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Bridal Code of Conduct…do you need one?

by Aleisha February 4, 2017
written by Aleisha

By Bridechilla Allison
There’s been a lot of discussion on the podcast recently about bridesmaids, and I know that many bridechillas are having difficulty choosing their bridal parties or have horror stories about their bridesmaids being really terrible.
Any time relationships and communication come into play, there’s a potential for drama. Weddings are rife with stress, and any time emotions come out the claws can too. But I wanted to share my bridal party story with you because I think that some careful planning and consideration (and avoiding obligations at all costs!) can help make sure that on your wedding day you’re surrounded by people who really want to be there and who really support you.

A lot of us have a friend we’ve known since childhood who we’ve thought about having in our wedding since before that wedding was on the horizon. For me that’s my best friend. We’ve been friends since 4th grade, and we’re extremely close. I couldn’t imagine choosing anyone else as my lady of honor. But I’ve also been a bridesmaid a couple of times. And in both of those weddings, the maid of honor was the bride’s oldest friend, but not necessarily her best friend anymore. I think it’s totally natural to get swept up in the happiness and nostalgia that accompanies a wedding, but when you’re oldest friend lives far away (out of state in the case of my friend’s friends) and is totally consumed in her own life—there’s a big chance that it’s going to be hard for her to step up as maid of honor.
One of the maids of honor really ended up hurting my friend’s feelings and made her wedding just a little less happy and special than it could have been. Sometimes you choose this person anyway—if she’s really your best friend there’s no problem with that—but I think you have to be really open about your expectations. For instance, my bridesmaid (she hates this title and she’s choosing her own) lives all the way across the country in Washington DC. I knew that she probably wouldn’t be able to fly back for every party/event. But I did know that she was invested in being a part of celebrations and that she wanted to be involved in whatever way she could be. I knew when I asked her there was a chance she wasn’t going to be able to participate, and I had to be okay with that and give her the choice. However, she’s amazing and she told me in no uncertain terms that of course she was going to be involved.

I think that people will tend to step up and do what you need from them if you
a) make sure that they’re normally people who have your back,
and
b) you tell them what exactly it is you need from them.
A lot of bridesmaid drama comes from lack of communication—it’s a tough role to be at someone’s beck and call and not know what you need to do.
Your bridesmaids can’t read your mind, and it can’t just be your lady of honor who does all the communicating with the group. Not that you want to make demands—you want to have an open conversation.
When I asked everyone in the bridal party to stand up with me, I wrote each of them a letter talking about how important they are to me, and some of my favorite memories. I also included a Bridal Code of Conduct I wanted to be held to and wrote what I knew I needed from each of them: crafting help from the crafty lady of honor, someone to vent to from my bridesmaid who is the best listener, and someone in my corner from my bridesman (bridesdude?).
I talked about what kinds of parties there were going to be, what their individual duties might be, and I asked them to keep me on the straight and narrow.

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Choosing my third attendant was definitely the toughest part of the process. I really didn’t want to have more than three people standing up with me (just too many people to organize), so I had a dilemma on my hands. I could choose one of my fiancé’s sisters, but he has four of them, and I didn’t want to alienate any of them by making a choice between them. I could choose from one of my close group of friends, but there are three of them, and again I didn’t want there to be hurt feelings. So I decided to have my brother stand up with me. Originally the plan was for him to be a part of my fiancé’s side of things, but having my brother with me allowed my fiancé to have all four of his brothers stand up with him (uneven bridal parties really don’t bother us).
Having my brother as a bridesguy was an awesome decision. Yes, it makes some things more difficult, but I like being challenged to think about the “normal” way things are done and to question tradition.
We have to rethink the procession situation, but my bridesmaid doesn’t think she should have to be supported by one of the guys anyway, and I think she’s right.If you do have a bridesman, I think it’s really important to tend to their feelings. If anyone made my brother upset or uncomfortable there would be one angry sister up in someone’s business! My brother is going to participate in my shower, but he’s going to the bachelor party instead of the bachelorette party (whatever that ends up being. No one will tell me anything…).

