Despite the title of this blog and video, we do truly believe that you can’t go wrong with anytime of year for your wedding, and whatever season you choose for your Big Day will be wonderful. However, if you’re umming and ahring about the time of year to tie the knot, and debating whether a spring wedding’s for you, we’ve got 6 great reasons why you should choose a spring wedding.
Why not embrace the season being synonymous with new beginnings and create your new beginning stepping into married life in spring. Lambs, chicks and bunnies are completely optional, although if you did decide to include them as part of your spring wedding then it’s essential to share your photos with us!
Wedding Suit Shopping Made Simple For Your Big Day!
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Wedding suits – chances are you’ve owned and worn a suit at some point in your life, whether it was for a family wedding as a kid, for school or a job interview. But when it comes to your wedding day suit, we know you want it to be the suit of all suits, the suit that will never be out-suited, basically, the ultimate suit!
Whether you’re a semi-regular suit wearer or it’s been a minute (hello WFH era!), there’s just quite simply a different array of considerations when it comes to the suit for your big day. You might be dealing with a different climate, working to a theme &/ colour palette, needing to coordinate with other members of the bridal party…and then of course there’s the decision of renting versus buying! It goes on!
So, apologies if you’d been feeling chill, thinking, “oh it’s just a suit, I’ll rock up to the mall a week before the wedding, job’s a good’un” and now we’ve freaked you out with all the things you actually need to consider… Or if you were feeling bewildered about where to even begin and now your mind is spinning, again, we’re sorry! We won’t just leave you there, don’t worry…
You’ve got this! We’re virtually holding your hand through the whole suit buying process in this week’s video.10 simple tips to help you narrow down your options and figure out what suit is right for you and your wedding, whilst making sure you are comfortable and feel like ‘you’on your big day (just the most elevated version!). Talking you all the way through to on-the-day, ensuring you’re feeling prepared and confident, with no last minute panics.
P.S. Bonus tip – if you’re not getting ready at home the morning of the wedding, pack an emergency sewing kit, safety pins and a spare button or two (or know where they are if you are at home!).
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Thanks for reading/watching! Got any questions – drop them in the comments. Don’t forget to tag us in your suit photos over on Instagram, we’d love to have a nosy at what you end up picking!
You’ve booked your venue, the date’s confirmed, you’ve secured your wedding photographer, so now you’re starting to plan everything else. And, with a lot of things when it comes to wedding planning, you may not have booked/ordered a cake before. Especially not one that could serve the amount of guests you’re planning to attend your wedding. Throw in different priorities when it comes to how you spend your budget for your wedding day and differing opinions over style and flavours, it can be difficult to know where to start!
But choosing your wedding cake can be one of the most fun parts of planning the wedding, as, before you confirm any bookings, you should really sample the cake you’ll be enjoying on your Big Day. Either at a wedding fair, wedding cake consultation or by ordering cake tasting boxes. With the latter you can even make a whole date night out of it while you discuss your favourites and choose your flavours with your other half.
We’re breaking down how to plan for your perfect wedding cake. From budget to design, to cake table styling to possibly your perfect cake not even being a cake at all…
If you’re interested in more wedding cake content, you can also check out our Wedding Cake Trends for 2025 video.
We’d love to hear what you’re choosing for your wedding cake. Is it even going to be cake? Let us know in the comments below!
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5 Key Areas to Improve your Wedding’s Environmental Impact
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We’re not here to preach or be perfect, these tips aren’t going to achieve a zero waste, zero impact wedding. However, if you’re planning a wedding and wondering if there are simple, and ideally cost-effective, ways to help minimise your impact along the way, then this week’s video is for you!
We’ve tackled these 5 key areas within your wedding:
Wedding venue & Décor
Wedding stationery
Outfits & attire
Flowers
Favours
We’ve got numerous tips and ideas for reducing your environmental footprint in all of these categories, so we’re confident you’ll find something to adopt into your wedding. We already know you’ll have an amazing wedding day, and now you can feel extra good about it too!
Take on all the tips or just a few, it all helps. Let us know what you’ll be doing in the comments! Got any other simple ideas to share with other couples? Drop them in the comments.
The differences between wedding fairs and wedding open days
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After working in the wedding industry for over a decade, we’ve been around wedding related words and phrases a lot, so it can be easy to forget that just because a phrase or terminology may be obvious to you, not everyone will have heard it before. Especially if you’re newly engaged and haven’t been involved in any kind of wedding planning process before! Enter this week’s video… created following this thought process and hopefully will help make wedding planning easier (to understand at least!).
