Keep calm and hire a wedding planner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you know my career is event co-ordination and party planning. So I thought it would be a cake walk planning my own wedding. But even for someone with a high level of corporate skills – don’t be fooled – planning your own wedding is a highly charged emotional rollercoaster! The sensible thing to do is to hire a wedding planner. I believe they can be hired for minimal charge nowadays and will end up saving you $$$ in the long run. They will stop you from becoming bridezilla (which is inevitable), by making decision making easy, recommending the best suppliers and keeping your wedding party under control (which I desperately needed on my big day).

I read this fantastic article in M2 Women today by Kellie Stevenson and it reminded me of exactly what major effort is involved in making your big day perfect. Have a read it is hysterically funny and true to life…
The Best Laid Plans? With the likes of Pinterest sprouting ‘easy’ ways to plan and create the perfect wedding, Kellie thought she had it covered, that is until what is involved in the rigmarole of wedding planning became apparent…

I am getting married and have decided that planning a wedding is hard. Wouldn’t it be great if there were people who actually did all that for you for a pre-arranged sum of money? People who planned weddings for a living? Unfortunately, my inability to work out what such professionals could possibly be called, couple with my innate need to make life difficult, means that I have decided to take on the undertaking myself.

There are so many moving parts, things I hadn’t considered and have not a skerrick of interest in. For instance, I had no idea what the difference is between satin and grosgrain ribbon (although grosgraine sounds like a raging STD mixed with a terrible headache). Raffia and hemp twine. Same? Different? Bothered? I don’t know, but I am tempted to hang myself with either or both if confronted by too many more of these decisions. I had no an inkling that your font choice could impact the quality of your nuptials and that using something like Comic Sans says, clearly as yelling from the roof tops, my wedding is a farce and I am an empty shell posing as a bride.

Apparently, a theme for the day is of the utmost importance. If you believe Pinterest, and by God who wouldn’t, it seems more important than the choice of say…groom. There are so many to choose from, relaxed meets classic rustic meets bucolic urban Mexican swing dance, it’s all there for the uninitiated to blunder through.

The theme du jour seems to be retro/vintage, laden with preserving jars, gingham bunting and all that hessian. I never thought to draw correlation between heavy sacking and a wedding but apparently, it’s what all the cool kids are doing. According to the wedding magazines (full of models that look like child brides and lots and lots of hessian) it’s all about being timeless. A mental image of me in a mildewing bridal gown swooning around a cobweb-filled room, Miss Havisham style.

Anyway we took this theme thing on board but have decided that the only thing we can find that ties all the elements of the day together is that we are getting married. We have decided on a wedding-themed wedding.

The wedding magazines, along with making you feel chunky make it all look so easy, they lull you into a false sense of security that all you need is a mason jar, four tea lights and an old typewriter.

But what you really need is… a wedding planner!

 

 

 

You’re terrible Muriel

Remember Muriel’s Wedding? Skip to about 3minutes into this clip – it’s hilarious!

I found myself sitting in front of the tv the other night watching the first half hour of this movie that made Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths stars, before I remembered there was a lot more misery before Muriel’s wedding and had to walk away. If you have never seen it though you have to – even if it’s just for the crazy 80s/90s hair and outfits – but the gist is Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world upside down.

In the first few scenes though there was a nasty one where one of the bridesmaids is “having it off” in the broom cupboard – with the groom! It made me think of a great idea for a blog – Worst Wedding Guests Ever!

Along with that example above, here are a few more:  bridal party doesn’t perform their duties, guest thinks wedding is a piss up and gets so wasted ignoring bride and groom, toast that sounds more like a threat than a well-wish, wedding-crashers… you get the idea. Let’s hope none of those things happen on your wedding day or the next wedding you attend!

Celebrity Weddings | Jessica Simpson & Eric Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While I was waiting to pay for my gas yesterday I noticed a womens mag with the Jessica Simpson wedding on the cover. I never actually buy womens mags, but I can’t help myself from being glued to them when I’m waiting in a queue or at the doctors office!

Even though I wasn’t tempted to buy the mag, the wedding photo on the cover looked so beautiful I had to blog about it. When I was googling though, I forgot she had already been married about 10 years ago and had that awful reality show about it all.

But, this marriage seems alot more down to earth…
After a four-year engagement—and the arrivals of daughter Maxwell, 2, and son Ace, 1—the couple’s big day was a dream come true. “We’ve anticipated this for so long,” said the bride, who wore a custom Carolina Herrera champagne gown with delicate gold embroidery. “It was amazing to feel the love of everybody and to be able to have our babies and watch us say ‘I do.’ It’s a moment you can’t describe.”

According to Johnson, who wore a gray tuxedo by John Varvatos, Simpson looked perfect. “She was all lit up and beautiful,” he recalled of his wife’s walk down the aisle. “I think my heart was exploding a bit.”

How sweet are they?!

Movies can make a marriage better

Reading an old copy of Good Health yesterday I came across this little article…

Forget intimate dinners – sitting down to a ‘chick flick’ together could be the key to a lasting relationship.

A recent study found that newlyweds who watched and later discussed five romantic movies a month halved their risk of splitting up after three years.

It’s been proven that discussing what on-screen partners get up to forces couples to take a closer look at their own behaviour in the relationship.

Since I’m all for alternative therapies and self empowerment I thought this was really interesting and had a look at the University of Rochester website: couples-research.com

Now, the trick will be just to get My Darling to agree to watching a chick flick!!!

Certain days begin beneath a blanket…

During these cold, blustery days we need to snuggle up under a fluffy blankie with a cup of hot chocolate and a good girlie story…
This one is bound to put a little sparkle back into your day, read this…

 

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