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Karishma & Craig – The Big Day!
So finally we get to the big day! I was up at 6:30am with my sister, after a flock of noisy birds outside my window decided 6am would be a good time to start screeching! Craig was awake from 4am, as his best man was really sick and he had… Read More
The final countdown!
Hello possums! I thought I would give you guys all a run down of the week before the big day! I was still working on Tuesday and got sufficiently embarrassed by the whole office with a lovely card and gift. On Wednesday I went and had my final dress fitting… Read More
Things I wish I had known 12 months ago!
One of the most frequently uttered phrases on our site from brides after their wedding day is “don’t sweat the small stuff”. Now this is wonderful advice, but when you spend hours cutting and pasting invites, sewing fabric flowers, and making tissue paper pom-pom’s it can be difficult to find… Read More
Going above and beyond!
One of the favourite parts of our wedding has got to be, hands down, our celebrant; David Schneider of Professional Ceremonies. David is easy going, knowledgeable and pretty funny – but don’t tell him I said that. I have had the pleasure of working with David from both sides of the industry.… Read More
Mastering the art of wedding entertainment
Wedding music is a fairly important component of any wedding – with the exception of the bride, groom and celebrant! We search for countless hours trying to find the perfect songs that represent who were are as a couple and what we want to convey to the guests. I know… Read More
Wedding Top Tips from an Angel…
Well sort of! She is in fact my makeup artist – Melani Fink of BlackCatsAngel Designs. Not only is she a Makeup Artist, Photographer and Jewellery Designer, she is also a great friend. Mel and I have had contact since I started working at Easy Weddings and her bubbly personality… Read More
Serendipity…In every sense of the word
We have had a few ups and downs with our wedding planning. One of the downs was having to find another wedding photographer. Out of all the things we had to deal with – this sent both Craig and I into panic mode. We were five months out from the… Read More
67 days to go – but I need more time!
I’m not sure when 305 turned into 67 but seeing the notification in my EW Planning tools was enough to make me dizzy! We are almost down to the home stretch and I have been productive! I have finally found a cake maker – the very talented Emily – who… Read More
Unleashing my inner Martha…
Happy New Year!! Well with Christmas and New Year’s out of the way – it is time to delve back into the wonderful world of wedding planning!! The nifty EW wedding planner tells me that it’s 74 days til my wedding – not sure where the time went. But I… Read More
Bridal Dilemma No.3 – My photographer had to pull out. Gulp!
Just when I think everything is going swimmingly, bam! The Universe decides I’m not busy enough! Due to unforseen circumstances our photographer had to cancel for our wedding day. Which was heart breaking enough, but to add the hunt for a new photographer to my list had me a wee… Read More
One party down, one to go!
November 19th came and went with a bang! Our engagement party was a blast and we had so much fun. The day was wet and windy so we had to postpone the engagement shoot. But that still left us with plenty to do on the day. We picked up the… Read More
Countdown to the Engagement Party!
Forgive me Easy Wedding-ites it’s been 9 days since my last post. This is mainly due to the madness that is our engagement party. Between organising invites, the guest list – which my mother managed to keep under 200 and if your Indian you know this is no easy feat, food, decorations… Read More
How much is too much?
One of th few things I don’t have organised yet is our wedding cake. I see the disbelief on your faces – but it’s true! It is one of the list that is on our B list; along with flowers, transport and invitations. Not saying that these things aren’t important… Read More
Bridal dilemma number 2
No wedding would be complete without a drama or too – so far I have been very lucky and my dramas have centred around whether to include flowers or not. I did have a slight moment of panic a few weeks a go. I keep all my planning paperwork in… Read More
Function + fashion = my Bridesmaids’ gorgeous gift.
When we started planning our big day – one of our major concerns was our budget. We had a clear idea of what we wanted to include and really didn’t want to cut out things for the sake of others. We came up with a figure that we we comfortable… Read More
Let them eat cake?
So EasyWeddingites I am back – with a vengeance! After taking some time off to let the wedding burn out fade away I am back in action and ready to finalise my wedding plans! Yes you heard right, my to do list is now down to: Order clothing – dresses, reception outfit,… Read More
The dreaded wedding burn out
So, as you can imagine, I come in contact with a lot of wedding related information during my day. I know you’re shocked but it’s true. Between all of our suppliers and the real weddings from our brides I am surrounded by weddings all day, every day! Don’t get me… Read More
All the colours of the rainbow…
My favourite thing about Indian weddings is the colour. For 3 days you are surrounded by a vast array of colours, glitter, food and family. The outfits alone are enough to make your head spin. My mum and I are currentyl trying to find the perfect Indian outfit for the reception and… Read More
Let the music play…
Our wedding music was one of the hardest decisions we had to make – well it was for me! Craig picked our first dance song – Summertime, the Janis Joplin version; it is the first song we danced to. The rest he left up to me – which was handy… Read More
Who says a bride can’t change her mind – again, and again and …?
