26/08/2024
🌧️ It’s the one thing you can’t plan. So here’s my tips for dealing with rain on your wedding day 🌧️
1. Don’t ignore that it might happen 🫠
I’m not saying it definitely will, but saying that it definitely won’t isn’t going to help. I used to say that (for where I’m located anyway) May June and September are the best months for stable sunny weather for a wedding, but honestly it’s anybody’s guess now. Thank climate change and that fact that you’re having a wedding in the UK, which to be fair is known for its rain. Sigh.
2. So make sure you have a Plan B 📝
Especially if you have a venue that is mostly or all outside. And please for the love of sinking chairs and shoes, have some kind of back up plan for your wedding that’ll be in the middle of a field! I really hope you get to do your Plan A, but it’s better to have something and not need it than the other way around.
3. Buy some umbrellas ☔️
I think these days they are honestly just a good thing to always get for weddings. Look on Facebook marketplace or groups, get yourself to Primark or any shop online or not that sells umbrellas, clear ones are a good shout, and when you’re done weather you’ve used them or not (get it? 😅), if they’re in good nick you can sell them on afterwards.
4. If it does rain, don’t feel you can’t be sad about it ♥️
Let’s be honest no one really wants it rain on their wedding day, so you are far from alone from feeling upset or disappointed if it happens. When that forecast hasn’t changed and it’s grey skies and cats and dogs all day, and you hear the rain starting early in the morning and your heart sinks, just do what you need to do, have a cry, scream into a pillow, get a few hugs from your loved ones. Don’t completely ignore your feelings….
5. ….and when you’ve done that, EMBRACE IT! 😎
Because the truth is rain really doesn’t have to ruin your day. Sure it might not be what you planned or expected, but those plans and expectations are all in your head anyway and were never real, the reality is that it’s raining, AND it’s also real that YOU’RE GETTING MARRIED! Marrying the person you love is the most important thing on that day, and to be really honest I’ve don’t think I’ve seen any wedding day 100% absolutely completely go to plan anyway. There’s always something weather it’s big or small, and I’ve seen wonderful couples over the years make the bloody best of it regardless.
6. Do a photo shoot on a sunny day ☀️
An idea is that maybe you could get all dressed up again, book a photoshoot for an hour with your wedding photographer and have some lovely sun drenched portraits together. Yes it’s important to get pictures on the day too, but it might be a good excuse to wear your wedding clothes again, have some fun and get even more photos of you two together.
7. Your guests will understand 🕺
As long as they’re not completely soaked, and they have food drinks music and things to do, you’ll keep them happy regardless. And if someone is being unreasonable tell them to go home 😂 People are very aware though that there’s nothing you can do to change the weather and if they’re nice people who care about you, they just want you to have a good day.
A HUGE congratulations to Kelly & Shaun who did get married on a rainy day, embraced it and still had a great day ♥️
