Welcome to The Wedding Vision Module. Here you will find SmartBride™ Checklist’s, Videos, and Resource documents to help you define your overall vision. This is THE most important step in your wedding plan because it will make all your other decisions easier—mostly because you will have already decided what you want.
Although men don’t talk about it much, they do have wedding dreams just like the bride does, and our unique system includes both the bride and groom in every step of planning the vision.
DEFINING YOUR VISION & IDENTIFYING PRIORITIES (Step 1 & 2)
SmartBride™ Checklist: Overview
Print out the overview checklist, and follow along so you don’t miss any important steps.
VIDEO: Defining Your Vision & Identifying Priorities
You and your fiance will share your dreams about your wedding day, and take the first step to defining your vision. In addition, you will each start to identify your priorities and share what is important to each of you.
SmartBride™ Checklist: Defining Your Wedding Vision Step 1 & 2
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WEDDING STYLE & WEDDING THEME (Step 3 & 4)
VIDEO: Wedding Style & Wedding Theme
This video covers how to use the SmartBride™ Checklist for this module in the most effective manner. The extensive list of wedding style and wedding themes give you both a chance to check off everything that appeals to you. Then, sleep on it, and come back to the list, and start to narrow it down. Those things that you both identify as important is the starting point for deciding your wedding style and wedding theme.
SmartBride™ Checklist: Defining Your Wedding Vision Step 3 & 4
Resources: VIDEO – Wedding Reception Themes
Resources: VIDEO – Creating the WOW Factor
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WEDDING COLOURS AND PERSONALIZATION (Step 5 & 6)
VIDEO: Wedding Colours & Personalization
This video covers how to use the SmartBride™ Checklist for this module and is in essence a giant list of choices. First we give you all the standard colour combinations—-who would have thought there were so many! And then we ask you questions that will help you define your personal style. It is often hard to think we even have a personal style, because we tend to think the things we do are just things we do—but it is reflection of our personality. So these questions will help you define your particular personality so you can see if you want to incorporate it into your wedding.
SmartBride™ Checklist: Defining Your Wedding Vision Step 5 & 6
Resources: VIDEO – Wedding Colour Choices Made Easy
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WEDDING LOCATION (Step 7)
VIDEO: Wedding Location
Here we explore the many options you have for both a ceremony and reception site. The SmartBride™ Checklist has an extensive list of location types, and also an extensive list of places to check for unique locations in your city or town. We also cover different ways in which your location can reflect you chosen style, theme, or personality, so you can see how easily your wedding vision is unfolding before you.
SmartBride™ Checklist: Defining Your Wedding Vision Step 7
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WEDDING DATE & WEDDING TIME (Step 8)
VIDEO: Wedding Date
In this video, we give some tips for choosing your wedding date. We give tips on how to successfully hold a wedding on a long weekend, and how your location and wedding date are related.
VIDEO: Wedding Time
This video covers the four most common times in which to hold a wedding ceremony and reception, and gives examples of how to carry it off with style.
VIDEO: Wedding Reception Types
This video covers your wedding reception choices—–the four meal reception types and the three non-meal reception types. These different reception types have specific times in which they need to be held, and we cover how to word your wedding invitations for each type of reception. We also get into the common styles of music suited to each type of reception.
SmartBride™ Checklist: Defining Your Wedding Vision Step 8
Resource: Time of Day For Reception .pdf
Click here to go to the Wedding Date & Wedding Time page!
WEDDING BUDGET FACTS (Step 9)
VIDEO: Wedding Budget Facts
In this video we cover the fact about what a wedding costs—average cost per person, average reception costs, etc. We also compare the costs of the various wedding reception types that you have to choose from.
SmartBride™ Checklist: Defining Your Wedding Vision Step 9
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