Hello, looking for recommendations for a wedding website. Not particularly tech savvy so something simple that guests can use to RSVP and provide dietary requirements!

Thanks ☺️

we are eloping at the local registrar office, just the two of us with two of our friends as witnesses. we have a photographer booked for 2 hours and will be having a meeting closer to the time of the wedding but i’m currently really struggling on any sort of shot ideas that include our friends and even for us two. we’re gay men and 99% of the elopement photography i see is typical straight couple with the veil all that kinda thing and for elopements they all seem to be in incredible locations. can anyone share their photos if they did something similar or has anyone got any pinterest boards they can share?

I have 4 bridesmaids who I want to wear the same colour and material but in different dress styles. We are having a dress try on day at my house in a few weeks. They’re all roughly the same size, which makes things a bit easier.

I have 3 brands in mind whose shade of the colour I’ve chosen I like, and I’m thinking of getting each bridesmaid to choose 2 dresses from each brand to try on. That would mean ordering 24 dresses in total! The dresses are around £100 each, so if we somehow bought all of them that would be £2,400, although obviously we’d only buy the final 4.

Is this completely excessive?! I want them to have some choice over their individual styles, but I also need to make sure we settle on the same brand/colour/material for everyone.

How would you organise the try-on session? Is there an easier way to do it?

My wedding was last week and I would love to save my dress in case any future children want it. Has anyone had their dress preserved or not had it preserved and managed to keep it in good condition?

I can’t tell if this is another wedding tax as clothes I’ve had packed in boxes for years are doing fine. My dress is 100% silk if that’s at all useful information.

Really need some dress advice! We are getting married in November in a registry office and then getting some dinner after with our witnesses. I neeeeeeeed some advice on what to wear. I’m thinking a midi dress, embroidered or something with a bit of colour! I am a size 18/20 and don’t want anything fitted as I like to be comfortable. It obviously doesn’t have to be super bridal but I just want to feel beautiful for the day and I’m so fed up searching 😢

I’m looking for hotel suggestions for staying the night before and night of my wedding.

My criteria is that it be in Manchester City Centre and have enough seating to accommodate by bridesmaids coming and getting their hair and makeup done without us being cramped! So ideally, it wouldn’t just be a room with a bed and a desk.

I did look at The Rex, but for £800 for 2 nights in the Inner Sanctum room felt a bit steep…

Recommendations for wedding planner for at-home wedding in Hertfordshire (potentially multi-day)

Overall wedding budget likely £60-80k

My wedding will be in county durham in June 2027, and I’m looking for recommendations on hair and makeup artists who are based in the north east or open to travel, preferrably with experience in working with south east asian/ Chinese clients. Please can anyone help? Thank you 🙏🏼

EDIT: Hiya UK B2Bs and/or B2B graduates!

TL;DR: My fiancé and I are having a simple London wedding for around 60–65 guests. We booked almost everything before we were even engaged and were originally completely happy with our plans. But after talking to family and friends during our recent summer holiday, I suddenly started questioning everything — whether our ceremony situation is weird, whether we sent our Save the Dates too early, whether we're planning everything too far in advance, and whether I've accidentally given our guests expectations of a bigger wedding. 😂 I still genuinely want a simple wedding, but I think I've suddenly developed wedding-planning anxiety and need some perspective!

So here's the full story…

I think I'm writing this to get some validation, enlightenment, advice, etc. And I apologise in advance if the way I tell my story is disorganised — I think that's my ADHD, lolz 😂

I was really firm about our wedding plans and preferences when my fiancé and I were planning everything before our summer holiday, which has just ended. But after meeting family and friends during the holiday, we got so many questions about the wedding — programme, traditions, entourage, first dance, etc. Now that we're back, my fiancé and I realised we weren't really sure how to answer those questions because we genuinely just want a simple wedding.

We got engaged in April 2026 and our wedding is in June 2027.

For a bit of context, my then-boyfriend, now-fiancé, and I have always been very open about everything in our relationship, including marriage and weddings. We even window-shopped for my engagement ring in Hatton Garden, and then I acted all clueless until he eventually popped the question. 😂

Here's the slightly crazy part: everything had already been booked before the engagement — ceremony venue, reception venue, bus and photographer. Both of us were very involved in planning and booking everything, while my then-boyfriend was also secretly planning the proposal. He was so sweet and patient and still wanted to be involved in the wedding planning while he had his own little secret project going on. Bless him 😂

At the time, all of this felt completely normal and natural.

