It probably goes without saying, that it is considered unlucky to have a wedding on Friday 13th! As it Friday 13th is one of the most widespread superstitions, you could even find yourself struggling to find certain suppliers who have to attend the wedding such as caterers or wedding photographers! In olden times it was considered lucky to have your wedding early during the week, with Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday being the luckiest, and Saturday was considered to have ‘no luck at all’. These days most weddings do take place on Saturdays, as weekends are easier for most guests.
If you do choose to have your wedding on Friday 13th, you could have a theme of ‘good luck superstitions’ and decorate your venue with horseshoes and four leaf clovers. A colour scheme of green and silver would work well with that, and give you plenty of scope for using plenty of greenery in your bouquets and table decorations, with a few white flowers such as roses or lillies as accents.
In other cultures, the number thirteen isn’t considered as unlucky as it is here, in fact the chinese regard it as a lucky number, so an alternative would be to have a chinese theme, with chinese lanterns and some well-researched characters used as symbols throughout the venue.
And as an added bonus, there would be less chance of forgetting your wedding anniversary!
It is becoming increasingly common for brides and grooms to arrange their weddings on bank holiday weekends, or other days that are significant to everybody rather than just the couple. Is it a good idea? Well, like every other potential wedding date, there are pluses and minuses, and these will be different for everyone! As well as yourselves, you need to consider your guests and your wedding suppliers – wedding photographers and hairdressers who are free on a bank holiday weekend are liable to be harder to find.
As a wedding photographer it is crucial that not only do we behave professionally at all times, but that we are able to persuade the guests to go where we want them, and pose how we want them to (no glowering at the camera because they’ve had an argument with Great Aunt Nellie!). To be able to achieve that, we have to be comfortable talking to anyone, whatever mood they are in, and weddings are traditionally a time of heightened moods! Not only are the newly married couple ecstatically happy, and not only may their families be meeting each other for the first time, also certain members of each family may be seeing each other for the first time in a long time. Possibly even since the last family wedding, or even worse, since a family feud. While people generally come together for weddings, those underlying feelings are still there, and after a few drinks, they can burst out.
Engagement photoshoots are becoming increasingly popular, so why not use it as a way of finding your wedding photographer early? And then you get to give them a test to make sure they really will produce the type of photography you want!
If you want a photoshoot to celebrate your engagement, I would first decide on your wedding date. This will more than likely mean you need to choose your venue as otherwise you could find your heart set on a place that isn’t available on the right day. Once you have decided this, you will be able to find and book a wedding photographer. If you are planning to use the engagement shoot as a test for the photographer, you should first check their availability on your wedding date, then get the engagement shoot done as quickly as possible so they don’t get booked up!
Something that many couples don’t consider until they are prompted to by their newly chosen wedding photographer, is what group photographs they want. There is an assumption that there are a standard set of family and group photos, and they don’t need to think about it. Unsurprisingly this is not the case – you know your family and friends much better than your photographer, and so only you will know which are the groupings you will want.
Your photographer will probably have some suggestions, which will probably be much the same as the ‘standard’ groups which are;
