In late July, I attended my brother’s sister-in-law’s ‘mainstream’ wedding reception. As my family and her family are now a big family (since my brother married her older sister), her mother asked my stepmom and I to dress alike in kebayas—Indonesian typical ‘formal’ dress for women (she even gave us the fabric for the dress)—for [...]
Plenty of things (that, in point of fact, includes conflicts and its relatives) got in the way, so in a negative way to say: we don’t undergo too much progress in our wedding planning and preparations so far.
At least in early July we had the ‘official’ marriage-proposal from Mr. Husband-to-be’s family. Well, he did propose [...]
One day back in April, a couple of months after that eventful day my partner and I decided to get married, I found myself bidding on a pink vintage dress on Ebay to wear at a friend’s wedding.
A bit broke and stuck for ideas, E-bay was really a last resort. Despite being a fervent charity [...]
Apparently the ubiquitous ‘credit crunch’ could be affecting our desire to get married.
The Observer observed at the weekend - under the heading ‘We know it’s cheap…but we love it anyway’ - that ‘Living in sin’ was on the up, being:
“Much more chic - and credit-crunch friendly - than dull ol’ marriage”
As you would expect, I [...]
Well, it’s only a few weeks till the big day, and I’m searching the web for the last few bits and pieces. At the moment I’m looking on ebay for some white umbrellas – it seems that a lot of people sell their white umbrellas on ebay after the wedding, having never taken them out [...]
We are delighted to announce that the winners of our Sally Steele Weddings’ DIY wedding planning DVD competition from our March Ethical Weddings newsletter are Ruthe & Jonathan who are getting married in Galway, Ireland next May 2009.
As they’ll be wedding planning from a distance (living in England but marrying in Ireland), the DVD should come in [...]
We’ve had a rather interesting press request from The Press Association about weddings on an extreme budget…
I’m intrigued to know if any of you fit the bill - cos I’ll then want to pick your brains to find out how you did it!
They’re looking for women aged between 20 to 50 who celebrated their big [...]