I thought long and hard about wedding presents for our closest family, friends and suppliers. I knew I wanted to get them all something because they had all gone the extra mile to help us and support us and although I knew they’d be livid we spent cash on them, it was important to me to get them something personal to show our appreciation.
Read MoreSuppliers can make or break a wedding and the planning process in my opinion so if you have a good feeling about one, hang onto them for dear life. It’s worth seeing if your chosen venue or current suppliers can recommend others they like to work with - don’t forget these are professional people who have done this a million times before and they have got to know who’s the best in the industry and who is worth avoiding. Your wedding venue might also have a list of approved suppliers they won’t deviate from so worth checking that out when you’re booking too.
Read MoreIt doesn’t matter how big or how small your day, how much money you’re spending or how many guests you’re having, at the end of the day it’s a life changing set of legal words and a change to your marital status and you want to be feeling your best, most confident, sparkly, happy version of yourself.
Read MoreCentrepieces are essentially a really unnecessary and potentially expensive part of a wedding, but a piece that makes the whole thing look ‘together’ and an element I was looking forward to creating. Pinterest was of course my starting point but I also wanted to stick to my mantra of cheap and reusable.
Read MoreI had three objectives when it came to choosing how I wanted to decorate the barn;
As cheap as possible
As much DIY as possible
As much we could reuse as possible
A secret Pinterest board is a staple for a brides as soon as you have got engaged no? I made mine almost immediately, made sure it was private so no guests could see the things I was planning and didn’t make it public until the big day was done.
Read MoreOne month married already and it feels like absolutely years ago. Our photos are back, my dress has been cleaned, the final bills have been paid, the thank you cards have been written and my office is still full of things I need to get round to selling. And of course, the blog content is rife.
Read MoreWe’ll be going on a 10 day honeymoon to celebrate 10 years together over the early May bank holiday (more on that to come in the next month) so we booked a few days away only a car drive away on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.
Read MoreI think a breakfast is a great way to end your wedding, even if you’re not laying it on yourselves or paying for it for your guests, just meeting up somewhere and having a good hearty meal before all parting ways is a really nice way to finish. It allows you to debrief the day before, catch up with anyone you didn’t get the chance to catch up with, say goodbye to people you didn’t see leave last night and enjoy the last few moments of all being together.
Read MoreI’d say the party element of the wedding was the easiest most stress free bit of it all - people are drunk by then, ready to have a good time and happy with a bit of food, plenty of booze and some good music to dance to. I also found people just did their own thing and that worked really well with our vibe so some people left early, some kids stayed up late, some people danced, some people chatted, and some people tried to do the dirty dancing lift and nearly broke their arm. By 1am half the group were knackered, half the group were chanting for an encore when the lights went up and the playlist stopped, and my brother had put himself to bed 2 hours earlier.
Read MoreThe best weddings I have been to have had some sort of evening before kind of party, it allows the guests to have the chance to catch up, to see you, to see each other, mingle and get to know each other before the wedding itself. It really allows all the focus to be on what you want it to be on the day, not a load of snatched conversations of people who haven’t seen each other for months and personally, it allowed me and Jos the chance to make sure we got round everyone over two nights, not one rushed mingling job.
Read MoreIt was exactly how we wanted it to be in the end. I worried slightly that it would be so informal that it wouldn’t feel ‘proper’ but with both our Mum’s bawling and saying our vows, it really felt like ‘something’. I wasn’t nervous, I didn’t have to walk down an aisle in front of people, the only guests looking at us were our closest loved ones and it meant we could 100% focus on us and the vows, and worry about the party later.
Read More9 years and 9 months to the day we got together, 1 year and 4 months to the day we got engaged and 11 months to the day we booked our wedding - we got married in a 3 day weekend of chaos, festivities and stormy weather.
I’ll be going into the who, the what, the why and the wherefore in the next month so for today, here’s a little run down of how we celebrated.
Read MoreOhhh yes, after a few years ‘off’ regular blogging, I am coming back for one solid month of wedding spam - because if you can’t rinse the biggest weekend of your life for content then what’s the point?
Read MoreWhether it’s a big day, a small day, an elopement or a really unconventional day - there’s no doubting that ALL weddings require some degree of planning. Ok maybe, maybe a drive thru ceremony conducted by Elvis on a drunken whim doesn’t have any planning involved but ya know, most others do.
We’re getting married in 7 months and by the time we viewed and booked our venue we had under a year to go so the planning has got real very quickly. We’re having a tiny wedding followed by a big party in February of next year and my spreadsheet has been a lifesaver when it comes to organising our weekend of festivities.
Read MoreIt’s been 4 months and 13 days since we got engaged. 4 months and 13 days to get used to a teeny tiny sparkly ring on my left hand, 4 months and 13 days of “no, no plans yet” and 4 months and 13 days of staring blankly at my wedding planner.
Read MoreBeen a bit of a week hasn’t it? Mad busy at work, a weekend in the New Forest, my twenty sixth birthday and a proposal.
You’re probably more shocked than I was.
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