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Stress-free wedding planning

Stress-free wedding planning

Wedding planning can be overwhelming. Find out how to stay whelmed with advice for your planning, your stag or hen do, ceremony, and reception.

And we have advice from real couples on the best ideas you should steal – and what you should avoid – from their weddings.

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Stress-free wedding planningStress-free wedding planning: ceremony

Everything you need to know about wedding celebrants – and if they’re right for you

Everybody don your suit jackets and wide lapelled shirts and sing with me now: celebrants, good times, come on!

Sure, they may not have been Kool and The Gang’s exact words, but I like to think they’d have approved of the message.

But what are wedding celebrants? Why is a celebrant-led wedding ceremony different? Why might it be something for you? And what are the alternatives? These are all exceptional questions, and ones I shall answer right about now.

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4th of July, 2020 Leave a comment
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Stress-free wedding planningStress-free wedding planning: Problem Pal

Help! I HATE my engagement ring

I hate my engagement ring. Haaaaaate it. It’s gaudy and huge and not my style at all.

I never thought I was the kind of girl who’d care about carots and jewellery, but this is just so wrong. I can’t imagine wearing it for the next fifty years. And seeing other people’s engagement rings on Instagram makes me want to cry.

This should be something I’m excited about and want to show off – but when I look at it, all I can do is wonder how my fiancé got my taste so wrong.

I know there are much worse problems in the world and this feels like such a superficial thing to be upset about, but it’s really dampening my excitement at being engaged.

Should I say anything? Should I ‘lose it’ somewhere? Or am I doomed to a life with the world’s ugliest ring?

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20th of June, 2020 Leave a comment
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How to find the right suppliers for your wedding (and the 37 best wedding suppliers in London)

The hardest part of planning a wedding – harder than finding the perfect venue (and the perfect date), picking your wedding party without hurting anyone’s feelings, and whittling down your guest list – is finding the right wedding suppliers for your day.

Because, no matter how meticulously you plan everything else – no matter the time, and effort, and pinning you put into it – if you don’t have wedding vendors who get you and get what style you’re going for, your wedding won’t come out as you expect.

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28th of May, 2020 Leave a comment
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Stress-free wedding planningStress-free wedding planning: Problem Pal

My grandmother died 30 days before my wedding — what should I do?

What should you do if someone you love dies in the lead-up to your wedding?

It feels like an impossible position – carry on with the wedding, when you’re in anything but a party mood, or delay it and risk losing deposits, suppliers, and other guests.

That’s the problem Grief-Stricken wrote into us about. (Before lockdown, I should add!)

Hi Problem Pal. I don’t know what to do.

My grandmother passed away a few weeks ago, out of no where. We’re all surprised and absolutely devastated.

I’m meant to be getting married next month but I just can’t imagine going ahead with it at the moment. It feels disrespectful to have a big party right now, and I know none of my family will be in the right frame of mind for it.

But, if we don’t go ahead, we’ll lose all our deposits, and I’m not sure we’ll be able to afford to have the wedding we had planned if we have to pay for everything twice.

I know my fiancée wants to go ahead. She’s being super supportive and saying it’s up to me, but I can tell she’s upset at the thought of having to get a different, cheaper venue. It took us a long time to find and we made a lot of decisions around it. If we had to start again, it would be like throwing it away and planning a whole new wedding.

I want to have the wedding we had planned, but it doesn’t feel right to have it now, so close to the funeral. What should we do?

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23rd of May, 2020 Leave a comment
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5 sustainable ideas for an eco-friendly wedding

We’re very happy to report that nowadays it’s easier than ever to have an eco-friendly wedding that can still be the wedding that you’ve dreamed of. Not only does it help our wonderful Mother Earth, but it also often means a simpler budget and less planning panic in the run up – and all without compromising any aesthetic or fun on the day. (Of course!)

We’re biased, but we do think a wedding website is a pretty brilliant way of keeping your wedding eco-friendly (in fact, it’s a totally waste-free way of sending out details and recording responses). Here’s a few other sustainable wedding ideas…

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9th of May, 2020 Leave a comment
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Stress-free wedding planning

How to postpone your wedding: a practical guide to delaying your wedding for Coronavirus

We’ve been steering clear of the ‘C’ word at Gettin’ Hitched Rocks HQ. Amid all the uncertainty and concern, we wanted to give couples a Corona-free place to focus on something fun, something to look forward to when the quarantine is lifted.

