Outdoor woods winter wedding

I was at an event the other night and it dropped below 68 degrees out. Slowly everyone left the tent outside to stand in the building. No one is going to stick around an outdoor winter wedding. No one. If your vision means more to you than your guests then you need to elope and call it a day.

IMO outdoor weddings are a terrible idea whether hot, warm, or cold. Weather is so unpredictable and is rarely, if ever, absolutely perfect for your guest's comfort.

I'm going to assume you have an indoor and outdoor space because you said the dance floor would be inside. Maybe you could do most of the reception and ceremony inside but have an area outdoors with a fire pit, blankets, hot chocolate and smores? I would probably be happy to step out and cool off if I'm hot from dancing. But just for a few, not for the whole evening.

You hope it snows? On your guests?

That's nice.

Many of our venues won't allow weddings outside if it's under 55. And as someone already brought up, many of those fabulous photos are styled shoots, not real weddings.

Here is a photo of one of my 'snow' weddings. Everything was inside a very well heated barn but they took pix outside. (Turnquist photography)

I'm having an outdoor winter wedding! Granted I live in Alabama, so the likelihood of it actually being too cold is slim to none. (Crossing my fingers!) It's YOUR wedding so do what YOU want!

Actual date. We live in arizona, im from michigan so i wouldnt care to sit in that but i guess ill look into something else. Again

I can see the appeal of the ideas on pinterest, but I just can't imagine being a guest at a outdoor wedding in November. I live in the Chicagoland area and was a bridesmaid in an outdoor wedding in April. It was 40 something degrees that day. We were miserable, the guests were miserable, but the bride had no backup plan... I don't think I ever saw all the photos (the bride was a relative of my ex-bf), but I'm sure we all looked how we felt.

I'm glad you're reconsidering.

I just looked up average temperatures in Tempe, Arizona for your date and it says 78. If that is the average for where you live, then that would actually be fine to me. But if the average is lower than 70, I would not do it.

I am from Michigan as well and this scared me even thinking about it lol. Hell I am having an indoor winter wedding and Im still nervous about the weather.

But then again I'm with @WED18. I applaud any bride who has an outdoor wedding. My nerves are to bad and weather is wayyyy to unpredictable.

I suggest indoor with big windows looking over nice scenery.

Hahahaha...nope.

Unless it's just the two of you, then you can have all the romantic frostbite one dreams about. If you're inviting guests and they see a November outdoor wedding in some godforsaken cold place, they'll nope right outta that shit. I don't know where you are from but most places don't even start to get snow until late December, up here November is cold and rainy. It's bloody miserable.

It sounds gorgeous but I want you to please consider one thing in case you have any guests like me:

In 1 year I went into stage 2 hypothermia 3 times. That's not at all healthy but it was particularly cold that year and I get hypothermia very easily. I'm not anemic, I'm not underweight, I don't have any health conditions that would make me predisposed to this. I just get cold easily and my body doesn't like it much.

So I support your idea and I think it will be so so beautiful, but please have the reception indoors and a hopefully quick ceremony so you don't have a guest get sick like I would.

No matter how badly I want to go to a wedding, no matter how special that person is to me, I would have to say no for my health. Just consider this

Please stop with the 'it's your wedding and you can do what YOU want". You can to that if you literally invite no one else.

Maybe you can find a venue with a great view/ big windows so you can have the best of both worlds?

Please don't do this.

You're from MI, you live in (and are getting married in?) AZ, but the only vendor listed on your profile is from LA County, CA.

Something is fishy.

Nothing is fishy. I was born and raised in MI, live in and am getting married in AZ (was looking at show low), when we first started WW we were planning a CA wedding thats why the vendors look like that. First we planned a july outdoor wedding in CA that was too hot and now too cold for Nov in AZ. I was looking at renting a house and thats why it would be outdoors because we wanted a woods wedding. In the summer the wedding seems less predictable so we looked at nov were the worst would most likely be snow for show low az, we were looking at this being our best month to get married as other months are so busy. I thought it would be nice but i guess not. Ill keep looking.

November is too cold, but you want to do a winter wedding?

We love the cold, snow is rare for AZ so it would be beautiful and we have a house hey can go into with a fire pit to warm up but i guess with everything i was gonna do it isnt lookig possible so ill keep looking. Thanks

Average temperature in Show Low on November 3 is 56 hi/38 low. I am glad you are reconsidering this idea. That is too uncomfortable for guests - they would spend the entire wedding hovering around whatever warm areas you provided or crowding into the house. You can have a beautiful winter wedding. As PPs have suggested, find a venue with warm wood colors and large floor to ceiling windows. Decorate the trees outside the windows with fairy lights (i.e. Christmas lights). You can then have your portrait pictures taken outside to get the woods/snow/winter photographs you want without sacrificing guest comfort.

You can definitely have a November wedding but please keep it indoors!

If you have your heart set on an outdoor ceremony then try a time of year that is comfortable for all! September or October or April maybe even May depending on where you live and how hot it is at those times!

Glad to hear you're avoiding an outdoor winter wedding. If I was a guest to a wedding outside in the snow I would decline