I hired a magician 🎩 to entertain the children in the wedding at the wedding venue while they waited for us to arrived. Though it was meant for the children, the adults and children both loved being entertained while pictures were being finished. Twenty years later the children/adults still talked about how much fun it was. Guess you never know what will inspire people’s memories 😄
Best tip was “invest in your venue” The prettier the venue is the less you have to “dress it up” and the more inclusive it is the less you will be stressed and enjoy your wedding experience more. I wish someone would have explained this to be before we booked ours :/
As a wedding waitress I have to say invest in a photographer/videographer as it's a lifetime of memories there. Anyone can play music but not everyone can shoot an amazing photo/video.
I completely agree with the small bridal party idea. In most European weddings it's not a thing either, everyone just picks their own clothes and shows up at the wedding, and you have one "witness" per groom/bride. Of course you can have anyone you want in pictures or in the room with you getting ready, but it's so much easier to let people be the adults they hopefully are and just pick who you'd like to hang out with when you feel like it.
I'm getting married in April 2023 and I fully agree on prioritising where to spend the money. We're spending the most on the venue, the food and the party. We hired some pretty amazing DJs that put up a show with laser lights, smoke guns and confetti cannons. In the end, we thought the party is one of the things people remember the most and we wanted people to have the most fun!
Decor is so expensive! We live in the UK and have been quoted £1200-£4000 for some simple chair covers and charger plates. But we found an amazing hire company - charger plates, chair sashes, lanterns and petals for ceremony, backdrop arch with neon light, sweet cart all for £750! I also have gone with an all-inclusive venue with wedding coordinator. I definitely don’t want any additional stress 😅 your wedding was stunning and an inspiration 🥰
Watching this while planning my wedding. We got engaged April 2020 and I totally agree! COVID ruined our plans and we decided to wait it out. We finally decided that this December is time to go on and do it. I’m so excited
Love this video Rach! How many people did you have at your wedding? And only if you're comfortable, would you be able to share an estimate cost on how much your whole wedding came to in total? Weddings are so expensive these days! Glad your day was everything you dreamt of, God bless xx
Feels about COVID! We had a COVID wedding too in mid December - We wouldn’t change it and we’re glad we got married when we did, but it definitely took away from some of the fun and enjoyment of planning our wedding and created a lot of stress (not to mention people not being able to attend like you mentioned). Feels girl ❤️
If I didn't have 4 sisters and 2 sister like friends I would absolutely have a small bridal party/no bridal party at all. But I LOVE my girls and there's no way I'm not gonna have them as my bridesmaids
I’m doing the small bridal party! By that I mean- I’m just having my sister as my maid of honor. And my fiancé is having his best friend as the best man. It’s great because I told my sister she can literally wear whatever she wants! This has saved so much stress lol
Great idea with the table runners and the candles! Looks so nice. Yet, I found the room too plain. A bit of extra greenery and some decorations on those walls wouldn't need to cost over a 100 dollars and yet would have warmed things up big time. For all brides wanting it to hardly cost a thing: florists sell 'fillers' of green for bouquets, that are cheap and can go without water for a day. Just spread some out on the table. Or for those who have access to it: let someone cut off some of the branches of real ivy in the morning and bring them along. Also last the entire day. Doesn't cost a cent and those ivy bushes need to be trimmed some day anyway. Last option: buy a bulk of good fake ivy branches of 2 Meters long on the internet. It livens things up.
I’m not Rach but have been married before but do food that YOU love!! But have at least two options. We had beef and chicken (and vegetarian as we had some vegetarians) Think about things that you can make made simply in big batches. Roast meat and veg are an easy option. I would suggest doing plated meals of like 50/50 of each meal or 40% one meat and 60% the other an just alternate dropping them as a buffet style can be risky as the first people off the rank get the best pick and the last just get what’s left. I’ve found when attending weddings, if your doing random drop then people will swap their plate with another wedding guest so that almost everyone is happy.
