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This article is based on an expert interview with Jove Meyer, conducted by wikiHow Staff Editors. Jove Meyer is the founder and principal of Jove Meyer Events. An award-winning event planner, designer, and LGBTQ+ advocate, Jove’s work has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times, Refinery29, and Martha Stewart and more. Jove has been named as a “Wedding Guru” from US Weekly and as one of the top wedding planners in the USA from The Knot and Brides.
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A classic drive-away in a beautifully decorated car is the perfect end to a fairytale wedding. There are endless possibilities when it comes to decorating your drive-away car, and in this video, Event Planner and Designer Jove Meyer shares some of his favorites. He also offers some logistical tips so your drive-away goes off without a hitch.
Key Takeaways
- Streamers, cans, shaving cream on the windows, stickers, and balloons are all great decorating options.
- If you’re worried about the decorations not being safe or legal to drive with, you can take them off once you’ve gotten all of your photos and videos and have turned the corner.
- If you’re renting a car, double-check with the rental company before putting any decorations on it.
Video Transcript
First of all, you want to make sure that you're actually driving away and not to an after party and not sort of back to the venue for a continued party. So step one is making sure that it is your final goodbye, not a cheap goodbye. Because guests don't want to say goodbye and then suddenly you reappear again. So in decorating that car, I think you can think of streamers, cans, shaving cream on the windows, or tools of stickers. You want to think about the visuals and the sounds. You want to make sure that it's fun and that it's exciting. Balloons are a great option. Anything that you do, you definitely want to pass along, if it is a rental car, to that company to make sure that they allow it. If it is your friend’s or family car, you want to make sure that anything you do is temporary and not permanent. And if you're really doing it just for the photo or video, always know that when you turn the corner, you can take the things off if they're not legal to drive with or safe to drive with.
