Wedding
From the first planning steps to the finished wedding website.
How much money should you give as a wedding gift?
Typical cash amounts for a wedding gift in the UK and US, why the cover your plate rule is shakier than it sounds, an...
How do you find the wedding venue that fits your celebration?
Numbers before pictures: a guest range, a budget ceiling, a region and a date window. How twenty candidates narrow do...
How many guests really fit into a venue?
Square metres per head, table geometry, dance floor and escape routes: why the number in the brochure is almost never...
How do you explain the way to the venue to your guests?
An address the satnav finds, an arrival time, a line on parking, one on getting there without a car and one on gettin...
Wedding speech order: who speaks and when?
The traditional order is father of the bride, groom, best man. Modern line-ups, speaking before or after the meal, an...
Finding a wedding dress: the order you decide in
Finding a wedding dress starts with deciding where you buy: boutique, atelier, off the rack, sample, resale or rental...
Wedding hair and make-up: the decisions that are actually pending
Who gets styled, by whom, where and when? Four decisions that set the schedule and the cost of the wedding morning, p...
Explaining the dress code: how your guests know what to wear
A dress code term on its own is never enough. The four details every guest needs, three ready-made wordings, and how...
How do you recognise the right wedding photographer?
Documentary or classic? How to read a photographer's portfolio, ask for complete weddings instead of a best-of, and w...
How do you choose the caterer?
Service style, the kitchen on site, staffing ratio and the binding headcount: the four points on which a catering quo...
Enquiring with wedding vendors: what belongs in the message
Six facts without which nobody can quote — plus a ready-made template, the guest-count question, and how to follow up...
Why do German couples cut a heart out of a bedsheet?
A couple cut a heart out of a stretched bedsheet, then step through the hole. Where the custom is kept, what it is ta...