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Wedding planning course

Daily Wedding Blog — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:00:47 +0000

If you are planning to do the bulk of your wedding planning yourself, consider enrolling in a short wedding planning course if there is one available to you. I am not referring to the fully pledged full time accredited wedding planning course, but rather a short evening wedding planning course. TAFE runs some throughout the year through their adult learning classes. It’s especially good if you have had little experience with wedding planning, as it can give you a good overview on what is required to plan your wedding as well as like-minded people to bounce ideas off.

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Get bulk supplies

Daily Wedding Blog — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:00:26 +0000

Consider taking a hand on direct approach to your wedding and order supplies in bulk, which consequently lowers the per item cost saving you money. For example, if you’re needing to order napkins for your wedding and know that the local supermarket stocks the ones that you want, ask them if they can give you a discount if you order in bulk quantities, this will probably mean ordering several cartons.

Contacting catering supplies store or local distributors direct is also a good approach as it cuts out the middle man passing on the savings to you. You can find many of these online doing a simple Google search.

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Avoid renting ‘Wedding’ chairs

Daily Wedding Blog — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:00:19 +0000

If you are needing to hire wedding chairs, look around before just hitting all the usual wedding rental outlets. Have you considered asking your local university or high-school if they can hire out their chairs? They generally have a fair amount of chairs for special occasions such as graduations and are happy to rent them out. These chairs can be perfect for park and other outdoor ceremonies. Also check out your local community centres as they usually keep back-up chairs for their functions.

If you are planning on hiring seat covers for the chairs, don’t be to worried if some of the seats have a few scratches, in reality the seats that are a little more worn out will be cheaper and the aesthetics wont matter because you will be covering them with seat covers.

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Planning a Honeymoon (whilst saving money) Online

Daily Wedding Blog — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:00:58 +0000

When booking honeymoon accommodation, look outside travel packages labelled as ‘Honeymoon.’ These packages are designed to play on your emotions and may have a considerable mark up price attached. These days it is simple enough to tailor and book a holiday package completely online.

Getting Started

The first thing to do when planning your own honeymoon is to finalise the dates. Will it happen immediately after your wedding or a few weeks later?

Many people are eligible to receive discounts and have no idea. For example, if you are a member of a road service club, have private health, or belong to a union, you may be entitled to a range of discounts from accommodation, attractions, shopping and restaurants.

Once you have chosen your destination, you may want to look into buying an entertainment book. If the location is within Australia. Visit the website and browse the available vendors and businesses that offer discounts and weigh up the cost of the book to the savings. You can find some great hotel deals this way.

The Flight
There are many websites that offer you cheap flights. Webjet is a good starting point to find out which flights are available. On your departure date. Also check the date prior and the date after your proposed departure date, as sometimes you can find significant savings by changing your flight by a day. Once you have found your preferred flights, visit the airlines website and see if they are offering a cheaper price as sometimes .

The Accommodation
Booking accommodation is probably the most tedious part of planning a honeymoon. There are many websites that offer last minute prices on accommodation. They usually only offer accommodation 1 or 2 months in advance, so if booking through these sites, you need to be prepared to be patient.

Research! Research! Research!

You will find that if you are holidaying in popular tourist spots, the choice of accommodation will seem overwhelming. One way to narrow the choice down is by finding out about other people’s experiences at hotels, either through word-of –mouth or from third-party review websites.

One good website that is comprehensive and offers reviews from world-wide tourists is Trip Advisor. However, be aware, that every hotel has both positive and negative reviews. Hotels can’t please everyone, so have an open mind when reading reviews and weigh up what’s important to you.

Once you have chosen your hotel, take the time to research all the different ‘last chance’ websites that offer accommodation as you will find that there can be significant differences in price. For example, personal experience has found that Hotel Club’s website has been set-up to offer more bonus nights promotions, such as stay 3 nights and pay for 2. If you are a frequent traveller, you could also take advantage of Hotel Club’s bonus credits. Every time you book a hotel, you will receive credits to redeem the next time you book a hotel. You might also like to check out hotels website directly as they tend to offer specials to entice guests to book though them rather than a third-party site.

