Wedding Planning Information and Advice - A Wedding Planning Checklist

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Browse through our category listing of wedding items to the right. Within each category you will find lots of useful information and suggestions for creating a wedding planning checklist and just about everything concerning your wedding day, from accessories to marriage and reception venues. Locate a particular item that you want information on by clicking on the category heading (right), or browse through our wedding pages, where you will find lots of useful information and some fascinating facts and details about wedding planning.

Bride and Bridesmaids Wedding Dresses

Wedding Cakes and Catering

Wedding Cars and Transport

Flowers, Florist and Balloons

Wedding Gifts

Wedding Invitations and Stationery

Photography and Wedding Photographers

Wedding Rings

Stag and Hen Nights

Wedding Favors & Accessories

Wedding Insurance

Wedding Planning and Organisers

Wedding Outfits

Wedding Speeches

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Planning the Wedding Accessories

When you start to plan the table layout and seating arrangements for your wedding reception, you may wish to add favours (wedding favors) to your plans as a special thank-you gift for your guests. Or do the bride and groom plan on releasing white doves following their marriage ceremony? ….then we have the details you’re looking for when planning for this event. We have information on wedding rings and wedding jewellery and matching accessories for the bridal party. We can even give you some suggestions and helpful advice for planning those all-important speeches.

Beauty Treatments and Preparing for your Wedding Day

We have a range of information for planning to look your very best on your special day - for the bride, groom and other family members and friends; including hairdressers, bridal salons, health spas and beauticians.

Planning The Wedding Catering

You've got to get it right! Wedding catering affects every guest on the day and you want to make sure that your plans ensure they're happy. The caterer plays a big part in your wedding day and reception and we're pleased to supply some helpful planning information, hints and tips for making sure that the main wedding meal is right and your evening buffet is right. Whether you plan to bring in an outside caterer for the day, or arrange it through your reception venue, you'll want to have good information at your fingertips when planning the day's catering, ask the right questions and make the right choices.
Have you ever wondered why we have a wedding cake, or what the significance is? Take a look at this interesting story of the wedding cake through the ages in our history of the wedding cake pages.

Planning The Flowers & Balloons for your Wedding

From the bride's bouquet, the buttonholes and the flower girl's petals, the wedding's floral arrangements to planning the table arrangements at the reception, a good florist will make the colourful arrangements that you desire. We list a range of different flower choices, information and suggestions that you may want to consider when planning for the floral presentations at your wedding.

Balloons are becoming as much a part of the decorations for a wedding as flower arrangements. You may wish to include balloons in your wedding day plans from table arrangements to balloon tunnels. It shouldn’t be a choice of flowers or balloons, but a planned coordinated display of both will work together to give you the ambience you desire.

Wedding Dress and Formal Outfitters

No wedding planning site would be complete without detailed information of wedding dresses - and ours carries a range of detailed information on such a wide choice of styles and colours for your consideration. In addition, we have details for planning your choices for the bridesmaids, parents and other formal outfits for your bridal party and the groomsmen.

Wedding Photographer and Videographer

Every wedding has it's own special record of the day's events to cherish for the rest of your married life. Wedding photographers have become a specialist area with all kinds of advanced digital equipment and processes at their disposal today, so you can plan complimentary types of photographic recordings of the wedding day. Additionally, many couples are choosing to have the ceremony and wedding day recorded onto DVD as a real-life record of the day and the events, to play back over the years and to keep the memories as fresh as the day they were created. An increasing number of brides are including post-wedding photography in their wedding planning, as a more fashion oriented way of recording their youthfulness and wedding dress, which otherwise wouldn’t be possible on the wedding day.

Wedding Stationery

Every wedding needs invitations, and we have details of a range of choices that you may wish to consider. In addition, there is a whole range of other wedding stationery that you may plan to use at your wedding, from service cards, to place settings to thank-you cards, as well as just about everything else in between! We have the information and you have the opportunity to make your plans and choices from the whole range of services.

