5 Top Tips for choosing your wedding suppliers
Know your wedding budget and share it The most important part of wedding planning is to know your budget. By that, i do not just mean your total figure. You should break down your budget into various areas so you know what you have to spend on each item e.g. catering,...
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LET’S PLAN TOGETHER – WEDDING PLANNING MONTH TWO
Hello and I hope you all had a great start to your wedding planning. I know I set you some serious challenges last month but hopefully you have been busy and are feeling like a super star wedding planner now! The stage we should be at now is: You have set a budget and...
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How to pick your wedding structure
When it comes to planning your wedding one of the first things a lot of couples need to decide on is their venue and for a lot of you readers that venue does not mean bricks and mortar but canvas and poles and your own little green patch of heaven. Most couples have...
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Wedding Venue Review – Cambridgeshire wedding venue Lattenbury Hill
Part of being a wedding planner is visiting a lot of wedding venues. Sometimes I visit wedding venues with a specific client brief in mind and sometimes just for my own research. So it thought it made sense to blog about some of the places I visit. These blogs are...
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Dry Hire of Hertfordshire Wedding Venue Hatfield House
The Brief Let’s begin where I always begin with my couples - the venue search. Hannah and Rich had a large wedding. They had over 280 guests but wanted to find a venue that would allow them to create a fun and intimate feel. A ceremony at their local church was also...
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The ins and outs of Wedding Ceremonies
I am not sure many of us think about the practicalities of how we are actually going to get married until we have to. It is, however, an area where some couples can get caught up. Therefore, I thought it was worth doing a brief overview of your wedding ceremony...
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Let’s Plan Together – Wedding Planning Month One
Hello, I am Katie Slater, founder of Songbird Weddings. I am a wedding planner and event planner based in Cambridge but I plan weddings across the UK. I am writing 1 blog per month for 12 months so that we can effectively plan a wedding together! Each month, I will...
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Written by Wedding Planner Katie Slater, Songbird Weddings for Festival Brides Hello again! This month I have decided to talk about heatwave weddings. We have had a scorcher of a summer this year. So for those of you whose weddings are imminent (and you are hoping the...
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Festival Wedding – Top tips from a Wedding Planner
Hi! I am Katie, a wedding planner and founder of the Rustic Wedding Show. I am so excited to have been asked by the team at Festival Brides to write their monthly wedding planning feature and I cannot wait to help you all on your wedding planning journey. Flood my...
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What is a Wedding Planner? What do they do and do I need one?
So you cannot decide whether you need a wedding planner. Many couples do not understand what wedding planners do or are worried that wedding planners will take over creative control of their day. So, here goes. My attempt to explain what a wedding planner does, take...
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Top tips for picking your wedding car
I recently had the pleasure of talking all things wedding cars with the guys at Cambridge Wedding Cars. Check out the video interview on [Insert Video Link] filmed by Louise Shrigley. Here is a summary of all of their top tips: 1. Size The classic cars are much...
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Bar Options for your wedding
Sometimes when guests leave a wedding you will hear them say "what a beautiful wedding"...sounds great hey, but I think beautiful is a given when your have wedding professionals involved. I would much rather hear them say "that was so them". That is when I know I have...
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