Plan A Scottish Theme Wedding


Summary:
Plan a Scottish Theme Wedding ~ be your own bridal shop:
  • Wedding budgets
  • Wedding etiquette
  • Wedding venues
  • Scottish wedding traditions
  • Where to See Scottish wedding traditions




Planning any wedding can be a monumental task. To plan a Scottish Theme Wedding can seem hopeless and out-of-the-question. Frustration and confusion can come very quickly. Where to start? Where to find Scottish wedding stuff? Who can help? These can all be answered right here.

Once you know what you can spend, we’ll point you to the wedding clothes, venues, traditions, and all the other specialty items that can make your wedding so unique as you plan a Scottish theme wedding.

All other questions hinge on just one question. It’s not a popular question and it ranks really low on the search engine. Most brides spend hours at their computer, searching and seeking for wedding information. Each day there are 1,250 searches for a wedding dress. The word wedding gets 18,900 searches per day.

But that really big question, the wedding budget only gets 180 hits , wedding cost gets 81, wedding expense gets 12. Must be boring, huh? Maybe, but it is essential to plan a Scottish theme wedding.

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Without someone’s advice, you’ll likely walk into a bridal shop with this stamped across your forehead – in big, bold letters.

The best source I’ve found for planning the logistics is wedding plan software, Fire Your Wedding Planner, by Stephi Stewart. The author learned for herself how to achieve her wedding dreams without spending a fortune. Now she’s sharing this important information with other brides.

Stephi can teach you how to negotiate prices for products and services, until you get what you want. A fact sheet on each phase of planning tells you what questions to ask vendors, what scams to watch out for, and how to negotiate the terms you’ll be offered in various contracts.

She’s practical, has a sense of humor, and packs her site with tons of useful information.

A Wedding Organizer is a must to plan a Scottish theme wedding, or any wedding. They can cost a bundle. Stephi tells you how to build your own Wedding Organizer, with materials from your local office supply store. Then she offers advice on how to divide the sections and what to put in the organizer.

With what you save just by following her advice on building your own Wedding Organizer, you’ll have paid for a good portion of her book. Here’s a few things you’ll find in her book:

  • 21 Key Areas for your Wedding PlanWithin these 21 key areas, she covers subjects from budgeting and handling guest lists to locations, caterers, legal documents, and more.
  • Bonus #1A group of wedding calculators, checklists and worksheets
  • Bonus #2A name change kit

Online Name Change Kits can often cost as much as Stephi’s whole software program. So between what you can save on your Wedding Organizer and the Name Change Kit, you’ve more than paid for the cost of her book. Not to mention the bundle you can save by following her advice!

If you have more money to spare than time, you might want to hire a wedding planner. They make their money doing the running and arranging for you. If you simply don’t have that time, and can afford it, go ahead. But still buy Fire Your Wedding Planner and be a “moxy” bride - in on “how it’s done” and street smart.

Satisfying Your Wedding Dreams

Even if he doesn’t freely offer his ideas on what a wedding should be, the groom needs to figure out what’s important to him.

His ideal wedding might be by his favorite trout stream, in jeans and a flannel shirt, with beer and brats for the reception. Meanwhile you’ve dreamed about a Cinderella wedding gown, endless flutes of champagne, and dancing ‘til dawn to Strauss waltzes ~ without tired feet.

As you plan a Scottish theme wedding, you need to strike a balance between his dream and yours.

  • Sit down, separately, and each write down how you imagine your wedding…all the dreams, the little nuances, how you see your wedding day in your mind.

  • When you’re both done, go over the lists together and figure out how you can use ideas from both lists.

  • Sometimes a close friend or parent can act as a negotiator to help in this process.

Somehow these two opposites have to mesh together, giving both of you parts of your ideal wedding day.

You can always find a lovely flowing stream and be married with the water babbling in the background. Many a wedding reception has sausage served, in one form or another, to the guests.

If the groom opts for a kilt, it doesn’t need to be formal...it can be a more casual style. One nice thing as you plan a Scottish theme wedding is that you’re exploring unknown territory. Most people won’t know if you’re violating any traditions. In the past many a bride has dressed to the ‘T’s’, while her groom was in his cowboy, miner, or railroad worker clothes.

If the groom opts for a kilt, it doesn’t need to be formal...it can be a more casual style. One nice thing as you plan a Scottish theme wedding is that you’re exploring unknown territory. Most people won’t know if you’re violating any traditions. In the past many a bride has dressed to the ‘T’s’, while her groom was in his cowboy, miner, or railroad worker clothes.

As you continue to plan a Scottish theme wedding, you can breakdown the average wedding expenses.

This will help you decide which items are worth going over the average budget, and what can be pared down to compensate for the overages.

Because of the unique nature of your wedding, some of these percentages will have to be adjusted. Some Scottish wedding traditions will cost more ~ some will cost less. As an example, it costs more to rent a kilt and accessories than a tuxedo.

Wedding Etiquette

Wedding Etiquette is the who, what, where, when and why as you plan a Scottish theme wedding ~

  • which guest sits where
  • how do I notify guests if the wedding gets cancelled
  • who stands where in the receiving line
  • who gives the reception toasts
  • who sits at the head table
  • who dances with whom during the first dance

For answers to these questions, look at Wedding Etiquette.

Wedding Venues
or Where Will You Have Your Wedding?

As you plan a Scottish theme wedding, you’ll be choosing between many wedding venues. This is no different than deciding where you’ll have any wedding.

The wedding location can be anywhere you’re wedding dreams take you. There are no hard-set rules. Only practicality and your budget set the bounds for your wedding site.

If you’re not sure, or just can’t get your creative juices flowing, take a look at Scottish Wedding Theme Venues

Which Scottish Wedding Traditions
Tickle Your Fancy?

One challenge as you plan a Scottish theme wedding is in not going overboard. You want to choose enough things to feel Scottish without drowning yourself and your guests with unfamiliar customs and ideas. Look through the Scottish Wedding Traditions to find yours.

Once you select the type of kilt the men will wear, you can decide which historical era to use as your wedding theme ~ Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, Tudor, Elizabethan, Baroque, Victorian, Vintage, or Modern.

Throughout this site, you will be offered suggestions about how to incorporate ideas and weave them throughout your Scottish wedding theme plan. You’ll find suggestions about where you can find merchandise that “speaks” Scottish.

Where to Go and See
Scottish Wedding Traditions in Action


There's lots of movies with Celtic, Irish, and Scots traditions in them. They can be a boon in your Scottish wedding planning. Two that come to mind are The Quiet Man and Four Weddings and a Funeral. The Quiet Man, stars John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. Though it takes place in Ireland, many of the traditions of courting and marriage can be seen. Four Weddings and A Funeral, starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, includes a Scottish wedding. You can glimpse a wedding celebration with kilts, pipes, and dancing.

Most Scottish weddings have bagpipes playing at different times during the wedding celebration ~ from the Prelude to the Send-Off. Do you even like the sound of bagpipes? Before you incorporate them into your Scottish Wedding Planning, you’d better find out! You can:

  • Attend Highland Games for the biggest impact.
  • Buy some tapes or CD’s and start listening.
  • Download MP3 bagpipe music.
Your Scottish wedding planning should begin to move forward, with plenty of Scottish wedding traditions to fulfill your wedding dreams. Just remember you can also have one heck of a good time in the process…while you build memories to treasure forever.

Now that you know more about Scottish wedding planning, your third decision is choosing your tartan...


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