Wedding Cars and Transportation

Will it be luxury cars, limousines or a horse and carriage? Or maybe a combination of more than one form of transport? Perhaps something more unusual for planning your arrival to your wedding ceremony? We take you through the options and the sequence for planning, finding and booking your wedding cars with helpful hints from an expert.

The average wedding takes
over 250 hours to plan and coordinate!

You will have worked hard with planning and creating your own perfect wedding day. With the right planning and information, you can be a guest at your own wedding, knowing that the time and effort you have put into creating your wedding planning checklist will pay off.

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Your wedding is unique to you, no two weddings are the same, the wedding planning is different for each wedding occasion and so you will want to plan for your own range of bespoke suppliers for the wedding day. We have information for planning Asian weddings, church weddings, civil partnerships, overseas weddings and register office marriages – plus just about every other sort of wedding and venue that there is. We will assist in preparing a wedding planning checklist and with information on each item that you have listed for your wedding day.

When it comes to planning the wedding outfits, clothing and the wedding dress, we have the whole range covered. From a specially designed wedding dress, bridal suppliers for wedding dresses to bridesmaids dresses, outfits for the bride’s mother and the groom’s mother, groom and best man outfit or formal dress hire for the groom’s party and other hired or purchased men’s wear for the wedding.

We can give you link details for UK wedding companies who will assist in producing your wedding gift list and maintain an up to date list for you, removing items that people have already chosen to buy. To ease the wedding planning burden, or simply to assist, we have information on specialist wedding planners who will organise your wedding day for you, or selectively assist with the planning and organising where you feel you need more expert help for arranging your wedding. We can even point you in the right direction for planning and preparing your speech, speech writers or simply the order or protocol of speeches being delivered at your wedding reception.

No wedding day would be complete without wedding photography, a record of your very special occasion. On our site you will find details of specialist wedding photographers in all areas of the UK. These days, it is becoming desirable to have a ‘live’ record of your wedding day recorded by a videographer, who will turn up at the beginning of the day and digitally video your wedding from preparation to reception, supplying you with a DVD of all the formal, and informal, proceedings throughout the day – including video of the ‘out-takes’!

All weddings need some sort of stationery, from the simplest note to a whole range of bespoke wedding stationery and you need to ensure that you get the timing right for sending them out, which you will with a well organised wedding planning checklist. Most people send out wedding invitations to their guests and many weddings then have an Order Of Service produced, place cards for the tables and Thank You cards – chosen from a wide range of wedding stationery designs and suppliers. We are pleased to bring you details of wedding stationery requirements and list a range of potential suppliers to choose from.

Transport for your guests as well as the bride and groom is very important and needs to be well planned on your wedding day. We bring you information on all types of wedding cars and transportation, including luxury wedding cars and limousines, to planning for the more exclusive forms of wedding transport such as a horse and carriage to the more unusual wedding transport, including London buses and taxis and even fire engines. We have expert advice on how to find, plan, select and book your wedding car supplier that contains many useful hints and tips for approaching, choosing and booking a wedding car supplier.  Wedding cars are often booked months or years in advance, so start your wedding planning and preparations early to make sure you have the widest choice and best vehicles to choose from for your own wedding.

There is a huge range of venues available for you to choose from for your wedding and wedding reception. Many locations are licensed for weddings, where you are able to be married away from the previously traditional places (mainly register office or church). We can help by bringing you information of how to find and approach these locations near to you.

When you’re planning your wedding reception, both for the wedding meal (wedding breakfast) and for the evening’s entertainments, you have an endless list of choices and locations. We have information on castles, gardens, marquee hire, hotels, restaurants, stately homes and historic buildings and all kinds of wedding reception venues throughout the UK. To compliment your reception, we have information on wedding entertainers, for example magicians, musicians, DJ, bands, harpists, etc.

To cover those unexpected eventualities on your wedding day, we have included a section on wedding insurance, detailing the potential risks that can affect your plans for the wedding and suggesting appropriate insurance cover for the unplanned for events or even in the extreme circumstances where your wedding has to be cancelled. This should be listed early on your wedding planning list, as early purchase will give you longest and most comprehensive cover as you wedding plans unfold.