I’m so happy for you! You seem so sweet and I’m wishing you all the happiness and blessings this world has to offer. I’m sorry that Covid put a damper on your big day, I can only imagine how stressful that was - I love your positive attitude about it though. Maybe you guys can have a big ole party/reception when all of or the majority of the restrictions are lifted.
Gosh I'm loving this series! 🥰🤩 I honestly loved how you planned out your wedding! I think the simple look looks so make better to be honest! I love the idea of investing in more of the experience than the look. 💖💖 Your wedding looks so professional and gorgeous I'm in love! 💖💖
I wish I watched this cause I did the same thing 😂 got my dress late with added stress, booked my florists late and let me tell you, even here in the US florists don’t respond! I’m not sure why but it was so difficult to find someone lol
My regret is rushing the planning and also the dress I had was too big at the boobs and it had been altered! Next time I would spend more time looking for a dress and plan it a year in advance. I ended up leaving that asshole anyway but it was still a fantastic night. Thanks for sharing 😀
Loved this! My biggest regret from my wedding is vomiting before and during the ceremony 😂🤦♀️😅 just started in childcare and I caught a bug. Nailed it hahah!
How did you decide how long after you got engaged to get married? I've seen some people only do a few months and some like 2 years so just curious to know!
we knew we'd either have to do a summer or winter wedding (because that's when Liam has enough time off uni to have holidays for our honeymoon)! We didn't want a winter wedding, so summer was the way to go! And we didn't see the point in being engaged for a long time, because we already had the finances. So honestly there were a few reasons why we ended up going with our 10 month engagement, but those are a few! I honestly don't know how people plan weddings in less than 6 months, blows my mind! Hopefully that makes sense 😂
Hey Rachel Your first regret regarding the poloroid influenced me because My brother recently got married and although he had the same camera as me . Your regret had a role in me brigning my camera as a spare just in case if something was going to go wrong. Yes i am a photographer / enthusit but was not planning to even bringing my camera DSLR untill I saw your video thanks Cheers from Brooklyn NY
Hey, kinda personal but I’m trying to plan my wedding and wanna know what your budget was and how much everything cost... I have no clue what my budget should be and how much I’ll roughly spend for a wedding similar to the size of yours 😩 love you 💕
I'm totally guessing just based on the fact that she had a custom, made to order gown, a day of coordinator, and a gelato stand, but I'd be surprised if they spent less than $50K USD. All that to say, you can totally have a wedding for less! I'm just finding that if you try to have a very fancy "pinterest" wedding, the cost can definitely add up!
Work out what you can afford to spend and work backwards from there, that way you can work out where you want to splurge and where you want to save (ie where she was talking about table decorations in another vlog)
The price really depends on what you want and from who/where you get things but most people set around 10k or more and I personally wanna stay under that
@@michaelarichmond438 it can definitely cost al lot less than 50k! She either made, borrowed, or thrifted a lot of her decor and used almost zero real flowers (fresh flowers add up so the fact that she used almost none makes me believe that she saved a lot). Also, because it was a covid wedding she had a smaller guest count so that means less money on catering. The biggest expense I saw in this view was her custom dress. You can definitely get watch she got for under 10k 😊
This is not a wedding question, but can anyone tell me what English speaking people mean by "gelato"? In italian, gelato just means ice cream, so I don't understand why English speakers tend to differentiate between ice cream en gelato 😃
Hey! With your covid regret, why did you not just delay your wedding so that you didn’t have to deal with this? Like do you wish you pushed it back a year? Not hating, just curious as to why you still chose to have it if you regretted a covid wedding xx
Honestly we did consider that! And a lot went into our decision! We had already booked our venue and we couldn’t get a refund if we cancelled, our only option was to post pone. But they didn’t have any available Friday or Saturday dates for over a year after our original wedding day! So we would have had to push it back over a year if we didn’t want to lose our money. Also, covid kept changing in Australia, so there would be months where everything looked like it would be fine and all our guests could come, and then things would change overnight with border restrictions and lockdowns. And lastly, no one really knew when covid would end, so even if we’d post poned a year later, covid may still have been around and it still could’ve been cancelled! Honestly so much more I could say, but hopefully that gives you an idea 😂 (and hopefully it all makes sense!)
