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Stress-free wedding planning: reception

Stress-free wedding planning: reception

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Why you should give a speech at your wedding – even if you’re shy

The thought of giving a wedding speech fills some people with dread.

I know dozens of strong, feminist, Beyonce-loving brides who refused to take their partner’s name, toss a bouquet, or have the word ‘obey’ in their vows – but gladly hid behind the tradition of their fathers speaking on their behalf at the reception.

And I get it.

There’s so much to organise for your wedding already without worrying about writing a speech.

You want to enjoy the day, not stress out about what you’re going to say.

And the thought of standing up in front of a huge room of people to read off a sheet gives you awkward high school English class flashbacks. Where do you put the emphasis on this sentence? Should every word be emphasised?!

But giving a speech at a wedding – and especially giving a speech at your own wedding – is like no public speaking you’ve done before.

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1st of August, 2020 Leave a comment
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5 table name ideas for your wedding that don’t suck

The wedding you have – after all the planning, and pinning, and crafting, and hunting, and stressing, and spending – should be yours. It should feel like you. It has your blood, sweat, and tears in it – it should have your personality and sense of humour too. It should have little touches that make your friends go, ‘Oh yeah. Riley did this.’

Whatever kind of wedding you’re having – from a shindig in your backyard to a church ceremony in black tie to an elegant gala – there are places you can fit your personality and humour and you-ness without feeling out-of-place.

And one of the easiest ways to add some personal touches to your day is naming the tables at your reception dinner.

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22nd of September, 2018 Leave a comment
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Little details, big impact: 3 small touches that will wow your wedding guests

I’m a big advocate of little touches – the small details that really tie a project together.

Whenever you’re creating something, whether it’s artwork or cupcakes or Halloween costumes, it’s attention to detail that takes your project from being good to being incredible. It’s especially true when planning a wedding; the little details are what makes the day memorable and unique to you as a couple.

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5th of May, 2018 Leave a comment
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Selfie sticks – the new disposable camera

When it comes to weddings, people still push disposable cameras. Etsy shops sell them as essential for your wedding day. Advice blogs tell you they’re the cheapest way to get fun, impromptu wedding pictures.

But they all seem to forget five crucial things:

1. It’s freaking difficult to get film developed these days. Where does it?!

2. If you manage to find somewhere, you have to pay to get the pictures developed as well as for the cameras – and anything that difficult to track down isn’t going to be cheap.

3. You can’t preview a traditional photograph or delete it and re-take it if it’s of a massive, blurry thumb, so most of the roll will be the same pictures again and again, in the hope one of them turned out – which is annoying when you have a hard limit on how many pictures you can take.

4. Disposable cameras – disposable anything, really – are terrible for the environment. They’re made of metal and plastic that could be put to much better use.

5. Every one of your guests has a much better camera already, in their pockets. And they’ll happily take pictures for you. For free!

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21st of April, 2018 1 comment
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Your mum hates flowers: gift ideas for the mother of the bride or groom

There’s a tradition in British weddings known as flowers-for-the-mums. You say it as a single word, in a single breath; the notion that a newly married person will be doling out a bouquet and a ‘ta for raising me’ is so innocuous, so ingrained, flowers-for-the-mums is listed off in that single breath on every checklist, every etiquette book, every planning podcast.

Flowers-for-the-mums is a wedding-by-numbers activity, expected to happen the same way, at the same time, at every wedding – no matter what the wedding, or the couple getting married, is like.

  1. Stop halfway through your toast. What you were saying was unimportant. This is flowers-for-the-mums!
  2. Whip a spectacular bouquet of flowers out of no where and present it to your new spouse’s mother.
  3. Mumble awkwardly about being grateful for her help. If she didn’t help, mumble awkwardly about being grateful for your new spouse, as if they are a cake your mother-in-law has baked especially for you.
  4. Whip out a second, equally spectacular bouquet. Be careful not to make it any more or less spectacular. The spectacle of the bouquets will be closely monitored.
  5. Present it to your own mother with another awkward mumble, desperately wishing you hadn’t used all your best gratitude already. Use words like ‘again’ to make the same embarrassed speech sound plausibly different.
  6. Sit down, red-faced and embarrassed, wondering why every piece of advice you read told you to do this.
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Your wedding speech isn’t an Oscar speech: it shouldn’t be a list of thank yous

Have you ever googled how to give a wedding speech as a bride or groom? (I realise that’s probably how you found this article, but bear with me.)

The advice is always the same: you’ve got the easy job, just thank everyone.

The problem with that is it assumes the person giving the speech knows how to make a list of thank yous interesting. But if our best and brightest actors can’t do that come Oscar season, how are the rest of us meant to manage?

Because it’s not just thank yous – it’s thank yous you’re doing in front of your entire wedding. It’s thank yous as entertainment.

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About Gettin’ Hitched Rocks

Hi! I'm Mell.