I think it’s just all about having open lines of communication and respecting everyone’s feelings. As far as clothes go, since there are only two ladies in dresses (my brother is wearing a black suit like the rest of the guys), I asked them both to pick a knee-length black dress. I know they’ll both look great, and they’ll get to pick a dress that they can work into their budding professional wardrobes—everyone needs a little black dress. Not worrying about what they’re going to wear takes so much stress out of my life, and I know they’ll feel and look best in something that looks like them. I trust their taste and know they’ll pick something beautiful. They can wear any shoe they please and do their hair any way they like—I just want them to feel like themselves.I love my untraditional bridal party, and I’m really happy that they’re the ones that will be standing up with me. I think that challenging the standard way of doing things is great. When it comes to bridal parties, I’m all for throwing “have to” out the window and choosing the people you want.

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February 4, 2017
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Escape from the Wedding Planning Slump

by Aleisha January 31, 2017
written by Aleisha

By Bridechilla Michelle

After I got engaged, I told myself I was going to take the planning slow, have a super long engagement (since Ryan and I are only 23 and what’s the rush, right?) and not go crazy… Which I did... for about two weeks. Then I suddenly and without warning fell into a wedding planning black hole and started doing EVERYTHING.

I started using wedding wire to look at venues, pinning with a vigour I could not have previously imagined, becoming obsessed with vineyards, binging Bridechilla at work… and within about three days, I realized that this was going to cost way more than I thought a “reasonable” price would be. So I slowed down… a little. I still locked down my bridesmaids, wrote ALL THE LISTS, made budgets, pinned and pinned, researched and researched, and was feeling pretty good about it.
Two months after getting engaged, we toured my number one venue, which was perfect and had a discount for holiday weekends, so we booked it. Now we had our date and venue, but needed all the other stuff – which again, is way more stuff than I previously thought about.
My wedding philosophy quickly became something like, “If you’re going to spend a lot of money, get your money’s worth. But preferably don’t spend a lot of money.”
We’re not on a shoestring budget, but I refuse to go into debt over this or spend too much of our parents’ and our money on one day.After the awesomeness of the venue, I was all revved up with wedding glee. Our guest list was reasonable and had almost no obligation guests, we were going to be able to bring our own alcohol, and I had a day of coordinator option within the venue. I was a master at this planning thing, and I and continued researching and contacting other vendors. Then came the trouble.Photographers quickly made me depressed. All the ones with beautiful pictures either didn’t list a price (which is ANNOYING) or listed a price of $5,000 or more. Now, I am a designer and artist, and I get it. But as a person contemplating spending actual money, I just… got the sadness. I started looking into other options like using student photographers who charge way less, but my heart wasn’t in it.Then my fiancé and I adopted a one-year-old dog, and I was happily distracted from all things wedding (except thinking how cute Diego would look in a matching bow tie to Ryan’s). When I finally resurfaced from blissful new doggie world and started trying to get back into wedding stuff, I just really… didn’t want to.

The caterers I contacted kept taking ages to return my inquiries and were usually lacking what I consider basic email politeness. When I finally got quotes, those quotes made me sad, too. There was always something off about each caterer, so I gave up on that for a while.Since realizing how much wedding dresses cost, I have avoided actually looking into them. The ones that look omg-gorgeous-pinning-it-right-now cost way more than I want to spend on anything ever. I became tired of the repeated cycle of:
1) see pretty dress,
2) picture self in dress,
3) locate price of dress,
4) cry inside,
5) stop looking at dresses for a while.