I'm currently planning my wedding for March next year and I have yet to book in a florist because of the same reasons. I've sent so many emails and received 2 back. But I don't know how much is really cheap or really expensive because of the lack of replys 😓
She's from Australia :) Jan down further south is anything from 23 to 35+ depending on the year so I guess NSW where she is could he a bit hotter. There's also a risk of bushfires which would have altered the venue's view a lot, so she was lucky in that respect. I once went to a wedding where it was 47 degrees. Everyone left early as we had huge bushfires all around the state and had to get home to protect our homes. (My family couldn't, the highway closed. Thank God our house and precious dog were ok!) That was in early Feb.
Ok wait I’m so freaking confused. Throughout the video you say you got married in January but then you say stuff about a summer wedding. So was it a summer wedding or a January wedding? 😹
thank you so so much! To everyone: Jesus loves you so so much and He died so we can be forgiven and go to Heaven with God if we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior! Have a great day! God bless everyone!
The wages of sin is ----,but the gift of GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord ACIENT OF DAYS thats a song this is bumblebee I really did let honey bees eat from me
I hired a magician 🎩 to entertain the children in the wedding at the wedding venue while they waited for us to arrived. Though it was meant for the children, the adults and children both loved being entertained while pictures were being finished. Twenty years later the children/adults still talked about how much fun it was. Guess you never know what will inspire people’s memories 😄
Best tip was “invest in your venue”
The prettier the venue is the less you have to “dress it up” and the more inclusive it is the less you will be stressed and enjoy your wedding experience more.
I wish someone would have explained this to be before we booked ours :/
As a wedding waitress I have to say invest in a photographer/videographer as it's a lifetime of memories there. Anyone can play music but not everyone can shoot an amazing photo/video.
Paying for an expensive venue also pays back because the place already looks gorgeous and you don't need to spend a lot of money on decorations
I completely agree with the small bridal party idea. In most European weddings it's not a thing either, everyone just picks their own clothes and shows up at the wedding, and you have one "witness" per groom/bride. Of course you can have anyone you want in pictures or in the room with you getting ready, but it's so much easier to let people be the adults they hopefully are and just pick who you'd like to hang out with when you feel like it.
I'm getting married in April 2023 and I fully agree on prioritising where to spend the money. We're spending the most on the venue, the food and the party. We hired some pretty amazing DJs that put up a show with laser lights, smoke guns and confetti cannons. In the end, we thought the party is one of the things people remember the most and we wanted people to have the most fun!
Decor is so expensive! We live in the UK and have been quoted £1200-£4000 for some simple chair covers and charger plates. But we found an amazing hire company - charger plates, chair sashes, lanterns and petals for ceremony, backdrop arch with neon light, sweet cart all for £750! I also have gone with an all-inclusive venue with wedding coordinator. I definitely don’t want any additional stress 😅 your wedding was stunning and an inspiration 🥰
Watching this while planning my wedding. We got engaged April 2020 and I totally agree! COVID ruined our plans and we decided to wait it out. We finally decided that this December is time to go on and do it. I’m so excited
I love that you add Bible passages to your videos!!
Your wedding looked so clean and beautiful. Great decor choices!
i was screaming “oh my gosh it’s 5:00! time for rachel’s newest video!” Love u Rachel
hahaha I love that!!!
