A little giggle to start this off

I love finding out what is important to people when they are searching for a venue. Two things I have read recently have made me laugh and think about how much time and money we spend on weddings to make them grandiose when perhaps we should be looking at the more intimate and personal details.

One was a little sentence in a wedding magazine recently that suggested people throw confetti at the end of the ceremony as it makes a "great budget replacement for a firework display" - as if firework displays were the norm in weddings now. They might be more popular, but so far I haven't been to one with fireworks - well, outside ones at least!

The other is in the top questions to ask your venue (I'll be posting on this later) from Hitched.co.uk where the last one read:

"Do you have landing permission should we want a helicopter to whisk us away after the evening reception?"

Is this really one of the top questions to ask your venue? Really? Because so many of us are hiring helicopters to leave by during this recession.

Made me giggle, anyway.