Wedmother’s hints and tips on how to survive all kinds of weddings!
Here we are in June and sun has FINALLY come out. This weekend it’s going to be hot, hot, hot in the UK and we’re in the middle of wedding season. You know the drinks reception will be outside. Heck the ceremony may even be outside. So how do you survive a wedding on a…
Weddings, as we know, are fun. A great day out, a chance to catch up with friends and family, dress up, make new friends and generally enjoy yourself. But…what if you know that wedding is going to inundated with children. Now, I’m not the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang but I do like…
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…
Here it comes – the festive wedding. You can’t quite decide if you’re happy about it or not; should Christmas be for Christmas or is there no such thing as glitter and sparkle overload (remember we are Wedmothers – for us, there can never be too much sparkle!)? Whether you love Christmas or not it…
There is it, embossed and leaping out from the invitation like a big silver bullet to the purse…’Dress Code: Black Tie’. Men LOVE this. A tux, a white shirt, dickie bow and black shoes. Done. Us girls, however, feel the fear clutching at our hearts, our tummies and our purse strings when we see those…
Oh boy. The most popular person you know, with a huge family and loads of connections, is finally tying the knot. And you’re invited. This is an invitation to a Mega Wedding. You know the type – around 300 ‘of my closest family and friends’. Oh yes, going to a Mega Wedding is not your…
You’re clutching the long awaited invitation starring at the location. It can only mean one thing – the wedding is in a marquee (or a teepee – whatever, it’s a giant tent). Is this a good thing? You don’t know. You DO know that it’s not going to be like going to a posh hotel,…
As if going to weddings wasn’t expensive enough, your bride goes and decides that ‘somewhere lovely and sunny, not here’ would be a great place to tie the knot. So not only do you have hen night, outfit and accommodation to consider, you’re going to have to factor in a plane ticket. Two, if you’re…
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…
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 –…
