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Wedding Wednesday: what is a wedding breakfast?

We have chosen not to go for the traditional 3 course wedding breakfast as we want a slightly more informal meal to be more relevant to our children and the rest of the guests. I want to have lots of time to mingle with family that have traveled instead of being at a set table and […]

Wedding Wednesday: the history of wedding favours

Chris and I are getting our heads round the fact that if we are having a wedding we are going to do it properly. That includes all the things that we weren’t originally planning on such as a wedding cake and photographer. One thing that I thought we’d leave out were wedding favours. As far […]

Wedding Wednesday: a legal rant

I am a little bit cross. I have been kind of preoccupied in a happy way about the wedding (no surprise!) but my attention has been drawn to something that has really wound me up. Over half term, both a friend and my sister have mentioned to me that we need to re-register Zach’s birth. Why? […]

Wedding Wednesday: planning the perfect honeymoon in 2018

Research shows that amongst couples who choose a traditional wedding, 99% of them go on a honeymoon — it’s all part of the wedding experience. We are not going for a traditional wedding so we don’t count in that statistic! We are also not planning to have an official honeymoon due to my fear of […]

The simple guide to planning a wedding

Congratulations if you are newly engaged like me! The idea of organising a wedding can be quite a daunting prospect but it doesn’t have to be! We have 6 months to go until our wedding (yay!) and I thought I would share with you some of the tips to a hassle free wedding. The first […]