So now I tell myself that once I lose 5 pounds (I KNOW, THAT’S NOT VERY CHILLA OF ME, BUT I GET ONE CRAZY THING, OKAY!?) I’ll go to actual stores and start trying things on in person. The concept that I heard on the podcast about buying a white-ish high end bridesmaid dress instead of a 5x more expensive “wedding gown” is probably going to work out for me, so thank you to whoever gave that tip. I sort of want to start doing invitation stuff, but the whole concept of invitations has come to annoy me and my bridechilla brain.
We’re ten months out, so invites aren’t urgent yet, but it’s a holiday weekend so guests should book hotels sooner than normal.If I can just rant for a minute, why does society expect me to message my friends and family via contact information I actually have on them (phone, email, and facebook), get them to tell me their address so I can send them a piece of paper, then spend money printing that piece of paper and mailing it, and then print another one months later because somehow the first one wasn’t enough of an invitation, then force all my friends to go to the post office and mail me that paper back, and then hope the post office didn’t lose any papers and count up all the people. Why can’t I just send people a nice digital invite and digital means of RSVPing in that initial digital message that I send them!? Why is the wedding industry such a paper snob!? So, yeah, I’m not motivated to do that either.
My backlog of side projects for the near future keeps creeping up on me and saying, “remember that tattoo idea you had? And that novel concept? And Diego is going to need a winter coat next month, you’d better sew one right now. Don’t forget about that painting idea you had! And you should visit your grandma. Oh, look, NETFLIX!”

So I sort of find myself in this slump where I really don’t want to go through any planning stuff. I wish a magic fairy who works for free would just fall out of the sky and say, “here’s a friendly and affordable caterer, and I called that DJ you like and he’s cool too, and don’t worry about centerpieces because I totally have a plan, and here’s ten thousand more dollars on a special wedding-only card! Now you can just talk excitedly with your bridesmaids and look forward to the party.

Ryan’s been helpful and has some opinions, but he only really cares about 20% of the wedding planning. Neither of our moms has the urge to give more input into the wedding than, “yeah, what you said sounds good, and let’s get a lot of wine,” so I don’t have anyone prodding me to keep moving on these decisions. Even my glorious lists in my nice designated wedding notebook aren’t really exciting me anymore.So… what do I do? I’m actually asking. I can’t be the first bride who just got tired of the whole thing.Here’s my shortlist of possible solutions that I will try to get things moving again:
1. Write this post. Hopefully determined thought specifically about weddings will get me in the grove again. But I’m almost done writing and I don’t feel any magic sparks… so this may not have worked.
2. Diet and run with my little dog to lose those five pounds so my arms look like the arms I had last year, then visit a dress store (though not one that keeps using words like “boutique” and “chandeliers” because if I see too many huge price tags I’m just going to lose it). Hopefully my estrogen and girl brain will kick in and the prettiness will super charge me.
3. Suck it up and lock down one vendor. My likely photography prospect is a student photographer relative who is going to send me some pictures from the wedding she’s shooting this month, so if all looks well, I’ll make up a contract with her and that piece of the puzzle will be solved. Maybe checking another box off my lists will be satisfying enough to keep me going again.
4. Make the wedding website. This should be something my designer soul enjoys, so I’m hoping that the desire to have more information to put into the website will make me actually gather and secure that information.
5. Test out sangria/cocktail recipes (because fun!) for use as our signature drink… mainly just because we love sangria cocktails and I can sort of use the wedding as an excuse to feel fancy and creative by mixing lots of them in my tiny kitchen.… That’s all I’ve got.
Please, if you have been in a slump and escaped it or if you’re just a genius who has ideas on getting past the slump, tell me what they are! I’m stuck and a little sad. Weddings are hard.I hope this post delivers me with other bridechillas’ ideas to get un-stuck, and maybe makes other slumped brides feel better about their own non-wedding-motivation, because this is a lot of shit and I just want to take naps with my dog.

January 31, 2017
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241- Bridechilla Wedding Planning Q&A

by Aleisha December 22, 2016
written by Aleisha

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I LOVE Bridechilla Q&A Thursday, it's when the straight wedding talk hits it's peak and today you bring it with the questions and I bring it with the answers. ?

