Congratulations to you two on this exciting time in your lives!
We hope your future together is filled with laughter, joy, love and happiness.
So if I can give any advice for the early stages of your engagement and the planning process, is the following:
1, Budget – Set a budget.
A budget serves as a guide on how much you want to spend, this is so important, but setting this out from the get-go, you know then exactly how much you want to spend and what you both feel comfortable with.
Sitting down and setting a budget helps the two of you plan better and avoids or limits the arguments about the overall budget as you have both sat down and spoken about what you are happy with.
Your budget doesn’t need to be exact numbers to start with, but if you have a rough idea give or take, that will help to begin with!
2, Work out your key wedding vendors
Some wedding vendors are such high demands that they have a very long waiting list of up to a 6 months or 1 year wait! So planning ahead is vital. some only need a couple of months in advance if it is low season. Certain wedding vendors get booked really fast like venues, event decorators and planners, photographers, high-end makeup artists and caterers.
What you want to do as a couple is to work out a list of wedding vendors within your budget you want to use, get in touch with them as soon as possible to avoid any disappointment.
3, Let the fun stuff begin! Getting ideas & planning!
Pinterest is an app you can put a mood board and colour scheme together, and it’s such a great place to collect your ideas and pictures of inspiration for your day in one place. It is great way to see almost a mood board of ideas and see if your colour schemes work together and if it all fits well.
A warning though don’t get too bogged down with trying to find the exact piece in a picture you found on social media!
Feel free to keep checking back in here over the coming months as I will be updating this post.
And lastly, if you are looking for wedding vendors, don’t hesitate to get in touch we can recommend a few.
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Welcome to the exciting world of planning your wedding.
We are so glad to be a part of it.
Chichi Nnadi
Founder – Yes! I Do Bridal