Here at Southern Bride, we believe planning a wedding doesn’t need to be overwhelming. That’s why we share practical and down-to-earth wedding planning support for NZ brides and grooms wanting an amazing wedding day.
Southern Bride is a website, community and email course (all free, because weddings cost enough already). Our main goal here is to empower you to enjoy your wedding planning. There’s an expectation that your wedding day will be the best day of your life – so why don’t we make those months of wedding planning awesome too?!
Weddings (and the planning of them!) shouldn’t be overwhelming or complicated. Less stress sounds lovely right?
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To get started on your stress-free wedding journey, sign up for a wedding planning to-do list here. This wedding planning checklist is a helpful list of tasks, broken down roughly when they should be completed, so you can prioritise.
Wedding Planning Support at Southern Bride: How We Help
Step 1: Amazing PRACTICAL Wedding Planning Advice
Nearly 200 articles that tackle a wide range of wedding planning dilemmas are covered off on the Southern Bride website. Check out our archives for advice on bridesmaids, wedding budgets, dealing with guests, planning your ceremony, the logistics around wedding receptions and more.
Step 2: Wedding Planning Support via Top Notch Vendors
We aren’t doing this alone. Two heads are better than one, so we have pulled together some awesome wedding professionals to help with their advice and opinions on the tough stuff – this team is called Southern Bride Verified.
These guys sponsor the content on the blog (i.e. help pay for it to be created) which is why we can give so much helpful wedding planning support and advice for free.
They are on hand to answer the tough questions and they’re awesome people to hire for your big day. (If you are a wedding professional and you are interested in joining, leave your details here).
Step 3: Practical, Useful Wedding Planning Templates
We have created and curated a selection of awesome wedding planning diaries, budget templates, guest list spreadsheets, checklists and more available for purchase. Get organised for your wedding, without reinventing the wheel.
But wait, there’s more – Enter Stage Left: The Wedding Planning Support Group
Okay, last thing and we’ll let you go!
Dive into our wedding planning advice now – here’s a selection of our most popular posts to get you started:
If you don’t wear a lot of makeup – or any at all – the thought of getting dolled up, slapping on a ton of foundation and hiring a makeup…
We know that giving a gift is expected if you are invited to an engagement party or wedding, but what happens if you aren’t invited? A couple of the Southern…
I’ve mentioned before that looking for bridesmaid dresses stressed me the hell out. There wasn’t a ton of online shops about when I got hitched, and my attempt at online bridesmaid…
Wedding planning can be overwhelming. You’ve got a million different things to do – it can be stressful! One of the very first things you should do (and I don’t say you…
More and more people are asking the question – “how do I tell parents that we don’t want their children at our wedding?” The reality is that more and more…
When I go to a wedding, I’m there to have a good time. I don’t want worries about something relatively fixable to keep me away from celebrating with a Sav…
If you’re waiting for your wedding day to come around, time is probably dragging. But for us old-married-people, time goes freaking fast. Wasn’t I just married a couple of months…
It’s often said that the photos, dress and invites are the only things left after your wedding… but there’s another keepsake from your wedding day to put some thought into: a…
The bulk of New Zealand weddings serve alcohol, and it’s often assumed it’ll be free. If you’re serving alcohol but expecting guests to pay for their own drinks, that is…