But Coronavirus has impacted so many couples – and will impact so many more – that we realised the best way to offer advice on planning a stress-free wedding right now is to tackle it head-on: this is our practical guide to postponing your wedding, during lockdown.

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25th of April, 2020 Leave a comment
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Problem Pal: what to do when other people invite guests to YOUR wedding

Hello Problem Pal. My fiancée and I are in an awkward situation and we hoped you could give us some advice.

We have a good friend, Tahani, who likes throwing big get togethers with friends she knows from all different walks of life. We never spend time with her alone nowadays, we only ever see her in a big group.

Because of this, we’ve become friendly with some of her other friends, Chidi and Eleanor. We’re not close enough friends to spend time with them without Tahani – we don’t even have their phone numbers! – but we get on well when we chat at parties and we’re friends on Facebook.

Now to the problem: our wedding venue has quite limited space. When we were working out our guest list, we didn’t even think of Chidi and Eleanor. We had a hard enough time fitting in our family and close friends, never mind friends of friends!

But we invited Tahani – and Tahani has assumed Chidi and Eleanor are coming. She’s told them all about the day and even talked about car pooling with them!

She told us about it casually – like it wouldn’t even be a question that these people who we’ve hung around with maybe five times in total would be coming to our wedding – and now we don’t know what to do.

I feel awkward about it and think maybe we should find some room for them from somewhere to avoid hurting any feelings, but my fiancée doesn’t want to give up space at our small wedding for friends of a friend.

What should we do?

– In The Bad Place (Guest List Planning)

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28th of March, 2020 Leave a comment
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The 6 things you NEED to have on your wedding website

A wedding website is one of the most useful tools you have to help plan your wedding. (And I’m not just saying that because I’m massively biased.)

A wedding website can organise your guests, remind people to RSVP on time, collate everything you need to know in one place, and save you having to answer the same question over and over again. (Are there more beautiful, voice-saving words in the English language than, ‘It’s on the website’?)

We’ve spoken before about how useful they are (so useful) – but what do you need to have on your wedding website to make it useful? What information do your guests need to know?

We’ve put together a list of the 6 things you need to have on your wedding website.

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2nd of March, 2020 Leave a comment
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Problem Pal: how to ask for cash for your wedding – without seeming greedy

Already Owns Enough Toasters has written into our Problem Pal advice column with a worry a lot of couples have:

Can you ever ask for money for your wedding or will everyone think you’re being rude?

My fiancé and I have been living together for a long time and we already have everything we need.

We’re getting married in France and we don’t want our family to have to bring presents with them. And we don’t want to haul them back, either!

Can we ask for money without it coming across the wrong way?

Yes. Yes you can.

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29th of February, 2020 Leave a comment
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Yes, you DO have to write thank you cards: wedding thank you card wording examples and tips

Yes. You do have to write thank you cards for your wedding.

While there are a lot of wedding traditions you can take or leave, thank you cards are about manners. Wedding guests go all out, gifting money and expensive presents – even if you’ve asked them not to!

A hand-written thank you card shows you appreciate what they’ve done to support you.⁠

But hand-writing thank you cards doesn’t mean risking RSI. There are a few things you can do to make it easier on yourself – while still making the cards feel personal and appreciated.

