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Wedding gear you can use after the wedding
One of the best things about getting married (aside from the whole new hubby thing) is you get to buy lots of pretty “stuff” – and you get to show it off! I mean, seriously, as gorgeous as some bridal gowns are, you can’t exactly wear them to your Christmas… 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
10 questions to ask your dress designer
When it comes to choosing or designing your wedding gown, there’s more to consider than just how jaw-droppingly gorgeous you will look as you walk down the aisle. Couture wedding dress designer Karen Willis Holmes shares her 10 most important questions to ask any prospective designer before settling on… 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
Real or fake? A floral conundrum
Starting to think about the floral arrangements, bouquets etc. So now the question arises, should I go with real or fake? I was set on using real flowers, that is until I saw a bouquet that a girlfriend had bought online. From a distance it looked real. It was only once you… Read More
Grecian goddess inspired bridesmaid gowns
It’s funny how we start of with an idea in our minds of what we do and don’t like, only to find our final choices making a beeline for the opposite direction to where we were headed. My number 1 thing was I didn’t want long gowns for my Bridesmaids.… Read More
I’ve got loads of guests who can take my wedding photos. Are there any advantages to hiring a professional photographer?
Of course they can, but says Moira Nell from First Wedding Portraits in Perth. “It’s like comparing a DIY hubby to an architect or electrician.” Moira, who has been photographing weddings for many years, acknowledges that there are plenty of cost effective ways to capture photos on your wedding day,… Read More
Location, location, location!
Trying to choose our church and reception venues brought in our first real dilemma (well, for me anyway) My mother wanted it at her local parish which is just down the road from where we live. His parents wanted it at their local parish, which…YES, you guessed it..was just down… 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
Wedding etiquette, or Itaquette?
Times may have changed but, according to Ita Buttrose, good manners never go out of fashion. And, of course, she’s spot on. Ita may be best known (and admired) for her serious media credentials, but she’s no slouch when it comes to etiquette, or should that be Itaquette? Her… Read More
Pick a date, any date
There was never any doubt in our minds about what season we wanted our wedding to be in! SPRING won our votes hands down! Now to pick a date. October was our preferred month, but trying to get everyone together on the same date was abit more of a mission.… 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
Kathryn’s Male of Honour
When Kathryn Cromarty weds her beau, Mike, in Melbourne in November 2011, she’ll have a second man by her side, Michael Cerquarelli, her Maid of Honour. The two have been best friends for eight years and the fact Michael is a bloke hasn’t stopped Kathryn from choosing him as her… Read More
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