Gina Moriarty
I was planning for this to be a longer series, released as I went along. However, as I was planning my wedding while also navigating a job change, I was dealing with a lot of stress and some things (such as attempting to maintain this blog) had to be sacrificed. But hey-ho! We continue on.
Continue reading “Wedding Planning 2/3”
So I’m planning to get married next year, and it’s all feeling… a little overwhelming.
Read more: Wedding Planning 1/?We’ve booked our venue, which I’m really happy about! It’s given us a deadline to get everything done by, but it really feels like I’m missing so much? As if, no matter how many blogs I read, or spreadsheets and to do lists I download, I’m lost and I don’t know what to do next.
So we’ve got our date. I’ve made some e-Save the Dates, to save money on printing and postage, but it feels like I’m going about everything in the wrong order.
I wanted to book the catering next, get the second biggest expense sorted and out of the way, and I felt confident as I had the date now. They asked me what time I wanted the food to be ready, and I had to reply with “not sure yet”. It makes sense that they’d ask me that, but I didn’t realise it would be this early on in the process.
So now I have to figure out the timeline of the day. Great.
Thankfully, we’re not doing the legal bit at our booked venue, we plan to do that on a different day; a friend of ours is going to act as our Celebrant.
The thing is, I don’t know how long these things take, so how do I start on a day-of timeline? We’re not doing other certain things, such as a first dance, so does that make it easier? Because we’re more flexible? Or harder, because now we have to rearrange everything?
I understand now why couples hire wedding planners and day-of coordinators. Only we don’t have the budget for that. So we have to muddle through that ourselves.
There’s also some questions I need to ask the venue, so I think that will be our next move. Also, I should get in contact with Gareth’s mother. She’s literally an events coordinator so if anyone can help me, it’s her!
Anyway, a lot of waffle from me. But it’s good to get it out. I need to put more focus into what we’re planning, and getting everything out of my brain should give me room to do that.
Next steps, then:
We’ll see how this goes!
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