Planning
Audio guestbooks and live illustrators: the guest experience arms race, assessed honestly
Two of the most booked additions this year. One of them is worth the money for almost everybody. The other is not.
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The decisions, in the order they actually arrive.
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The law that decides where you can marry is being rewritten, and you have until September to say something
The Government opened a ten week consultation on weddings law in July. If it goes through, the ceremony could happen in a garden, on a beach, or under a tree, and a celebrant could make it legal.
Planning
Wedding insurance and supplier contracts: the boring pages that save you
Nobody gets engaged to read terms and conditions. Read them anyway. The clauses, cover and questions that protect your day and your deposit.
Planning
The morning of your wedding, hour by hour
The last few hours before the aisle decide how the whole day feels. A running order for a calm morning, and the mistakes that wreck one.
Planning
Kids at weddings: yes, no, or somewhere in between
The decision that divides guest lists, made calmly. The three workable policies, and the wording that keeps the peace.
Planning
Band, DJ or both: getting the wedding music right
The dance floor is the last thing guests remember, which makes it the least skippable decision of the night. How to choose your sound.
Planning
Do you need a wedding videographer? An honest answer
The supplier couples most often cut, and most often mourn. What film gives you that photographs cannot, and when to skip it.
Planning
How to choose a wedding photographer: styles, questions and red flags
The photographs outlast the flowers, the cake and occasionally the marriage. How to pick the person holding the camera.
Planning
Wedding stationery in the right order, from save the dates to thank yous
What to send, when to send it, and what it all needs to say. The paper trail of a wedding, without the panic.
Planning
The guest list: how to cut it without falling out
The hardest spreadsheet in wedding planning, handled honestly. Rules that hold, scripts that soothe, and where the line really goes.
Planning
How to plan a wedding in six months
A short engagement is not a compromise. It is a filter. Here is the order that makes half a year feel like plenty.
Planning
The 12 month wedding planning timeline that actually works
What to book when, what can wait, and the two decisions that unlock everything else. A calm route from engagement to aisle.