I’m just about to have my 10th wedding anniversary next month, but I’m still loving this wedding series! Great content as always Rachel :) xx
oh my gosh congrats!! and thank you 💗
Love this video Rach! How many people did you have at your wedding? And only if you're comfortable, would you be able to share an estimate cost on how much your whole wedding came to in total? Weddings are so expensive these days! Glad your day was everything you dreamt of, God bless xx
Feels about COVID! We had a COVID wedding too in mid December - We wouldn’t change it and we’re glad we got married when we did, but it definitely took away from some of the fun and enjoyment of planning our wedding and created a lot of stress (not to mention people not being able to attend like you mentioned). Feels girl ❤️
If I didn't have 4 sisters and 2 sister like friends I would absolutely have a small bridal party/no bridal party at all. But I LOVE my girls and there's no way I'm not gonna have them as my bridesmaids
I’m doing the small bridal party! By that I mean- I’m just having my sister as my maid of honor. And my fiancé is having his best friend as the best man. It’s great because I told my sister she can literally wear whatever she wants! This has saved so much stress lol
Great idea with the table runners and the candles! Looks so nice. Yet, I found the room too plain. A bit of extra greenery and some decorations on those walls wouldn't need to cost over a 100 dollars and yet would have warmed things up big time. For all brides wanting it to hardly cost a thing: florists sell 'fillers' of green for bouquets, that are cheap and can go without water for a day. Just spread some out on the table. Or for those who have access to it: let someone cut off some of the branches of real ivy in the morning and bring them along. Also last the entire day. Doesn't cost a cent and those ivy bushes need to be trimmed some day anyway. Last option: buy a bulk of good fake ivy branches of 2 Meters long on the internet. It livens things up.
loving this series!!
Love your videos! Would love to know what food options you had for your wedding, we are really struggling to decide on what food to do x
I’m not Rach but have been married before but do food that YOU love!! But have at least two options. We had beef and chicken (and vegetarian as we had some vegetarians)
Think about things that you can make made simply in big batches. Roast meat and veg are an easy option.
I would suggest doing plated meals of like 50/50 of each meal or 40% one meat and 60% the other an just alternate dropping them as a buffet style can be risky as the first people off the rank get the best pick and the last just get what’s left.
I’ve found when attending weddings, if your doing random drop then people will swap their plate with another wedding guest so that almost everyone is happy.
This was awesome and very helpful Rach! I 100 percent agree with you on the decor!😸😸
I’m so happy for you! You seem so sweet and I’m wishing you all the happiness and blessings this world has to offer. I’m sorry that Covid put a damper on your big day, I can only imagine how stressful that was - I love your positive attitude about it though. Maybe you guys can have a big ole party/reception when all of or the majority of the restrictions are lifted.
Gosh I'm loving this series! 🥰🤩 I honestly loved how you planned out your wedding! I think the simple look looks so make better to be honest! I love the idea of investing in more of the experience than the look. 💖💖 Your wedding looks so professional and gorgeous I'm in love! 💖💖
thanks girl! 💗
I wish I watched this cause I did the same thing 😂 got my dress late with added stress, booked my florists late and let me tell you, even here in the US florists don’t respond! I’m not sure why but it was so difficult to find someone lol
Loving these videos super helpful for planning my own wedding!!!
Ooh I'm happy you put this vid out!! Will have to use this in the future (very distant future though hahaha) ❤️
That people don't get back to you is something which annoys me so much...
agreed
My regret is rushing the planning and also the dress I had was too big at the boobs and it had been altered! Next time I would spend more time looking for a dress and plan it a year in advance. I ended up leaving that asshole anyway but it was still a fantastic night. Thanks for sharing 😀
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Loved this! My biggest regret from my wedding is vomiting before and during the ceremony 😂🤦♀️😅 just started in childcare and I caught a bug. Nailed it hahah!
oh my gosh no way 😳
Your wedding dress looks sooo pretty *.*
OMG I HAD THE EXACT SAME ISSUE WITH FLORISTS!!!!! Absolutely horrendous 😭
We are literally the same person haha. My fiance and I are getting married September 2022 and everything is so similar and I agreed with everything :)
happy wedding month!!!🥰🥰🥰
How did you decide how long after you got engaged to get married? I've seen some people only do a few months and some like 2 years so just curious to know!
