There are many decisions involved in planning a wedding. You start with finding a wedding gown, picking the perfect venue, creating a wedding vision, choosing a honeymoon destination to everything else in between. Thankfully in today’s world of weddings, there are blogs that can help. I have rounded up my favourite three Australian wedding planning blogs. These blogs are helpful and inspiring, they offer inspiration, tips, and vendor guides, which makes wedding planning a lot less stressful.
Wedding Planning Blog: The Lane
A seriously inspiring blog, The Lane offers styling tips, shoppable edits and wedding inspiration from Australia and around the world. Couples who are planning a destination wedding will find a comprehensive list of venues, wedding inspiration and vendors. The Lane’s styling tips, mood boards, and gallery of pin-worthy wedding inspiration make wedding planning inspiring. Here are a few things you’ll find useful.
- Wedding Directory: The Lane’s wedding directory is a comprehensive list of handpicked wedding vendors from Australia, Europe and America. Vendors include menswear boutiques, bridal designers, hair and makeup artists, florists, to honeymoon destinations, venues and more.
- Destination & Real Wedding Inspiration: The wedding inspiration, which you can sort by venue type or location, covers Australia and many countries around the world.
- Styled Mood Boards: The inspiring mood boards include colour palettes, venue ideas, décor, and styling tips. This makes it easy for a bride to create her own wedding mood board. You can add all photos in a mood board or save them to your Pinterest board.
- Wedding Fashion: From edited looks to effortless flower girl styling tips, the fashion section is very useful. If you are a style savvy bride, you can stay up to date with the latest wedding fashion trends.
- Shoppable Edits: You can shop The Lane’s handpicked edits of outfits, accessories, and home décor for your pre-wedding party needs.
Wedding Planning Blog: The Wedding Playbook
The Wedding Playbook is a print magazine and online blog. It offers “sanity-saving tips” to inspire every bride to plan her wedding – her way. The blog has a vendor directory and offers planning tips and guides for the wedding day and beyond.
- Wedding Planning Tips & Inspiration: Every post includes wedding inspiration and a list of featured vendors. What sets The Wedding Playbook apart from other wedding blogs is that it gives special attention to elopements. Couples will find helpful tips on the pros and cons and the best and worst reasons to elope. The Epic Elopement Planner is a step-by-step interactive guide designed to help couples with their planning.
- Wedding Themes: All the wedding inspiration is grouped into five main themes: boho, modern, romantic, rustic and vintage. Each theme is defined with a short description of the main features of each theme. A bride will get the inspiration for her wedding theme and know the key details she needs to include.
- Wedding Vision Builder: For couples who are planning their wedding on their own, planning a wedding might be challenging. If you don’t know how to get started or what your wedding style is, the blog’s Wedding Vision Builder is an interactive guide that consists of 10 pages of questions and ideas. Couples can have their ideas in one place. They can set their wedding priorities, discover their dream wedding venue and their wedding style using the guide.
Wedding Planning Blog: Hello May
A fashion-savvy bride and groom will love Hello May. This is a wedding blog that aims to connect brides and grooms to talented wedding vendors. The ‘ShopFront’ segment gives brides a look behind the scenes of Australia and New Zealand’s bridal boutiques. The ‘Fashion’ section bursts with wedding wear inspiration for the couple and features extensive real wedding inspiration, a directory and wedding planning tips.
- Real Wedding Inspiration: The wedding inspiration on Hello May includes wedding destination inspiration, engagement parties and elopement ideas. You can sort the content by location or theme. The content covers a wide range of themes from city, country, coastal, industrial, outdoor, retro and even quirky.
- Wedding Fashion: The fashion and behind the scenes sections include an impressive list of wedding designers, boutiques, and menswear brands. A bride who is searching for her dream wedding dress is likely to find it on Hello May.
- Wedding Planning Tips & Directory: Brides will find helpful wedding planning tips and ideas. From monochrome wedding styling ideas to round-ups of top florists and cake makers on Instagram, there is a list of wedding vendors on the wedding directory and in the list of contributing vendors.
Conclusion
Starting your wedding planning might appear daunting at first. Thankfully, wedding planning blogs can help! You will find wedding inspiration, planning and styling tips, and suppliers that will make the journey easy.
My favourite three Australian wedding planning blogs are:
- The Lane: I love this blog, it’s rich in content. You’ll stay up to date with the latest in wedding fashion inspiration and find styling inspiration and tips. This is helpful for those who have little interest in styling and creating their wedding vision. If you’re planning a destination wedding, you will find stunning venues on The Lane.
- The Wedding Playbook defines the different wedding themes and provides valuable wedding inspiration and tips. This is useful for those who find it hard to decipher the difference between the various themes.
- Hello May does a great job at identifying the top suppliers in the industry, all you have to do is choose those whose aesthetics align with your wedding vision.
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