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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 planning

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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Wedding ideas & inspiration

5 things to do if your wedding is postponed

Postponing your wedding sucks.

Having to wait even longer for a day you’ve been nervously and excitedly anticipating for ages is no fun. But that doesn’t mean your wedding date needs to suck too.

There are a few different things you can do to mark the original date, so you can still enjoy the day and keep it special. Here are our favourite wedding postponement plans…

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11th of April, 2020 Leave a comment
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Bits and bobsStress-free wedding planningStress-free wedding planning: wedding planning

Why a destination wedding website will SAVE your sanity

When (the lovely) Claire from (the lovely) Wed in Central Park – who you might remember as the guest writer of our (lovely) piece about unexpected problems planning a destination wedding – asked me to guest write an article for her blog, I jumped at the excuse chance to get on my high horse talk about the different ways a wedding website can save your sanity when you’re planning a destination wedding.

The full article is on the Wed in Central Park blog (and it’s rather good, if I do say so myself) (which I do) (it’s brilliant, really), but here’s a sneak peek to tide you over:

I don’t need to tell you that planning a destination wedding takes a lot of organisation, co-ordination, and forethought – but I will.

Planning a destination wedding takes a lot of organisation, co-ordination, and forethought.

You don’t just have a wedding to organise – vetting vendors and venues and v- uh, dinner options – you’ve got a fifteen-person family vacation to sort, too.

You’re planning hen dos, stag dos, group photos, kid-friendly events, kid-unfriendly events…

It’s difficult to co-ordinate that with a big group – or, really, any size of group.

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16th of September, 2018 Leave a comment
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Stress-free wedding planningStress-free wedding planning: wedding planning

Unexpected problems you can run into planning a destination wedding – and how to avoid them

Claire from Wed in Central Park is pulling back the curtain on her (brilliant) job as a (brilliant) destination wedding planner and going over some of the unexpected problems you can run into when you’re planning a wedding abroad. (She would know – she’s been planning weddings in Central Park for couples from all over the world since 2012!)

It’s Claire’s job to make sure everything goes to plan for her clients’ weddings – and get them back on track sharpish if they don’t! Here’s Claire on the unexpected problems you might run into when you’re planning a destination wedding – and what you can do to make sure they don’t ruin your big day.

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25th of August, 2018 2 comments
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About Gettin’ Hitched Rocks

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!

Stay whelmed with our free resources, interviews with real couples on what not to do, our regular Problem Pal advice column, and stress-free wedding planning advice.

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📣 To help keep you whelmed while you plan your 📣 To help keep you whelmed while you plan your wedding, we're now offering copywriting and proofreading services.⁠⠀
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Planning a wedding can feel like you've taken on a second job. Focus on the fun bits (hello cake samples!) and let us handle the rest.⁠⠀
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For £235, we'll write everything you need for your wedding website.⁠⠀
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• We'll give your guests details for three hotels at different price points.⁠⠀
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• We'll write clear directions on how to get to your ceremony and reception venues from planes, trains, and automobiles.⁠⠀
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• We'll write all the details of your day - and your story.⁠⠀
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• We'll make sure everything is clear to your guests, so you're not bombarded with questions.⁠⠀
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Or, if you want to write up the details of your day yourself but want some reassurance that the Ts have been crossed and the Is have been dotted (not to mention placed firmly after E wherever necessary), we're also 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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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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Set up in memory of Stephen Lawrence, who was killed by racists while waiting for a bus, the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust helps young people from disadvantaged backgrounds study and gain work experience in architecture - honouring Stephen's dream of becoming an architect - and helps businesses recruit more diverse talent.⁠
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They're truly incredible and well worth your support.
Our wedding websites work in 3 easy steps:⁠⠀
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1. Choose your wedding style⁠⠀
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Find a website design to fit your wedding in our collection or wow your guests with a bespoke design, unique to your wedding.⁠⠀
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2. Create your website⁠⠀
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The fun bit! Create your guest list and write up the details of your day, then we'll turn it into a fully working website with our concierge service.⁠⠀
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3. Netflix and chill!⁠⠀
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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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Our wedding websites:⁠
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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.
You come across a lot of jargon when you're planni You come across a lot of jargon when you're planning a wedding.⁠
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People bang on about wedding breakfasts when they mean dinner, favours when they mean gifts, and cummerbunds which… Who even knows what that means?⁠
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One of the big ones is on-the-day stationery - so we're going into what it means and what pieces it's worth considering for your wedding (and why!) on our blog.⁠
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