Wow! I attended my first wedding expo over the weekend and, let me tell you… Wow! There is everything and anything you could imagine and, well, I think I may need to increase my budget now because I saw things I wasn’t even considering before going there and now I must have! The question is, […]
There’s nothing wrong with a simple colour-based theme for your wedding but if you’re feeling a little more adventurous, the possibilities are endless. From fairytale nuptials, complete with tiaras and horse-drawn carriages to a Las Vegas themed wedding complete with tuxedoed croupiers and roulette tables, whatever your passion or style, there’s no reason why your […]
We are all fired up and ready to start the planning for our big February engagement party. I know we have left it so long and, to be honest, I hadn’t really decided if we were going to have one because of how long we have been together. But the decision has been made and […]
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So, I have been emailing I think just about every caterer in the Melbourne to get quotes and information as well as suggestions on a menu for our wedding. My fiance and I are not really food guru’s but we know we like to eat. I am surprised with the amount of caterers that would […]
Planning a wedding can be a wonderful experience for some and a dread-filled, awful experience for others. The biggest difference between the two experiences isn’t necessarily budget, but time, your most precious resource. If you’ve been putting off your wedding planning (or starting it for some of us), the new year is the perfect time […]
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This is going to either sound absolutely insane or completely AWESOME! I, obviously, think the latter. Our engagement party is going to have a CIRCUS/CARNIVAL theme! C’mon, you love it, don’t you? Well, I do and I have been eating, sleeping and talking about this since the thought came into my head and, let me […]
I know it’s not tradition but I hear a lot of brides and grooms now ask their bridal party to pay their own attire for the wedding. We are going to ask our bridal party to because, let’s face it, we have 12 people in our bridal party and, well, our budget just won’t cover […]
So, its been a while since my last post, only because I have just spent a lot of time doing some research on our photographer! Photographs are really, really important to Matt and I, so we definitely want to get a great one whose pictures we love! I hear so many people talking about cost […]
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Easy Weddings has a bright and breezy new look aimed at helping brides-to-be get around our directory, blogs and community much more easily – and it’s much prettier, too. Our fabulous team of designers and programmers has worked for months to consolidate our very large site so that it’s easier-to-navigate and new, customised backgrounds mean […]
TV darling Kate Ritchie returns to the small screen next week as host of Channel 10’s Don’t Tell the Bride and freely admits that some of its stars are far braver than she could ever be. The show’s premise involves handing grooms a $25,000 cheque and allowing them to plan an entire wedding – with […]
Matt proposed with what we call an in-between ring. This allowed him to propose with a ring that I could wear, but not with a diamond. This was for 2 reasons, firstly I thought when the time comes I would like to design the ring together and secondly, we live together already and I look […]
One of the most frequently uttered phrases on our site from brides after their wedding day is “don’t sweat the small stuff”. Now this is wonderful advice, but when you spend hours cutting and pasting invites, sewing fabric flowers, and making tissue paper pom-pom’s it can be difficult to find perspective. People will also tell […]
Wedding invitations. They’re more than merely pretty pieces of paper informing guests of the date and place of your nuptials. They can be works of art, truly beautiful creations that reflect your unique style, but also they give guests their first inkling of what your big day may hold. “Your wedding invitation is important in […]
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We have had a few ups and downs with our wedding planning. One of the downs was having to find another wedding photographer. Out of all the things we had to deal with – this sent both Craig and I into panic mode. We were five months out from the big day and we had […]
Australia’s No.1 wedding website, award-winning Easy Weddings, has debuted its first iPad app, an all-in-one wedding planning app – and it’s 100% free. Containing six fully functional wedding planning tools, the Easy Weddings iPad Planner allows brides-to-be (and their grooms, of course) to plan every aspect of their wedding from the moment they are engaged. […]
Australia’s No.1 wedding website, award-winning Easy Weddings, has debuted its first iPad app, an all-in-one wedding planning app – and it’s 100% free. Containing six fully functional wedding planning tools, the Easy Weddings iPad Planner (www.ipadweddingapp.com) allows brides-to-be (and their grooms, of course) to plan every aspect of their wedding from the moment they are […]
One of th few things I don’t have organised yet is our wedding cake. I see the disbelief on your faces – but it’s true! It is one of the list that is on our B list; along with flowers, transport and invitations. Not saying that these things aren’t important – but these are the […]
When we started planning our big day – one of our major concerns was our budget. We had a clear idea of what we wanted to include and really didn’t want to cut out things for the sake of others. We came up with a figure that we we comfortable spending and worked from there. […]
