WEDDING SERIES: planning - where to start, what we’ve learned so far + details about our wedding! 

I just got engaged a week and a half ago and my biggest shock so far has been how expensive even the most SIMPLE save the dates are. Over $200 for 100 pieces of cardstock - not counting postage. Quickly reconsidered how to go about notifying people about the date we're going with!

I love that you said not to let trends get in the way of planning your day the way that you want! I’m getting married in November and seeing different trends come up every few months makes it so stressful. It’s important to realize trends come and go and what matters most is creating a day that you & your husband will cherish forever!

I'm a maid of honor this year & we've decided on fake flowers for the bridesmaids/ceremony & real ones for the brides bouquet & center pieces. This was sooo helpful syd!!! SO excited to see more wedding content💗

Congratulations! 🥂 I love your sweater! It looks so good on you!

June 2024 bride here, very helpful pep talk that’s much needed while being in the thick of planning!

I can’t wait to see your bridal era dresses!!!!

love that you’re doing wedding vlogs!!! also getting married in August, so need any and all advice while in the thick of all the planning! can’t wait for the next vid :)

This was so in depth and realistic!! Can’t wait to see everything come together 🥹

LOVE this Thank you thank you!! My sister is doing fake flowers for bridesmaids then we are putting them out on the tables for reception

Yeaaa for Michigan .. Upper michigan in the summer is beautiful we've vacationed in traverse city for years.

Such an exciting time Sydney!!! Can't wait to watch this series continue to grow! Once your wedding is over will you be make your registry public to get ideas from?

LIVING for these videos!! we are in the wedding planning process as well & are getting married next year so this was SO nice to watch 🥰

I’m getting married in May and I totally agree with all of the above! I made similar decisions as you. I love Minted! 💕

We did flower grandmas!!! They had so much fun and they coordinated their outfits, because I really didn’t care!! Such a fun memory to look back on!!

Perfect timing! Started deep diving into planning yesterday!!

the wedding of the summer incomingggg🥰🥰

Just got married this past November, we had the same guest count! No regrets on doing a wedding, truly the best day surrounded by so much love. You will not regret the decisions you’ve made!!!!

You got it right! Make your wedding yours 👏my husband and I have been married for 17 years and have 2 little girls. We got married with our family of 20 people on the Robert Frost trail in VT. We hiked to the tree we got married at then had the reception at my mother’s in law’s backyard outside. A couple days later we flew home to Chicago and had a small reception with our friends at our favorite restaurant. I adore you both and am your biggest fan. ✌️❤️🙏

I’m getting married August 25th of this year and I’m in the thick of planning!!! Such an exciting time!

Love y'all ❤ beautiful couple

Love this! I'm married but so many great tips for brides to be, especially the email. I wish I thought of that lol. My wedding was actually kind of a train wreck, we tailored everything around the opinions of others in hopes of making everyone else happy (when we were footing the bill entirely) and I look back with so much regret. The ones who were the loudest about what was supposed to be "our" day were no shows. Not to mention people were invited without our approval by other family members, so on the day there were about 50-60 additional guests that we hadnt even met before. This was supposed to be a very small wedding; me and my husband have social anixety and crowds make it 1000 times worse so at this point it was a miracle both of us made it through the ceremony. Safe to say we ended up not having a good time at all because everything was so not us. We barely made it through dinner, and skipped the reception completely. No first dance.💔 The bride and groom were the first ones to leave the wedding. I write all this to say to anyone getting married please don't be a people pleaser on your day. Stand firm on your wants, and make sure no one is secretly inviting other people even if you think that's a given lol!! Me and my husband are still happily married 6 years later but the date of the wedding holds a sore spot for us so my husband decided on the anniversary of when we first started dating that we would get all dressed up, he put a crazy amount of lights on our back deck, played what would have been our first dance song and we had our first dance. ❤ this will be date we celebrate. ❤

Can’t wait to see your wedding!!! Btw where is your sweater from?! I am obsessed!!!

that's so awesome that ya'll's wedding is in august as my birthday is august 7th fabulous video

May 30th bride here! So excited to watch

Great video!! Love hearing your thought process. If you have any groomsmen who are relatives of one of you, they could escort a mom or grandma down the aisle if that makes sense instead of doubling up with one bridesmaid. Either way it’s totally normal to have different numbers. Excited to keep watching!

I’m getting married this year too. I told my fiancé I don’t want a wedding because I don’t like attention but after we I got engaged the end of November i was so excited to plan a wedding and do all the things. I even proposed to all my bridesmaids, bought and diy’d a few things then last week my fiancé and I had a talk and I told him I can’t do this. It was too stressful financially and mentally so we decided to cancel the wedding and just elope instead. A weight has been lifted off of me and I’m excited to just go with my gut and elope. I love seeing what everyone else is doing for their wedding and the planning process.

Happy Tuesday! I’ve been engaged for over a year and haven’t made much progress with planning. Love this video! Thanks for your advice and sharing!

It would be so cute to have Jay’s two extra groomsmen walk the flower grandma’s down!!

I got married last june & im a full time wedding photographer and wedding planning still took me for a whirl! We did a day after party like you mentioned and it was one of my FAVORITE parts of the whole weekend! And open mic toasts at the rehearsal was a favorite!!! One thing I wish we did was either do no toasts on the wedding day / only my dads toast / at least wish we gave people a time limit because our toasts cut sooo far into our dancing! If there is one thing I wish we spent less on it was flowers! They were pretty but I so wouldve rather spent that somewhere else! A lot of plated dinners let people choose their meal before & state allergies which is sooo helpful so hopefully yours is that way! 🫶🏼 To save money on food we did bfast for dinner like biscuits eggs etc and my husband and I literally had my mom pack us dinner because we both don't eat gluten or dairy! And looking back I feel so bad that other people might've been in that position!!! Literally just soak it all in, I tell my husband at least once a week how much I wish we could have another wedding lol! It is just the most special feeling to feel so loved and celebrated by the people you love most ❤❤❤

I’m a sept 2024 bride and agree with everything - especially florals 🤯

8/24/2024 bride here! Amazing tips and video 🩷🩷🩷 congrats!!!!!

Me and my fiancé are also doing flower grandmas instead of flower girls cause we’re not having kids there 🥰 💐

Omg we hired DJ Casey too! 💃Our wedding is in July! Can’t wait to see yours come to life 😭💕

How did you find a good wedding planner especially with a destination wedding?

Thank you for doing this video! 2025 bride here 👰🏼‍♀️

I love adult only. What parent doesn’t want a night away with adults for just themselves and FUN?

i’m not getting married anytime soon but i throughly enjoy every wedding video 🤍