Are flowers necessary for a wedding? Ultimately no of course not, however for most brides flowers play a large part in the overall look, feel and scent of the big day. That said, there is no reason to feel you must break the budget with flowers. The truth is, flowers are expensive and if you…

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wedding budget

The whole idea of putting together your Wedding Budget can sound daunting, but it’s very important and, if approached in the right mindset, can even be fun (honest!). Establishing and Agreeing your Budget When setting your overall Budget, make sure you have included any contributions which might be made by family members or others. Don’t…

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Your Big Vision for your Wedding

It’s worth taking time at the outset of your wedding planning to evaluate fully what it is that the two of you want for your wedding. This might sound obvious, but it’s easy to become quickly surrounded by magazines and blogs, well meaning parents’ and siblings’ ideas and a whole host of assumptions about ‘wedding…

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your wedding team

By ‘Choosing Your Wedding Team’ I don’t mean the professionals you will hire, but rather those members of your family and friends whom you trust to help you pull the wedding together. Know your Friends and Family It is likely you will get lots of offers of help. However, you will know who can be…

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your wedding venue

Your wedding Venue is the backdrop to your day. Choosing it will help you with every other element going forward, including the suppliers who fit the Venue. Location Where will you get married? Are you planning to marry abroad, in your back garden, a couple of counties away, or have you yet to decide? Venue…

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I talk a lot in my community about the importance of having a big overall vision of exactly the wedding day you want to create, before diving into booking venues and suppliers. Only when you have that vision can you shortlist vendors which meet it. But there’s something which comes even before that. In order…

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what to ask your wedding suppliers

One of the things I often get asked in my community is what to ask your wedding suppliers. Makes sense. You’ve probably not planned a wedding before, so why would you know everything that you need to ask? For many brides it’s a question of ‘I don’t know what I don’t know, so where to…

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Are you a fairly newly engaged bride thinking ‘I don’t know where to start!’ when it comes to planning your wedding? Well this is completely usual in the most normal of times, but at the moment for some it’s totally overwhelming as much more than usual is out of our control due to COVID 19.…

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Aside from your schedule or running order for the day, let’s review all the other lists and information I suggest you ensure someone has with them for your wedding – hopefully not you! The more communication and clarity there is in the final run up and indeed post wedding, the more smoothly everything will run.…

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Reception Lines⁠ ⁠ Historically a wedding reception was held at⁠ the Bride’s parents’ home post Ceremony, with⁠ the couple ‘receiving society’ for the first time as a pair.⁠ ⁠ Depending upon a family’s status, this took the form of a⁠ tea, a dinner or perhaps a ball.⁠ ⁠ Typically each guest was received via the…

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