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Which Three Wedding Elements Are Most Important to You??

posted 10 months ago in Beehive
  • poll: Which THREE elements are most important to you?
    Number of guests : (15 votes)
    3 %
    Location : (39 votes)
    9 %
    Ceremony site : (22 votes)
    5 %
    Reception site : (25 votes)
    6 %
    Season and/or time of day : (12 votes)
    3 %
    Formality (casual, semi-formal, etc.) : (10 votes)
    2 %
    Photography : (93 votes)
    21 %
    Videography : (4 votes)
    1 %
    The Dress : (55 votes)
    13 %
    Flowers & decor : (18 votes)
    4 %
    Beverages (full bar vs. partial or none) : (19 votes)
    4 %
    Music : (38 votes)
    9 %
    Cake : (6 votes)
    1 %
    Food/Catering : (64 votes)
    15 %
    Other : (13 votes)
    3 %
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    Stellar Magnitude    October 12, 2012   Biloxi, MS -- wedding in New Orleans

    Just curious to see which parts of the wedding are most important to most of us ladies! Remember... try to choose only three.

     
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    Mrs.ChubbyBunny    October 1, 2011   Texas

    I voted for photography, food, and ceremony location!

     
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    MaraBeth    December 3, 2011   Dallas, TX

    I would say beverage, music, and food. We want to pay the most attention to our guests' experience over some of the smaller details.

     
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    LauraCYW    October 12, 2012   California, Wedding in New York

    Music, photography and fashion

     
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    PuntaCanaBride    March 30, 2012  

    I voted music, food and photography. Music and food make the wedding for the guests and the photography is important to me for my memories.

     
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    Miss Fish    December 31, 2011   Youngstown, OH

    Photography, music, and food for me!

     
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    Miss OBG    May 2011  

    Ceremony site (which kind of cheats and includes location, because it's a specific one), photography, and beverage.  Now that the wedding's over, I have to say music was a huge part, but I think we would've had fun even if the DJ hadn't been quite as good.  However, without an open bar, nowhere near as many people would've danced, so I stand by my choices.

     
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    jazinlove      

    photography, food, location.

    pictures last forever!

     
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    Treejewel19    May 18, 2012   Sonoma County, CA

    Food, Decor and Fashion. Those are all the things I remember from other weddings so I had better make it good!

     
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    LauraCYW    October 12, 2012   California, Wedding in New York

    Umm. Hey! Date twin!

     
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    organizedbride11    November 11, 2011   Illinois

    I voted photography because it is what preserves your wedding day.

    flowers/decor because your decor sets the tone of your wedding

    and fashion... the dress for me and my girls the moms.. the guys fashion I guess this also goes into formality...

    food is also important also... you never want your guests to leave hungry... I know thats four... sorry

     
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    beatriz    August 2012  

    @Stellar Magnitude:  Getting married

     
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    Kant    June 30, 2012   PA

    Formality, photography, and music. I don't want people showing up to our wedding in jeans and a t-shirt, I want good photos to look back on, and I want people to DANCE to music that reflects our tastes, not just generic dance music.

     
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    reginaphalange    March 10, 2012   Brooklyn

    Reception, food, alcohol.  

    In reality, we chose the reception site because of the formality level of said place (we didn't want a typical wedding venue), so those two options kind of go hand in hand, hence my only voting for one but not the other.

     
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    Mrs. Meowerson    May 12, 2012  

    Photography, location, and beverage

     
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    couawilou    October 20, 2012   Toronto, Ontario

    I voted for Food, Music and Photography.

     
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    mzlouis2b    November 3, 2012   Live in Brooklyn, wedding in MI

    photography, food, and music!

     
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    Cash000    December 2, 2011   Canada

    Fiance, Vows, My son

     
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    Aure    October 6, 2012   Las Vegas

    Photography, beverages (open bar) and our rings. I want to make sure everyone has a good time by providing alcohol and I want to make sure we have pictures to help us remember that good time. The rings are really the only thing that make it through the day so they're important to me.

     
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    Stellar Magnitude    October 12, 2012   Biloxi, MS -- wedding in New Orleans

    @LauraCYW: Yay! Oct 12, 2012 all the way!! :-D

     
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    GreenEyedMoon    January 14, 2012   Dallas

    Photography, the dress, and the number of people.  I know the wedding will be awesome and I'll want to relive every moment, so the photography is important.  I really really really want to wear a fantastic dress and look beautiful, so that's important, too.  The number of people - being able to invite all our families and friends - is also very important to us, and that was the factor that made us go for a location that's local, a venue that's fairly cheap (we need to be able to afford everyone!), and cut back on the catering for the same reason (the food will still be delicious, but we won't have anything *really* special).