After you have booked the hotel and flights, you should do some research on the destination’s attractions and restaurants online as you are likely to find printable coupons that could end up saving you a bundle by the end of your honeymoon . You could also pre-book any attractions that you plan to visit to save time and money.

Planning your own honeymoon does take time and patience, but it can end up saving you money, which could mean putting that money towards having a longer honeymoon!
Links
Webjet http://www.webjet.com.au
Trip advisor http://www.tripadvisor.com
Last Chance Website
Wotif http://www.wotif.com.au
Last Minute http://www.lastminute.com.au
Hotel Club http://www.hotelclub.com.au

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Wedding Gift Record Sheet

Daily Wedding Blog — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:00:59 +0000

It can be easy to lose track of which guest gave you what wedding gift and that can lead to future awkward conversations between the guest and yourself. Downloading our free wedding record sheet is an easy way to keep track of things.

When you are your new spouse open up the gifts, have this sheet with you and fill in the ‘name’ and ‘gift received.’ Later on when you have some time, you can fill in the other details, such as address and contact number.

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Cut The Cost Of Your Wedding Cake

Daily Wedding Blog — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:00:30 +0000

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Don’t feel obliged to stick to the traditional tiered wedding cake.

A new trend emerging is the tiered wedding cupcake where the cupcakes replace the traditional wedding sliced cake. It’s cheaper and aesthetically pleasing.

Order a plain wedding cake and decorate it yourself. Search the internet, wedding magazines and visit bakers for inspiration.

Rather than opting for a large decorative cake, opt for a smaller sized one and supplement the extra pieces with inexpensive dessert dishes.

Home based bakers and small bakeries often are significantly cheaper as they have fewer expenses themselves.

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Disposable wedding cameras

Daily Wedding Blog — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:00:47 +0000

Ditching the professional photographer and giving each of your guests a disposable camera, is becoming an increasingly popular way for the wedding couple to capture their special day. The idea is that you end up with candid shots of your day from the people that know you best, your family and friends.

To ensure you get good coverage, you may like to designate certain cameras specific shots. For example Aunty Betty, Uncle Lou and your friend Jane could cover the wedding dance, whilst Mary Beth and your cousin Tony can cover the speeches.

You could substitute this idea with asking your guests to bring along their digital camera and pass on their photos to you. If they are sending them via email, you may like to set up an email account just for this purpose such as Smiths_WeddingPhotos@email.com

I would still recommend hiring a professional photographer for the official photos. This just means that you may only require their services for an hour rather than the entire day.

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Brutus – The best man

Daily Wedding Blog — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:00:31 +0000

Choosing a best man can be a tough decision, however for Casey Anderson the decision was easy. His best man was Brutus, a bear that Casey has hand raised since he rescued him from euthanasia since he was a cub.

There’s actually a pretty interesting and moving back story behind it that can be seen in a National Geographic doco. Kudos needs to be given to his now wife Missi Pyle. Not many women would agree to such a request!
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Trial your nails BEFORE your wedding

Daily Wedding Blog — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:00:27 +0000

If you are planning on having your nails professional done for your wedding, make sure to have a trial run BEFORE the wedding, especially if you have never had your nails professionally done before as they can take some time getting used to and you may very well end up deciding that it is not for you.

You may also want plenty of time to experiment between gel and acrylic nails as each have their own pros and cons and people tend to have different preference to which they prefer. Talk to an experienced nail technician about your options.

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Pack a Lunch for After Your Ceremony Photos

Daily Wedding Blog — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:00:14 +0000

The traditional after ceremony wedding photos with champagne usually ends up in some great photos, but it can quite easily end up in the bridal party ending up a little tipsy if they haven’t had enough to eat that day.

It can very easily happen with all the hustle and bustle of the morning wedding preparations. Delegate someone to pack a light lunch for after the ceremony for the members of the bridal party. A piece of fruit, or a tub of fruit salad for each person works well. This will avoid anyone becoming light head before the reception and ceremony ahead. Have some water handy too.

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