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An Intimate Minimony Wedding
On August 22 2020, it happened at last. My best friend Allen and his lovely partner Rakhee finally got married in an intimate minimony wedding.
I'm Julian and I was Allen's best man. And here I'm sharing my experience of a coronavirus wedding.
The wedding day was a long time coming. Allen and Rakhee had scheduled their nuptials for April. They'd been many months of planning, right down to the smallest detail.
Read MoreAn Intimate Minimony WeddingAn Intimate Italian Wedding Day
Covid-19 might well have surpassed the British weather as our number one topic of conversation. For sure we’ve written about Covid’s effect on wedding planning on this blog several times now. So in this blog we tell you about an intimate Italian wedding day – albeit with a little twist. That twist being that this wedding happened well before Coronavirus came and changed everything.
Read MoreAn Intimate Italian Wedding DayThe Sequel Wedding: What It Is and How To Do It
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic continues to exercise us all – in and out of the wedding industry. We’ve already tackled aspects of the situation a couple of times on our blog in our article about changing wedding plans and a feature about creating a Covid-friendly intimate wedding set-up. But the buzzword now, to work around the restrictions we have, is the sequel wedding. So, in this post we’ll have a look at the sequel wedding – what it is and how to do it.
Read MoreThe Sequel Wedding: What It Is and How To Do ItAn Intimate Wedding Setting
In my capacity as a Wiltshire-based venue stylist and as the mother of a groom with Covid-crashed wedding plans, I’ve got both second and first-hand experience of what so many couples are going through right now.
As it happens, myself and two people with whom I work closely, at Wrag Barn golf club Nr Highworth, are supporting offspring whose wedding plans, Covid-19 sent into a tailspin. We’ve had to pull them back from crash-landing, keep them on track with their planning and help them hold-fast onto the joy and the thrill of the journey to making their vows.
Read MoreAn Intimate Wedding SettingWedding Planning Timeline 12-18 months+
In the post under this link here we have an article on the whole wedding planning timeline. But it is a rather long post. So we've decided to break it down into two separate posts, with less of the detail, to make it a wee bit more manageable.
So this post is concerned with the wedding planning jobs you need to tackle in the 12-18 month period before the wedding.
Read MoreWedding Planning Timeline 12-18 months+When Wedding Plans Must Change
Here's one story of when wedding plans must change.
Wedding plans get changed for all sorts of reasons. Some changes are forced upon us and we have to make the best of them.
Here we tell how one couple are coping with enforced changes to their dream of a destination wedding.
Read MoreWhen Wedding Plans Must ChangeVenue Walk Through Questions
When you're choosing your wedding venue there's lots of stuff you need to know to help you make an informed choice. Because, we know how overwhelming it is - even for the most modest plans -we've put this list together.
The venue walk through questions that follow will help you with your venue hunting.
Read MoreVenue Walk Through QuestionsYour Marriage or Your Wedding?
When you got engaged and started planning your wedding, everything in your world was full of love and excitement about your big day.
Your wedding prep would have been in full swing. Searching Pinterest and other online sources for inspirations and ideas for your dress, shoes, veil, venue and venue décor. Then contacting and chatting to suppliers about your dreams and your vision for your big day.
That was then. And this is now. And now we’re in the grip of the Covid-19 virus pandemic and your plans have been thrown into disarray.
Read MoreYour Marriage or Your Wedding?Giant Garden Games for Hire
So, you’re planning a wedding or other large gathering and you want something a bit different. Either in place of a modern beat combo or disco – or to bridge the gap between the end of the wedding breakfast and the wedding singer starting their set. Have you considered giant garden games? They might be just what you’re looking for. Who doesn’t love Connect Four or Jenga? Well they’re even more fun in outsize form.
Read MoreGiant Garden Games for Hire