     
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    aubiegirl    March 24, 2012  

    I don't know if I can pick just three. The most important to me are: the vows, the photography, and the FUN! I really want a fun wedding. If I could pick four I would add the dress.

     
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    cirrus    October 2011  

    The ceremony itself is the most important to me. Then photography. Then location.

     
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    AlmostMrsP      

    I voted for photography (we have booked an amazing photog...he was our "splurge" for the wedding".  Then I voted # of guests because we're having a small wedding...then lastly..."other".  Other is for our honeymoon! we're spending more on our honeymoon than our wedding.

     
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    krystal.keel    September 10, 2011  

    I voted before reading any responses and apparently we all think the same thing.

    Music - because we want guests to be entertained and have fun.

    Food - because that is always the one thing that everyone remembers (be it good or bad unfortunately)

    Photography - because the day will go by so fast that you will want plenty of pictures to remember all the things you missed.

     
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    BrooklynBride10    October 9, 2010   nyc

    Photography - Only lasting documentation of the day (besides video) , so it had to be amazing.

    Dress - Gotta look amazing!

    Cake - I have a massive sweet tooth, and so many venues have sup par, boring cakes.  I wanted a visually stunning and amazing tasting one.

    (and open bar is a given!)

     
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    kperry3    January 1, 1991  

    1. Photography

    2. My dress

    3. Music

     
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    MissDareDevil    April 2, 2011  

    I voted for reception site, photography, and my dress.

    I think the reception site totally set the tone for the whole entire party. We wanted an elegant, formal feel, and i think that it was very important that we picked the right reception site. i think photography is important because it lasts forever, and dress, well, because it's my wedding dress! i think it also sets the feel of the event. my dress went really well with the rest of the "wedding vibe."

     
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    bijou214    February 19, 2012  

    I voted photography because that's what will help preserve the memories, food because I think that can really make or break a guest's experience, and other - which would be the overall "look" of the bridal party like my dress, the girls' dresses hair/makeup, the bouquets/bouts, little details like FI's cuff links, the socks the boys will wear, etc.

     
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    bklynbridetobe    December 2011   Brooklyn Born

    Food, music, photography.

    I will be talked about like a dog if the food isn't good. Music cause I want a banging party. And I love to take pixs, so why of couse one of the most important days of my life will be well documented.

     
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    blg529    August 6, 2011   Los Angeles

    So hard to pick but I chose flowers & decor, dress, and ceremony location (it was really important to me to get married in my church and it took some compromising on other things with FI to make this happen because he is Jewish)

     
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    lovekiss    October 9, 2011   Maryland

    The guest count.... keep it small and intimate so we can really spend time with our guests

    The season.... weather is important to our comfort and the comfort of our guests. Seriously, I hate being sweaty. Hate it!

    The food... we love to cook and love to eat. The quality of the food, and it's local and organic pedigree is important to us. We wanted to provide a meal that is in line with how we cook at home.

     
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    UpstateCait    October 7, 2011   Upstate, NY

    The most important for me would be venue (I voted for reception site but our ceremony is in the same location), food and beverage. 

     
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    bebefly    October 22, 2011   Ottawa

    Photography, time of year, and food. 

    Although dress or flowers & decor were sooooooo close instead of food. I would say flowers/decor & food are pretty much tied, actually.

     
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    2dBride    October 6, 2009   Washington, DC.

    Ceremony site:  We wanted it t be a Jewish wedding, in a synagogue.

    Food/catering:  I think this is what guests remember most.

    Other:  We wanted to be able to have informal time to hang out with our guests, all of whom were very special to us.  (We had only about a dozen people for the ceremony.)  We therefore rented a big house where everyone could stay for the night before the wedding and the wedding night.

     

     
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    Knubbsy-Wubbsy    July 30, 2011   Central Texas

    Ceremony (other), Music, and Beverages

    Ceremony is what we think the wedding needs to focus on

    Music, we're dancers, so that should be self explanatory

    Beverages, for my peace of mind/sanity we needed to have no alcohol. Traumatic past event + wedding day stress = bride hiding in hysterics because people are drinking

     
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    Shiner    June 9, 2012   Louisville, KY

    I voted for location (since mine was ceremony and reception site, in a central area of our town, and I had very specific requirements for selecting a venue --we took about eight months to look and decide!!), photography, and catering.  Picking the venue and photographer were the most stressful things to decide on!!

     

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