Winter, the dormant season. The season most of us envision ourselves snuggled in a warm cocoon of fuzziness and hot chocolate. Christmas and New Years Day have selfishly kept the enjoyment of winter all to themselves, but we’re on to them. Besides those two holidays, winter has a reputation for being a time of avoidance. Instead of a season of celebrations, it’s deemed a season of avoiding depression, for counting down the days until the first snowmelt. It’s cold, stark, and lifeless, right?
Wrong. Sorry to say, but as the familiar phrase goes for many other things, if you find yourself completely turned off by the idea of a winter wedding, oh, honey, you’re not doing it right.
5 Reasons Why Winter Weddings Are Underrated:
1.) Your wedding colors absolutely pop. What’s one of the first rules of interior decorating? Make sure you have a clean neutral to work with your colors. Deciding which colors to use are often dependent upon the ones that are already there. Designers often suggest bringing in a white sofa, rug, or chairs to allow something for the colors to play off of. Well, ladies and gentlemen, winter is the perfect clean slate. Whatever colors you choose have virtually nothing to compete with. White is a perfect setting to carry out exactly what you want your final day to look like, which brings me to my next point:
2.) You are the center of your photographs. Winter white provides a perfect backdrop for photographs. Yes, a summer wedding may indeed have an active background of birds and green trees, but the stillness of a winter day perfectly captures the intense emotion of each moment, the warmth of your embrace providing a striking contrast with the brisk air that surrounds you. Additionally, snow reflects light, meaning even at sunset you will be cast with a soft, difficult to duplicate glow that looks utterly stunning when printed in black and white. 
3.) The typical becomes the exceptional. Take flowers, instance. In a summer wedding the flowers are acknowledged, and many ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ will absolutely be had, but in a winter wedding? Please, the sight of flowers is a kind of nostalgia all on it’s own. People are instantly drawn to them because they haven’t seen them for weeks and they yearn for anything resembling a warm day. Flowers in a summer wedding are simply noticed, while flowers in a winter wedding are refreshing and appreciated.
4.) You can be good to your skin. For many brides, a summer wedding means having that perfectly bronzed skin, which often leads to spending countless hours in a tanning salon or experimenting with nasty smelling lotions that leave you looking like a stained giraffe. In winter however, all you need to pull off is a healthy glow. To look overly tanned would be out of place, so work with the natural skin tones your mother gave ya. Relax with a good body scrub, a slightly tinted lotion and a good night’s sleep. You’ll be looking as radiant as ever.
5.) Winter weddings are more intimate. Now this one can be a bit unheard of for some, but hear me out. Many people want a small, intimate wedding, but it never turns out that way. Before they know it, their guest list is in excess of 300 because the mother-in-law simply insists on inviting the woman who used to babysit the groom from ages 2-8. Winter weddings, ladies and gents, are your ticket out. While some may scoff at the idea of having a wedding during a time when travel is difficult, you can use it to your advantage. Thinking of getting married at some exotic location strictly to secretly prevent 75% of the guest list from showing up? No need. Use your money for a honeymoon in Aruba get married in January instead.
