Keeping Your Guests Warm At Your Outdoor Winter Wedding

Hosting a wedding outside can be a great choice, especially if you have a lot of guests to cater to. Indoor events can get stuffy and unpleasant quickly, with lots of people crammed inside. Whereas hosting outside can reduce this feeling substantially, providing guests with fresh air and a nice, relaxing atmosphere.

However, during the wintertime, many reject the idea of hosting outside due to the cold and wet weather, particularly if you are facing keeping your children busy at weddings, yet there are plenty of ways to protect you and your guests from the elements, keeping them warm and dry. Here are our best tips for doing this at your outdoor winter event.

Blanket Stations

Sometimes keeping yourself warm in a cold environment is a much more pleasant feeling than being in hot weather. Of course, everyone has their own preferences, but many enjoy the feeling of wrapping up tight with cold-weather clothes such as gloves, scarves, and woolly hats. Adding to this, you could provide your guests with a number of comfy items to help stave off the cold such as free blankets for them to use during the event. Providing your wedding guests with blankets via a blanket station to wrap up warm by the fire is a great way to keep them happy and comfortable during the wedding. It will allow people to stay warm for longer, keeping the party atmosphere going well into the evening.

Firepits Or A Bonfire

When finding ways to keep your guests warm during the winter, you’ll want to also try to factor this into creating a pleasant atmosphere. You can do this by using aesthetically pleasing firepits, for example, allowing guests to sit around the fire to stay warm while also enjoying the relaxing vibes that this creates. You could also consider providing marshmallows for toasting, creating a sort of rustic camping feel. Alternatively, you could choose to have a bonfire set up for the wedding. These can give off a huge amount of heat and are also a pleasing aesthetic choice.

Electric Heating

If you’re hosting a portion of your wedding day in a marquee or tent of some kind, then firepits and the like aren’t necessarily going to be an option, at least inside. Instead, you’ll want to find some form of tent heating system, the likes of which can be found via this article by the Dantherm Group. There are many different types of tent heating options, such as electric heating fans and indirect oil-fired air heaters, all of which will pump warm air into the tent, allowing it to permeate throughout the space. These heaters can also be adjusted, reducing the temperature if it gets too warm or increasing it should the area begin getting too cold. 

Warming Food And Drink

As well as keeping your guests warm on the outside, you’ll also want to consider keeping them warm on the inside with some tasty, warming snacks and drinks. For example, a hired street food vendor can provide hot foods during the evening, such as burgers, hot dogs, or other types of street food. You could also offer hot winter wedding drinks to guests too, such as tea, coffee, and hot chocolate, as well as warm alcoholic drinks like a winter punch or mulled wine. Not only will these provide your guests with a warming event when they drink them, but holding a hot cup will also provide them with extra heat too.