How to Create Your Wedding Vision

Defining your wedding vision is an important step. Unfortunately, it is often overlooked. I highly encourage you to take the time to create your wedding vision with your fiancé to make sure the wedding you create lives up to your expectations.

Let’s get started!

What does wedding vision even mean? When I say wedding vision, I mean two things:

1 – Identify what your emotional/experiential goals are for your wedding.

What do you want to experience?
How do you want your guests to feel at your wedding?
Is your wedding a time for your all of friends and family to connect and get to know each other for the first time? Or is your wedding more of an intimate affair, and you only plan to include a small number of close friends and family

2- Identify the wedding details you always dreamed would be a part of your wedding.

For example, for me, having absolutely gorgeous wedding photos is extremely important to me. Therefore, I’m willing to spend more money on my photographer and a large photo album than someone who doesn’t really care about the wedding photographs.

So how do you do this? Follow the steps below to determine your wedding values.

Identify your Wedding Values Mission Statement:

Step 1 – Write the top 5 emotional experiences you hope to create during your wedding. (Draft this list independently – without involving your partner. Don’t worry, you will compare your lists later.)

Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing:

Write our own vows
Ask your sister to sing your favorite love song during the ceremony
Ask your mutual best friend to be your officiant
Dance to “your song” at the wedding reception
Coordinate pre-wedding activities to allow friends and family the opportunity to intermingle/get-to-know one another. (e.g. golf outing, day at the spa, group hike, visit a local destination)
Host a post-wedding brunch

Step 2 – Compare your lists. Identify your similar wedding wishes and discuss each of your independent desires of what you want your wedding to be.

Step 3 – Blend it all together. Write a couple sentences (or create a quick bullet list) to capture the overall emotional experience you wish to create for your wedding.

Step 4 – Keep this wedding vision statement in the back of your mind when you make all of your wedding planning decisions. For example, always ask yourself when making a future wedding planning decision this question – “Will this choice help us create the wedding we imagined?”

Identify the wedding details that are the most important to you.

Step 1 – Print two copies of this list. Download your Wedding Details List HERE

Step 2 – You and your partner independently circle the top 5 wedding details that are the most important to you.

Step 3 – Compare your lists and identify which areas you are willing to invest a little more money to create the experience you have always dreamed of having.

Congratulations! You now have a better understanding of what you want your overall wedding experience to be! You’ve created an excellent foundation from which you can build all of your other wedding planning decisions.

You’re ready to begin to officially start planning your wedding and bringing your vision to life!

Now that you have crafted your wedding vision, you know your wedding will be a personalized, unique to your love story. This will make the wedding experience extremely special for you and your guests.

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What elements are most important to you and your wedding? What insights did you learn from completing these exercises? Leave a comment below!

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