Stress-free wedding planning: Problem Pal

Stress-free wedding planning Stress-free wedding planning: Problem Pal

Problem Pal: I’ve finally found the right venue, but there’s no right date

Right Place, Wrong Time has written into our Problem Pal advice column with a problem that will sound familiar to anyone who’s looking for their perfect wedding venue.

My fiance and I have been looking for a venue for our wedding all year. It feels like we haven’t had a weekend where we’ve done anything but drive out to stately homes or talk to hotels about packages, but none of them have been right. We can’t imagine having the wedding we want at any of them.

Until…! Last week, we finally found the perfect venue! It’s exactly what we’ve been looking for – and it’s even in our budget! The problem is, when we asked them about dates, they said they didn’t have any more until the end of next year – and they didn’t have any spring dates for the next two years?!

I want to cry. I don’t want to look for another venue but I don’t want to put my wedding off for years either. What should I do?

9th of November, 2019 Leave a comment

Stress-free wedding planning Stress-free wedding planning: Problem Pal

Problem Pal: what to do when your friend breaks up with their plus one

Choosing your wedding guestlist is already a minefield. Balancing the people you feel you ought to invite with the people you most want there. Working out who’s a day guest and who’s an evening guest. Broaching the dangerous debate of kid-friendly or kid-free.

But what do you do when you’ve got it all worked out – then your friends break-up?

In this month’s Problem Pal, we’re looking at how you should handle a friend breaking up with their plus one before your wedding.

12th of October, 2019 Leave a comment

Stress-free wedding planning Stress-free wedding planning: Problem Pal

Problem Pal: how do I pick a best man without hurting anyone’s feelings?!

Welcome, pals, to our monthly Problem Pal segment, where we give actionable, anonymous advice on all your wedding woes.

So No One Told You Life Was Going To Be This Way has written in with a worry I reckon everyone’s had planning their wedding:

How do I pick a best man without insulting my other friends?

It can be hard enough working out how to choose your wedding party, but singling out just one of your friends to be your best man, maid of honour, or mate of honour can feel like a minefield.

13th of September, 2019 Leave a comment

Stress-free wedding planning Stress-free wedding planning: Problem Pal

Problem Pal: my friend didn’t RSVP to my wedding – but still expects to come!

Welcome, pals, to another Problem Pal segment, where you can get actionable (and anonymous) advice on all your wedding worries.

Like Carole King Says, It’s Too Late has written in with an all-too-common problem:

Some friends of ours didn’t RSVP before the deadline on our invitations. We assumed they couldn’t attend but, after we gave the final details to our caterer and our venue, they mentioned how excited they were for our wedding. I’m not sure how to tell them it’s too late now and they’ve missed the deadline – or if I even should!

3rd of August, 2019 Leave a comment

Stress-free wedding planning Stress-free wedding planning: Problem Pal

Problem Pal: Everyone else is arguing about how to throw MY wedding

A couple of weeks ago, I ran a Q&A on our Instagram account, answering questions people had about wedding planning, invitation wording, and what we do at Gettin’ Hitched Rocks. (Answer: awesome work, always.)

Reading some of the questions that came in, it really struck me how truly overwhelming wedding planning can be – not just in the amount of wedmin there is to do and the number of suppliers you need to find and click with (which the Rocks Band and I already do our best to help with, with our stress-free wedding planning websites and all-in-one packages), but with guest-list stress, family pressure, disagreements, budget worries, both parts of a couple having very different visions… Things that can make you want to pack the whole thing in and elope. Or call it off.

6th of April, 2019 Leave a comment