You're engaged! Now What? | Wedding Series

Firstly, Congratulations!

Getting engaged is, for most people, the best day/night of their lives. It is exciting, new and amazing...

Then you realise you have a wedding to plan.

What do you do first? Where do you start?

This is completely normal! I don't think that any bride could honestly say they didn't have any of these thoughts.

I definitely got excited and we sorted out who we wanted for our wedding party before we had even come home from Turkey!

We knew we wanted to give ourselves two years, to save for the wedding as well as to save to buy a house... crazy I know.
We also wanted it to be as close to our engagement date as possible.

Firstly, I would definitely advise to get a notebook to write down all of your ideas to keep them somewhere altogether.
(some lovely ones here)

I also have spreadsheets helping me plan, because I am that way inclined, and I like that I can work on multiple tabs easily.

I also downloaded an app called Hitched early on, which has been great to give me an idea of what needs to be done and when. (This is super useful and something I would definitely recommend!)

A word of advice is to go at your own speed.

Don't rush ahead with planning to please other people. If you don't want to get married for 5 years, then don't!

Plan what you want, when you want, with who you want!

I have a whole series coming up of how I have planned my wedding. All of them will feature my opinions and have no bearing on how exactly any of you should do it yourselves, just to try and help if I can!

Much Love,

Being Organised - Part One

So, if you remember, like everyone, I set myself New Years resolutions this year here and one of them was to be more organised.

Part One of my organisation was to buy my cards for the year.

By this, I mean, I went out armed with a list of all the birthdays, anniversaries, weddings etc and purchased all the cards we need for the year.

I have also purchased a few extras, just in case I have forgotten anybody!

Plus I brought engagement cards, new baby cards and new house cards as you never know what could happen throughout the year.

I also want to start buying Christmas presents so that it is not such a massive rush at the end of the year.
I know this makes me sound mental rather than organised, but I know that come November I will be so grateful!

I'm now off to write all these cards ready for each birthday for the year, as well as pop stamps on the ones I need to send. Then I need to set alarms to send them!

Do you do anything this crazy organised or is it just me?!

Much Love,

Tk,

xx