room. ugh.
1. How far in advance did you send the invites? I keep hearing 8 weeks from websites and such but I am thinking 3.5 months in advance for non-albertan residents and 2.5 months for Albertans.
8 weeks. I think I sent ours out a little bit earlier for the OOT'ers, but we were also having a Friday wedding, so I wanted people to have a reminder a little earlier.
2. Did you do anything to make your wedding stand apart from the typical cookie cutter weddings? And if so, what was it?
I think ours was fairly average I guess. We did donations to the Cancer and MS Societies instead of favours which I guess was different. People appreciated that.
3. Would you of done anything differently?
I wish I would have chilled the eff out the last two months before the wedding. I was seriously a mess, I started losing my hair!
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1. How far in advance did you send the invites?
I don't remember actually... I think your dates sounds pretty reasonable. Especially if those from out of town already know the date (through conversations with family etc.)
2. Did you do anything to make your wedding stand apart from the typical cookie cutter weddings? And if so, what was it?
We had a jazz band play during the cocktail reception and during/for a bit after dinner. They were awesome! The live music really made a difference to the whole atmosphere and we got tons of compliments on them.
Dinner was served "family style" rather than plated, i.e. each table received large platters of all the dishes and people served themselves, so they could choose how much they wanted.
3. Would you of done anything differently?
We didn't have a shot list for our photographer and there are a few key family shots that we missed out on from the day.
1. Eight weeks. But family from out of the province knew the date etc prior to that.
2. Nothing extraordinarily different. We had a photography studio that guests could have personal photos taken at and printed out. Instead of doing a receiving line, at the end of deserts DH and I went and thanked everyone individually for coming and gave all the ladies red roses. My Dad also performed a song during us signing our marriage license.
3. Not really, maybe a different DJ as ours wasn`t too great.
1. six weeks
2. I don't think there are things I can name here, but it wasn't very cookie cutter. ?Lots of things I did had been done before, but I think in combination and execution my wedding had a genuine vibe of love & good cheer. ?Oh, and I made a lot by hand, and was featured in a magazine for it.
Friends of ours had an outdoor wedding with an African Drum group performance. ?It was loud and fun. ?People still talk about it. ?(She is from Burundi, so it was a propos)?
3. Not really. ?I loved our venue, my dress was simple, my photographers were amazing, our flowers were great...