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  • How we met – Alva & Christie

    Name: Christie (age, occupation)  and Alvas (age, occupation) Location: XXx, Australia and XXX, England Wedding date: September 16, 2011 Wedding location: Govetts Leap in the Blue Mountains, NSW My husband-to-be and I didn’t have your usual hook-up, in a pub or via a blind date. We met through the computer, though not through an online…

  • Who says you don't meet nice boys at nightclubs?

      Name: Kate, 24 Sales assistant and Craig, 23, Dockie Location: Perth, WA Wedding date: April 7, 2012 Wedding location: Burswood, WA I was holidaying in Melbourne in July, 2008 and, one Saturday night some girlfriends and I decided to hit a local club. When we arrived, the bouncer, Craig, let everyone through – except…

  • How we met – Amanda & Josh

    Name: Amanda  and Josh Location: Newcastle, NSW Wedding date: October, 2012 On June 8th, 2009, a door-to-door salesman, Josh, knocked at my door enquiring whether I’d like to change my electricity company. After talking to him about how much trouble I was having with my then provider, he signed me up to his company –…

  • Where have all the cheap bridesmaids dresses gone?

    We’ve gone out on a  limb this week and ordered our bridesmaids dresses online, based only on a photo we have seen. Fingers crossed they turn out! He Says The bridesmaid’s dresses are a recent decision; we ordered them just two weeks ago. Because we are trying to stick to a budget, we decided to…

  • Profile: Graham Remington (Photographer)

    Name: Graham Remington Business:Remington Photography Graham Remington, of Remington Photography has been a professional photographer for more than three decades. He shares his insight and experience into the world of wedding photography with readers in this week’s Supplier Spotlight.                               How…

  • How to serve chocolate cake

    Description: Chocolate wedding cake is a fun and contemporary choice, and is likely to be popular with your guests. These seven tips on serving chocolate cake will help you to get it just right. Tips for serving chocolate wedding cake Chocolate wedding cake is a fun and decadent alternative to more traditional wedding cake styles,…

  • How to keep your engagement ring clean

    Once you have that sparkling diamond on your ring finger you’ll want to know how to keep it looking its best. These ten tips will help you take care of your treasured diamond ring. How to care for your diamond ring A sparkling diamond ring is every girl’s dream, and once you have it on…

  • Wedding insurance yarn

    Vishal Kapoor National accountsn mangaer vkapoor@ansvar.com.au Been an industry more in the uK, Australia just catching the coattails and but uk – hundreds and grown Ansvar – a community based insurer, wholly owned Ecclesiastical Australia’s largest fiath organistaion insurer, heritage and care facilities. Church of England church – GWP $165 million – griss written premium…

  • Wedding trends, May 2011

    Dramatic – and utterly gorgeous. They’re the words that best sum up Vera Wang’s Spring 2012 bridal collection, a celebration of tulle, lace and the Paris Opera, all of which provided inspiration and will surely set a trend for upcoming nuptials. Unveiled during New York Bridal Week last month (April 2011), Wang describes the collection…

  • A fairytale dress for a real-life princess

    A fairytale dress for a real-life princess is how Catherine Middleton’s already famous AUD $381,000 (£250,000) royal wedding dress is being described. The stunning white gown was designed by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen, and the new Duchess of Cambridge chose the iconic British couturier for “the beauty of its craftsmanship and its respect for…

  • Top 10 wedding songs

    MIchael  and Hugh from MOby disk to work in conjuciont with either a) the vneues’ mc or b the bride and cgrooms mc or we are the mcs two secrets, your night is like a wave, up and down, when you’re down, play teh songs that get the people back up again and normally they’re…

  • Guys also want to look good!

    We, just like everyone else, have goals for what we look like on the wedding day. For Kate, it’s that bikini body you can flaunt on the beach, for me it’s being buff and having that rippling six-pack you see on models and in movies. We are 5 months into the new year, and here…

  • Buble gets his gal

    Sorry girls but one of our favourite crooners, the super spunky Mr Michael Buble, is officially off the market. The Canadian crooner wed 23-year-old Argentinian model and soapie star Luisana Lopilato in a cival ceremony in Buenos Aires a few days ago. The couple stayed in BA and followed their nuptials with a second, rather…

  • Welcome to the EW blogs

    Hi, folks and welcome to the new Easy Weddings blogs. We’re Australia’s No. 1 wedding destination and we’re really excited to expand our offerings to brides across the country (and the world!). Today, we launch four blogs, the main Easy Weddings blog, which will be filled with tips, tricks, news and other juicy, but general…

  • Wedding wands

    You don’t have to be a wizard to wield one of Karen’s fabulous wedding wands!

  • Hi-tech wedding albums have landed

    The iPad may be one of the hottest tech gadgets on the planet, but it’s also revolutionising the wedding photography industry. Tech-savvy wedding photographers are adding iPad wedding albums to their offerings, allowing couples to carry around hundreds of photos in a device that weighs just 600g. Among the first Australian photographers to offer iPad…

  • Kate and Wills' stamp of approval

    Among the many countries commemorating Kate and Wills’ big day on a stamp is New Zealand, which today released these gorgeous Royal Wedding stamps. They’re based on couple’s official engagement portraits and had to be signed off by the Queen! “Her Majesty conveyed that she likes the designs very much, which is gratifying,” NZ Post…

  • A friendly photographer with good photos

    Deciding on our photographer this week seemed like a hard task, but after weeks of searching, it became really easy once we had met our final 3. He Says Kate absolutely loves photos! I open my photo gallery on my computer, which includes most of Kate’s photos from when she was growing up (bar one…

  • A nice reception venue, on a budget

    Picking a wedding reception venue London has taken us the last couple of weeks, it wasn’t as easy as we thought it was going to be, there are so many options! He Says The reception venue is going to be the most costly part of our wedding, which also means it has the biggest room…

  • A pair of matching wedding rings

    This week it was time to pick out our wedding rings! White gold with band of diamonds for her, white gold with a couple of diamonds for me. He Says One of the very first things we did was go and pick wedding rings together. Due to the style of Kate’s engagement ring, virtually anything…

  • Keeping the bride's dress a secret from him!

    We (She), picked out the brides dress this week, he’s not allowed to know about it, she has to keep it a secret. He Says Kate’s dress is, for me, one of those no-go zones. As far as I’m aware, it’s meant to be kept a secret, and I have done everything I can to…

  • Popping the question in the botanic gardens

    Getting engaged was one of the most magical days of our lives! We spent the day together which included a picnic lunch, romantic garden walk and then the popping of the question. He Says Our engagement was half planned, half spontaneous. After about nine months together, we got to the stage in our relationship where…

  • How we met: Kate & Donald

    Kate (21, Aged Care & Child Care) and Donald (22, Student & Software Developer) Location: Adelaide, Australia Approximate Wedding date: 4th February, 2012 Wedding location: Adelaide, SA Going on almost four years ago now, Kate lived in Adelaide while I lived in Mt Gambier. Being in the IT industry, I’m virtually always on the computer…