One of the amazing things about the Easy Weddings website is the sheer volume of inspiration – whether it’s the suppliers in the wedding directory, the articles, forum and of course the fancy new blog! Working here means an even bigger avalanche of wedding ideas! Creating ads for new suppliers… Read More
My big fat Indian engagement party
I’m not sure how it happened but my calendar tells me it’s the end of June! When did this happen – I’m sure I didn’t authorise it. Which means that there are 283 days til our wedding and only 143 til our engagement party! Time sure flies when you are designing wishing… Read More
Karishmafying my wedding shoes
For those who have been reading you will know that I had begun my mission to find the perfect ceremony shoes. While searching I had found a pair at Wittner – which were almost perfect – they were just too high! I did like the applique on the heel and… Read More
The great bomboniere debate
We are on a pretty strict budget as we don’t have oodles of cash to spend on our wedding. Plus I may a a slight tendency to get carried away – we won’t talk about how I almost purchased a wooden stamp with our wedding monogram to seal the wedding invites with… Read More
Tattoos: mask or masquerade?
I have a few tattoos; they are covering areas of my body that have scars on them. It was my solution to everyone asking about the scars – a little drastic I know; but it worked! Most of them aren’t visible, not unless I show them to you. However, there… Read More
The Checklist – 305 days to go!
My fabulous online wedding planner has told me that there are 305 days until our wedding! Which is still a lot of time but the numbers are slowly getting smaller, I can imagine the big day being here in no time. One of the things I have found difficult with… Read More
Our Ceremony: finding the right words…
Well it’s all systems go at the moment, I have been very popular with Australia Post – my wedding packages have been slowly trickling in. It’s like having a birthday every few days. Without the cake…Although there is never any shortage of cake at the EW offices. More importantly we… Read More
Girls just wanna have…affordable bridesmaids dresses!
Finding a dress for my two bridesmaids was actually one of the things I wasn’t looking forward to. I looked for dresses that fitted all the clichés, it had to be pretty, it had to suit different body shapes and the age old “something the girls would wear again” – has anyone… Read More
Suit-able choices
Craig tends to roll his eyes…a lot…when anything remotely wedding related is mentioned, he was however quite certain about what he wanted to wear on the day. He wanted a Mandarin collared suit and shirt, and absolutely no tie! I started in our directory for this search I had seen some suits… Read More
Save the date!
In my blog travels I found a post from a couple in America that had a framed poster at their ceremony, it was the first verse of “You are my sunshine”. This song never fails to make the both of us smile, so I decided to borrow the idea for… Read More
Bridal dilemma number 1
If I thought my dress went through a million evolutions – my wedding flowers went through more! I am not a huge fan of cut flowers – I’d prefer a pot plant! But it is a wedding I could hardly walk down the aisle with a terracotta pot of roses!… Read More
Enter the groom
So Craig’s involvement in the wedding planning so far can be summarised in two words…No tie. Our wonderful reception coordinator - Stephanie from Elmswood Estate decided to fix that, by accident. When we went to have a tour of the winery she told us a story about a couple that used a… Read More
Inviting ideas…
Wedding invites weren’t high on my list of “wedding wants” I am far too practical to obsess about paper and embellishments – shoes on the other hand…well you’ve seen my posts Some of our very talented forum girls have created their own invites from scratch! Or found some beautiful ready… Read More
Shoes…Glorious…Shoes!
This was my second favourite search – ok I lie – this was my other favourite search – wedding shoes! It was also the hardest search – there are literally millions of pairs of shoes and they were all sky high! Craig and I are similar heights, he may be… Read More
Wedding bling
I am having such a blast choosing my wedding jewellery! I’m a self confessed accessories junkie from way back – so naturally I was in my element. Even though I browse the web for jewellery every now and then – this time I had a purpose! My bookmarks folder at this point was… Read More
Henna
Another Indian element of the wedding will be a henna design on my hands. It is usually done a few days before the wedding or the night before and there is usually a party at the bride’s parents house with lots of food and music. In some parts of… Read More
Costume change
As my family is Indian and we aren’t having an Indian wedding I wanted to honour that part of my heritage by adding a few elements into our wedding. So after the first lot of photos – after the ceremony, I will be changing into an Indian outfit. I am… Read More
The hunt for the perfect dress
My idea of the perfect wedding dress went through a few evolutions. I started with a long, strapless mermaid gown with a lace overlay and a small train. Then I decided my dream wedding gown was a sleeveless chiffon gown with hand beading on the bodice and a v neck. At… Read More
Music to our ears…
So I’ve been told that feeding our guests and letting them watch us parade around in our splendor is not enough – who knew? So my next challenge was to find the entertainment for our reception. So did we want a band, a duo, trio, DJ, a circus troupe or… Read More
Finding our photographer
After a few thousand emails I had given up hope of finding a photographer within our wedding budget. Our needs were very simple, we wanted 4-5 hours of photography on a high res disc, nothing more maybe a little less. Our budget just didn’t extend far enough to go with… Read More
Let the games begin!
So after many months of careful budgeting (the Easy Weddings Budget Calculator to the rescue) we worked out that we would definitely be able to afford our wedding in 2012! Not only was I over the moon but the goofy grin on Craig’s face was priceless. We decided to have… Read More
The Venue
Our original idea was to have a garden ceremony and reception in the Rose Gardens at Maroondah Dam in Healesville. We both loved the idea of a big marquee in the gardens with a spit roast buffet, lots of music and drinks. And then we got the quotes back…suffice to… Read More
Our story…
Craig and I got engaged in October 2009, it was a chaotic year for us so it was a beautiful way to end the year. We planned a small engagement party with our friends in March 2010 and planned to be married in 2011. And then everything happened at once… Read More
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