After the wedding
Name change, thank-you cards, photos, honeymoon and paperwork.
All things wedding
Plan your wedding
Bring your tasks, costs and guests together for the day.
Invitations and wording
Find the right words for your wedding invitation.
As a wedding guest
Write a personal message and choose a thoughtful gift.
Wedding anniversaries
Explore anniversary names, traditions and celebration ideas.
An introduction
After the wedding, planning stops and administration begins — and nobody prepares you for that. What is left are tasks that all look small and together take weeks: thank-yous, photographs, invoices, borrowed items, and depending on your decision a name that has to be changed at a series of places.
The most underestimated are the photographs. Weeks often pass between the day and the finished images, and then the real work begins: choosing, sharing, making an album — and settling who may show the pictures where. What happens to guests' photos is best decided beforehand, not once they are already somewhere.
And then there is the part that occurs to nobody as a task: a year of planning ends and ordinary life comes back. For many couples that is a strange emptiness, rarely talked about. This section covers both — the list that genuinely has to be worked through, and what comes after it.
Combining insurance after marriage: what merges and what does not
Marriage opens a 30 to 60 day health insurance window in the US and merges home cover in the UK. What to combine, wha...
Who gave what: keeping track of wedding gifts and thank-you notes
Cards separated from envelopes, gifts with no name: how to record wedding gifts in the first 48 hours and get every t...
Coral anniversary: what the 35th wedding anniversary means and how to mark it
The 35th wedding anniversary is coral on the traditional list and jade on the modern one: what both mean, how to cele...
75th wedding anniversary: what it is called and how to mark it
The 75th wedding anniversary is usually called diamond, like the 60th. What the name means, which official messages t...
Cleaning and storing your wedding dress: what the first weeks decide
Invisible stains turn yellow months later. Why cleaning is urgent, what specialist cleaning involves, and how to stor...
Platinum anniversary: 70 years married, official messages and a gentle celebration
The 70th wedding anniversary is the platinum anniversary. What the name means, how to request messages from the King...
67th wedding anniversary: marking 67 (or 67½) years of marriage
The 67th anniversary and the 67½-year mark have no traditional English name. How to mark them at ninety, which offici...
Pearl anniversary: what the 30th year means and what suits it
The 30th wedding anniversary is the pearl anniversary. What the name means, ways to mark it, wishes to copy and pearl...
The china anniversary: what twenty years of marriage share with porcelain
The 20th wedding anniversary is china on British and American lists and platinum on the modern one: what the name mea...
The crystal anniversary: what makes fifteen years clear and fragile
The 15th wedding anniversary is crystal on British and American lists and watches on the modern one: what it means, c...
The tin anniversary: why ten years of marriage are marked with a soft metal
The 10th wedding anniversary is tin in Britain and tin or aluminium in the US: why a soft metal marks a decade, ways...
The wood anniversary: what five years of marriage have to do with wood
The 5th wedding anniversary is wood on both British and American lists: what it means, how to mark it with small chil...