The first thing I did was buy just about every wedding magazine going, I trawled through them only to find that all the ideas started to merge, and these magazines assume that every bride is spending £20k on their special day. This just didn’t suit me, so I cut out a few bits and pieces and passed the magazines on to another bride to be.
Then I met up with friends that had already been there, done that. I asked what their favourite part of the day was, and more importantly asking what they’d do differently. I made a mental note of their answers, and I’m storing them away.
I love wedding blogs, hence why I’m doing this one. I particularly love the American blogs, but the weddings aren’t realistic for here, lots of them are set in woodlands, on beaches and in fields – not so great in the rainy north-west of England! But wedding blogs have lots of pretty ideas; I printed pictures out, made notes of inspirational ideas and tried to think of ways to make them my own.
We visited wedding fares too, but the information was limited, the stall holders pushy and prices inflated.
Then there’s the wedding forums, I signed up to a few and dipped in and out of them for a little while, finally settling on the one that suited me, UKBride (I've put a link below!). I read other brides ideas, taking inspiration from them. Questions are raised on these forums that you may not even think of, feeding the photographer, tying in the themes, when to send the invites out, the list goes on. It’s also made me realise that it’s okay to put our foot down and do what we want, not what other people expect.
A combination of all of the above has given us some ideas to work with to make our wedding one that suits us. Now to actually start handing over the cash!
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