Dry hire wedding venues

Our wedding in March 2020 was what the call a 'dry-hire' wedding venue. It means that we provided the alcohol (and soft drinks) for our guests up until the party part of the evening. As you know, our wedding got postponed, and we actually ended up getting married with only 24 guests (rather than the…

A wedding budget

When you first get engaged I think a key thing to do is to try and work out a budget. Whilst it's difficult to know where to start it really helps with working out what you may and may not be able to do for your big day. Who you may or may not be…

5 tips for a newly engaged bride-to-be

As a bride, what wedding planning tips would you give to a newly engaged bride? Many issues of bridal magazines devote entire sections to answering this question There are 5 general areas of concern for new bride-to-be's, which are mentioned below. 1) What to do first I've previously suggested working out your max/ideal budget, size…

How do I become a wedding planner?

If you've been reading for a while, you'll know I've absolutely loved planning our wedding and was devastated in March when, about a week before our wedding, we had to postpone our big day because of the Coronavirus pandemic. So I've now planned my wedding about three or four times! We had our 'should be…

Wedding jealousy

Last year, I posted that we were off to our last wedding before Will and I were the bride and groom and it was our turn to say "I Do!" You all know by now that didn't happen through no fault of our own and this weekend we are, perhaps once again, off to our…

How to store your wedding in a bedroom

Our spare room is quite depressing at the moment. It's absolutely rammed with stuff for our wedding that should have been used in March 2020. Not only that, but we were supplying our own alcohol for the wedding and have A LOT OF BOTTLES! Some of our wedding stuff has expiry dates, which we're bound…

10 things to bring to a bridal dress appointment

Whilst I'm in a lot of pain trying to come to terms with the fact that our wedding day has been postponed and even our rescheduled wedding day may not take place or may take place not in the way we had hoped or dreamed (thanks coronavirus...), I'm trying to put together a few blog…

Planning a wedding I didn’t want

I’m trying to get excited about the idea of having two wedding days. If the rules don’t get relaxed then our plan is to have an intimate ceremony in October, our postponed date, with jut close family and friends. Followed by a blessing and our wedding reception in Spring 2022 (yes, you heard that correctly…

Am I allowed to get excited about having to postpone our wedding?

In trying to placate my nerves and worry less I've been thinking about the positives of having to postpone our already postponed wedding. I've decided I can have an additional wedding ring (who doesn't want more sparkle on their finger?). And because we're going to try and get pregnant in the interim between getting married…

Feeling guilty about postponing our wedding

Postponing our wedding was one of the hardest, emotional, most disappointing decisions we’ve ever been forced to make. It's a decision I still get emotional about, especially as I feel guilty about feeling bad about it.Before this, we were faced with a stream of phone calls and WhatsApps making the impending uncertainty that much harder…