WEDDING CALENDARPlanning a wedding involves a million decisions. Tuscan Party can help you dealing with everything concerning your wonderful wedding in Tuscany to ensure that nothing is overlooked.
1 YEAR BEFORE WEDDING
• Prepare and send out newspaper announcement of your engagement
• Determine wedding style and degree of formality of your wedding.
• Select ceremony and reception site. Tuscan Party will help you choosing among many stunning beautiful locations in Tuscany from villas to castles to country houses. Just ask!
• Begin to have contacts with your Tuscan Party wedding planner to make alternate plans if wedding is to be held outside. (Indoor site availability, tents, etc.)
6 MONTHS BEFORE WEDDING
• Choose your attendants.
• Both families begin to compile guests lists. (Set definite date for final lists.)
• Have fiancée select his groomsmen.
• Shop for your gown, veil, headpiece, jewelry and accessories. Tuscan Party can provide you with any bridal gown or make a tailored made one if desired thanks to our own bridal shop and professional tailors. Note: You should order your gown at least 6 months before your wedding date.
• Select attendants gowns. Note: These gowns should also be ordered at approximately same time as your gown. Obtain a swatch of fabric to coordinate all other wedding colors.
• Select shoes for you and attendants. (If shoes must be dyed, have them all done at the same time to ensure the best color match.)
• Get information from Tuscan Party on possible honeymoon destinations
5 MONTHS BEFORE WEDDING
Tuscan Party will help you to:
• Select formalwear.
• Finalize honeymoon plans.
• Get in contact with Tuscan Party assistant to get visas and necessary documents for your wedding.
• Obtain marriage license. (30 days before wedding date)
• Select music for ceremony.
• Select disc jockey or band.
• Select limousine service or other transportation.
• Select caterer (if not provided by reception site).
• Select balloonist.
• Finalize honeymoon plans.
4 MONTHS BEFORE WEDDING
Tuscan Party will help you to:
• Select photographer.
• Select videographer.
• Select florist.
• Finalize guest list, eliminate duplicates.
• Plan bachelor/bachelorette party.
3 MONTHS BEFORE WEDDING
• Reconfirm plans with ceremony and reception sites, clergy person, caterer, florist, photographer, videographer, ceremony and reception musicians, baker, and
travel agent for honeymoon plans.
• Check on status of attendants' gowns.
• Ask special people to do reading at the ceremony.
• Design wedding program handout for ceremony.
• Make sure all deposits are paid, and contracts signed.
• Address wedding invitations. (Invitations should be mailed six weeks before wedding date.)
2 MONTHS BEFORE WEDDING
• Select gifts for attendants.
• Compile bridal shower guest lists.
• Shop for honeymoon outfits and going away outfit.
• Pack honeymoon clothes which are out of season (bathing suits, shorts, etc.)
• Define your wedding reception menu with Tuscan Party assistant
1 MONTH BEFORE WEDDING
• If you have agreed to a prenuptial agreement, meet with lawyers.
• Arrange for housesitter during honeymoon.
• Give itinerary for honeymoon to one or both sets of parents.
• Confirm ceremony details with TP assistant.
• Confirm that all men have been fitted for formalwear.
2 WEEKS BEFORE WEDDING
• Call guests who have not responded to invitations.
• Confirm list of guests to TP assistant.
• Obtain travel tickets, itineraries.
• Make list of emergency numbers of honeymoon locations, and list of credit card numbers to leave at home with both sets of parents.
1 WEEK BEFORE WEDDING
• Collect your wedding rings
• Continue packing for honeymoon.
• Reconfirm all wedding plans: ceremony and reception site, florist, photographer, videographer, musicians, disc jockeys, baker, and honeymoon plans.
2 DAYS BEFORE WEDDING
• Try on wedding gown to check fit and make sure it is pressed
• Full day in beauty farm and hairdresser for new styles
1 DAY BEFORE WEDDING
• Give each other wedding gifts.
• Get a good night's sleep!
WEDDING DAY
• Forget any details that run amok.
• Eat a good breakfast.
• See hairdresser for wedding hairstyle.
• Don't forget rings.
• Thank everyone for their help.
• Enjoy the day!
AFTER THE WEDDING
• Write thank you notes for all wedding gifts.
• Thank you for relying on TUSCAN PARTY to help you plan the most important day of your life!
CURIOSITIES
Why is rice thrown at weddings?
The origin derives from an ancient Chinese legend. Once China suffered a great famine; the good spirit had mercy of the farmers who suffered and decided to sacrifice all of his teeth, dispersing them in the swamp. Suddenly in the water budded thousand of small plants of rice: so since that that day we know that where is rice is abundance. Rice and other grains, such as wheat, have played a prominent role in marriage ceremonies for centuries, is that they are fraught with symbolism of fertility and of prosperity. By throwing rice at the bride and groom at a wedding, guests symbolically wish them a lifetime full of these blessings.
WHY DO WE WEAR THE WEDDING RING ON THE RING FINGER?
The meaning is in the name itself. The ring finger is finger taht will bear the ring one day in everybody's life. But why exactly the ring finger? There seems to be an anatomical reason.
In that finger, in fact, ends a small artery that going up through the arm, it reaches directly the heart. This circular jewel always bears the simbology of the marriage (ring: bond, union). Its elegance is in the extreme linearity.
It is in white or yellow gold, flat or rounded, usually without ornaments, friezes or stones. The only exception could be the names of the future consort and the date of the wedding engraved in the inner side....to avoid that with the years someone could forget to celebrate such an anniversary.
Wedding rings:
the couple will purchase them choosing together the model and the measure.
The most common wedding ring is the French one, tubular and from 3 to 16 grams of weight.
5 SUGARED ALMONDS
The number of the sugared almonds in sweet boxes or keepsakes should always be odd numbers. 5 for example, which is indivisible like the marriage should be. Sugared almonds should be considered special just like the event, therefore they have to be soft inside, with a full taste. Whole almonds are recommended.
5 because they symbolise the qualities that we all hope will have the couple: HEALTH, WEALTH, HAPPINESS, FERTILITY AND SPIRITUALITY.
FRIDAY: DAY FOR WEDDING
In Italy there is a famous proverb that says:
NE DI VENERE NE DI MARTE NON SI SPOSA E NON SI PARTE E NON SI DA INIZIO ALL'ARTE
(On Friday no one gets married, leaves for a place or starts art works)
In Norway, on the contrary, most weddings are celebrated on Fridays, a romantic day under the influence of Venus, the goddess of love and harmony
