It suddenly dawned on me that our wedding really isn’t THAT far away. We get married in October this year and whilst that may be some months away, I’m not quite sure that we are where we should be in terms of wedding planning.

So far we have the following booked;

• Our ceremony and reception venue
• My wedding dress
• Humanist celebrant
• Band
• Wedding Cake
• Photographer
• Transport

Which seems very short when I look at all those wedding checklists in magazines! Argh – pressure already. Calm. Must remain calm, plenty of time. So what else needs booked or bought for our wedding?

• Accessories – with so many fantastic suppliers, how is a girl to chose between shoes, THE head piece, those bouquets
• Hair and make up. Not normally one for wearing or styling my do that much, but every girl wants to look like a princess on her big day (even me!)
• Groom’s outfit. A highlander, the groom shall definately be donning a kilt. To hire or buy is the big question – maybe need to see about winning the lottery in 2011!
• Bridesmaid and best man outfits and everything else required for our nearest and dearest
• Wedding stationery and decorations. I have seen so many wonderful ideas and thought of so many things I would love to incorporate in our big day – but now, I we need to chose exactly what we want
• Drink, drink and more drink. To buy in, or use what is on offer at the venue
• A florist. I have spoken about this before and then done nothing. This really should get bumped up the list I expect
• Wedding rings – aaaargh. I have an emerald cut engagement ring, will I need to have a ring made? Not sure how we budget for this!
• Videographer, very unsure about this. Better to have and never watch though than not get and regret it
• Honeymoon

And now I am off to have a bath and read a book in the hope that I don’t have a panic attack having read that MASSIVE to do list.  Gee whizz.

Any recommendations of suppliers who can help out in the Glasgow area, then please send them my way!!

It is officially 2011 – Happy New Year to you all!

What a year 2010 has been, it seemed to go by in a bit of whirlwind with lots of highs and obviously some lows (well, nothing ever runs completely smoothly does it?). Here is a brief rundown of my year;

• Set a date for and booked our wedding venue

• Managed to stick to a diet and lost a couple of stone (although have since put it all back on!)
• Mr Wedding-Inspiration got made redundant – but found a new job super fast (three cheers)
• I started Wedding-Inspiration as a place to put down my ideas for our big day – caught the wedding bug so much so that the blog is now a place packed with ideas and inspiration (hopefully?)
• Got a new job at the fabulous Schuh headquarters – and have since become slightly obsessed by shoes!
• Made it into the Top 100 wedding tweeters alongside lots of darn good wedding professionals
• Some close friends got married, Carolyn and Billy, Fiona and Chris, Ashleigh and Thomas…to name a few
• Wedding-Inspiration got some sponsors and BIG NEWS – CardsbySophie has been nominated for a Wedding Ideas Magazine award for her fabulous stationery – if you haven’t already, drop by her site and have a look at her terrific work!

• And I am sure there has been lots more that I have simply forgot to mention. Once again though, I would like to say how grateful I am for all the support in getting Wedding Inspiration off the ground and a massive thanks to all the readers and those who have contributed articles.

As so what should you expect from Wedding Inspiration in 2011?

Well, I get married this year – so you can only imagine all the ideas and inspiration buzzing about in my head at the moment – it’s gonna be one crazy year……hold onto to your seats!