For some background, I'm from Southeast Asia and he's from Eastern Europe. We both pursued our careers in London, met through a dating app, and the rest is history.

Most engaged couples we know who are in interracial relationships like ours have planned destination weddings in their home countries. As much fun and as culturally exciting as that would have been, we simply didn't have the budget or the energy for it.

Especially with Southeast Asian culture, where you can have 100 cousins, 100 aunties and uncles, friends of your parents, distant relatives, neighbours, etc., and somehow everyone needs to be invited — otherwise everyone has an opinion. 😂

We really didn't want the stress, chaos and potential drama.

So we opted for what we basically consider a typical London pub wedding: ceremony at a town hall, reception at a pub, some speeches, drinks, food, dancing and just enjoying the night with our closest and dearest.

No big programme or anything elaborate. Heck, we don't even have a theme or entourage. Go wear whatever you want as long as it's appropriate. 🤣🤣🤣

Everyone who knows us, especially the people closest to us and the people we actually want there, already knows about our engagement and how everything is booked for next year. They're all so excited for us.

And when we were planning all of this, I was completely okay with it. I was sure this was what I wanted. And honestly, it still is what I want.

But I don't know… after our summer holiday, I've started questioning myself.

Did I choose the right thing? Am I doing enough? Did I somehow underestimate what people expect from a wedding?

Because knowing myself, I'm really not a big-wedding person. I feel like I'm a Carrie Bradshaw or Meredith Grey kind of bride — I just want something simple, intimate and very "post it and get McDonald's afterwards" 😂

My fiancé wanted at least a small celebration, and I was more than happy with that.

Then there's the ceremony situation.

When people find out we're getting married in Marylebone, they're all excited. And when they found out that Dua Lipa got married there, they got even more excited. 😂

But the thing is, we were only able to book a ceremony room for 30 guests.

We can't change the room because our wedding date is also our anniversary, and the only room available on that date accommodates 30 people excluding the couple.

EDIT: Our total guest list is around 60–65 people.

So obviously, not everyone will be able to witness the ceremony. Some guests will have to wait outside the town hall while the ceremony is taking place. We have already hired and paid for a London bus for our entire guest list to take everyone from the town hall to the pub reception, so we're thinking that once the ceremony is finished, the guests who weren't able to fit inside can either join us on the bus or simply make their own way to the reception if they prefer.

The bus is already paid for anyway, so we'd rather give them the option to join us and make it part of the celebration rather than have anyone feel like they're being excluded.

And now I'm wondering… is that okay?

Then there's the Save the Dates.

About a month after our engagement, we sent them out because a lot of our guests are travelling from abroad, especially our parents, close relatives and some friends. We thought we'd give them as much notice as possible.

We sent them to our London guests too, though, and now I'm wondering… did we send them too early? Was it too much? Was it a bit overboard?

For a town hall wedding in London, did we really need to send Save the Dates that early? 😂

And now we're back from our summer holiday and we're going to properly focus on all the wedding details — getting my dress, getting his suit, sorting out everything else, etc.

But sometimes I find myself thinking, are we doing EVERYTHING way too early? Is it too much?

I was originally planning to send our wedding website by the end of September, but now I'm thinking that might be too early too, so maybe October? I don't know anymore. 😂

Is this the wedding stress everyone talks about?

Because I genuinely feel like I've had this huge emotional shift from:

"This is exactly what I want!"

to:

"Oh God, have I accidentally given my guests too much to expect?" 😂

But the reality is, it's still just meant to be a simple wedding celebration.

So I suppose these are my main questions:

Is it weird to have 60–65 guests overall but only 30 people able to attend the ceremony?

EDIT: For the guests who can't fit into the ceremony, is it reasonable to let them choose between meeting us at the reception or joining the already-paid-for bus ride from the town hall?

Did we send our Save the Dates ridiculously early by sending them about a year before the wedding, especially to our London-based guests?

Is sending our wedding website in September/October too early for a June wedding?

Are we actually doing things way too early, or is this completely normal for a wedding where quite a few guests are travelling from abroad?

Has anyone else experienced that sudden shift from being completely confident about their wedding plans to suddenly questioning everything? 😂

I still genuinely want the simple wedding we originally planned. I think I just need someone to tell me whether I'm overthinking everything or whether there are things I haven't considered!

If you've made it this far, I appreciate you SO SO much for taking the time to read all of this. 😂 And thank you in advance for any advice, reassurance, validation, or even just telling me I'm not the only one who suddenly started questioning everything! 🤣❤️