Farah and Allen had their stunningly gorgeous event at the Crystal Ballroom Beach Place in Fort Lauderdale! We started at the first look where these two got to see each other for the first time on their wedding day. There are many benefits to doing a first look:
• It calms your wedding day nerves!
• You get to have a special moment in a private setting.
• You get more photos together.
• You get to spend more time with your guests during cocktail hour!
• Less rushing to make sure your ceremony starts on time since everyone is already ready and all together.
Less and less couples are sticking to the tradition of waiting until the ceremony to see each other, some stating it’s bad luck! There is an origin story to this tradition and according to BridalGuide.com–
“During the time when arranged marriages were custom, the betrothed couple wasn’t allowed to see each other before the wedding at all. The wedding symbolized a business deal between two families (romantic, huh?), and a father would have been pleased for his daughter to marry a man from a rich, land-owning family. But he also feared that if the groom met the bride before the wedding and thought she wasn’t attractive, he’d call off the wedding, casting shame onto the bride and her family. Therefore, it became tradition that the bride and groom were only allowed to meet at the wedding ceremony so that the groom did not have the opportunity to change his mind. And that veil the bride wears? Its original purpose was also to keep the groom from finding out what the bride looked like until the last possible minute, when it was too late to back out of the transaction.”
But now? It’s more economical (financially and time wise) to do a first look on your wedding day to take advantages of everything it has to offer!