Why It Doesn’t Matter If It Rains On Your Wedding Day
As we’ve hopefully proved here at Staggered, pretty much everything involved in the process of a wedding can be planned, researched and anticipated to a tee. But there are some exceptions, and one of the least damaging of those is the possibility that on your wedding day of all days, it will rain.
And whilst, if you were given a choice between dry or deluge, we expect you’d probably rather wed under clear skies, the fact is you don’t have that choice. You therefore need to get your head around the fact that you might have to deal with the weather.
So how do you cope with wet weather on your big day?
First step: preparation. You can check the weather forecast but all that might actually confirm is that metereology is a science in the same way homeopathy is.* That said having a stash of umbrellas, coats and these little beauties (Wedding Rain Cloak) might be worth it. Granted no one wants to wear a gigantic condom on their wedding day but this is where step two comes in.
Second step: acceptance. The things you can change, you do something about. The things you can’t, you accept. One of the difficulties of the big day is that sometimes unless it hits 100% perfection you can turn into a gibbering wreck. The secret to a happy wedding day is knowing that some things will not go to plan, because no day is 100% perfect. Enjoy the bits that are and ignore the rest, fixating on the weather will only make you miss the stuff that’s going right.
But what about the photos?
The wedding photos are naturally a big deal to the bride and groom – whilst your memories of the day are likely to be happy enough the last thing you’ll hopefully recall is damp, so a layer of drizzle on the snaps could be at least seem to be a bigger problem.
Fortunately, any wedding photographer worth his or her salt is likely to have a number of alternatives on offer. There’s bound to be any number of locations, from the door of the church to the reception with the space and aesthetic required for photos. If you can’t find a spot, or that glorious oak tree is now underwater you could always have the photos taken at a different date. Granted, this might cost a little more, but hey, it’s the big day!
A lot of photographers will even testify that a rainy wedding day photo is an even better shot, and should have the skills and professionalism to make the droplets seem like the tears of a thousands cherubs. Or something.
But we’re getting married in a marquee!
Ok, granted this isn’t ideal but unless we’re talking torrential-downpour-it’s-hailing-frogs sort of weather then your tent should be able to withstand a bit of moisture. You might want to send the best man to check with all the suppliers that their equipment is ok in the rain – the DJ and caterers especially, only just to know that you don’t have to worry.
After that take it as a challenge – are you really going to let a bit of damp spoil your day, or are you going to order another drink and party so hard that Hot Hail could be falling from the skies and you wouldn’t notice?
Sorting out the Mrs
If in the position of groom, you have to reassure your darling bride that the rain is really nothing to fret about, remember to highlight that rain doesn’t spoil flowers, and make-up is less likely to run if the day is cool and rainy, rather than sweltering hot. Emphasise that you’re really only outdoors for a tiny part of the wedding day and promise her all the hot weather she can handle on honeymoon, but don’t make it sound too much like a crummy euphemism for sex.
Above all, rain doesn’t matter because it’s your wedding that matters. It’s unlikely you’ll look back upon your wedding album in twenty or thirty years time, and remain preoccupied by any overcast skies. It’s about the two of you, your friends, your family and the memories that emerge. At Staggered, we lift a skinny fist to the sky, and say, “No weather, no, you will not alters this most blessed of days!”*
And then we put this on:
*Send complaints to howdareyouitoncecuredmysistersfriendslumbago@iamstaggered.com
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