Wedding planner

Sometimes there are just too many things to do. Have a social life, go shopping, find the perfect dress, that thing called work that gets in the way of well, pretty much everything. Then throw in arranging the perfect wedding when you don’t even know where to start. Stress free… hahaha.

Step up Crystal Clear Weddings who will do all the hard work for you. They estimate that a wedding takes around 250 hours to plan. Crsytal Clear offer different levels of service which means you can take on as much or as little planning as you like, leaving them to deal with the rest. They’ll even organise your engagement parties and bachelor/bachelorette events too.

Although Crystal Clear are a London based company, they source their non-perishable items from worldwide suppliers ensuring you have the best and most unique wedding at competitive prices.

They are also have contacts with planners in France (including an entire village for hire!) and Italy with Spain and Israel to follow.

12 Months to go – 5 starting points

[Laura] In a perfect world you need 12 months to arrange a wedding. You can do it in less, of course, especially if you’re opting for a simple-but-quickie, but if you’ve got the whole kit and caboodle in mind, complete with 400-tiered cake and a whole new set of better looking relatives (to ensure the photos look right) it’s probably best to get cracking as soon as you can.

12 Months to go – 5 starting points

Tell all of your family
You may want to go ahead and tell all of your friends first but it’s probably best to start with the family. You’re friends will understand that they weren’t the first to know – you’re parents won’t. Families are surprisingly good at  bearing grudges, and a surly set of relatives could well mar your wedding  shots.

Don’t start picking bridesmaids and ushers
Try to avoid making decisions about bridesmaids and groomsmen in the initial period of excitement. I made this mistake and I had 6 bridesmaids and 4 groomsmen, which may have been lovely and all that, but wasn’t great for the budget. Besides, after 12 months you may find you no longer like Susan in accounts as much as you thought you did.

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Web wedding

Guests spread far and wide? Don’t fancy buying enough stamps to wallpaper your living room? The answer is only a click away. Register a domain name with Easily.co.uk and they’ll throw in a 10 page website. To qualify for the discounted rate of £39 (normally £50) enter the code ‘WEDDING’ when you apply for a webstarter package.

The templates are already there or customise it if you a dab hand at html. Upload your ceremony details, gift lists, snaps… whatever you fancy and it’s there for all the world to see. Have a look at this example to see what yours could look like.

Gifts galore

If you’re setting up a home as well as getting married, the gift registry is all your birthdays and Christmases come at once. One of the easiest sites we’ve come across is Wrap it Start off by signing up for a snail mailed handbook to guide you through (say you saw it here!) then unleash yourselves on the beautiful home wares for your kind guests to have delivered to you.

The choice isn’t overwhelming but by no means is it limited either with plenty for all tastes and pockets. The site gets top marks for easy navigation. For more cute toaster cards like the one on the left visit Toaster Greeting Cards