Pro wedding vendors’ advice and recommendations to help you plan your modern wedding quicker, easier & with less stress
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There are some specific questions you need to ask your wedding cake baker to avoid disappointment with a low-quality product (and service) down the track.
Asking these questions will ensure the best looking and yummiest cake is delivered for your wedding on time, the way you want it and also that the crucial pieces of information that are required for a baker to give you an accurate quote (no scary bill at the end!) are communicated early.
It’s completely understandable, given that you’ve probably never planned a wedding before, how you might get caught up in the process and forget some of the finer details that will help your day run so much smoother.
One of these details, that some couples overlook, is their "wedding vendor meals."
Although you might not be aware, it’s common for photographers, videographers, and other all-day wedding vendors to require a set number of meals for their staff to be able to work on your big day.
A modern, Unbridely approach to weddings means couples have the freedom to choose if they even want to have a wedding party in the first place; as in attendants; bridesmaids, groomsmen, maid of honour, etc.
So if having a squad of your closest friends or family members by your side on your wedding day brings warm, squishy, happy feelings for you, then we want to help make sure they look the part.
Here are some of the hot bridesmaid dress looks we are currently obsessing over for the 2022 season.
Planning a wedding with divorced parents can present an engaged couple with a virtual minefield of unspoken misunderstandings, hurt feelings and tension. Navigating the sometimes complex dynamics between family members requires some sensitivity and planning ahead.
Here are a few of our best tips to help make your big day as stress-free as possible for everyone involved.
If you were planning on getting married, and your plans have been put on pause I'm so, so sorry. I know that you’re feeling lost, devastated, angry, sad and ALL THE FEELINGS right now.
But chin up, gorgeous.
Even with no definitive date of when life will go back to normal, there are ways to move forward, put some backups in place and make some progress in the meantime. So let’s get stuck into it.
When it comes time to plan what is (likely to be) the biggest and most public celebration of your relationship, you want to make sure it will be a party to remember.
And it’s this ideal, wanting to make your wedding special because you don’t want to have any regrets, that can contribute to your decision making becoming clouded. Spending can easily get out of control, the expectations of family and friends can feel oppressive and then the overwhelm starts to set in.
Bingo bango; a happier engaged couple enjoying more of their wedding planning experience!
Wedding thank you notes and cards are easily one of the most neglected parts of wedding planning.
But, when you reflect on the time and money that many of your friends and family would have put into your big day (the planning and celebration itself) you know they deserve a thoughtful and timely thank you.
And unless you’re planning on hosting a slide night when you get your professional photos back (you sadistic bitch!), the wedding thank you card is also usually the last form of communication they receive from you about your wedding. Leave them with a sweet memory of your big day and a feeling that their efforts were truly valued.
Here are our top 4 tips to keeping wedding thank you cards quick and easy.
There’s little argument that booking your wedding photographer is a big thing to check off your wedding planning to-do list.
Given the big bucks involved, and considering the fact that this might be the first, or only, time you’ve ever needed to hire a photographer, it makes sense that you might be looking for a little help with the process.
Hiring your wedding photographer is an investment in the quality of the photos (prints, albums, etc) that you will look back on for many years to come. And, given that you will spend up to 12 hours with them on your wedding day, choosing the RIGHT ONE FOR YOU will also affect the way your wedding day feels.
So I asked a friend of Unbridely TV, wedding photographer and high five enthusiast Alex Szczesniak of Time With Alex to help pull together this handy checklist of what to ask your wedding photographer - BEFORE YOU BOOK THEM IN.
Bronte Price is a marriage celebrant from Melbourne, Australia and long-term active advocate for marriage equality. As a newsreader on radio channel JOY 94.9, he keeps in touch and up to date with other members of the LGBT+ community, which he loves.
He is a subject matter expert on gay weddings and Bronte has also been featured in an article for The Age and a segment for TV show, The Project.
So when he wrote to ask if he could share his extensive experience and gay wedding etiquette knowledge with Unbridely readers, my answer was a firm, ‘hell yes!’
Thanks very much for your insight, Bronte!
One of the most romantic and naturally beautiful venues for a wedding ceremony in Australia is on one of our many stunning, sandy beaches. On a sunny day, there is an atmosphere of freedom and fun that is hard to replicate in any other setting.
That said, with the experience I’ve had conducting beach ceremonies over the last 7 years, I have learned a lot about the difference between a successful, enjoyable celebration and those that have proved to be challenging at best. With a little planning you can be sure to get the most from your beachside location while avoiding some common pitfalls.
There are times when the couple gets it right and the kids (and therefore their parents) have a ball and are an awesome source of fun and laughter at weddings. Just imagine a little page boy busting some moves on the dance floor or a sweet flower girl raiding the dessert table before she should; super cute!
It's the sitting still quietly for (what seems for them) a lifetime during a ceremony or waiting to have photos taken that usually doesn't end well.
We've seen the good and the bad (and the disastrous!) and want to make sure that you are armed with the best tips and tricks to get the kiddies onside for your big day.
In Australia, the Births, Deaths and Marriages offices in the states and territories conduct registry office wedding ceremonies where you can attend with your fiancé, two witnesses 18 years of age or older and up to 55 guests.
But there are some compromises you need to consider, such as:
There's always the option of eloping; running away in secret to get hitched privately. Unfortunately, some couples discover after the fact, that the potential for hurt and misunderstandings that come from eloping were not what they had intended.
But what if there were some middle ground?