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It’s a tricky situation, but due to the ever increasing cost of weddings, it is one that many modern bridal couples find themselves facing. How do you tell someone (without creating lifelong hurt) that they’re welcome to the ceremony, but not the reception? At the end of the day, honesty is the best policy. If […]
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Actors have a saying: never work with kids or animals. Fortunately, such rules don’t apply to real life and certainly not to weddings. However, if you are going to have children at a wedding, it’s best to plan ahead and organise a way to keep them occupied – for their sake and yours. According to […]
One of the amazing things about the Easy Weddings website is the sheer volume of inspiration – whether it’s the suppliers in the wedding directory, the articles, forum and of course the fancy new blog! Working here means an even bigger avalanche of wedding ideas! Creating ads for new suppliers – chatting to our forum […]
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He Says We now have some cars to be chauffeured around in on the day which will be a first for me. The last ‘fancy’ ride I had was back at the start of high school I think, and that was in a limo, so this will be exciting driving around in some old classics. […]
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When it comes to wedding meals, whether you have a healthy budget or a tight one, a little bit of planning can go a long way towards ensuring a feast that guests will be salivating over for years to come. The trick is keeping your meal simple, opting for good quality ingredients (or a caterer […]
We are on a pretty strict budget as we don’t have oodles of cash to spend on our wedding. Plus I may a a slight tendency to get carried away – we won’t talk about how I almost purchased a wooden stamp with our wedding monogram to seal the wedding invites with – it’s very EASY to […]
Our hunt for a photographer was slightly easier than most of the experiences I’ve read about. I guess because our shortlist was made up of photographers whose work we’d seen at other weddings. Then we had the few that we’d seen at the Sydney Bridal Expo last year. Don’t get me wrong though. Finding the photographer was the […]
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hi hope pics work if have trouble dont mind sending u a cd im not that tech savy. hope ok aint that good at writting feel free to ask me any questions me and jai got married april 2ND of april in Mt Barker Adelaide Hills south australia. I wanted a modern australian wedding on […]
A wedding consists of two people, but most of the planning is usually left up mostly to one person in the relationship. We’re doing things differently, we’re both having an equal say in most of the wedding and it is working out great! He Says It took me by quite a surprise to be told […]
Mmmm where do I begin.. I’m Angie. Think of a clumsy, accident prone, fun loving gal and there you have me. If you look in my handbag, you’d more often than not find a mini screwdriver set or a tube of superglue, sometimes even BOTH. Oh, and also my must have item Lucas Pawpaw Ointment!! […]
If I thought my dress went through a million evolutions – my wedding flowers went through more! I am not a huge fan of cut flowers – I’d prefer a pot plant! But it is a wedding I could hardly walk down the aisle with a terracotta pot of roses! I started out looking at […]
The engagement ring shopping trip should be a special and pleasurable experience as long as you do some research and planning ahead of time. Here are five top tips on arranging your ring shopping excursion. Engagement ring shopping trip tips So your boyfriend has just become your fiancé and you’re off to look for an […]
Who pays bridesmaids dress? Traditionally bridesmaids pay for their own gowns, or in the case of younger bridesmaids, their parents pay for them. However, some brides feel uncomfortable about this, or would prefer to pay for the dress themselves for various reasons. The third option is to split the bill for the dresses, perhaps paying […]
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So I’ve been told that feeding our guests and letting them watch us parade around in our splendor is not enough – who knew? So my next challenge was to find the entertainment for our reception. So did we want a band, a duo, trio, DJ, a circus troupe or a magician? Don’t laugh it’s […]
After a few thousand emails I had given up hope of finding a photographer within our wedding budget. Our needs were very simple, we wanted 4-5 hours of photography on a high res disc, nothing more maybe a little less. Our budget just didn’t extend far enough to go with some of the amazing photographers […]
Our original idea was to have a garden ceremony and reception in the Rose Gardens at Maroondah Dam in Healesville. We both loved the idea of a big marquee in the gardens with a spit roast buffet, lots of music and drinks. And then we got the quotes back…suffice to say that rained on our […]
After many years as a wedding photographer, Moira Nell believes there is something truly special about wedding photographs – no matter, she says, how “no matter how old or young or how in or out of love” the couple are! “I can look at wedding photography for hours – just admiring the magic of it […]
CAtherine D’entremont – about 100 Germna -weddings in Malaysia – CAnada – I’m very creative, in an emgerency I could do a bougquet – I have so many people com eup – prjoect manager for your event, a style the whole wedding in front of them so they get a vision and lifts a lot […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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