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Mell

After planning, coding, creating, and DIYing her own wedding, Mell created Gettin' Hitched to help awesome couples have awesome weddings, filled with humour and personality. When not busy writing profiles about herself in the third-person, Mell builds websites, designs stationery, and watches too much Netflix.

Stress-free wedding planning Stress-free wedding planning: wedding planning

The BIGGEST mistake you can make planning your wedding

I want to talk to you about one of the BIGGEST mistakes I see couples make when they plan their wedding – working down a checklist.

You know the kind of thing – a wedding planner book or a snazzy Pinterest image with all the wedding planning ahead of you broken into panic-inducing sections like ‘organise twelve months before’. A giant list of everything you must have for your wedding, to be ticked off as you frantically organise them all.

Now, I get the temptation. You probably haven’t planned a wedding before so a checklist feels like you’ve been handed a cheat sheet for the perfect wedding.

You have a list of all the things you need to have in order to throw a wedding! You know how much money to spend and what the timeline is! You have the recipe!

20th of July, 2019 Leave a comment

Bits and bobs

New tropical wedding website design, in collaboration with Pen & Fold

Sound the exciting new product klaxon!

We’re so proud to show off the (incredible!) new wedding website design we’ve made in collaboration with the (incredible!) luxury stationer Pen & Fold.

Based on Pen & Fold’s intricate, laser cut, palm leaf invitations, the Palm Suite website design is the perfect way to get your guests excited for a tropical destination wedding!

6th of July, 2019 Leave a comment

Stress-free wedding planning Stress-free wedding planning: ideas to steal - and to avoid Wedding ideas & inspiration

The best ideas you should steal from my wedding – and what to avoid

Continuing with our series on the best ideas to steal from real weddings (and the ones to avoid), we’re talking to Deby, who had a country manor wedding on a budget – without anything looking budget.

Read on for her advice on what corners you can cut – and what ones you definitely shouldn’t!

4th of May, 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

Bits and bobs

Meet the maker: why I started Gettin’ Hitched Rocks

March is ‘Meet the Maker’ month, where people across different creative industries pull back the curtain (or, in our case, the veil) to explain why they started their business and show how everything works behind the scenes.

I wanted to use the opportunity to chat to you this month about why I created Gettin’ Hitched Rocks and how it can help you enjoy your wedding planning. (No, really!)

23rd of March, 2019 Leave a comment

Bits and bobs

New wedding website and invitation set design: Pemberley

Sound the gorgeous new design klaxon! We’ve just released Pemberley, an elegant watercolour design that’s perfect for a modern wedding with a little rustic edge. (Or any wedding that you want to look BEAUTIFUL. 😘 )

4th of January, 2019 Leave a comment

Wedding ideas & inspiration Wedding ideas & inspiration: ceremony

Wednesday Wedspiration: short (and not overly sweet) wedding readings

For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a mini-series of wedding reading inspiration. We’ve covered romantic (but not cheesy) wedding readings, geeky wedding readings, readings from children’s books, and long, non-traditional wedding readings.

To finish things up, this week, we’re looking at short wedding readings you might not have seen before. Readings like…

10th of October, 2018 Leave a comment

Stress-free wedding planning Stress-free wedding planning: ideas to steal - and to avoid Wedding ideas & inspiration

The best ideas you should steal from my wedding – and what to avoid

Continuing with our series on the best ideas to steal from real weddings (and the ones to avoid), we’re talking to Lucy, a London bride who had a small, intimate wedding with only twenty people in attendance for the ceremony and wedding breakfast. (And she came in under budget, too!)

Find out her tips, tricks, and t- uh, advice below.

6th of October, 2018 Leave a comment

Wedding ideas & inspiration Wedding ideas & inspiration: ceremony

Wednesday Wedspiration: long readings for your wedding that DON’T suck

Our wedspiring wedding readings mini-series has looked at romantic wedding readings that aren’t cheesy, wedding reading ideas from children’s books, and geeky readings, with references to zombies, time travel, and, erm, three-ways. (Edit for your own audience as required!)

Today, we carry on with some long, non-traditional wedding readings. Nothing sappy. Nothing soppy. And nothing you’ll have heard at the past five weddings you went to.

3rd of October, 2018 Leave a comment

Wedding ideas & inspiration Wedding ideas & inspiration: ceremony

Wednesday Wedspiration: cute (but not too cute) wedding readings from children’s books

Let’s talk about children’s books:

1) They’re written to be read aloud, so they’re melodic and easy to read, even for the most nervous speaker.

2) They’re short and sweet, and give everyone who hears them the warm and fuzzies.

3) And they usually give a good, clear message about love, respect, kindness, and embracing adventure.

Sounds like a pretty good place to look for wedding reading ideas!

Continuing our mini-series of wedspiring wedding readings, today we’re looking at cute – but not too cute – children’s books you can read during your wedding ceremony.

26th of September, 2018 Leave a comment

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