Summer Wedding Dresses Tips To A Cool Free Wedding

As a bride expecting to be married by summer, did you wish that there were many summer wedding dresses available?  Springtime is normally the better time to get married with the weather just relatively mild (not too cool and not too warm) – depending of course on your geographical location.  This also happens to be one of the busiest times of the year for weddings. All other assumptions and circumstances aside, the next alternative and better time to get married is around summer time.  If you plan to get married outdoors, the chances of it raining is slim but with it comes the uncomfortability of excess heat and therefore non-stop sweat. So, if you plan to have an outdoors ceremony – we’ve come up with 6 ideas for a summer wedding dress tips to a cool free wedding.

1. Use of natural shelter or man-made shelter – it might be wise to have the ceremony where there are plenty of natural shades such as high trees or use the angle of the sun (depending on time of the day) so a high rise or a building blocks it, thereby creating a temporary shading for you and others.  You can also attempt to hire a shade or pergola that can be temporarily erected and taken down right after the ceremony.
2. Find out the forecast or weather on that day and advice your attendees in advance that it will be a warm day and they may want to wear something cooler or bring an umbrella.  If that is not an option maybe you can advise them to bring some spare clothing in case they get too sweaty.
3. For clothing, use natural fibres as much as possible.  Whilst most wedding dresses are made of synthetic fibres some spare tissue papers might be a good idea to bring, in order to wipe the sweat off your body.  For men wearing suits, it may be a good idea to wear a thin t-shirt underneath in order for the sweat to be absorbed and thereby reducing the unnecessary sight of sweaty underarms.  A handkerchief would also be handy to wipe off those unwanted sweat off your face or forehead.
4. Indoors but outdoors – you can still have the best of both worlds if you want to hold your wedding outdoors.  Some places for hire with outdoor settings already have some contingencies in place in cases of sudden changes in weather – so they may have things such as;
   1. Erectable shades or huge “tents” that can house numerous amounts of people with chairs, tables, air conditioners, etc., under one roof.
   2. Outdoor settings with roofs, manicured gardens and man-made fountains creating that once in a lifetime photographic setting.
   3. When getting a quote always ask if the provider have any contingencies in place in case of emergency.
5. Some people might think that changing or manipulating the external factors is enough to keep yourself cool especially in summer but one thing that’s often neglected is the need to keep the body and internal organs cool.  One way to do that is to make sure you have plenty of liquids and you are properly hydrated.  It may not be you but somebody else might sweat a lot more than you do.  There are similar cases of people where it only takes a little heat to trigger the sweat glands producing excessive sweat.  This in turn causes dehydration and fainting afterwards.  You don’t want to be that person.
6. Last but not the least is the need to “slip”, “slop” and “slap”.  It is when you either slip on a shirt, slop on a hat and / or slap on a sunscreen.  This is a famous advertising community campaign in Australia to minimise the effects of sun cancer.  So if you’ve never heard of it that is probably why.  However, some people may not wear a hat or certainly not slip on a shirt – but at least if you can slap on a sunscreen you may have just minimised the effects of sun cancer to your body.