Outdoor Weddings: bring the fairytale to life!
If you are someone who always had an eye for the fairytale wedding, outdoors could be your own forest! Sri Lanka is a heaven for outdoor weddings with its picturesque lush gardens, sandy beaches with the Indian ocean in the background and beautiful lakes and rivers that make it picture perfect.
Besides, with a pandemic hitting the globe and more and more restrictions being imposed on the number of people that could be entertained in reception halls and hotels, planning your wedding outdoors just seems the wisest thing to do.
Let’s have a look at the most compelling reasons why you should consider an outdoor wedding this year.
Magical Set Ups
Whether on the beach, in a garden, alongside a lake or on a rooftop, outdoor weddings provide a glorious backdrop for ceremonies regardless of it being morning, evening or night.
Whilst indoor venues can be restrictive when it comes to decorating, an outdoor wedding gives you more freedom to do what you like. There is something about the breeze that flows under a marquee through the fairy nights on a beautiful summer night.
Limitless Space
Outdoor settings give you the advantage of space that eliminates the need to limit your guest list. If you worry about fitting all your guests into a small church or event center, an outdoor setting might be the ideal for you.
More space also means that perhaps you could opt for having a designated kid’s area where they can run, play, and let out their energy without hindering the ongoing ceremony.
Needless to say, bigger space means there is more room for the dance floor. While this is perfect, the outdoors is great for small and intimate ceremonies too.
A Photographers Dream
If you have not already been told this; natural light is a photographer’s best-friend. Photographs are how you will relive that special day over and over again and having the moment captured in vivid colour will keep the memory alive. The perfect professional photographer will know exactly what to do to give you the best photos, and just about how to make those fairy lights look like you are under a sky full of stars.
A theme for your love story
Why incorporate a beach theme inside a hotel ballroom when you can take the wedding to the beach? If a country wedding with bales of hay is your thing, you know the right wedding planner is all you need. Want to bring in your own furniture or use family heirlooms to set the table? Well.. that’s possible too.
Perhaps you can’t find a venue that’s the right look for your princess-themed reception. Or maybe you can’t imagine hosting your quirky, Star Wars–themed wedding reception in a church or another formal venue. An outdoor setting gives you the flexibility to choose any wedding theme, no matter how crazy it may seem.
Enhanced Time
As you know, many Indoor wedding venues get booked to hold a few different receptions each day during the wedding season; possibly restricting you to just a couple of hours for your wedding reception. But this is not the case with outdoor weddings, meaning you can spend as much time there as you need to, in order to make your wedding day stress-free and more special.
Competitive Pricing
Usually, indoor wedding venues can be expensive to the point that you might feel it’s exorbitant. On the other hand, holding your reception outdoors can lead to significant cost savings, as you’re not paying extra to run an indoor facility, such as electricity and air conditioning.
If you decide on a garden wedding, you won’t need to buy as many flowers as you’d have for an indoor setting and with the beautiful natural scenery in the background, you probably won’t spend as much on decorations either.
Come to think of it, all you need will be a good marquee, some beautiful chairs and some fairy lights to bring your fairytale alive.
Combating Covid19
Possibly one of the most underrated perks of holding an outdoor wedding in a pandemic situation is the fact that it allows flexibility to follow Covid-19 prevention guidelines than in an indoor setting; without ruining much of the fun.
For instance, outdoor settings easily allow for social distancing when it comes to placing beautiful tiffany chairs in 1M distance or whether it’s having a bigger dance floor so all your friends can indulge in the baila within a safe space from one another.
