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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
I Do: Wedding resolutions for a happy new year
Planning a wedding can be a wonderful experience for some and a dread-filled, awful experience for others. The biggest difference between the two experiences isn’t necessarily budget, but time, your most precious resource. If you’ve been putting off your wedding planning (or starting it for some of us), the new… Read More
Pippa the (wedding) planner
Helping plan her sister Kate’s wedding to Prince William last year obviously left a mark on Pippa Middleton who has quit her job in the hopes of working as a full-time wedding planner. According to London’s Daily Mail, Pippa wants to spend her days planning other couples’ nuptials. The newspaper… 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
Up, up and away: our jet-setting honeymoon!
After months of planning, emailing and changing our minds here and there, our honeymoon has finally been booked and paid for Of course I didn’t do it by myself. The idea of trawling websites for flights and connecting flights and then booking the accommodation online was a bit too daunting… 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
OMG. Three months to go – and I’m not bonkers … yet!
My friendly email reminder So, I was sitting on the train early this morning, half asleep and just barely keeping my eyes open when my Blackberry beeped. There was a new email and it was from Easy Weddings! It was my Easy Weddings countdown reminder. Well, look at that! I have 3 months… 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
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
Photographer locked in! It’s time to strike a pose!
Our hunt for a photographer was slightly easier than most of the experiences I’ve read about. I guess because our shortlist was made up of photographers whose work we’d seen at other weddings. Then we had the few that we’d seen at the Sydney Bridal Expo last year. Don’t get me wrong… Read More
Celebrity Weddings: Phil & Angela Ceberano
When Phil Ceberano, 44, first set eyes upon his wife-to-be, he was knocked out, later describing her as looking like a 1960′s movie star. Angela Crews, 28, was equally impressed. As a senior publicist at Sony Music she knew a top-notch performer when she heard one. Unfortunately, they were both… 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
A ride that just oozes class!
Picking our cars was just plain easy! We have Phuong’s brother and cousin to thank for that because we basically ran with the same company. So we already had the backup of having “tried before we bought” so to speak. Of course we did look at other alternatives, Chrysler limos, Harley… 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
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
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
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