Bridechilla Amy from Calgary and her fiancé have been together for 5 years. Amy proposed to her boyfriend 6 months ago but now she's asking for our advice about how to motivate her fiancé to be interested and involved in the actual planning.

Bridechilla Halley shares an update on a previous question that she shared on Bridechilla Q&A about wedding photography on a budget.
Bridechilla Tatiana is dealing with grumpy vendors who have email response tude.
How does she get them to up their game? Should she call them on it or just move on?

Bridechilla Heather and her fiancé have had great success with pre-marital counselling and the book, the 5 Languages of Love. Heather would also like our help with some advice about renting a photobooth or DIY-ing photobooth.

December 22, 2016
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Four Wedding Gowns & My Budget’s Funeral

by Aleisha September 16, 2016
written by Aleisha

By Bridechilla Jenn

If the film rights to the story of my wedding planning were bought tomorrow, I’d highly recommend the title “Four wedding gowns & my budget’s funeral”.
Four wedding gowns?
Four wedding gowns.
Let me explain. Dress one and two were bought online as budget driven purchases. When I started my dress search about 8 months ago, we had yet to book a venue but I knew, or at least I thought I knew, what I wanted, and importantly what I didn’t want. Strapless, ballgown, fishtail, corset backs and anything ‘shiny’ were absolute no go’s for me. Nothing that made me look too bridal. So after a little Pinterest browsing I narrowed down the ‘look’ to dresses with long, lace sleeves and an open back. I wasn’t interested in any particular designers and had no wish to visit any bridal shops. I was a budget bride on a mission and as luck would have it, I found a dress that checked all the boxes and for just over £150? Bargain!
Blush coloured lace?
Why not! And so it arrived and I felt pretty good about my purchase.
But pretty soon the peachy tones began to bother me. It was pretty, but it didn’t really look like a wedding dress.

Enter dress two

One of Jenn's lucky four wedding gowns! 

Another online purchase, with long lace sleeves but this time in white and at £100, I was sold. My friends agreed. Great!
And still well within budget in spite of dress number one. Now at around this point, our wedding planning was getting into full swing. Our wedding venue had just been booked, I joined a wedding orientated Facebook group and for the first time started speaking to other brides, I had started browsing wedding blogs for ideas for colours and noting wedding supplier recommendations.
Over time through osmosis or cosmic intervention I had unintentionally opened up my mental browser to a whole host of wedding dress styles.
I think because I had closed down my dress criteria so early on, I had yet to explore any other options. Though I was pretty convinced that a ballgown would likely make my 5”3 frame appear as wide as I was tall. After a little Googling I began to realise if a dream dress happened to be designer, it could still work on a budget, if you knew where to look.

Let me tell you about sample sale dresses. I own two. I’ll get to that in a moment. But via the website Preloved I learnt about a sample sale of designer dresses in a nearby bridal store. Here was my first taste of real life wedding dress shopping; being offered champagne, literally being put on a pedestal…and it wasn’t that bad.

Here I found dress number three...

For an ex-sample it was in pristine condition. This dress was luxurious and just a little bit sexy. Bridal, but in an unexpected way. 

Now at this point I should of heeded the warnings to STOP LOOKING.
When you meet the man you’re going to marry and he asks you and you say yes, you do not keep swiping right. You delete the app altogether and move on. You’re done. Right? But my guilty pleasure after work was to continue to browse through the beautiful wedding dresses in the sales online, partly to reassure myself that I had made the right decision. Looking back, it was probably because I was having doubts that I had chosen the right dress - a surprisingly common occurrence after doing a little online soul searching on my bridal Facebook group.
So with no genuine intention of buying another dress I found myself at another bridal store sample sale. An acid test if you will. Purely to cleanse my system of wedding dresses and try on that ball gown and confirm that yes, they do make me look as wide as I am tall (I wasn’t wrong). What I didn’t expect was to get “that feeling” about a dress. A dress that had almost everything I said I didn’t want. That feely feeling that made the next 8 dresses (I have ninja changing skills when I need to) pale in comparison. Two more shop visits just to make sure, and that was that.

