Sit down and think of budget and if you would prefer a church wedding or having it in a hotel, castle, registry office etc.
Once your venue is booked and your date is set everything else should fall into place.

What are you thoughts?? xx

Hello and welcome Terri :) I was like that when we first decided to get married, had no ideas what so ever about weddings!!!!! Then joined this site and got lots and lots of help and ideas. Sat down with h2b and spoke about what we both liked and didn't like ect..... got myself a folder and started looking on the internet for ideas, putting all these ideas and help into my folder!!!!

You will be fine and like Kirsty said above, once you've decided the church/venue and budget everything else because easier, honestly it does :)

Good luck with all the planning xxx

i am so glad im not the only one! we think we have a venue but until we have that sorted it is hard to try and think of anything else! i am just glad i have a while to think about it and get it all sorted because theres no way i could do this in a year! i feel totally overwhelmed and im so terrible and making decisions and planning, all can think at the moment is that its just not going to come together!!
thats my little freak out over fopr now lol but i just wanted you to know that you arent alone and i am sure we arent the first to feel like this! gimme a shout if you need to de stress or chat about anything, might help us both lol

hiya and welcome defo sit down and see what budget you are planning on and what type of ceremony too xx

terri i would say after working out your budget i would make a rough guest list so that u know roughly what sort of size u is going to need for your venue, after all u dont want something massive if u having a small do, and vice versa xx

sit down with H2B and set a budget and write a guest list, then you can look for a venue that will accomendate your numbers and withing your budget. there are lots of websites and magizines that have time plans to help give you a idea what should be booked and roughly by when. happy planning.xxxx

The first thing we did was choose a date, because that is really kind of arbitrary but it has a huge impact on the wedding because it determines how much time you have to plan and save.

Then I downloaded an excel template budget that I found using google that had all the important categories set out already, and started filling in rough numbers to get an idea of budget. Then I did an overhaul of our finances to see how much we could afford to save before the wedding date and compared that number with the total budget! Simples! I opened a new savings account and set up a standing order for a monthly amount.

Then I put things in the order that they need dealt with, as some things need done far in advance - we booked the church, venue and photographer as soon as possible, and you also should think about booking a band or DJ ahead of time if you are having one. Caterers too if you are having them.

After that I opened up a powerpoint presentation file and started sticking in random pictures off the internet of stuff I like or fancy to build up a scrapbook of ideas, and I'm getting things as I go along from the money in the savings account.

Hope this helps!