Want to learn about luxury from the source? Look no further! Lisi Korn is a luxury wedding designer and the founder of Forever Events, a luxury event planning agency based in South Florida.

1. Make It Personal

From your choice of flowers to your choice of starter, every decision should be a personal one for the couple.

Many venues follow a prescribed routine for wedding couples; ‘This is the ballroom and every bride has her photo taken here, you have your ceremony here.’

It is important to make your wedding personal, and that the event should reflect the personality of both the bride and groom.

2. Create an Experience

Making people feel welcome, considered, and entertained are the key elements of luxury planning that can be easily transferred, whatever your budget.

Look at wedding preparations through the eyes of your future guests. Review every element, what they will interact with during the reception, and how you want them to experience your wedding.

3. Feast of the Senses

From scented candles to delicious canapés,  see your wedding as a series of opportunities to treat your guests to fabulous sounds, sights and smells.

A wedding is a huge production. Look at the day, or the weekend, and every separate element is a different act.

For each act you have to look at the elements and the components that fall into play. Whether it’s the food or the entertainment, for me, it’s everything that touches the senses, look, feel, sound, smell, they all come into play.

It’s the attention to detail. Say for example the escort card experience, that people are there to greet rather than people having to pile in and crouch to find their table. It’s that touch, that element that people in the luxury end want, for every single element of the day.

4. There is No “Most Important” Element

When you’re planning your budget for the day, and you think, ‘Well I really want to spend my money on the main course because that’s important to me, and that will be so impressive.’

But, if you’ve scrimped on the canapés an everyone’s been standing around in 90-degree heat for three hours, they’re not going to remember that the main course was amazing, they’re going to remember that they stood around waiting for food and drink.

5. There Are Some Things Money Can’t Buy

Believe it or not, even a wedding that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars is nothing without the right atmosphere.

The thing that money can’t is the atmosphere, from the guests to the experience, and at the end of the day, the best weddings are not about the ones where the most money was spent, they’re the ones where the bride and groom were both happy, and smiling the entire time.

The best weddings are the ones where the couples and guests are happiest. Sometimes, even the staff will compliment the wedding and the venue. When you get those comments on site, on the day, you know it’s a good event.

When the bride can just let go, show up, play her role perfectly and have the time of her life.

Everyone can feel it.