How to Plan Your Wedding in America

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Planning your wedding to the tee is exceptional important to ensure that your entire day runs completely smoothly. America is one of the best places in the world to have a wedding, whether you’re looking for a beach wedding, a winter wedding in the Rocky Mountains, a Vegas wedding, or even a cowboy themed wedding, there’s so much to choose from all around the 50 different states. However, it is important to make sure that you’re the happiest day of your life is as wonderful as it can get, when you plan your wedding in America.

Visas

If you’re planning your wedding in America, and you’re looking to travel you and your family in for the big day, you need to ensure that everybody has completed their ESTA application and it has been approved before they come. Doing this in advance of the wedding is important, to ensure that everyone can be approved for the ESTA, and if not then ensure that they begin the lengthy process of a full visa. The ESTA visa needs to be completed by everyone in the wedding party, and allows them to be in the country for travel or for business, for up to 90 days. The ESTA also lasts for up to two years, so you should be sure that you carry this out as soon as you confirm your wedding, to ensure that nobody is affected by the visa requirements.

Legal Requirements

When it comes to planning a wedding in America, there are a few legal requirements that you will need to consider in order to ensure that the wedding is legally binding. For example, if you want to head to Vegas and have your wedding there are a few aspects that you need to ensure to be certain that it is valid both in the country you are marrying, in your home country and ensuring that you have the specific paperwork requirements. In the US you shouldn’t have too much of a problem securing the right documentation, but it’s always worth a double check wherever you’re getting married.

Location

When it comes to your holiday in America, there are plenty of locations that you need to consider in order to pull off the perfect wedding. If you want a beach wedding, you should consider some of the best beach destinations in the US such as Florida, Hawaii and many more. Alternatively if you’re looking for a small wedding affair, then a Las Vegas chapel could be the ideal place for you. Looking at your budget, cost of flights and accommodation options are all exceptionally important when it comes to planning your wedding in America in order to make it the perfect day.

Rehearsal Dinners

Rehearsal dinners are a tradition in North America, and it may help you and your family to really prepare for the big day if you take part in one of these. The rehearsal will help to make sure that everything that needs to be in place, is in place at the right time, and this rehearsal can take place from a few weeks prior to just a few days before the wedding, depending on when you want it and how prepared the day is. If you’re looking at having a large wedding then you might want to have a rehearsal dinner in order to ensure that everybody knows what they need to be doing on the day.