The Rebel's Guide To Getting Married And Planning A Wedding

The biggest stress I encounter with writing a book, and especially with sharing it with you here is that I have these great ideas all bouncing around my head and they all feel like such great ideas, but as those philosophies and thoughts reach my finger tips they turn to mud.So thank you for trasping through the mud with me as we write this book together. My gut tells me I'm j

We’ve got one final stop on this road trip to Weddingvendorville before we start booking wedding creators and that’s to talk about how the wedding industry isn’t like every other industry.I believe that one of the leading causes of stress and anxiousness in wedding planning is the beautiful coming together of two people who are, for most likely the first time, planning the bi

I'm not going to lie, writing a book is hard. You get all excited and start writing and eventually you get all those initial words out, and then - in my experience at least - your brain and your fingers disconnect for a moment and you lose the ability to make words out of the thoughts in your head.Do not fear though, your intrepid writer spent a few days trying to burst through tha

Writing this chapter prompted me on a future book, The Rebel's Guide to Eloping. There's so much confusion around weddings and elopements I've now committed myself to writing two books. Lord knows how many will come after that. As always, your comments and reviews are welcome as I write this book in public, it's how a rebel does things, out from under the shadows, in the full light

Today's chapter is a favourite conversation of mine. Something I love about being in the wedding business is that planning a wedding is one of the first big things a couple does together. For many couples, it’s the most people they’ve gathered together, and the most money they’ve spent, and it’s a fantastic exercise in working on your relationship as you make such a large u

An attack on being chill, and then, what you actually, probably mean In my years as a marriage celebrant a common statement couples make as we’re planning their ceremony is that they want a ‘chill wedding’. This sounds like a great idea, compared to all those stressful weddings we’ve heard about. The problem with chill is best described Priya Parker in her book The Art of G

How to have an intentional wedding The path to an intentional wedding is light and airy, it’s not supposed to be hard. That’s my biggest gripe with the world today, that when you do the hard work of finding someone you really like, and then you fall into love, so much so that you would want to marry, the entire narrative is that it’s hard, it’s stressful, it’s expensive a

After having created thousands of weddings I would, quite bluntly, say that if you’re going to even have a wedding, let it be with intent, or don’t have one at all. After all, you don’t actually need a wedding to get married. Some people say they’re “not really into weddings” and those people are so very welcome to head down to the marriage registry office or find a loc

Eight years ago I started 2015 with a Facebook post proudly declaring that I was going to "finally" write my wedding book and if you've known me for that long you'll know the book never happened. Lots of weddings happened, lots of travel, two children, a pandemic and a few tacos thrown in most recently. But I've got a fire inside of me I can't put out, so this year is the year, I'v

Everything you need to know about how early you should arrive at a wedding, where you should sit, what you should do, and what kind of gift you should bring. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/therebelsguide/message