Wedding ideas & inspiration

Your wedding ceremony should be a reflection of you — fun, unique, and anything but cheesy.

But it can be hard to find a reading that fits your day and your relationship. Classical poems often feel stuffy and outdated, like homework assignments. But we've got some suggestions for modern poems that fit modern relationships.

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What does 'on-the-day wedding stationery' mean?

You come across a lot of jargon when you're planning a wedding.

People bang on about wedding breakfasts when they mean dinner, favours when they mean gifts, and cummerbunds which… who even knows what that means?

But on-the-day stationery is one of the worst offenders; you know what on-the-day means, you understand what stationery is, but together it's utterly nonsensical.

Are you giving everyone wedding-themed pencil cases? Or tiny notepads with the date on them, like hotels keep by the phone?!

It's not quite that sensible. On-the-day wedding stationery refers to signs and paper pieces used at the wedding itself, as opposed to save the date cards and invitations, which are needed before, and thank you cards, which are sent after.

Things like…

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Wedding planning is full of shoulds, and we are very anti-should, pro-want.

This means we vehemently believe that couples should have a unique wedding day that's about them, rather than a checklist full of patriarchal things you 'need for your wedding' and dated activities that don’t resonate.

However, on the flipside, we're not here to tell you that you should totally get rid of all wedding traditions either. Thanks to their history, abandoning them entirely can leave you feeling like you're missing something — and besides, if they symbolise something important for you, why should you miss out?

With that in mind, we thought we'd share some of our favourite ways to take old wedding traditions and make them your own.

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Postponing your wedding sucks.

Having to wait even longer for a day you've been nervously and excitedly anticipating for ages is no fun. But that doesn't mean your wedding date needs to suck too.

There are a few different things you can do to mark the original date, so you can still enjoy the day and keep it special. Here are our favourite wedding postponement plans…

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Flower bouquets are a fantastic addition to your wedding; they let you work your colours and theme into your ceremony, they give you something to do with your hands in photos, and it's considered socially acceptable to chuck them at people.

We've looked at alternative bouquet ideas before, but floral hoop bouquets deserve their own special mention.

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The word ‘wedding’ conjures a fixed image for people, based on hundreds of years of tradition. A diamond ring. A white dress. A cringey disco.

But some of those ‘must-have’ wedding traditions aren’t even that traditional. (White dresses only got popular in 1840!) And they probably aren’t you, either.

Here’s the thing: your day should feel like your day. With the time, money, and effort you put into your wedding, you should have a day you love, that reflects you and your partner — not snobby etiquette writers from 1803.

It can be hard to feel you can push back on wedding traditions — especially when everyone from your in-laws to your dog walker keeps telling you you need to do this or you’ll regret not doing that.

But you don’t have to have anything at your wedding that you don’t love. Really.

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