Save the Date

Send Out Your Wedding Save The Date Preparing your save the dates to be sent out is probably the first official announcement of the date you have set for the wedding, therefore you must be 100% sure this will not get changed. You should also ensure that your save the date does not get sent to…

Select the Bridal Party

Selecting the Wedding Bridal Party Before you can make any decisions on style of dresses, flowers and suits you need to select your bridal party, that is how many bridesmaids and grooms-men and who will fill these important roles. Not forgetting all the other members of the bridal party such as flower girls and page boys, ushers…

Choose a Minister or Celebrant

Choose a Minister or Celebrant to Perform your Wedding Ceremony Finding the perfect minister or celebrant to perform your wedding ceremony can be quite a difficult task. You need to make sure that you and your fiancée see eye to eye with the person marrying the two of you. You will be slowly seeing that everything we discuss, makes…

Wedding Styles

Deciding the Style of the Wedding When you think about wedding style the terms formal, semi-formal and informal often come to mind. These terms often are the foundations to a wedding style, theme and type. A wedding theme is often decided based on these wedding terms (formal, semi-formal & informal) and will become a constant…

Select a Reception Venue

Finding the Perfect Reception Venue for Your Wedding In most cases all the venues that we suggested for the wedding ceremony are perfectly suited to also be reception venues. So rather than discussing options for reception venue locations and doubling up on information already covered, I felt it better to discuss the questions you should be asking both…

Search for a Ceremony Venue

Search for a Ceremony Venue that Suits Your Needs Finding the right venue for your wedding ceremony is often a difficult job. Without repeating myself and doubling up on topic information, there are different styles of weddings (that we discuss later) and this will in most cases affect the ceremony location. Having said that, it…

Write a Guest List

Write a Guest List and Establish Numbers You may be thinking I have no idea who I want to invite to our wedding at such an early stage in the planning. This is very true, that is why this is simply a preliminary guest list that will be used when searching for venues and getting…

Wedding Planning

Will you plan the wedding yourself, or use a wedding planner? When it comes to planning a wedding there really are only two options. You can either put the time into planning the wedding yourself, sourcing all the suppliers, getting quotes and following through with the collection of all the wedding bits and pieces. Or you…

Wedding Budget

Set a Wedding Budget and Who is Contributing Financially? An important step in planning and organising a wedding is setting a wedding budget. Everyone’s budget will be different depending on how much money you feel you would like to spend and that you have available for your wedding. Depending what stage of life you are…

Set a Wedding Date

Set a Wedding Date Although you should take your time and not feel rushed into setting a wedding date, it is the starting point of planning a wedding. Having said that, I did a lot of my wedding planning without setting a date. I had personal reasons for doing this as I’m sure everyone has…

After the Engagement

After the engagement has settled down and you have announced your engagement and celebrated the occasion, it is down to business. The following points will be covered and discussed in further details, they are however not in a particular order. Some could argue you need to sit down and set a budget first before deciding…