While wedding season may not have started in full force yet, the ‘shoulder’ seasons, spring and autumn are peak wedding fair and wedding open day season. Wedding fairs and wedding open days, the same thing right? Well not exactly. That’s why we’re sharing the differences between the two so you can decide which type of event works best for you; whether you’re more interested in exploring a venue and seeing how it might look on your Big Day, or want to meet a range of wedding suppliers who are going to help turn your ideas into a reality.
Any questions, or any other wedding related topics you’re unsure about? Let us know in the comments below and we’ll do our best to help.
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Backdrop Inspiration to make your Wedding Photos Magical!
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Your wedding day is one of the most magical days of your life, so of course you want your photos to be just as spectacular…but how? One of the most effective ways to elevate your wedding pics is by choosing the perfect backdrop. There are new and interesting ideas out there for every style of wedding, for your formal and in-formal shots, be it indoors or using an outside space. A good backdrop will not only look great in your venue and help set the vibe, but it’ll also have your guests wanting to take photos.
Whether you’re dreaming of statement pieces such as romantic moongates, modern magazine photo booths, or something smaller but still interesting, like a customised selfie mirror or polaroid frame, we’ve got a whole bunch of fabulous ideas to make your photos extra sparkly (and of course, Instagram worthy).
In our latest YouTube video, “Wedding Photo Backdrop Ideas,” we’re sharing some seriously gorgeous and creative ideas to make your wedding photos feel like they’re straight out of a fairytale (or a Pinterest board!). Let’s take a sneak peek at some of our favourite backdrops!
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Let us know in the comments which backdrops have got you swooning!
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Simple Cupcake Decoration Inspiration for Beginner Friendly Cupcake Decorating
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Happy Valentines Day! What could be sweeter on a day celebrating love than decorating some heart themed cupcakes?! These beginner friendly design ideas still look super impressive, whether you’re gifting them to your other half, or just enjoying them yourself!
These simple cupcake designs use only one type of piping nozzle and one colour of buttercream. Obviously you can decide to mix this up and use whatever equipment you have and whatever colours you fancy. We’ve also used some heart moulds in two different sizes to really stick with the theme!
Happy decorating! And if you liked these ideas, check out our previous video with even more inspiration.
We’d love to see your finished cupcakes if you do give decorating some a go. Tag us in your photos over on Instagram.
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January seemed to last 742 days and now, all of a sudden we’re a quarter of the way through February and Valentine’s Day is only a week away. So if you’re scrabbling to think of the perfect present, left it a bit too late to order what you’d planned, or simply want to add something a bit more personal to your gift, our DIY Valentine’s Gift Ideas video may just come to the rescue!
So crack out your crafting skills, or just get a little sentimental (and dare I say, soppy) to create something meaningful for your Valentine. While some things may have some cost, other ideas are super budget friendly, you just need to invest a little time…
We’d love to hear if you decide to create one of these DIY Valentine’s gift ideas for your other half, or if you have any other ideas, please leave them in the comments below.
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Visit Secrets Playa Blanca in Costa Mujeres, Mexico with us! | Honeymoon Destination Review
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When it comes to planning your ultimate holiday to date, aka your honeymoon, there’s that sense of wanting to get it exactly right. To find yourselves a slice of paradise to savour your newly wedded bliss – just the two of you, to recover from the hecticness of the run up to your wedding day and soak in the whole experience. Maybe you are looking for some sunshine, or adventure, a little culture or just something new. But whatever it is, you want to know it’s going to be worthy of your honeymoon!
So for this week’s YT video, we’re taking the risk and the leg work out of it for you by taking you along to an all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Mexico(let’s face it, you’ve got enough to think about with the wedding itself already, so let’s make this easy!). We spent 5 glorious days in Secrets Playa Blanca in Costa Mujeres, Mexico in January 2025 (don’t hate me!), reviewing the honeymoon-worthiness of this resort. It’s one of the Secrets chain’s newest resorts, which opened its doors last February (2024) – which obviously means there’s less information out there to get a good sense of whether it’s right for you, so hopefully this will provide the insight you’re looking for!
On a side note, they also do weddings here if you want to go all out and go for a destination wedding-exotic honeymoon combo! I’ll be giving you a peek into the resort, a room tour, food options, beach quality, on-site activities and more, all to help you decide if this could be the place your honeymoon dreams were made of! Spoiler: it’s definitely beautiful!
