Planning your wedding can be one of the most exciting and enjoyable experiences in your life but also it can be up there with one of the most stressful. Whether you’re planning a small intimate affair or a large full white wedding there is so much to organise and it can get overwhelming for any bride and groom. So at Wedding Advice UK we have tried to make things a little easier for you by putting together this site with advice and guidance for each of the main areas of organising your perfect wedding day.
Wedding Planner
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Everyone is different and in some cases it’s the bride who does most of the wedding planning, either by herself or with help from her bridesmaids and maybe her mum. In some cases the bride and groom do all the planning and organising together, equally taking on responsibilities and in some very rare cases it’s the groom who takes charge and the bride is more laid back (this however is very rare indeed). But whoever it is that is doing the majority of the work we hope that the advice on our site will be helpful to you and make planning the special day a bit smoother.
We cover all the major aspects like choosing the wedding dress and the groom’s outfit, choosing your form of transport to the wedding venue and for guests, choosing flowers which may not be as simple a task as you first expect, deciding on and booking your honeymoon destination (can you and your partner agree on what type of honeymoon you would like, sunny and relaxing or fun and adventurous?), choosing the venue you want to get married at and also deciding on which photographer to go for.
Take your time to browse through the different sections and get your head round all the different tasks ahead and take note of our handy tips along the way. Good luck with all the wedding planning, we hope you have a smooth and enjoyable journey and best wishes for your special day and future married life.
There's a lot of wedding advice floating around the Internet. Problem is, a lot of it is useless fluff dreamed up by a) relatively well-heeled editors contractually obligated to spend their days inventing absurd nonsense to fill pages surrounded by advertisements b) people who've never planned a wedding/mistakenly think their very specific experience can be extrapolated. Or both!
Sure, those mason jars wrapped in polka-dotted ribbon are a cute idea on Pinterest, but it's a good way to wind up sobbing in the middle of your local Michael's two weeks before the big day. And all that money-saving advice? Yeah, the buffet's going to save you $10 per person, tops.
Maybe you're planning to tie the knot at a 50-person backyard barbecue. Or maybe you're hosting 350 friends, family and business associates to some Gilded Age castle. Whatever. A month out from my own wedding, here are a few pieces of real-talk wedding advice that you can actually fucking use.
1. Maybe pay someone to do that. Are you supremely artistic and experienced in the ways of crafting? Is your great aunt Martha Stewart? Unless the answer to one of these questions is yes, think very carefully about any D.I.Y. projects. Examine your own abilities with a critical eye. For instance, I once tried to complete a "Cosmos manicure" and ended up looking like I'd let a four-year-old paint my nails. Face the music: Despite what Pinterest would have you believe, some of us are just shit at art. And your wedding is probably not the time to learn that lesson. It'll only be more expensive when you have to replace everything at the last minute.
2. Not everyone gets a date, and that's fine. Look, lots of us wanted everyone we've ever known and loved at the ceremony. But that's just not feasible unless your daddy is a robber baron. You'll want to invite as many significant others as possible, of course, and if someone is flying from Shanghai to Cleveland for your reception, you'd better allow them a date. But at some point, it's time to hitch the caboose to the gravy train, and once you do, stick 100 percent to your guns. Consider preparing an email in advance for anyone who truly does not understand that money doesn't grow on trees.
3. You are not the Lone Ranger. Perhaps you want to be the Stanley Kubrick of weddings, strictly controlling every single aspect of the entire production. But that way lies The Shining, my friend. When someone graciously offers to help, come up with some very specific detail they're well-equipped to handle. (If you've got it covered or this person is an absolute incompetent, politely decline, but I urge you to consider the offer, even if it's as simple as logging RSVPs.)
Remind yourself (as others have reminded me) that people care about the dancing, the food and whether a good time was had by all. They don't care about how much painstaking effort you put into the hand-aged programs and the very firm email you wrote to get the perfect amount of greenery in the centerpieces. You're better off focusing on the broad strokes that best facilitate the party than bothering overmuch with piddly shit.
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