When planning a wedding, young couples often carefully prepare a scenario, including various "B" plans, for example, in case of rain or other unpredictable conditions. The bride and groom may think that the more activities and events on the wedding day, the better, forgetting about whether the guests will be emotionally ready for the specific wedding scenario. A fact recognized by many young couples – the emotional mood of the guests can greatly affect the entire wedding scenario. LĪGAVĀM offers advice on how best to avoid such situations.

First of all, it should be understood that when you say "the emotional mood of the guests can greatly affect the entire wedding scenario", it does not mean that the wedding guests will walk around sad, hanging their heads and not wanting to get involved in the activities you have planned. On the contrary, the guests will most likely be happy to get involved in all the activities and events, but it should be noted that each of them needs to be allocated its own time.

Welcoming guests at the place of celebration

If the wedding ceremony and celebration take place in different places, then the wedding guests will most likely arrive at the place of celebration after the ceremony, while the new couple together with the ushers went on their outing. Guests will be welcomed by the host of the evening or the wedding coordinator at the place of celebration. Young couples often worry about the time they will be away and want to fill up their time away with various activities for their guests.

Although an activity is definitely a good idea, especially if the guests have to wait at least a couple of hours, you should allow the guests to acclimatize first, rather than rushing in with the rules of a dating game or some other activity.

Such behavior can frighten guests at first, make them feel uncomfortable. Therefore, it is best if the guests are warmly welcomed, indicated where they can relax, settle in their rooms, take a drink at the bar and treat themselves to a few snacks, and only when the chatter has become a little louder, everyone has started to settle in, offer to play a game, fill in the guest book and participate in other planned activities.

Holiday dinner

Although the guests will probably be emotionally charged around the time of the wedding celebration dinner, when planning the wedding scenario, you should not take it for granted that all the guests will rush to the microphone to share memories of the new couple, give emotional or humorous speeches or show attractive dance performances, just like in Hollywood movies.

Of course, all these things can happen, but if the bride and groom know that their guests are not the greatest improvisers in the world, then they should not expect them to become so on their wedding day. If the new couple really wants speeches, performances, surprises and other elements that can be provided by guests, then they should say so in advance. This way, the guests will be prepared and won't feel pressured on the wedding day, while the new couple won't be disappointed that something didn't go the way they wanted.

Shuffle

The young couple themselves or the ushers have often planned an emotional wedding, during which the bride and groom symbolically become husband and wife. This is one of the most beautiful parts of the evening celebration, to which its organizers have often devoted a lot of time and effort. Often, the part of the wedding ceremony is intended to be particularly emotional, remembering childhood, saying sweet words to parents, sending good wishes to the new couple, as well as singing a song that is emotionally close to the couple. However, no matter how beautiful all these activities are, not all guests are emotionally ready to carry them out. Especially if the party takes place at midnight, when most likely the guests have already drunk several glasses of wine, danced, and it is no longer so easy to bring them into an emotional feeling.

In order to avoid such situations, couples and their drivers more and more often decide to hold the matching part a little earlier than midnight, for example around 22.30 or 23.00. In this case, the guests will not be so intoxicated and will be able to fully participate in all the activities planned for the party.

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