Friends who have planned weddings: What have you found to be useful and what have you found to be not so helpful?
Useful/Helpful: screaming, theknot.com (even if only for their awesome guest-list management, the rest of it is really for more "traditional" weddings), having an awesome co-worker who went though the same thing and could lend an ear to let me vent, cry, etc. (I can be this friend if needed)
Not so helpful: my mother - this shouldn't be an issue for you because you don't even know her.
Awwww, thanks for your ear if ever I need to start bawling! I hope this won't happen though. Right now, both my mom and my FMIL are pretty low key about the wedding. FMIL just wants to make sure that the day is astrologically sound, so we'll have to run it by her first. I'm sure my mom will be there to help when I have run out of options and I think we'll work it through.
Here's one wedding tip. If you can, book vendors in 2010 for a 2011 wedding. Rates usually go up at the new year, so booking the year before can save you some money.
First book the vendors that can only do one wedding a day, like the location(s) and photographer.
wedding planningsmeep22003January 6 2010, 18:44:52 UTC
When planning your wedding:
- Think about what YOU (you and Johnathon) want. Planners and other people will say "you have to have this _______ ", but you don't have to have things just because everyone else does. Cut the stuff that you could care less about and make the list of what is important to you and have those things. - That being said, there are great planning books out there with lists of things to look after and they can really help - you can still cross out the stuff you don't care about. - Magazines are great - clip the stuff you like - you may not have it all, but it really helps explaining to a florist if you have a picture of the flowers you want, or a baker for your cake. - There are expectations (the Aunts will expect a cake or some sort) but do it the way you want to.
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Useful/Helpful: screaming, theknot.com (even if only for their awesome guest-list management, the rest of it is really for more "traditional" weddings), having an awesome co-worker who went though the same thing and could lend an ear to let me vent, cry, etc. (I can be this friend if needed)
Not so helpful: my mother - this shouldn't be an issue for you because you don't even know her.
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It's just getting started that's daunting!
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First book the vendors that can only do one wedding a day, like the location(s) and photographer.
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- Think about what YOU (you and Johnathon) want. Planners and other people will say "you have to have this _______ ", but you don't have to have things just because everyone else does. Cut the stuff that you could care less about and make the list of what is important to you and have those things.
- That being said, there are great planning books out there with lists of things to look after and they can really help - you can still cross out the stuff you don't care about.
- Magazines are great - clip the stuff you like - you may not have it all, but it really helps explaining to a florist if you have a picture of the flowers you want, or a baker for your cake.
- There are expectations (the Aunts will expect a cake or some sort) but do it the way you want to.
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