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Tips On How To Personalize Your Wedding
By Robbi Ernst, III of
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5. Other ways to personalize your wedding:

a). If the two of you enjoy dancing, then sign up and take weekly dance lessons. Besides the basic fox trot or waltze and learning to dance properly, why not be courageous: learn a tango or a cha-cha. Most wedding consultants and advisors are against this idea. They say you'll be too nervous, and you don't want to make fools of yoursleves in front of your family and closest of friends. I disagree. What better place to be fun and foolish than with your family and friends. In reality, you have anywhere from six months to a year as you plan your wedding. If you go to dance lessons weekly or even twice a month and learn to dance not only with one another, but with others in the class, you will have the new dance down to perfection. And why not show off? The entire wedding day is theatre anyway. That special dance is just another opportunity for the two of you to be playful and have a good time. The added gift of dance lessons (Scott Patterson, San Francisco 650 738 9580; Las Vegas, Nevada: Kim Sakren: firstdance@aol.com) is that it gives still another opportunity for the two of you to do something together. They do say that swimming and dancing are amongst the best exercises!

b). A favorite JWI wedding was that of a Greek and Turkish couple (The Wall Street Journal flew one of their editors in from New York and she wrote it up in a lengthy article that appeared on the front page of the June 26, 1987 issue). Besides ethnic food from both families, we brought in Greek nd Turkish dancers who danced first as individual groups, then together as a unity, and then with all of the guests joining in. Besides having fun, it was a beautiful symbol of two becoming one!

c). Get a theme and carry it through the entire party:
One of our clients flew the entire wedding party and parents into the California wine country. The staff of June Wedding, Inc. arranged parties and outings for more than a week. For the attendants and sets of parents, we had floral arrangements done in a basket with a "hot air balloon" design atop the flowers and fresh grapes. We took several tours of the wine country and Domain Chandon, home of the famous champagne. For favors, we presented beautiful rounds of soap embossed with the names, wedding date AND a hot air balloon. At the reception site the bride, groom and guests were scheduled for an early morning champagne (Domain Chandon, of course) breakfast. The JWI staff went around to all the rooms at the appropriate time and assembled the guests out into the parking lot that was next to the dining room. There, to complete the theme of the wedding, stood before them a huge beautiful multicolor hot air balloon with the captain and the newslyweds inside the basket readying for takeoff. How excited and amazed the guests were that no one had thought of the idea or made a connection between the favors, the flower arrangements and the "get away trip". As you set about planning your wedding, remember, the most important thing is happiness and joy. You should have the wedding of your dreams and of your pocketbook. You don't have to spend outrageous amounts of money to have a beautiful and memorable wedding. All you have to do is make certain that it is personable and from your hearts.


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The author, Robbi Ernst III, teaches a home study course on how to set up your own wedding and event consultant company. The course is also taught at Norwalk College in Connecticut. View their website (www.junewedding.com), click on Certification Seminars for further information. They have requested not to telephone for information as all information is available on the website.