{"id":17881,"date":"2013-08-24T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wdie.wedding-dates.com\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2024-05-13T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:24:38","slug":"how-to-start-planning-your-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/how-to-start-planning-your-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start Planning Your Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17882\" title=\" How to Start Planning Your Wedding\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2013\/08\/8872268369_a8d4230f0e_b.jpg\" alt=\" How to Start Planning Your Wedding\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/8872268369_a8d4230f0e_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/8872268369_a8d4230f0e_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/8872268369_a8d4230f0e_b-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Planning your wedding will be insanely exciting and of course, just a little bit stressful! With such a busy time ahead for you both, it can be easy to forget to have a cool headed approach. Here are some tips on how to start planning your wedding:<\/p>\n<h2>Budget<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Decide on a realistic <\/span>budget<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> for you and your partner.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Will you be able to plan the wedding you have dreamt of with the money you have already saved or will you need more time?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Are there expenses in your budget you can cut back on?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Paper Work<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Sounds boring but you need these documents to get married! Find out what is required at the beginning of planning so as to avoid any unnecessary waiting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">If you\u2019re having a church ceremony, will you need a pre marriage course?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Delegating<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Decide who is doing what at the start of your planning\u2026 Don\u2019t try and do it all yourself!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Consider hiring a wedding planner. They could actually save you money by working with your budget.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Honeymoon<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Planning a wedding can be expensive but so can a honeymoon! Decide on what you want to spend the majority of your money on. Would you prefer to have a staycation after the wedding and save for your honeymoon? Or do you want a small intimate wedding and a once in a life time honeymoon trip?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Image from\u00a0VancityAllie\u00a0via Flickr<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planning your wedding will be insanely exciting and of course, just a little bit stressful! With such a busy time ahead for you both, it can be easy to forget to have a cool headed approach. Here are some tips on how to start planning your wedding: Budget Decide on a realistic budget for you and your partner. Will you be able to plan the wedding you have dreamt of with the money you have already saved or will you [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":17882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-planning-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85153,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions\/85153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}