About Summer Weddings

Summer is known as the most beautiful time of the year to get married. You have less worry about the possibility of rain, or at least less worry than in fall and spring. Summer wedding themes can be fun and bright. Flower colors for summer weddings are brilliant and bold and you can dress bridesmaids to match. You can also better take advantage of the beautiful outdoors for your summer wedding.

Risk Factors

Summer weddings can be too hot for the bride and for the guests, especially if held outdoors. You must make sure your guests have plenty of water and a means for cooling off. You may also find that you are spending too much time ducking bees and swatting flies and mosquitoes than saying wedding vows.

Benefits

You can hold a summer wedding in almost any outdoor space. You can use a park, or your parent's backyard, and most people will still enjoy themselves. In the summer, you can save money on catering by choosing a lighter fare of foods that will cost less than rich heavy foods typically served in the winter months.

Time Frame

It is best to hold a summer wedding early in the day before the sun is at its highest, hottest point, or in the evening after the day begins to cool off. Morning summer weddings tend to end as it begins to get too hot. Evening summer weddings can last all night.

History of

Summer weddings are historically most popular, especially June weddings because there was typically a lull in produce and plant harvesting. In addition, meat had been freshly slaughtered, so there was plenty of fresh meat to serve at the wedding celebration.

Type

Beach wedding: A beach wedding is really great to have in the summer. The breeze from the ocean helps to cool off the guests, and the beautiful scenery makes any inconveniences minor. Destination beach weddings are also very poplar, where the bride and groom invite a limited number of people to a special tropical beach location to witness the wedding and celebrate in an intimate reception.
Park or backyard wedding: This type of wedding is typically informal with casual wedding clothes, and picnic or barbeque foods. For a down-to-earth type couple, this is an excellent type of summer wedding to have.
Formal wedding: You can still have a formal wedding in the summer. If you can find someplace with a hard ground, like a pool-side for example, and by adding a glamorous tent, you can have a wonderful formal event.
Morning wedding: Morning weddings are typically less formal and easier to control time-wise. Morning weddings are also light on alcohol and involve less partying ruckus than evening weddings.