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 it’s been a hot minute! I’ve had a fair amount going on recently, and I’ve not really had much time to get anything down.
Planning a wedding, changing jobs, progressing my career? Who knew all that could take it out of you 😂
Anyway, here’s to getting some more time to write.
I will, of course, be updating you on how everything came together, how life is resuming, and my LARP schedule will be filling up again now I’m not preoccupied, so expect more of that type of content too!
Happy Living/LARPing/Loving!
Gina x
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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