Follow The Bride #6

Last time we caught up with Katie, the bride and groom-to-be had been busy sorting out invites, creating their gift lists and getting inspired by Pinterest. We caught up with our bride to see what they've been up to .....

Last time we spoke your friend had designed some gorgeous invites for you, are these all ordered?

Yes they’re ordered and off to the printers so just waiting for their imminent arrival. In the meantime I’m putting all of the postal addresses into a spreadsheet to print the addresses onto sticky labels as my writing might be a bit scruffy after 150 envelopes! However it also means that I can get all the invites out much quicker as the addresses are then already done.

I did halt the printers due to a new fab find… Brides to be take note!

So I’m not the most tech savvy Bride to Be but The Wedding Community has been a blessing, they have so many REALLY USEFUL wedding planning tools…

The Wedding Community 

It took like 5 minutes to set up our own wedding website and means that everyone can RSVP online simply by typing in the web address on the invite. It’s super easy and it automatically keeps track of everyone who has or hasn’t replied and any special dietary requirements/ vegetarians. It also cuts the cost of having RSVP cards/ additional information cards as all of this can go on the website. You can then drag and drop the list to sort out the tables with their table planner, so simple.

Wedding planning tools 

Speaking of tables, last time we spoke you were going to catch up with the venue.  How was the menu tasting? Is it a secret or can you let us know what you’ve chosen?

Well menu tasting was great, we’ve been strictly saving for the wedding recently so it was nice to go out for a treat. We took my Mum & Dad and Graham’s Mum & Dad so it was really nice for us all to get together. With 3 months to go it made everything start to seem real so was quite exciting. Obviously I’m not going to spoil it by telling you the menu but think family favourite’s, good hearty winter warming food… we certainly all polished our plates off!

Menu tasting - yum!

Though I did feel like I needed a bit of a snooze afterwards; we’re ensuring the food gets served promptly so lots of time to let food settle before the dancing commences. With an amazing band lined up there will certainly be a lot of dancing!

You talked last time about looking at centre pieces and the room layout, the finishing touches…

Yes, it’s all in the details! I’ve become a big fan of Pinterest in the last few weeks, check out my winter wedding Pinterest board.

Katie and Graham's winter wedding Pinterest board 

Graham and I went off in the January sales to buy heaps of baubles for wedding decoration and it seems that over the past few months we’ve collected up so many lights and decorations that I’m fairly certain I could turn my Mum and Dad’s house into a Christmas shop, it’s like a full on winter wonderland!

With making my dress and the Bridesmaid dresses there’s not too much that has been bought. So we’ve focused more on the details which we think often get missed. For us it wasn’t so much about the venue, more what we could do with the space so we’ve got lots of fab finds that really pull the whole day together, but more about this next time…!

Love as always, SP x x