Organising the Perfect Wedding Rings “The wedding ring is a symbol of eternity. It is an outward sign of an inward and spiritual bond which unites two hearts in endless love. And is given as a token of your love and of your deep desire to be forever united in heart and soul.” Selecting the…
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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…
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 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…
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…