Over the years, we’ve explored a few of the other resorts in Mexico (and elsewhere!) and created video reviews of those too, so if you’ve picked your location but still weighing up your options, you can find those here:
You can also catch our full Honeymoon / Destination Wedding playlist on YouTube here!
This video was not sponsored nor endorsed by Hyatt / Secrets, all opinions are our own. We are Expedia affiliates, and the hotel link provided is an affiliate link, meaning we get a small percentage of the profits made through our referrals at no extra cost to you when purchased through our link.
Enjoy a few moments of British winter escapism with us and dip your toe into the ocean…
Thinking of visiting and have questions? Drop them in the comments and we’ll do our best to answer. And if you choose to go, we hope you have as amazing a time as we did.
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Inspiration to make your very own wedding countdown sign
The countdown is on! We eagerly anticipate the excitement of Christmas with an advent calendar, so why wouldn’t you want to keep track and countdown to a slightly more important date in the diary?!
And while we’re not providing you with a small chocolate everyday in the run up to your wedding, we’ve created an easy DIY to allow you, and whoever can see it, to keep track of the number of days you have left before you say I Do. And while it’s intended to build excitement and anticipation, it can also be used as a reminder of how much time you have left to finalise all your wedding plans (and maybe finish off those wedding DIYs!)
You will need:
A rectangle of wood (e.g. 6mm MDF). Ours measures approx. 20cm x 10cm
A wooden heart
Paint (& Paintbrush)
Chalkboard Paint (& Paintbrush)
Drill & drill bit to drill holes
Greaseproof paper & pencil
Marker pen (Could use paint or a vinyl)
Ribbon
Chalk
A lot of what we’ve done for our DIY is optional or can be customised, so you can make the plaque perfect for you. We’d love to see your finished countdown plaques if you do give this DIY a go. Tag us in your photos over on Instagram.
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Let’s talk cake! Believe me, nothing makes us happier – Laura even has her own wedding cake business, so you know the love is real! Whether you’re here because you’re a fellow cake lover and want to know what’s ‘in’ ready for your 2025 wedding (accidentally typed “2035 wedding” for a moment there…let’s not think about that just yet even though it’ll be here before I know it!), or cake isn’t really your thing so you’re in some desperate need of guidance as to what’s going on in the world of wedding cakes right now – either way, we’re all going to leave here happy!
Here in the UK, when we think ‘wedding cake’, I would hazard a guess that the default image that jumps into most of our minds, is a round, three-tiered, white/off-white cake (even if that’s not our personal jam). It’s just that culturally engrained. It’s tradition and will remain a classic for all of time. Now, that’s still totally cool, however, you CAN do something else, if something else would be more ‘you’! I sometimes think some wedding components are just that traditional, that it simply doesn’t occur to us that we could particularly stray from that mental template. But of course, you can, there are no rules (except, in our minds at least the one that says, there must be cake – we’re not on board with cheese platter replacements, sorry), and we can see those deviations, to varying degrees, in the trends that are coming through for this year. So, without further delay, let’s take a look and be inspired (Warning: you will want to eat cake)!
Inspiration for wedding favours at your winter wedding
If you’re choosing to give your guests wedding favours, not only do you want something that won’t be left at the end of the night, you also (probably) want something in keeping with the style and vibe of your wedding.
Now, if you’re planning for a winter wedding, you might be wondering how to tailor your wedding favours to the season. (And we’re not talking Christmas here). Think cosy, seasonal, warming… while still sticking to our suggested guidelines of ‘something to eat, something to use or something to enjoy/is meaningful‘. Regardless of the time of year, you don’t want to waste money on something your guests don’t want to take!
For our video this week, we’ve come up with a selection of winter wedding favour ideas that will go down a storm at any wedding.
What do you think? Do you have any other amazing winter wedding favour suggestions? Let us know in the comments below.
Our Top 5 Wedding Planning Tips to Get you Started!
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We’re back, ready (sort of) to take on 2025 with you! I mean, I blinked and the holidays were over, anyone else? …Whilst we technically ‘signed off’ for a week between Christmas and New Year, of course we couldn’t resist a sneaky peek over on Instagram to soak in the joyful, “I said yes!” and “best Christmas ever 💍”, posts! So now we’re officially back online, we’re VERY excited to say hello and congratulate those of you who got engaged over the festive period! So, let’s do it…
CONGRATULATIONS and welcome to your Bridal Era! And because, of course, we want every opportunity to whip out the ‘f’ word…Happy New Year to you and your FIANCÉ(E)!!
