YAY OR NAY: white weddings in the red
In the past year, the number of people borrowing to pay for their wedding has risen by a mammoth 43 per cent, giving the phrase ‘something borrowed’ a whole new meaning. It’s a figure that is even more...
View ArticleBridalwave Interview: Wedding planner Sarah Haywood on keeping your wedding...
One of the positive sides to the recession is the way it’s made all of us think a bit more carefully about our own wasteful behaviour. Weddings are notorious for promoting it, so for those not wanting...
View ArticleIs it worth taking out wedding insurance?
Like pre-nuptual agreements, wedding insurance is one of those nasty things we don’t like to talk about when we’re planning our big day. The prospect of anything going wrong is unthinkable at this...
View ArticleWedding Planning 101: The Budget
The engagement photos have now been taken, you’ve got your wedding planner book close at hand – with the date etched in as the now looming deadline – and you’re ready to focus on the task ahead:...
View ArticleBrits spend £1.8 billion each year attending overseas weddings. Are you? [poll]
Planning your wedding overseas may just be as romantic as it comes, but have you thought about your wedding guests and the expenses they occur when they fly abroad to see you exchange vows? New...
View ArticleThird of British couples planning wedding abroad to cut costs
A record number of British couples have decided to get hitched abroad in an attempt to avoid the rising costs of UK weddings, according to a new study. Over one third revealed that they have already...
View ArticleFit for a queen? The increasing cost of wedding celebrations throughout the...
Many of today’s brides and grooms have a desire to turn back time and opt for 1920s or 1950s styled weddings, so we though what more fitting for The Queen’s Jubilee to look at how things have changed...
View ArticleFloral fancy: Claire Pettibone 2013 wedding dresses
Claire Pettibone 2013 ◄ Back Picture 1 of 18 Next ► ◄ Back Picture 1 of 18 Next ► It was like taken out of A Midsummer Night’s Dream when Claire Pettibone’s models emerged on the rose petal covered...
View ArticleHow to cut costs on your wedding budget
Unless you (or your parents) have been saving for this amazing day since forever, chances are that after that blissful moment of accepting the proposal, you’re faced with the harsh reality of how much...
View ArticleTop 5 least popular ways to save money at a wedding
Budgeting will always be an important part of wedding planning, and never more so than now. But you can’t put a price on friendship, and nobody wants to start married life sent on a long honeymoon in...
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