7 Ways to Reduce the Environmental Impact of your Wedding
When you’re planning a wedding, you’ll spend time thinking about a whole range of things. Is the cake going to be suitably impressive? Are the guests going to RSVP promptly? Is the venue going to be accessible for everyone? Increasingly, we’re thinking also about factors like environmentalism, which don’t impact us directly, but which have […]
Plans to Allow larger receptions put on Ice
This week saw the government announce a slight change of plans. From the start of August, couples were to have been allowed to get married, and invite up to thirty people to the reception. Now, those plans are being pushed back in response to a spike in cases. Boris Johnson claimed that the government could […]
Our Favourite Wedding Favours
If you’re putting on a wedding, then you can expect a sizeable portion of your guests to come bearing gifts. But there’s another edge to this particular sword – you’ll also have to provide your guests with a miniature present at the wedding breakfast. If you want your wedding favours to stand out, you’ll need […]
Wedding Speeches: Dos and Don’ts.
One of the more dreaded components of the wedding breakfast is the point where glasses are tapped, the room quietens down, and some of those closest to the happy couple are invited to stand, microphone in hand, and deliver some words of wisdom. It’s a prospect that might give you crippling anxiety attacks. But if […]
Getting the best from a Covid-Compliant Wedding
Last week, we took a look at how upcoming changes to the lockdown rules would allow weddings to take place – albeit with some fairly chunky strings attached. And now the changes have come into force, let’s look at how you can make the best from the new limitations! Keep numbers Down The new rules […]
More Changes for Weddings
While it might seem difficult to believe, the lockdown is finally coming to an end. It’s a gradual process. June was less strict than May, and July is set to be less strict than June. Eventually we’ll arrive at something resembling normality – but it’ll take a while. Weddings which have been postponed for weeks […]
Light at the End of the Tunnel for Lockdown
Being a company that relies on getting people together to have a good time, lockdown hasn’t been a great deal of fun for us. Obviously, Covid-19 is a danger we should all take seriously, even with non-essential shops and zoos now opening their doors and receiving customers for the first time in months. But as […]
Booking for a Post-lockdown Wedding
Last week, we took a look at how weddings are downsizing in order to comply with the social distancing requirements. It’s likely that smaller weddings will be with us for some time, even after the lockdown limit is lifted to ten people from next month. If you’re planning a wedding, you’ll obviously need to remain […]
What is a Micro Wedding and Should you be Considering One?
If your wedding plans have been scuppered by the current situation, then you might be tempted to get the show back on the road sooner rather than later. Given that we don’t know exactly when we’ll be free to invite as many people as we like to our nuptials, there’s been a marked trend in […]
When Will Events be Allowed Again?
If you had told most people at the start of the lockdown that most of us would be pretty much housebound for more than two months, they’d have probably thrown their hands into the air in exasperation. But that’s exactly what’s happened! If you’re planning a gathering, whether it’s a wedding, a funeral, or an […]