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Today is my 365th day of being engaged! A year ago tomorrow I became someone's fiancée...that is still a little cheesy for me to say. I have learnt so much over the last year and I am pretty sure the next 3 and a half months will be the biggest learning curve of all but it has been the best year of my life. If you have just got engaged then you are in for an amazing time and if you're not engaged yet then at least reading this series might prepare you a little bit for what might happen.

 

The first thing we did when once we were engaged was to both sit down and write a list of everybody we would like to attend the wedding. Include everybody on this list even if you are not 100% sure you actually want them there on the big day. Once you have a list of absolutely every person that could possibly be invited to your wedding ask your parents.

You may not invited the people that they suggest but I guarantee it will help with any initial arguments if you at least ask their opinions.

Once you have all of these names you can start going through them together and agreeing who really matters and who would you would be really disappointed about if they couldn't make it. These are the people that you really need at your wedding.

We did this before we even looked at venues because that gave us an idea of the size of the wedding we wanted and the type of wedding it was going to be.

The list that you are left with after whittling down the original list should be a group of people that you love dearly and who will make your wedding special. We only want people at our wedding that are going to be in our lives for a long time and who we can look back on in 50 years time with our children and remember the names of.

Obviously you may be having a big wedding with lots of extended family and acquaintances and that is absolutely fine. A wedding is so personal and individual so you have to do what works for you and your partner. The most important thing is that you have exactly who you want there on your big day!

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I thought I would start a new series of posts all about my favourite subject...Weddings! Who doesn't love a wedding and that excitement of flowers and white dresses only increases once you actually have a ring on your finger.

 

I have been slightly obsessed with weddings for probably the last 20 of my whole 25 years on this planet. I am a girly girl who is a hopeless romantic. My biggest dream has been to have a fairy-tale wedding and a long and happy marriage. Obviously the marriage bit is the most important but the fairy-tale wedding is what we all really dream about. If you are anything like me you have probably had an idea about the sort of wedding you would like, what the dress would look like, how many bridesmaids you would have, that kind of thing, but planning a wedding is a lot more stressful than I ever though. Who knew there were so many decisions to make?? The other day I sat up crying about chairs!!! What is happening to me? Basically the chairs at our reception venue are ugly. I'm not a huge fan of chair covers and the chairs I really loved were too expensive. It was a big drama for me last week aha!

 

I think until we are actually in the position we really have no idea what we want or even where to start. I thought seeing as I am going through it at the moment I would do a little series all about the planning process and things that we have had to make decisions on. It isn't going to be ground breaking but it might help you out if you are struggling to decide between an manor house or barn conversion, that kind of thing.

 

So from now on every other Monday will be a Wedding Chat post. If you have anything you would like me to cover in these posts then either leave a comment or email me at jodienatalie@gmail.com and I will try to answer your questions. I am still in the process of planning our wedding so I am still learning as I go.

 

Have a great day

xx