To those of you who had extra reason to celebrate over the last couple of weeks, and are therefore new to our Society, welcome! We’re so looking forward to being a part of your wedding planning journey – we hope you enjoy exploring our blog. We’ve been posting YouTube videos and blogs weekly for 7.5 years, which is basically to say, if you’ve got a question about weddings / honeymoons, we’re confident we’ve got what you’ll need (on the remote chance we don’t, drop us a video request in the comments!).
We want your wedding planning to be fun, exciting and low stress, so we’re – Rebecca and Laura – here to virtually hold your hand throughout the entire process. We have been where you are, and we’ve got you (meet us here). We’ve both experienced the whole wedding planning journey, which we loved (some may say we had trouble letting go and hence Bride Society was born), and as with all things you’ve never done before, we learnt a few things along the way, which we want to pass on to you. We planned our weddings ourselves (with our other halves of course), and were fully hands on…literally with the DIYs – we got very crafty, so we’ve got a lot to tell you about! NB. Our platforms are entirely free to use.
We designed Bride Society to be just that, a community (Society) of engaged couples, supporting, encouraging and sharing ideas with one another, with Laura and me adding in all the ideas and info we can possibly think of to make your bridal era everything it can be. So, join us and the rest of the Society in allllllthe places! Check them out via our LinkTree here!
For our first video of 2025, we’re kicking things off with a video especially for you newly engaged couples out there. As I mentioned in my less-than-concise writing earlier, we have a huge catalogue of videos for you to watch, but in the name of reducing the overwhelm that can set in during the early stages of wedding planning, we’re telling you exactly where you should start, and that’s with this week’s video! We’re rounding up our top 5 expert tips from across our channel for planning a wedding. So, before you do anything, watch this video and make notes! These 5 tips will get you started off right, as well as keep the whole process on track, making sure it stays fun!
Which tip do you think you’ll be clinging on to? Let us know in the comments. If you’re new here, say hi and introduce yourselves to the community, either in the blog comments or over on the YouTube video itself, we’d really love to hear from you.
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As we sign off for another year, (which really does seem to come round quicker and quicker), we are looking back and reflecting on our 2024 Bride Society year.
We have had another year surrounded by the wonderful wedding world, sharing more tips, advice, inspiration, DIY tutorials and more! But fear not, there’s still plenty more to come in 2025 and beyond!
As always, we’d like to say a huge thank you for supporting our channel. We really appreciate the time spent watching our videos, commenting, liking, and subscribing to our channel and we hope you’ve enjoyed the content we’ve created this year. And, in what has become another annual tradition, we’d like to thank Steph from the Secret Bridesmaid for collaborating with us on some more wonderful videos this year. Demonstrating floral bouquets, buttonholes and pocket squares as well as the catalogue of multiway dress tutorials already on our channel.
If you’ve got any video requests or thoughts about what content you would like to see from us in 2025, let us know in the comments and we will do our best to make them happen.
That just leaves us to wish you a very Merry Christmas and an even happier New Year. If you’re getting married in 2025, you can almost say “I’m getting married this year!”
How to Fold Napkins into Stand-Alone Christmas Trees for your Christmas Tablescape or Winter Wedding
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Christmas is creeping closer by the day (I mean, of course it is, that’s how time works), 12 more sleeps to be precise! Maybe, hopefully, you’ve done the majority of your present shopping, delivered most of your cards, planned the logistics for the big day, and now you’re starting to think ‘little details’. And we’re right there with you…
We’ve turned our attention to our Christmas tablescapes (be it for your Christmas gatherings or Winter Wedding!), and have a napkin folding tutorial for you, showing you how to turn your unassuming square paper napkins into…wait for it…festive CHRISTMAS TREES!
Now, we have done another Christmas tree napkin folding tutorial in the past, which you can find here, but I’ll let you into a little secret – that one was classy, but this one is my favourite! Our latest napkin Christmas trees will stand up by themselves, giving your tables a little more life, and work perfectly with a little homemade star napkin ring placed on the top – which we handily showed you how to make in another tutorial a couple of weeks ago (click here: How to Make Christmas Napkin Rings), which we oh-so-thoughtfully followed up with a YT Short on how to personalise them with your guests’ names (click here: Make Your Festive Napkin Rings POP with CRICUT). Between these three tutorials and the rest of our YT Christmas Craft playlist, we’ll have your festive tablescapes all set and ready to impress well before the big day!
Having a go? We’d love to see your Christmas / Winter Wedding tablescapes! Tag us in your photos over on Instagram @bridesociety_uk so we can take a peek.
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