This is where you’ll find the bulk of the wedding planning advice and tips – plus resources, DIY and checklists for your big day
Pinning down a theme for your wedding makes a lot of sense. The wedding theme helps you make decisions and drives the aesthetic look of your big day. Check out this post I’ve written previously on why a wedding theme is important. But if you’re well and truly stuck on what to do for your wedding’s overarching… Read More
Today’s post comes courtesy of one of the Southern Bride Community – Jess Free. Jess lives in Dunedin with her new husband Jesse and their cute dog Winston. Jess and Jesse used Southern Bride Verified members Be My Guest and Angela Port Celebrant for her big day. Today she’s sharing with us some of her tips… Read More
With living in the deep South, it would be remiss of me to skip discussing wet weather planning for your wedding day. Today we are going to talk through how to plan your wedding day logistics around wet weather (or other inclement weather such as snow or high winds). While you can’t control the weather, if you have a… Read More
Wedding budgets suck. Working with your partner on developing a smart wedding budget can be stressful. But there are some great lessons that you can learn from planning a wedding together and sticking to a budget (or at least, trying to). I do consider myself a glass-half-full kind of girl, so rather than whine about them,… Read More
You don’t have much control over the milestones in your life. Starting school is on your parents… getting engaged is all on your partner (unless you popped the q yourself – go you!). Your wedding day is different. You pick the date. You pick the venue. You direct the day. I hope! If it isn’t… Read More
If you’re opting to go the traditional route, and the bride’s parents have offered to pay for the wedding, you might be thinking the groom’s parents get off scot-free and don’t have to pay a thing… but they are actually expected to cover some costs. On the other hand, perhaps you’re looking to appeal to your parent’s… Read More
“What a freaking bridezilla!” – This is a sentence no sane bride wants to hear a guest or friend utter while she’s wedding planning. The connotations of the word “bridezilla” aren’t exactly nice: i.e. you’re irrational and… how can I put this politely…err… a bit of a bitch? Unfortunately in the quest to avoid being called… Read More
The worst nightmare for many brides is having to cancel her wedding. Despite months of preparation, things can still go wrong – even at the moment of saying “I do.” From a family emergency, a cheating partner or an extreme case of cold feet, there are many reasons that a wedding gets canned. It’s not a very exciting or… Read More
A piece of advice I see crop up on a few wedding websites is to have a weekday wedding to keep the cost down – by taking advantage of off-peak/daytime pricing by wedding vendors. This makes sense in theory – wedding professionals would want to “book up” those slower days, right? I was curious to know… Read More
It seems that somehow, good manners and common sense fly out the window when people hear the word wedding. Engaged couples often stress themselves out over the guest list, offending people, and wring their hands about whether they are doing the right thing. Why? Because it’s common for folks to bag the bride, branding her a bridezilla,… Read More