Feeling overwhelmed? Organise your planning using Google

If you're planning your own wedding, the chances are that at some point you're going to feel overwhelmed with the sheer enormity of the task ahead. Here are some tips on how to keep things in order...

I must admit I'm a bit obsessed with Google. I've used Google for a while now to keep control of my life and I'm not talking about the search engine that we all know and love - I'm talking about Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Keep - all the tools that Google offers for free to help you keep organised.

8 ways I would have made my wedding more environmentally friendly

There's not much I would change about my wedding day. It was wonderful and I have so many amazing memories that'll I'll never forget. However, if I had to do it all over again (yes please!) I'd do a couple of things differently...

Firstly, I'd eat some of our cake! We had the most amazing cake table full of beautifully made walnut whips, lemon cake, fondant fancies and other favourites. We asked for some of it to be saved but our trusted cake looker-afterers thought we'd given it to them to eat while we were on our honeymoon! Never mind...one day I'll have them made up again for some party or other (I do love cake!)

Image: Yusuf Ozkizil

More importantly, I'd have planned a wedding which was kinder to the environment. I now own an electric car and am much more aware of my environment impact. Here's what I'd do differently...

10 ways to keep your wedding guests happy

Image: Sami Tipi
Photographer: Clive Blair

I spent hours and hours researching dresses, flowers, venues and everything else you can imagine for my wedding. I won’t lie - I looked bloomin' fabulous! I spent far too much money (as you do!), I lost a lot of weight for the day, my dress was gorgeous and I felt like the most radiant bride there was…

Notice how many I’s there were in that paragraph…

I could go on of course and tell you loads more about how I was the most important person on my wedding day but it simply isn’t true.

I could tell you my husband to be was the most important person... don’t get me wrong he ranked highly…

To me, on the day I married the most wonderful human being to ever enter my life (at the time - he was beaten to that title by my beautiful son when he was born) the people I cared about the most were my guests.

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Just sitting in the garden with a cup of tea...like you do

The process of hiring a wedding planner is a personal one, of course you want to have confidence that the planner can plan your wedding for you. But you want to know you'll gel, after all you’ll be spending a lot of time with this person over the course of the planning and you're entrusting a complete stranger with what should be one of the most amazing days if your life.

So I thought I'd invite you in for a virtual cuppa and a slice of cake...take sugar?