There is a moment when you know someone belongs in your wedding party. It might be the friend who has been beside you through everything, or the sister…
Maddison Wallace
The Complete Wedding Stationery Timeline
Planning a wedding backward is the only way to plan it correctly. The question is never “when should I start thinking about invitations?” The question is…
Who Is Invited to the Rehearsal Dinner?
The night before a wedding, the couple runs through the ceremony once and then sits down to eat with the people closest to them. Simple in theory. Then…
Who Pays for the Engagement Party, and Who Gets Invited
Someone in your family just got engaged, and now two conversations are happening simultaneously in two different households. One conversation is about…
How to Build a Wedding Colour Palette
Building a wedding color palette usually starts the same way: hundreds of saved pins, a dozen palettes that all look right, and then no clear path to a…
Small Wedding Venues in Australia
You have 28 guests. The venue quotes a 60-person minimum. You can pay for the difference, they explain, which brings your per-head cost to roughly double…
Wedding Cost Per Guest: What Each Extra Head Really Adds
The per-guest problem usually shows up with the first catering quote. The estimate is not “$X for the event.” It is “$Y per head,” and suddenly the…
Elopement Announcement Wording: How to Tell Everyone Afterwards
You got married. Just the two of you, or maybe with a single witness and a photographer, somewhere that meant something to you. Now you are home, and the…
How to Elope in Australia: The Legal and Practical Guide
Eloping in Australia is entirely legal. You can marry at sunrise on a beach, in a national park, on a private vineyard, or anywhere else in the country….
Wedding Websites: What to Include, and What Still Has to Go on Paper
A wedding website is useful. But it does not replace everything, and the couples who learn that late are the ones who get a call from Grandma at 7pm…