wedding planning help

I created this site as I got married last year and realised how stressfull prepairing and planning a wedding can be.

I hope the information here provides some assistance and help so you can plan your wedding day without all the stress!.

I have included a wedding checklist, a budget planner and lots of links to help you choose a wedding dress, bridesmaid dresses, Suit for your groom, best man and ushers and invitations, save the date, gifts, favours and decorations as well as telling you a bit about our big day.

When I started planning our wedding I realised there were so many different things to remember, and so many different things to arrange that I'd have to write it all down in a list.

I used this list to tick off things i'd done and write notes about good ideas i'd had and to help me remember what I still needed to do!.

1. Decide on a date for your wedding
2. Put an announcement in the newspaper
3. Choose your maid of honor, bridesmaids & best man
4. Decide on what you can afford & set the budget
5. Research and buy wedding insurance
6. Start researching ideas & venues by talking to your friends and family, looking on the internet or going to wedding fairs
7. Make a guest list for the ceremony and the evening reception
8. Make sure you don't forget to book time off work
9. Book the venue for your ceremony & for your reception if different
10. Visit the registry office & sort out the paperwork required to get married and give your notice
11. Book the catering for your wedding breakfast and evening buffet and the bar if your venue doesn't offer this
12. Organise chair covers if your venue doesn't provide this
13. Book your first night at a hotel and sort out hotels for your guests who are traveling
14. Come up with ideas of themes and colour schemes & the general feel of your wedding
15. Buy invitations for the whole day and just the evening and send them out in plenty of time
16. Sort out table plan for reception
17. Buy your wedding stationery ie table plan, place cards, order of service, thank you cards
18. Choose your first dance song and entrance and exit music for you ceremony & evening reception
19. Choose readings & poems for your service
20. Prepare speeches for reception
21. the usual speeches are by
22. Father of the bride, or both the brides parents
23. Groom
24. Best man
25. Other speeches and readings can be done by
26. Maid of Honor, bridesmaids, brothers or sisters
27. Buy or hire your dress and get alterations done if needed
28. Look here for ideas
29. Buy or hire your veil, tiara, shoes & jewelry
30. Hire suits for the groom, best man, ushers & fathers
31. Buy or hire dresses for the bridesmaids
32. Choose & buy your wedding rings
33. Decide on order of service
34. Order you wedding cake
35. Reserve your photographer/video company
36. Buy disposable cameras for guests tables
37. Hire the wedding cars
38. Make travel arrangements for you and your guests
39. Choose a shop to have your wedding gift list and pick the items you would like
40. Buy bridesmaid's best man and ushers gifts
41. Buy gifts for both your mothers
42. Book wedding entertainment, dj, magician, band, musician etc.
43. Book hair appointments & experiment with styles
44. Book make-up artist & experiment with styles
45. Book florist for bride, groom, ushers, bridesmaids, family & the venue/s
46. Buy favors to put on your guests tables
47. Organise a hen and stag party
48. Make sure your bridesmaids, best man & ushers know what they are expected to do on the day
49. Confirm all arrangements with your venue, catering, entertainment, transport, hotel bookings
50. Plan the honeymoon and book it
51. Choose going away clothes
52. Check both passports are valid and changed to your married name
53. Organise inoculations if required
54. Buy travel insurance
55. Notify banks, doctors, dentists, the inland revenue, and other services about your change of surname
56. Write thank you cards

We got married on 19th June 2010 in Cambridgeshire, UK

We had quite a big wedding with nearly 100 guests and then honeymooned in the Maldives.

We chose a theme of 'Enchanted' as my nickname is Pixie and i've always wanted a fairytail wedding. I also love the colour purple so used purple and white as the colour theme.

If you would like your own bespoke wedding stationary look no further as I can design what ever you require.

I can even build you a website so your friends and family can see the details and plans of your special day.

Simply click on the Pix & Mix link below and send us an email or give us a call.

www.pixandmix.org.uk

We also stock a large range of Wedding Invitations, Stationery and Favors that you can customize and personalize including:

Wedding Invitations, Save the Date Magnets and Postcards, Thank you cards, Envelopes, Place Setting Name Cards, Address Labels, Ring Binders, Stickers, Postage Stamps, Glasses, Necklaces and Favour Bags. Here's just a few of the designs available to buy.

See more Wedding Invitations and gifts here

ITEM .................................................................................. £

1. Save the date cards or fridge magnets
2. Invitations, envelopes & postage
3. Order of services, table plan & place names
4. Thank you cards, envelopes & postage
5. Wedding Insurance
6. Travel Insurance for your honeymoon
7. Church or Civil ceremony fees
8. Reception hall hire
9. Wedding Breakfast
10. Buffet food for the evening
11. Tables, chairs, cutlery & chair covers
12. Bar
13. Cake
14. Cake boxes
15. Cake knife
16. Wedding favours
17. Transport
18. First night in hotel
19. Dress
20. Dress alterations
21. Vail, Tiara, Jewellary
22. Shoes
23. Lingerie
24. Garter
25. Other accessories
26. Hair, Make-up & Beauty treatments
27. Grooms Suit
28. Shirt
29. Shoes
30. Tie
31. Cuff links
32. Accessories
33. Bridesmaid Dresses
34. Shoes
35. Accessories
36. Best mans suit
37. Shirt
38. Shoes
39. Tie
40. Cuff links
41. Flower girls Dress
42. Shoes
43. Accessories
44. Ushers suits
45. Shirts
46. Shoes
47. Tie
48. Cuff links
49. Brides Bouquet
50. Bridesmaids Flowers
51. Coursages & Buttonholes
52. Flowers for the venue
53. Decorations for reception room and tables
54. Confetti
55. Photographer
56. Photograph albums
57. Disposable cameras for guests tables
58. Videographer
59. Musician/DJ
60. Stag & Hen partys
61. Honeymoon
62. Gifts for Matron of honor, bridesmaids,
63. best man and ushers
64. Gifts for mothers of the bride and groom
65. Guest book and pen
66. Extras

I wanted something a little different at our wedding instead of the usual guest book so I decided to make a wishing tree, our guests wrote messages on little labels that they hang on the tree.

My tree was made from purple and white twigs that were put in to a huge wicker vase, the twigs were decorated with feathers and covered in fairy lights with small purple and white spotted toadstool decorations to go with the whole 'Enchanted' theme.

I also found reading books very helpful in planning my wedding, family and friends had bought me a few as gifts for my engagement and found these extreamly useful especially in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep.