Wedding magazine
Articles on wedding websites, invitations, guest lists and wedding planning – practical guidance for your day.
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.
Wedding anniversary names: choose a meaningful gift
The traditional wedding anniversary names year by year, where the list came from, how the modern list differs and whi...
Wedding wishes: 66 messages sorted by relationship and tone
66 original wedding wishes for the card, sorted by who you are to the couple: parents, siblings, friends, colleagues,...
What should you look for at the tasting?
A tasting does not test the flavour, it tests whether the dish scales. When to hold it, who comes, nine things to che...
How many marriage certificate copies do you actually need?
Where certified copies come from in the UK and the US, who keeps them, what they cost, and why three to five copies c...
How to write wedding vows: examples and speaking time
Personal vows in five parts, an honest word count for 90 seconds of speaking, when to start writing, and the four thi...
Guest accommodation: how much is yours to organise?
Recommend, do not pay: two or three places within twenty minutes, a room count read off your guest list and the four...
Which hand does the wedding ring go on?
Which hand and finger a wedding ring goes on in the UK, US and elsewhere, where the vein of love story comes from, an...
How a wedding ceremony is structured
Processional, welcome, readings, vows, rings, blessing, recessional: the building blocks of any wedding ceremony, how...
Who pays for the hen do?
Who pays for the bachelorette or bachelor party, whether the couple pay their share, how to split the cost fairly and...
What does a single guest cost us?
What does one more wedding guest cost? The marginal figure behind guest list decisions, why it differs from the $292...
How to choose the right photographs from 800 wedding pictures
Turn 800 images into 60 without stalling for months: a three-pass selection method, target numbers for album, wall an...
What do you need to watch for in a wedding venue contract?
Minimum spend, guaranteed head count, payment plan, cancellation tiers and corkage: the five clauses in a venue contr...