Welcome to the dress party number four…

What happened next? Well one and two have made several appearances on eBay. Three still hangs on the side of my wardrobe, it’s fate undecided. To sell or not to sell? Part of the reason I chose it was because it wasn’t so bridal that I thought with it shortened and dyed, it could pass for a beautiful evening dress to be worn again long after the
“I do’s”.
And now that we’ve relocated the wedding to Italy, a light, airy dress such as number three would be a blessing in the heat when it’s time to throw shapes on the dance floor. Although dress four is without doubt The Dress (and I no longer dress stalk the sample sales online by the way), dress four is big, four layers and a hooped skirt kind of big that would melt me into a puddle after a couple of minutes of vigorous dancing.
I wouldn’t be the first bride to wear two wedding dresses. And although my inner budget bride can stand there pointing out the obvious; realistically I can afford it and even with the cost of alterations factored in, my two dresses still come in less than the cost of one brand new designer gown.
But it’s all swings and roundabouts as they say.

Another one of Jenn's lucky four wedding gowns!

My friend recently got engaged and finds my story of the four wedding gowns amusing. A funny story for the grandkids it might be; there are still some pearls of wisdom to pass on to brides embarking on the dress hunt.
One.
Set your budget. Don’t go too extreme one way or the other and end up regretting your penny grabbing budget dress (or dresses) as I did.
Two.
Do a little research before hand. There are some good websites out there that are almost like catalogues of all the current seasons dresses with links to stockists. Knowledge is power!
Three.
Be open to trying on every kind of dress style, even that weird one with the tiers the shop assistant calls ‘the wild card’, you just never know. Wedding dress shopping is all about trial and error. Dress four has everything I told myself I didn't want.
Four. Designer dress on a budget? Absolutely do-able.
Sign up to the Instagram accounts, Facebook groups and mailing list of designers and local bridal stores to catch the sample sale alerts. Utilise preloved, second hand whatever you want to call it websites to find gowns at a fraction of the original price.This applies to accessories too (my ex-display bridal designer shoes came in at almost 80% off).
And lastly, don’t be afraid of the B word. Bridal.

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Bridechilla Jenn is a  London based Doctor lucky groom who is marrying Art (short for Artem, short for Artemis - he's part Greek), in Italy, just outside Florence next July. Read more about their planning process here. 

September 16, 2016
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Assembling Your #Squad

by Aleisha August 30, 2016
written by Aleisha

BRIDECHILLA GRADUATE ERICA KNOWS THAT CHOOSING YOUR BRIDAL PARTY IS TRICKY BUSINESS!

Erica Greenwold Reisen is a recently married person who also plans weddings, makes crafts, and writes about wedding things at her website, www.folieadeuxevents.com. You can find her on Instagram @folie.a.deux.nc, Facebook, and Patreon.

I’ve been a bridesmaid twice, once for my sister and once for a friend who is practically a sister. I’ve also been the friend who spent weekends crafting, made dresses, went gown shopping, etc... without the matching dress or my name in a program. I love weddings so much that I am always offering to help whenever a friend is getting hitched! My stint as a bridesmaid and informal wedding assistant is how I got interested in Wedding Planning as a profession.Bridesmaids/Groomsmen can be so helpful while you are planning a wedding. They are (hopefully) your best mates and will be honest and have your back when shit inevitably gets hard, because it totally will.
Choosing a bridal party becomes more complicated as you get older and your friends are spread around the country.
Who do you pick? Your childhood BFFs? Your college roommates? Siblings and cousins? Local pals you play trivia with every Tuesday? All of them? This is how you end up with bridal parties with 10 girls and 10 guys lined up on either side of the couple!