I started Gettin’ Hitched Rocks to keep you whelmed while you plan your wedding, with wedding websites that do the wedmin for you and send automatic RSVP reminders to the people who need them, and matching stationery, so you can carry the design you love, with your personality shining through in every detail, across every part of your wedding, from save the dates to thank yous — and everything inbetween!

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What do you need to have on your wedding invitatio What do you need to have on your wedding invitations?⁠
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✔️ The names of the people getting married. (That's important.)⁠
✔️ Where and when the wedding will be. (That's important too!)⁠
✔️ Your wedding website address and log in details.⁠
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Not only can you fit everything on a postcard and save a fortune - you can also save yourself a lot of stress by having the rest of the details on your wedding website.⁠
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You can customise it for every guest, hiding details about your ceremony and sit-down meal from your reception-only guests.⁠
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You can leave your RSVP form to collect the details you need, so you don't need to count and recount how many people want the vegan option or dig through RSVP cards for the names of plus ones.⁠
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And your wedding website can even send SMS reminders to get your RSVPs back on time!⁠
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Find out more about how our wedding websites work (awesomely) on our website.⁠
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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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Check out our website designs and find out more on our website.⁠⠀
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It's one thing to know your wedding is your day an It's one thing to know your wedding is your day and you should do what makes you comfortable; it's another to actually feel comfortable with unconventional choices.⁠
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As much as I'd like to say you should never have anyone at your wedding who'd judge you for breaking tradition and putting your own spin on things, families can be a lot more complicated than that. You might have to deal with some judgemental aunts or a mother who s i i i i i ghs when you tell her something you're excited about.⁠
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How do you deal with that? How do you balance bringing your personality into your day against worries about being judged that you can't shake off, no matter how much T Swift you listen to?⁠
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That's what we're digging into in this month's Problem Pal advice column.⁠
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This is the dirty part of wedding planning no one This is the dirty part of wedding planning no one talks about: you get sick of talking about your own wedding.⁠⠀
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It dominates most of your conversations. You talk about it with the people who are a part of your day and need to know the nitty gritty details, but also the casual acquaintances, who turn to it as an easy way to make conversation for a few minutes before a meeting.⁠⠀
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If you're starting to feel like you don't talk about anything else, we have some wording you can pinch to - politely - move the conversation on to something else on our wedding planning advice column.⁠⠀
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This month, we're donating 5% of every sale we mak This month, we're donating 5% of every sale we make to @s_lawrencetrust, to support the incredible anti-racism work they do across the UK.⁠
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Focus on the fun parts of planning your wedding — we'll do the rest. We'll remind your guests to RSVP and get the details you need.⁠⠀
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Click the link in our bio to learn more and find out how you can plan your wedding, stress-free, with a website that organises your guests for you.
Sound the sexy new website klaxon! 📣⁠⠀
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I've been beavering away behind the scenes to update Hitched.Rocks with a new look, oodles of information about how our wedding websites work (and how they can make your life easier), and even some exciting new services!⁠⠀
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Click the link in our bio to check it out, or slide into my DMs to natter nuptials and find out more about our wedding websites and matching stationery.
Plan your wedding, stress-free, with a wedding web Plan your wedding, stress-free, with a wedding website that organises your guests for you.⁠
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✔️ are password protected, so only your invited guests see the details.⁠
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✔️ change for every guest, so evening-only guests never see the details of your ceremony or get asked what they want to eat.⁠
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✔️ send automatic reminders to get your RSVPs in on time. No awkward chase-up phone calls!⁠
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✔️ collect all the information you need in a simple, searchable dashboard. You don't have to count and re-count who needs a vegan option, or dig through RSVP cards to find your plus one names.⁠
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✔️ keep you WHELMED while you plan your wedding.⁠
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Check out our live demo to see how a wedding website can help you organise your guests and plan a stress-free wedding.⁠
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🚨 Nerd alert! 🚨⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ If it's not imm 🚨 Nerd alert! 🚨⁠⠀
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If it's not immediately obvious from a) the fact I run a website and stationery business and b) my general me-ness, I was the kid with ten different notebooks I never wrote in. (With ten pens that were 'too nice' to write with.)⁠⠀
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So the last few weeks have truly been my 12 year old self's dream: I've been surrounded by fancy stationery I haven't been too scared to write on.⁠⠀
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(I like to think little Mell M would have been equally as excited about this as the other dream I've accomplished for her: working with a Spice Girl. Right…? Right…?)⁠⠀
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I decided to upgrade our paper to something a little more ✨luxurious this year - something that really gets across how special your day is going to be when your guests hold your invitation in their hands.⁠⠀
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This is linen texture card. It's the same paper playing cards are made of, so it feels weighty and substantial in your hands. (And a little exciting too, like you're about to win a game.)⁠⠀
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It looks INCREDIBLE in the background of photographs and when it's taking more of the focus, and it really adds a special finishing touch to wedding stationery - the kind you can only say in French.⁠⠀
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Tell me what you think! And what you wanted (what you really, really wanted) to do when you were 12.

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