Here on the blog, as well as showing you the best real weddings and filling your day with lots of gorgeous wedding pretty and inspiration, we are also interested in giving you good solid wedding planning advice.

Wedding Panning is fun, but it can also be hard and stressful if you don’t go into it with all the facts. I know this first hand from planning my own wedding, to my time as a wedding planner. So before you go headfirst into planning your dream day, stop, take stock and read these 12 steps to wedding planning, courtesy of our resident wedding planning experts Carmela Weddings. I promise you, with this advice you can’t go wrong!

photo by auren Oliver – full wedding here
I’ll pass you over to Sam from Carmela Weddings Congratulations!! Your cheeks are aching from the perma-smile plastered on your face and you have ?selfie wrist? from never ending ring shots.

So what next" What seemed like the most perfect thing in the world is now starting to develop a slightly stressy edge to it as the practicalities start to assemble in a less than orderly line in your head!

Don?t panic! Check out these 6 points for starters:

photo by Rose & Rainbow Photography – full wedding here
Set a date
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