I had my super amazing, Type-A sister as my Maid of Honor and that was it. Plus this saved my lady-friends some serious coin as most of them were traveling from out of state. My husband chose one of his two best friends to be Best Man at our wedding, and the other acted as a witness at our legal ceremony a few months earlier (more on that in another post!).This is clearly not the route many people want to go.

Since moving to North Carolina, every wedding I have attended has had 6+ Bridesmaids/Groomsmen with the exception of one that had no bridal party at all. For most people, they have spent their whole life dreaming of their wedding and their bridal party is an integral part of that dream.So let’s get back to the question of how to choose your bridal party. These are the people who need to always have your back, tell you the truth even when it’s hard, walk you back from the edge when your relatives are driving you mad. They need to be 100% on board in support of your relationship with your partner. And I think most importantly they need to BE THERE.

Being there may not mean physically always there, because like I said before, as we get older, people spread out around the country and world. No, when I say they need to be there, I mean they need to be actively involved in and excited for your wedding. Distance may preclude dress-shopping trips together, but Skype is free and shared Pinterest boards are awesome.

The story is that bridesmaids were originally meant to be decoys to distract and confuse demons who might want to curse the bride on her wedding day. Today, we dress our ladies (and gents) in matching outfits and line them up behind us to bear witness to our nuptials, all the while suffering in uncomfortable shoes, in front of 100+ people.

Being a bridesmaid has taken on an odd cultural significance as well.“Always the bridesmaid, never the bride,”as the saying goes, shames women simply for having a bunch of close friends who happened to get hitched before she did! So beyond the hot pink matching dresses and demon distraction, what is the Bridal Party actually for?

There are traditional responsibilities assigned to the Maid of Honor and Best Man, such as acting as the official witnesses to the marriage and planning the bachelor and bachelorette shindigs. Additionally, the Maid of Honor and Best Man can be your go-to people when you need to start delegating organizational tasks or managing meddling family members. What about the rest of the bridal party? Their job is to help you however they can and be there to support you and your partner every step of the way. These days, they should also be handy with a glue gun and experts at making DIY glitter-dipped wine bottle centerpieces.

As Bridechillas & Groomchillas we know that we should do our best to avoid inviting obligation guests, but what about obligation bridesmaids/groomsmen?
Maybe you told someone way back that you would totally be each other’s bridesmaids but now you barely talk? Or maybe you were a friend’s bridesmaid when they got married but now your relationship has changed? Family can be tough too. Maybe your Aunt expects you to put Cousin Kelly in your bridal party even though you only ever talk at family reunions and she is 6 years your junior.

At the end of the day, it is your wedding and you and your partner should be the ones who decide who you want to represent you as a couple and who will support you completely for your wedding and beyond into your marriage.

No matter what you decide re: the matching garments, your best friends will be there for you regardless. Our wedding was actually one of the best days of my life because of all of the friends who I finally got to see again at the same time and same place. Our wedding was a celebration of love and friendship, and not just between my husband and I, but our friends and family who helped us along the way. I don’t think I have hugged so many people so hard in my entire life. Our friends did not need matching outfits to know how important they are to us.

All gorgeous images by Chris Tavares from Photopher.com.
Other vendors featured in the photos are: Motorco Music Hall, Durham NC -
Tattly Temporary Tattoos - www.tattly.com

August 30, 2016
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BEST OF – Overcoming Wedding Stress with Dr Lindsay Bira

by Aleisha April 25, 2016
written by Aleisha

The Bridechilla Podcast isn't just about the aesthetics of wedding planning, like decorations and dresses, many episodes cover the stuff the wedding magazines sometimes ignore. 
One of the collective themes that unites the Bridechilla Community is the sometimes odd realization that wedding planning can very quickly shift from being fun to overwhelming. 
Juggling 'normal life', relationships, work and other priorities as well as all of the pieces that go into planning a wedding isn't something that a lot of us are trained in...I certainly hadn't planned a big event before (or paid for one!).

