hi sidsgirl, lots of things on this site that will help you out with your wedding, lots of funny stories to make you laugh when you think your at the end of your tether and plenty of really nice girls who will give you honest opinions :-)

start at the beginning with getting dates together, venue hunting, and check out all the lovely dresses :-)

this time next year you be saying where did the year go and the answer will be 'making lots of friends on here' x x x

good luck with all the planning xxx

Welcome & congrats!
If you use the search button in the forum there's a thread called "Brides checklist, where to start etc" which should help! :) Xx

Congrats & welcome!
The first thing I did was get an idea of our budget then started searching for venues :) x

Hello, welcome and congrats.
H2b and I started with deciding number of definate guests, that was our jump off point so we knew roughly what size venue we were after. We then wrote out a list of definate requirements that we had for that venue. We knew from day 1 that we wanted a hog roast for example, so knew that we needed outdoor space. We knew that we had children so that outdoor space would need to be safe and not open to any main roads etc...
We knew that there would be a lot of motorbikes so we would need space to park them, and that h2b didnt want it to be a temptation for people walking off the street to be drawn to all the bikes and come causing trouble, so we needed something out of the way.
We also looked at our calenders to get an idea of what dates we would like.
And so with some asking around and some google searches we found our venues that met our list of requirements.
Then we set our date..... once date was set and venue was booked we started designing our save the dates and invites.
We were lucky and knew our colour scheme, we are using h2b's clubs colours so we were able toset straight to planning around that, but obviously you would need to decide on your colours.

Then really it all seemed to gradually fall into place. Luckily h2b and I are very similar so there has been no major clashes over what we want so it has all gone pretty smoothly. I think it is important for a couple to sit down and decide what they have to have, what they would like and what they could do without.... and if your not in agreement then agree to a fair compromise. With that you can then consider your budget.
I picked up wedding magaznes and cut out the bride checklist page so that we could pin it to the board in our kitchen and tick things off along the way, this made me relax knowing that everything was on track and under conrtol.
I also created a spreadsheet with h2bs help, where we keep track of what we have to do, when we are doing it, what needs paying etc.... as we have gone along we have highlighted things green once they are done, and i have a couple of things highlighted red to indicate they need doing asap, this isnt for everyone, but for us it has helped hugely.
Most importantly, enjoy it! Happy planning.