How to plan a perfect winter ski wedding if you live in the the UAE?
Winter weddings become more and more popular every year as people get tired of the classic “blue water, white sand and palm trees” paradise picture – especially if you live in the UAE or any other Gulf country. We’ve got enough of that all year round.
And if you are a big fan of skiing or snowboarding, it’s a perfect opportunity to combine your love for winter sports with your love for your better half.
Top 5 tips for planning your dream ski wedding for UAE residents
1. Choose the perfect location
If you are planning to invite a few guests, chances are not all of them are confident skiers, so you need to make sure that both skiers and non-skiers will have fun. Most resorts have slopes for advanced skiers and for beginners, and some of them offer other activities too. Those will be your goal.
2. Research photo locations
While it’s not really hard to find a good background in the mountains, you still want your photos to be perfect, not just good. So it’s worth doing a little research and planning a route, keeping the lifts in mind. And of course, your photographer needs to be a confident skier or boarder too, so they can keep up with you and get the best shots.
Life hack: you can set up a little photo booth so your guests can have great pictures too.
3. Bring your ski/snowboard boots to your fitting
The last thing you want at your wedding is to find out that you can’t move comfortably. There will be a lot of jumping on and off the lift involved, and maybe even actually skiing downhill if you are ready to go for it.
4. Keep everyone warm
You would think that just because you told your guests the wedding is happening in the mountains, they will arrive in outfits suited to the mountain temperature. But practice shows that between looking elegant and being warm, a lot of people choose the former. So you probably need to prepare a few extra blankets to keep your stylish guests from catching a cold.
5. Think your decoration through
As you can imagine, it gets pretty windy out there, so small accessories made of paper and other light materials, as well as flowers, can just take off at any time. To prevent that, make sure to tell your florist about your wedding location so they can add some extra weight to your decorations to keep them in place.
Who can help you organise your winter wedding when you live in the UAE?
Good news! There are wedding planners like Easy Wedding Georgia who can take care of it all in the beautiful country of Georgia. Not only can they plan the wedding day, they also make sure your paperwork is in place.
As there are a lot of international couples living in the GCC, they face bureaucratic formalities quite often. Arranging all the documents and making appointments at embassies can be a buzz-killer. So you probably want someone else to do it for you while you are choosing the perfect outfit for your wedding day!
Would you have your wedding in the mountains, or is the beach still a better location for you? Tell us in the comments.
