Gather Stories

The wedding weekend, in our modernized culture, begins with the wedding party (immediate family, bridesmaids, and groomsmen) arriving to the occasion before the rest of the invitees to go over the wedding setup and rehearsal elements. While planning an entire weekend away for the wedding party members is not necessarily a new concept to the extravagancies of the ordeal, the concept has progressed further into the grandiosities to now include the majority of the wedding attendees, many activities, and bonding experiences over the course of a weekend.

There have been many wedding traditions to come and go throughout history, including the meaning of the marital act as a whole and the symbolization of the celebration, but the collection we’ve compiled for this piece have, so far, stood the test of time, and are what we at Gather have deemed the “timeless classics” of a wedding – withstanding the less than savory past and evolving to anticipate the sweetest future.

Many of the trends that rotate event and wedding planning today are based around long-standing traditions slightly altered and combined by varying cultures, through many years of celebrations thrown since the dawn of time.