Weddingbee Blog

With all the wedding magazines and books I read, I’ve come across a lot of different pieces of advice to help when planning for the big day.

However as I’ve heard from everyone who has been married, despite all the planning, some things are just guaranteed to change so, instead of being upset that everything is not a 100 per cent duplicate of the picture you had in your head, the best thing to do is to pick three things that are important to you and focus on putting your energy into those aspects.

Although I like to think of myself as a pretty roll-with-the-punches kind of gal when it comes to wedding stuff, I know that I do tend to stress out sometimes when I feel overloaded, so I am embracing this “Top Three” idea and focusing on:

1) The dress - I want something that’s my style (perhaps with a splash of colour?) and that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. I don’t think that I could in good conscience drop $2,000 on a dress, knowing I would never wear it again.

2) The music - Work on the playlist has begun and I am obsessed. Mr. Hummingbird is now catching musical fever and has come up with a few awesome ideas himself (I’ll write about them in a post later this week!).

3) The food - I cannot tell you how many weddings/formal events have I been to where I’ve had to eat mystery meat. It’s usually bland, encased in some sort of gravy cocoon and the temperature is usually just about thawed. This used to not bother me so much but since Mr. Hummingbird and I have been together, he’s encouraged me to expand my culinary horizons (his mum grew up in South America so he’s a major fan of spicy) and now I want to be sure that, when we get married, our guests enjoy a rich and flavourful meal.

I’ve got to say, now that I’ve got my priorities in check, I’m really excited to get cracking.

So what about you ladies? What would you say your “Top Three” priorities are?