Wedding
From the first planning steps to the finished wedding website.
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.
When should we send the wedding invitations?
Send invitations six to eight weeks ahead, three months for travel weddings. A backwards calendar, RSVP deadlines and...
What do you wear to a wedding, and what should you never wear?
What each wedding dress code actually means, what to avoid whatever the code, and how to dress for a church, a beach...
How to plan a proposal: the one part you decide alone
Three decisions carry every proposal: how secret it stays, who is watching, and whether the ring is bought first. Pla...
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...