How To | Pick the Right Venue

After the dress, this is probably the biggest decision you'll have to make for your wedding. There are so many things to consider and honestly, it can get a little overwhelming. It's also probably the first thing you should book. Until you have your venue, it's very hard to do anything else or envisage what you want your wedding to look like. 

Five Things | Choosing Your Initial Guestlist

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This is something we put together fairly early on, before we look at venues, and I did actually find it easier than I thought. However, I know it can be really tricky to narrow it down and justify your choices. To help choose your perfect venue you need to know how many people you want for your ceremony and wedding breakfast to start, and then a rough idea of evening guests. But how can you make sure you've got the right people?

The Tools | Wedding Apps

Oh yes, in such a digital age there was of course going to be some wedding apps. A wedding is such a daunting thing to plan and there is so much to do. For example, did you know you're supposed to take out insurance? No, me neither. Should probably do that. I have found some apps have been great at giving knowledge but also inspiration.

Wedding Party | Will You Be My Bridesmaid?

Picking people to stand up with you can be really difficult. However, I'm lucky enough to have three incredibly close friends so there wasn't really much of a decision to be made. In fact, they kinda already knew... There are so many different ways to ask them now - you could call, email or go out to dinner. I wanted to do something a little bit special and different so they got a little gift bag with some goodies....

Five Things | You're Engaged... Now What?

What now indeed. I've not exactly waited around as people have told me, but I've never been one to do so. As soon as we got engaged I downloaded a planning app and got myself going on research. But what to do next was a huge question both me and my fiance had - and you will too - so I've popped together my top 5 things to do next...