My go-to wedding sites…

Whenever I hear of an engagement, I bubble and shimmy with excitement at the planning and choosing and sifting and designing fun that awaits the happy couple. My first port of call is usually to send a congratulations card…

My second port of call is to send, usually the bride, a hop-skippy-happy email brim full of annoying enthusiasm and links for them to explore.

It occurred to me that those types of links may be useful to people who happen upon this blog…

And so…

• Indie Bride Original Wedding Reading Repository – absolutely the best (and seemingly never-ending) list of suggestions of interesting, unusual, intriuging and wonderfully under-used readings that may just suit a quirky element in you. We certainly found our reading here – Union by Robert Fulgham
• Etsy weddings – the best and most varied selection of handmade and individual EVERYTHING including cake toppers, accessories, dresses, buttonholes, favours and everything else in between
• Duo Boots for larger shoes – being a ‘lady of height’ I have been delighted with the range of styles and sizes available at Duo. For some reason, a lot of my friends are tall… Therefore this is relevant…!
• brides.com for good ideas and images on every aspect
• The Wedding Planning Timetable – the best and most useful piece of planning equipment to have in your arsenal… A working-backwards-by-category planner that enables you to organise your panic into manageable chunks! In all seriousness, this was an absolute godsend: I was able to control my worries about different aspects by seeing at a glance when things had to happen by, and thus, what my next task would be… INVALUABLE to the organisational brides out there…
• VV Rouleaux for flowers, ribbons, haberdashery and elegant means to create your day in your own way. I managed to attend a sample warehouse sale to purchase the hair flowers and wired ribbon for wrapping our thank-you presents.
• Wedding flowers in season – handy for convincing you that peonies in December may not be such a good idea…

There are many thousand and thousand and million sites out there and certainly the wonderful wonderful internet continues to inspire and enrage me in equal measure on a daily, if not hourly, basis.

However, it is very easy to agree that weddings, and in particular, our little Countryside Wedding, would have been a completely different affair without the wonders of the world wide web. From shipping in the silk from Hong Kong, the reproduction print cotton from the US and the smorgasbord of ideas from SMP, TBC and many many others, happy surfing and happy planning!