If you’re lucky enough to be one of the 30 people allowed at a wedding during the Covid-19 restrictions, are you ready to be a Mirco Wedding guest? (Not a micro guest, not a teeny tiny guest; a guest at a teeny tiny wedding!). ‘What’s so different?’ I hear you cry. Well let me tell…
If, like me, you’re a huge fan of the festive season you may have mixed emotions about being invited to a wedding at Christmas. But what if it’s on New Year’s Eve? Is that a different story? Whilst I totally adore Christmas and all it means and brings, I feel very differently about New Year’s…
I’m getting married today. TODAY!! It’s still dark. Why am I awake? Tad excited I suspect Not as excited as my niece and flower girl, Holly Who gets up and shouts ‘ooh this floor is cold’ at the top of her voice. I’m awake. Again. Might as well get up (it’s 5.30am). When is the…
In the next instalment of the Wedmother Survival Guides we tackle the Festival Wedding. The invitation arrives, you knew it was coming and you can’t wait to open it. But wait, what’s this? A ticket? In all of the copious amounts of wedding chatter there was no indication it was going to be in a FIELD. In…
It’s a very real thing. So real, in fact, that there’s a movie about it. But what is it, how do you recognise it and can you do anything to prevent it? When your usually mild mannered, easy going, ‘you choose honey’ boyfriend became your fiancé did you notice a few subtle changes in his…
You knew it was coming (you’re so excited you might pee a little bit) – you’ve been talking ‘bridesmaid’ for ages and it’s finally official. She’s asked, you’ve said yes and now you’re going dress shopping! Now I have to say, I do kinda like the bridesmaid bit on Say Yes to the Dress –…
There are all sorts of fun things out there about when you should get married, what flowers you should carry and even some very odd traditions from weddings past. So grab a cuppa (or a flute!), sit back and check out this lot. What applies to you? And will you want to change it after…
You’ve been to loads of weddings, right? Chances are you got a wedding favour? And you – you’re planning your awesome wedding right now, aren’t you?! And you’ll carry a bouquet as you walk down the aisle followed by (or following, your preference) your bridesmaids, right? These wedding traditions occur at pretty much every wedding. …
Depending on your age, it’s likely that you will, at some point, go to a wedding without a plus one. And, depending on your age, it’s likely that you won’t care because you’ll have your posse (your girls) with you instead. But what if you’re invited to a wedding of someone your other friends don’t…
I’m sure you’ve seen the Wedding Crashers movie, where Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn spend their weekends crashing weddings in order to pull. Until one of them falls for a woman he meets at a wedding they crashed and breaks the number one rule of Wedding Crashing – don’t accept a weekend invitation to a…
The Fairy Wedmother 