This is a blog spot for all the girls who didn't know they wanted to get married – or rather to have a wedding. The two are kind of different.
If you are the sort of bride-to-be who has been planning their wedding since they were six, then this probably isn't the right forum for you. Get ye to Brides magazine or You and Your Wedding and they will give you the perfect tools to make your dreams reality. Trying to make dreams reality is one of the biggest mistakes that people make when planning a wedding, but more of that later. They certainly have lots of pretty dresses, corporate wedding venues, trinkets and sparkly wedding gubbins that will help you to while away the hours and make you wonder how many extra tens of thousands you need to spend to have the day you have dreamed of all your life.
If, on the other hand, you have found yourself with a nice significant other and are seriously contemplating spending the rest of your life with them – in a committed, let's-get-married type of way – then hopefully this blog might be helpful. Particularly if what you are looking for is a great party where everybody has a really good time rather than all eyes being on you on your special day while everybody else has a bloody miserable time because you've blown your entire budget on your shoes and they are doing without food and drink as a result.
Here is where I come clean and admit that I am the owner of a wedding venue. This is something I was thrown into as a result of a combination of fate, heredity, marriage and ooh la la. All of this came about after having been the girl who never wanted to get married and had previously lived life as an independent globetrotting magazine editor specialising in the luxury end of the market. While this does make me a slightly unlikely wedding advisor, it also means that I can sift out the good from the bad, the tacky from the chic and the kitchy cool from the downright crap.
It also means that I have met a lot of brides, bridegrooms and entourages and assisted with the planning of many weddings. In my experience the best parties are orchestrated by couples who have a few ideas – or no idea – to start off and build. Those who learn as they go and come up with cool ideas as they learn are rarely disappointed.
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