Posts Tagged ‘advice’

I am planning a honeymoon for early January or late December. Most of our budget has been spent on the wedding so we don’t have too much left for the honeymoon. We would still like to go somewhere outside of the US. Any advice on locations, resorts, itineraries, or any cost saving tips would be apprecitated.

I just saw this today:
http://www.travelzoo.com/vacations/caribbean/842753/?ptl=done&rating=&tppct=

This is a little more expensive, but hey, it’s Tuscany
http://www.travelzoo.com/vacations/europe/842247/?utm_source=top20_us&utm_medium=email_top20

This is probably the best one:
http://www.travelzoo.com/cruises/europe/842711/?utm_source=top20_us&utm_medium=email_top20

I signed up for the travelzoo email list a few years ago and I see better deals on there than anywhere else. I highly recommend it!

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Original venue we liked was http://www.staugustines.uk.com/Home.php as it has a chapel so we could have a civil ceremony, wedding breakfast, chapel blessing and evening reception.

The prices on the website civil wedding, wedding breakfast, drinks package, evening buffet and dining room charge.

For 60 guests, saturday price is £6207

•Friday wedding – a discount of at least 16%
•Sunday wedding – a discount of at least 20%
•Monday to Thursday weddings – a discount of at least 33%

Now i was searching some more and found this venue http://www.salmestonegrange.co.uk/index.htm and now i am really confused. I just priced everything up for a thursday wedding a friday wedding and a saturday wedding and got :

Thursday: £4769
Friday: £5269
Saturday: £5894

And these all include exclusive venue hire, chapel marriage (rather than civil ceremony and blessing as the original venue), reception drinks for 60 guests, canapes, 3 course wedding breakfast for 60 guests, corkage for 12 bottles of wine with the meal and evening buffet for 80 guests.

We were looking at a budget of £5000 excluding wedding dress but we do have £7000 saved.

I think I prefer this one because of a chapel marriage rather than civil ceremony, and we both want to get married in a church.

Help?? Which should we choose??
and the second one has accomodation on site – maybe good for getting ready into wedding dress etc

According to your budget, you can make any day at any venue.

It looks like you get a little extra with the second place. And you want the church wedding.

Ask yourself which place is better. You seem to be saying 2nd place, than go for it

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I am marrying a man in the Army. He will be returning from Iraq at about the beginning of October. We want to have the wedding a couple weeks after he gets back. We can’t set a date yet, because of the fact that we don’t know what date he will for sure be back. I have to plan everything around that though, until I can find out. I was just wondering if anyone had some tips to help me out. Oh, and I have to try to keep this as cheap as possibly, but elegant. Any advice?

Your biggest difficulties are going to be the officiant and the venue. Because you’re basically going to be going on a 2 – 4 week notice, you’re going to need somewhere you don’t have to worry about booking (ie. a backyard), and if you don’t have a pastor/minister/reverend (whatever), then maybe have one of your friends become ordained to perform weddings in your state (I’m assuming you’re american…??). This way, they’ll more likely be available on short notice. If you do have a religious officiant, then talk to them soon, and just let them know the situation and how short notice there may be. Most will be understanding, and will try to keep themselves available for you.

If you decide to do it in a backyard, there’s a lot of nice, simple things you can do for decorations that can be set up and taken down easily. Get one of those pre-lit arches (mine cost $30CDN on sale), and wrap some tulle around it. That would work great for the actual ceremony. Chinese lanterns are also quick and easy, and can be obtained fairly cheaply.

Food is going to be another issue – you might want to consider a potluck or something really simple. Again, you’re working with an unknown timeline, so it’s hard to invite guests and tell them when in advance… For this, you might want to set up a website and do e-invites and phone calls to let everyone know when & where.

Favours can definitely be done ahead of time, as well as your dress. Check out the sales.

Just remember to relax, and remember that no matter what happens, by the end of the day you’ll be married to your man, and that’s all that’s really important.

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My cousin is getting married in August, and I am her maid of honor. However I’ve somehow become her wedding planner of sorts, and I’m trying to help her save money. They really don’t have any money to spare, but are insisting on having a formal wedding anyway. I’ve managed to help her with ceremony and reception sites, but I’m stumped on photographers!

Any ideas?

I am not looking for FREE.

I’m looking for someone who has talent and is responsible enough to handle a job like this but doesn’t want to charge out the wazoo.

*also, if there are any photographers in the Lansing, Mi area who would be interested, feel free to let me know!*

I go to GVSU and i know students are always looking for work. put an ad in the Lanthorn, the school paper. also in Grand Rapids is GRCC and Kendall college that have photo students that may be interesting.

and just for advice…check to see a portfolio before you hire them. after all we are just photo students.

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I’m a junior in high school, and I never knew what I wanted to do [career wise] after college until just recently. I’m a hugely detail-oriented person, and I love romance and weddings. Since I figured out that I wanted to be a wedding planner [and one day start my own business] I have decided to take a marketing class and an accounting class that my high school offers, just to sort of prepare myself for college. I want to major in Business Administration [and go an additional year to get my masters] and minor in Organization/Interpersonal Communication.
I have also found some wedding planner online courses [such as these: http://www.weddingplanninginstitute.com/courses.html ] that I want to take at some point or another.
I know I need to get an internship at some point or another, and work for another wedding planner for a few years before I branch out on my own.

Any professional wedding planners out there have any other advice? Am I on the right track? Are the wedding planner online courses worth it? How easy/difficult do you think it will be to get an internship? [Willing to intern for free.] How did you become a professional wedding planner?

You’re on the right track but you need style, flair, personality and a sales personality to close business. As you already know get an internship for a year or two to learn the ropes. Then you’ll see what it’s really about. By my industry experience more than 80% of the self proclaimed "wedding coordinators or planners" are absolutely TERRIBLE.

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