Should I schedule my wedding for the same day as a family member’s wedding?
My fiancé and I have been together for over nine years. Each year we celebrate our anniversary on the day we made our relationship official, and on our 2016 anniversary — he proposed to me. After all the emotional dust settled from this, my first thought was: we’ll get married on our anniversary in 2017!
Then I remembered, my half-brother’s cousin already announced that they would do their wedding on that very date….
The surprising ways I’m using Instagram to plan a wedding
A lot has changed since I planned a wedding eight years ago. Mostly… Instagram’s existence. It’s my favorite social media platform, for keeping up with friends and sharing my own life. But it’s also been surprisingly helpful for wedding planning!
Have you checked out any wedding tags on Instagram? The #offbeatbride hashtag itself will send you down an endless rabbit hole of wedding inspiration. In a few seconds I went from scrolling, to clicking on a cool looking dress and discovering a new designer…
Planning tools 101: wedding budget calculator
We launched a comprehensive and totally customizable document of wedding planning spreadsheets if you’re the type to get down with spreadsheets like I am. First we featured a big ol’ wedding timeline, then we featured the guest list planner, and now we’re showing you the wedding budget calculator for all your costs and figures and savings.
The 6 discussions you should have with your partner before the wedding
Is it getting down to the wire? Wedding date almost here?! Have you had these six big ol’ convos with your partner yet? Oh, it’s on. Time to start waylaying fears, saying thanks, and talk about TV shows. Wait, what? Yep, all of the above need to happen stat. Here are the six discussions before the wedding that probably need to happen.