Where to Start With Your Wedding Plans

You may have recently gotten engaged and only now is the enormous stress of planning your big day, and not only making it perfect for yourself but for your guests too, is dawning on you. Here, we give you some ideas that will make your planning process a lot simpler to ensure you enjoy it too.

To start with create some mood boards either, physically or online using software such as Pinterest which has a wealth of ideas, both unique and traditional to help you build some concrete ideas for what you want the décor, atmosphere and tone to be like. Investing in some wedding magazines will also help this. Be creative with your boards and make one for the venues, food, brides’ dress and grooms suits as well as transport, flowers and anything else you decide you want to plan. This will also help when you’re trying to describe your style to people as you can just send them a link to your boards. 

Unfortunately, however boring you might find it, sorting out a realistic budget should be your next priority. Make a list of what you and your partner can raise between the engagement and ceremony and add on any money your family or friends want to give you too. There’s no point buying the most expensive transport and guest favours you can find, and then discovering you have blown the budget. If you haggle well, it’s always worth trying, as grabbing a bargain will leave you more cash to spend on the touches that matter most to you.

Next, you might want to research any useful tools or apps that will help you ensure everything happens when it is supposed to in the run up to the big day. The Internet is full of these, as well as ready to print physical sheets that you can just tick off once you’ve completed the task. It is at this point you will probably be realizing quite how much there is to do and that you’re going to have to ask your family and friends to help you. However much you want total control, weddings take a lot of putting together so place your trust in a few select individuals and maybe arrange a meeting each week where you catch up on progress (also a great excuse to head to your nearest pub or coffee shop).

A few weeks before the ceremony ensure you ring every company you have booked something with to double and triple check the times and dates are correct. If you don’t you will be constantly worrying that something won’t happen when it’s supposed to.

For all of the people that supported you throughout the planning make sure you leave enough budget to say thank you with a present or two. Inevitably the planning process has been stressful and those people only did it out of love for you and your other half, so be gracious and spoil them where you can.