My wedding planning and advises

Hi Cathy78513! I haven't really hired a wedding planner yet, but I bought my own wedding planning book. I am really into planning weddings not just my own. I planned my fiance's sister's wedding before and it went pretty well. But on my own wedding planning, I seem to have lots of ideas...I've been looking at magazines and websites and it adds more to my confusion. There are several things that I see and like..and it's like my whole concept of the wedding theme changes as I browse more sites, that's why I dont recommend browsing or visiting lots of sites. By the way, congratulations to you, too! We both share soemthing in common...brides to be...hehehe. A morning wedding in a small chapel sounds fantastic and intimate. That's how I wanted my wedding to be. Unfortunately, my fiance's family is a big family and in a Filipino wedding, most of the relatives are invited...and that really is my problem. My family (although) Filipino wants my wedding to be intimate and just family and close friends, that way we don't end up spending too much but still has a wedding of our dreams simply by gathering people we love to witness that very special day. My father keep telling me that weddings are not to impress other people, but its about me and the groom. I know he is right! I have a website I constantly visit. Maybe it would help you with your planning too. It's www.theknot.com

Thank you for sharing your research.=) I've seen a wedding planning book in Powerbooks, from its looks and contents it's more of a planner than a book. Since we're also from the Philippines, we know that a traditional Filipino wedding is really big because you have to invite all of the relatives on both sides. But we also thought that since a wedding is just a one day affair, we'll rather spend most of our money in building our future home and for our honeymoon. As of now we already have our wedding rings (we bought that first because it's on sale, almost 70 percent off), we are finalizing our guest list for the church wedding to have a a hint of how much will it really cost. We still don't have a wedding dress design because he want it to be a ball gown and I want it to be cool, simple and flowing. Our wedding plans change everytime we talk about it, especially whenever we saw something on the mall or television. I guess we might end up having a wedding with just the two of us. It really depends because what we visualize more is our home, the furnitures, design and every detail we want for it than the upcoming wedding.