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Rain on your wedding day

Natasha Grant • 16 November 2020

5 tips for handling rain on your wedding day

Now the weather is always unpredictable! Here in the UK some days we can have rain, sun and hail all in one day. Oh, and let’s not forget the wind! So, if you are getting married here are a few wedding planning tips to handle rain on your wedding day. Hopefully, it won’t happen, but you just don’t know! So, it’s always best to be prepared.

1. Supply umbrellas

As you would expect my first top tip for what happens if it rains on your wedding day, is have an umbrella! As a wedding planner, I always have at least two umbrellas’ available for the bride and groom. If you know that rain is likely on your wedding day you may want to think about providing umbrellas for your guests, especially if part of your wedding (like the celebration is outside). You can get umbrellas cheaply or could even give them away as wedding favours. If you really want to invest in a special umbrella for the two of you, try and look for a clear design then your guests can still see your lovely faces or opt for something that stands out.

2. Photographs

It is always important to have a plan B (wet weather back up plan) for where you take your official pictures. If all the photographs are all meant to be outside in the lovely grounds, and it rains you will want to take it indoors. Speak to your photographer during your planning, to discuss what other great spaces could be used inside for lovely pictures too.

3. Footwear for a rainy wedding day

Consider as a bride having a pair of back up shoes, that one of your bridal party can keep close by for you. There is nothing worse than getting mud all over your beautiful wedding shoes. If its raining when you leave out wear a different pair of shoes to the ceremony so that you keep your bridal shoes nice and dry. Or change into the spare shoes when you are taking your photos, to keep your gorgeous shoes in pristine condition. Or if you really want to branch out wear some wellies!

4. Shelter

If you have dreams of having any part of your wedding outside, such as a drinks reception in your venue’s beautiful grounds do check with the venue whether there are any sheltered areas available should the rain fall! Or whether one can be created such as a small gazebo. If there isn’t speak to your venue to find out what their backup location is for an indoor option, if needed.

5. Keep calm

Whatever weather you are faced with take it in your stride and keep calm and don’t panic! Try not to let the weather dampen (see what I did there 😍) your day, just enjoy every moment of your special day, rain and all, its all part of the memories.

I hope this provides useful tips on planning for a wet wedding! If you do get rain on your wedding day, it really isn’t the end of the world and won’t be so bad if you have some of these wedding planning tips in place.

If you have a wedding planner on board these are the sorts of things that I can sort out for you in the lead up to your wedding and be there on the day to execute it all. If you are looking for some planning your beautiful wedding day, I would be so pleased to hear from you. Contact me here.

Natasha x

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