Everyone gets stressed, it's how you deal with stress is the kicker

Being stressed doesn’t mean you aren’t happy, or not coping…everyone manages (and recognises) stress in different ways, so in this best of episode of the Bridechilla Podcast, clinical health psychologist Dr Lindsay Bira gives us some very practical ways to alter our communication to help calm negativity and get our point across without losing it.
We also talk about how to be more mindful and be more aware of your stress triggers and how to settle the anxiety and communicate with friends and family more productively.

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Dr Lindsay Bira

Dr Lindsay Bira, a clinical health psychologist who is here to help us with the tools to put into place to prevent stress or at least lessen the burden especially when it comes to wedding planning.

Be sure to check out Dr Lindsay's homepage and learn about some of the coaching that she offers.
Follow her on Twitter and Instagram. 

April 25, 2016
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140- Wedding Q&A -selective inviting

by Aleisha March 3, 2016
written by Aleisha

How do you only invite people to the ceremony and not the whole wedding shindig if it’s at the same location?
Motivating parents to get their guest list together…or ditching their guest list all together and Misty wants some advice on a photographer who has had some dodgy reviews online…
Do you keep them and take a risk or set them free and find someone that could be more reliable?
All of these questions and more are answered in this episode which is co-hosted by Rich!
HE LOVES HOSTING PODCASTS!

March 3, 2016
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124 Wedding Q&A- New Year: New Wedding Planning

by Aleisha January 7, 2016
written by Aleisha

The first wedding Q&A episode of 2016 is all about pacing yourself, not getting too involved in wedding planning too early on and enjoying your engagement… basking in the celebrations and joy of your union!
I received so many wonderful emails of support after you my interview episode with real-life #bridechilla Melissa and wanted to share some of them with you.
Listeners were inspired by Melissa's openness and honesty and candid accounts over her wedding planning and wedding day.
I'm looking forward to bringing you more episodes like this in the near future.

All that and a lot, lot more on the Save the Date Wedding Podcast, the #1 wedding planning podcast!

Have you subscribed to the Podcast yet? No? What are you waiting for? It's free and with two shows per week, they will delivered to your device as soon as I upload them!
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January 7, 2016
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119 Thoughts from a real Bridechilla

by Aleisha December 21, 2015
written by Aleisha

I’ve featured lots of guests on this podcast so far, wedding bloggers, financial experts, planners, authors…
But that one guest that I have yet to speak with is a real-life Bridechilla, a Bridechilla Wedding Podcast graduate!
I'm not technically allowed to have favourite listeners because you are all my children-But today show I'm featuring the OG of the Bridechilla Wedding Podcast… Melissa.

Last January, only a couple of months into my wedding planning podcast adventure I received an email from the lovely Melissa…a future super bridechilla!

In this somewhat amazing piece of correspondence Melissa revealed that she and her fiancé Brandon were struggling to find rabbis in Northern California for their wedding, she had dressed dramas with her seven bridesmaids, a close family friend wanted to bring his mistress instead of his wife… the list goes on. 

How could I not her on the show to hear about their wedding day and how it turned out?

All that and a lot, lot more on the Bridechilla Wedding Podcast, the #1 wedding planning podcast!

December 21, 2015
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112 Wedding Q&A- Finding your ‘bride’ voice

by Aleisha November 26, 2015
written by Aleisha

In episode 112, a wedding Q&A Thursday episode, listener Olivia is struggling with the fact that most brides remain silent during their wedding.
Why don’t we speak?
Why must we sit and allow everyone else to talk, when we are a BIG part of why everyone is there!?
Harri wants to know about who pays for suits and attire when it comes to groomsmen?
I also share an impromptu interview with a bloke I met on a plane, Steve who had a funny and mildly horrific story from his wedding.
All that and a lot, lot more on the Bridechilla Wedding Podcast, the #1 wedding planning podcast!

November 26, 2015
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