Category: Weddings

Saving Money

Why Insurance is an Expense Not to Ignore if You are Planning a Wedding

***Guest post*** Your wedding is supposed to be the happiest day of your life, where you and your partner are the center of attention. You spend a lot of time and money on planning your wedding, and so you have very high expectations when it comes to how the day will pan out. Of course, for most couples the wedding really does end up being perfect, or at least with just a few flaws everyone

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Our Wedding

My DIY wedding makeup

Every bride wants to look her best on her wedding day, and this usually means having bridal hair and makeup done. There was no question about getting my hair done – by my usual hairdresser. As for the wedding makeup, I had no idea whether I wanted to DIY or book a makeup artist. I wanted to look like a magical princess but I also hate when you get your makeup done at a makeup counter and

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Our Wedding

DIY wedding bouquets for under £25

When pricing wedding flowers, I was really shocked at the hundreds of pounds that they would cost. We agreed on a friend doing them, but when we found that we couldn’t get what we wanted for under £200, I decided that I would attempt to make the bouquets myself. If it all went horribly wrong then we could fall back on getting a florist involved. I was surprised not only how easy they were to make,

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Our Wedding

Our Wedding Day

This post has taken a long time to put together – trying to find the right balance of sharing our special day without a. revealing too much and b. boring you. There’s also so much that I’m proud of and wanted to share. I hope I’ve managed to strike the right balance, and I hope you enjoy this post! I will be posting about specific parts of our wedding in much more detail throughout the coming

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Saving Money

Make up to 120 wedding confetti cones for £1.99

Making your own wedding confetti cones can be a really simple way to save money on your big day. You can expect to pay around 99p per confetti cone if you buy them individually, but if you have an hour to spare then you can get up to 120 made for just £1.99. To get started, you will need the following items: A 60 pack of paper doilies (available from eBay for just £1.99) Scissors A

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Saving Money

Ways to save on your wedding catering

Catering costs account for a large portion of the costs associated with a wedding. Our catering is working out to be a ridiculous price (but look at how amazing the food is!). However, there are still some easy ways to save money on your wedding catering, even if you do have exclusive caterers. 1. Cut down the guest list. This is the easiest way to save money on your catering – fewer guests means you

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Free Stuff

Our wedding favours (including free printable)

Our wedding favours originally started as something completely different, but upon making them we discovered that they were rubbish. With a bit of tweaking, we arrived at our final product. Items used: Mini flavoured vodka – we picked these up in America for just $0.99 at Walmart. You can also get them from most supermarkets (although there isn’t such a big selection of flavours) and Amazon (12 for £21.18). We have around 50 left over

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Saving Money

Our thoughts on making your own wedding invitations

Once engaged, we knew that we would be creating our own wedding invitations to both keep costs down and to create a truly unique wedding invitation. Now that we have finally sent all our wedding invitations, we have come to the conclusion that making our own wedding invitations was a really bad idea. We started making our wedding invitations in October, and it took until the end of January for every invitation to be printed,

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