Creating a timeline for the day that enables you to fit everything in, and actually spend time with your guests is essential to enjoying yourself! Here are some things to think about when planning the timings.

Sweeney Hall Wedding Venue

It was my first time visiting Sweeney Hall on Sunday and I’m always happy to find another local venue with beautiful views on the welsh countryside.

How to plan a budget wedding

Having a budget wedding may seem  completely obtainable and although it requires a little more effort and time, you will be amazed at what you can cut costs on. If you are thinking of doing it mostly yourself be prepared for a lot more organisation and planning, as you’ll have to arrange things like tables, chairs, toilets, lighting etc that you get with a normal wedding venue.

All the photos pictured are from Lucy & Mac's DIY budget wedding in Bournemouth and you can see more of their wonderful day on this link.  

Sometimes it's good to shoot what's close to you. My Grandpa, in the way I see him. Watching the same daytime TV shows every day, picking tomatoes from his garden for them to waste away in the kitchen, unless I am there in which case I return home laden. Smiling mostly, but also quite confused, surrounded by pictures he loves of his grandchildren. 

My third week planning guide is following on from last week's post of choosing a wedding photographer, which might bring up the questions of...

Why should you have a professional photographer capture your wedding?

It's possible that at some point in your search you will have gone 'Oh god, it's so expensive! Can't we cut a corner and just get disposables / use our camera phones / get your uncle to do it?' The answer is yes, of course you could. The same way you could get married in shoes from Primark and eat Tesco buffet lunch. But I’m betting you wont. With photography it's hard to see the value of it before the wedding, when you’re stressing about budget and costing up tangible items like rings, dresses etc. But you really need to try and think about AFTER the wedding, a week after, a month after, two years after, fifty years after when the memories of the day have all but gone.