Discussions from Plan a wedding

We have a zoom meeting today with our DJ, just curious what your questions are that you had asked your DJ to figure out which one was the right one for the special day! We have a few questions at the...

I’ve been looking on Etsy to get my bouquet preserved, ideally I’d like it in a frame and then maybe some coasters. I’m hoping to find something in Canada but I couldn’t find too many shops that to do...

I met with my dream venue on Friday, and she said the two options for the ceremony and photos in the garden would be 11am-2pm and 2pm-5pm. I was leaning towards an 11:30am ceremony anyways - guests...

Hi! I am looking for ways to cut costs for our wedding. I have a specific vision in mind and although it will not be to expensive, I was wondering what would be the best option! My venue has beautiful...

Any suggestion on what I should have while getting ready?

I was wondering if $20K CAD is enough to have a wedding at a Sandals resort. We want to host about 20-25 guests with a reception, decor, and honeymoon at the same resort.

Good morning everyone, I thought I would share this with you all as I checked weddingwire this morning to see my fiance and I hit 99 days until the wedding! Can't believe it. I remember it being way...

I will be sending out E-vites and I planned to send them out on May 31st for my Jul 31st wedding with an RSVP for June 11th. I thought 1 week time to RSVP should be sufficient since my guest received...

Hey everyone! So I have a dilemma, my sister in law to be wants to have both her kids (one that doesn’t exist yet) and one we already have for a flower girl for our wedding and it got me so stressed...

Hi everyone, I’m interested to hear what everyone is doing in terms of tipping! I have hired a MUA and hair stylist (two separate professionals) who own their own businesses so the $ is 100%...

Hi ladies, I’m working on our invitation for our August 5th, 2022 wedding. Is it too early to send e-invitation?We also want to ask our guests for cash gifts instead gift. Is it rude to ask it in...

How far in advanced do you book a block of rooms? Invites will be sent in May/June as wedding is in Oct. So don't even know the numbers as of yet. Just affriad what the room availability will be as...

Is "_ seats have been reserved in your honor" a polite way to mention that there is limited seating available. My worry is with cultural differences when I send out our wedding invitations, some of...

Hi All - Has anyone ever used Something Borrowed Blooms? It is an online vendor that does silk flowers from the US. They do ship to Canada and the arrangements look nice (they offer the option to view...

Our venue provides a plated dessert as part of our package. We are on the fence about also getting cupcakes. Is it too much? Will there be lots of leftovers if you do both? We are having about 130...

Hey everyone ! Needing extra opinions on previous brides or brides getting married soon. So I’m in the hair industry, and I know how tipping works usually. I’m very stumped on tipping photographer and...

Instead of feeling overjoyed and excited about my engagement over Christmas, the reality of planning a wedding has hit me. My partner and I come from families where homelessness and poverty are...

Did you cut things out , are you repurposing items? What’s are the types of ways you saved money for your wedding? I personally cut out boutonnières. I’m reusing my ceremony flowers in the reception!...

Hello, My wedding is this August (5th). I was hoping to send out my formal invitations early April and ask for RSVPs by May 9th (hopefully giving guests 4 weeks to respond). I already sent out Save...

Hello everyone, I have a dilemma on my hands. I found a cake baker that does beautiful decorating of custom cakes and gave me a very reasonable quote for my two-tier wedding cake. I ordered a half a...

We've just started researching our wedding options so I've been looking at a bit of everything. A lot of venues seem really expensive, and I'm torn if we really want to spend $25k plus (25...

Has anyone eloped with your spouse then decided to do a big reception ? We love the idea of doing our ceremony just us and a few close ppl as we are a more shy intimate couple . But we love a good...

I am looking for a place to host my wedding that will allow me to bring in our own food and not have to pay a ton of money for their food. We are having a low budget wedding due to us struggling a...

My FH and I have taken envelopes and written from the number 2 to the number 200 (even numbers only) on each envelope and every week we each pick an envelope (two envelopes a week) and put the amount...

I've been trying to find the venue for our wedding, it will be in July 2023 so I'd like to secure a place soon since that is in peak wedding season. I found a place that looked perfect, fit our budget...

The venues we've looked at so far are in the $250-310 per head range. This includes the venue fee, food, chairs, tables, linens + for some of the venues the DJ and wedding event planner. Is...

Hi everyone. i want to know some thoughts on a videographer for my wedding. i’m having a hard time on deciding if i want to spend the $2000-$3000 on a 5 minuet video of the wedding day.

Hi everyone, I am having trouble with my hall for my May wedding. We initially signed the contract in 2019 for October 2020 and postponed it to May. The hall is refusing to give the refund and says...

Hey everyone! My fiancé and I are both vegan and are planning on serving a vegan menu at the wedding (main reason is that we have a caterer we love and she only makes vegan food!) With that being...

Hi everyone! I am fairly new to this community and I only found out about this discussion section today! I Love how supportive everyone is!! It is so great to see . Hoping to get your opinions on my...

Its for a micro wedding of 14 ppl in total.

For those of you that hired a wedding planner, how did you thank them at the end? Flowers, tip, gift?