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18th of January, 2020 Leave a comment
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Our speciality is creating (gorgeous) wedding webs Our speciality is creating (gorgeous) wedding websites that take the stress of wedding planning off your shoulders.⁠
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But you can still send out (gorgeous) invitations to go with your website, giving your guests the magical anticipation of opening up mail that ISN'T a bill! (It's rare!)⁠
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A paper invitation gets your guests excited for your wedding in a way an email just can't.⁠
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And it gives them a reminder of your day they can pop on their fridge - something to remind them your wedding is coming up and get them looking forward to it!⁠
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We make paper invitations to match all our websites - and we can even customise the design with each guest's unique password!⁠
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Check out our range of invitations on our website. (Link in bio.)
Whatever style of wedding you’re having, wedding Whatever style of wedding you’re having, wedding veils are one tradition worth considering.⁠
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Whether it’s matched with a cocktail dress, a three piece suit, a puffy white dress, or a jumpsuit, a veil marks you out as the person getting married and elevates your entire ensemble into something more special and less every day. ⁠
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Check out our blog post on the 7 different veil styles you can rock at your wedding. (Link in bio.)
Let's talk table names.⁠ ⁠ Your wedding should Let's talk table names.⁠
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Your wedding should feel like you, with little touches that make it completely unique to you and your partner.⁠
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Table names are a fantastic place to work in some more personality without feeling cheesy or distracting; they need names anyway, so people can tell them apart!⁠
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Naming them after something that matters to you, like places important to you as a couple or your favourite films, makes the day feel a bit more you.⁠
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Check out more ideas for non-boring table names on our blog.⁠
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Wedding suppliers aren't just people you hire to t Wedding suppliers aren't just people you hire to take photos or make stationery.⁠
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They're the people who make your wedding happen. ⁠
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So it's important to find people you click with, who get your sense of humour, share your values, and match your style.⁠ People you'd invite to your wedding if they weren't working it!⁠
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If you're eco-conscious, hiring a cake maker who doesn't know what sustainability means probably won't end with you having the low carbon footprint wedding you'd expected.⁠
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If you're having an alternative festival wedding with fun fair games and food trucks, hiring a traditional planner with a portfolio of church weddings probably won't be best placed to organise the day you’re picturing.⁠
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It's important that you find people on your wavelength to help with your wedding.⁠
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Check out our list of the 37 BEST wedding suppliers in London to find people who'll GET you - and make your wedding rock!⁠
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Getting married shouldn't feel like a chore, but w Getting married shouldn't feel like a chore, but when you need to chase for RSVPs — again — or count and re-count and aah-I-lost-track re-count who needs a vegan option, it can seem more like a job than a joy.⁠
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Our websites organise your wedding for you, so you can spend time with the awesome person you're marrying — not with (far less awesome) spreadsheets.⁠
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Check out our interactive demo to see how a wedding website can keep you WHELMED.⁠
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Planning a wedding can feel like you've taken on a Planning a wedding can feel like you've taken on a second job - without the benefit of coworkers to bounce ideas off of or double-check your work!⁠
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If you want some reassurance that you've covered all of the details your guests need, spelled eveything perfectly, and firmly dotted every I, we're now offering a 'check and send' proofreading service.⁠
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We can proofread what you've written for your wedding website, correcting typos and offering suggestions for improvement, for £25.⁠⠀⁠
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Or, if you'd like the writing, the research on local hotels, the detailed public transport directions, and all of the non-fun bits of wedding planning handled too, we can write everything for you instead!⁠
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Check out our wedding websites and our proofreading and copywriting services to help you stay whelmed.⁠
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Your wedding ceremony should be a reflection of yo Your wedding ceremony should be a reflection of you – fun, unique, and anything but cheesy.⁠
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But it can be hard to find a reading that fits your day and your relationship. You don't want a poem that feels like a homework assignment, and you don't want a modern reading that you've heard at five other weddings.⁠
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Check out our suggestions for modern poems to fit modern relationships over on our blog. (Link in bio.)
Getting people to RSVP on time is HARD.⁠ ⁠ And Getting people to RSVP on time is HARD.⁠
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And some of the worst offenders are parents, siblings, and people in the wedding party, who assume they don't have to RSVP because you already know they're coming - forgetting about meal choices, plus one details, allergy information... And how much harder it is for you, not having all of the details in once place!⁠
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For advice and (non-cringey!) wording examples to get your RSVPs in on time and plan a stress-free wedding, check out our free email series at StayWhelmed.com - and stay whelmed while you plan your wedding!⁠
Your guests should feel WOWED when they see your w Your guests should feel WOWED when they see your wedding invitation - but it can start a lot sooner than that!⁠⠀
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Envelope liners add real impact to your save the dates, invitations, and thank you cards, with a design that grabs your guests' attention as soon as they open the envelope.⁠⠀
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Matching the accompanying card, envelope liners are a great way to bring more personality and a touch of luxury into your wedding. (Without the hefty price tag to go with them!)⁠⠀
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We've just added envelope liners matching all of our house collection designs to our shop. If you want to add a bit of wow factor into your wedding invitations, check them out!⁠⠀
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