we knew we'd either have to do a summer or winter wedding (because that's when Liam has enough time off uni to have holidays for our honeymoon)! We didn't want a winter wedding, so summer was the way to go! And we didn't see the point in being engaged for a long time, because we already had the finances. So honestly there were a few reasons why we ended up going with our 10 month engagement, but those are a few! I honestly don't know how people plan weddings in less than 6 months, blows my mind! Hopefully that makes sense 😂
@@RachelCatherine here planning it in 3 months and for us it's getting help from church etc makes it doable but it is indeed stressful some days xD
I am loving this wedding series!! 😍
can't wait to see your wedding content too 😍
Hey Rachel Your first regret regarding the poloroid influenced me because My brother recently got married and although he had the same camera as me . Your regret had a role in me brigning my camera as a spare just in case if something was going to go wrong. Yes i am a photographer / enthusit but was not planning to even bringing my camera DSLR untill I saw your video thanks
Cheers from Brooklyn NY
Love the series!!! 💛💛
These are so helpful! I’m getting married in August and this is perfect advice
eeeek so exciting!! 🥰
Hey, kinda personal but I’m trying to plan my wedding and wanna know what your budget was and how much everything cost... I have no clue what my budget should be and how much I’ll roughly spend for a wedding similar to the size of yours 😩 love you 💕
I'm totally guessing just based on the fact that she had a custom, made to order gown, a day of coordinator, and a gelato stand, but I'd be surprised if they spent less than $50K USD. All that to say, you can totally have a wedding for less! I'm just finding that if you try to have a very fancy "pinterest" wedding, the cost can definitely add up!
Work out what you can afford to spend and work backwards from there, that way you can work out where you want to splurge and where you want to save (ie where she was talking about table decorations in another vlog)
The price really depends on what you want and from who/where you get things but most people set around 10k or more and I personally wanna stay under that
@@michaelarichmond438 it can definitely cost al lot less than 50k! She either made, borrowed, or thrifted a lot of her decor and used almost zero real flowers (fresh flowers add up so the fact that she used almost none makes me believe that she saved a lot). Also, because it was a covid wedding she had a smaller guest count so that means less money on catering. The biggest expense I saw in this view was her custom dress. You can definitely get watch she got for under 10k 😊
@@hillary96renteria82 the venue and the food/drinks would’ve been at least $10k i’m guessing… I’d ballpark $25k but that’s just me
Wedding coordinator for the win 🥇
I love waking up and having a new video!! Woo! Xx
This was super helpful! The venue is beautiful!
How much did you pay for your wedding overall?
Love this!! It's so great!!!
wait did you get married in the same location as jess and gabriel...
The Contes got married at Weddings at Tiffany’s in Maleny but it looks so similar! 😮
Rachel’s wedding was SummerGrove Estate! It’s literally so beautiful and they have a sister venue that’s a more farm vibe venue.
this was so fun to watch!!! did u end up having to use anything in your emergency kit?
I used some things! But I honestly think I just felt less anxious knowing that I had everything just in case 😂
Can you provide a list of what was in the emergency kit
love your talks , especially conclusion. well said :))
Happy Anniversary 🧸💖
Where did you get your bridesmaids dresses? I love them so much!
I just got recently engaged and your videos are helping SO much!+
This is not a wedding question, but can anyone tell me what English speaking people mean by "gelato"? In italian, gelato just means ice cream, so I don't understand why English speakers tend to differentiate between ice cream en gelato 😃
It's also ice cream when we say gelato
@@georgia957 oh, thanks! 😃
Isn’t gelato a bit different to ice cream??
To me, gelato is like ice cream but without dairy so no milk, it's more like an icy type of ice cream
@@Izzy99 that’s sorbet
I think your wedding dress is off JJs house? "Ball-Gown/Princess Sweetheart Sweep Train Tulle Wedding Dress"
Where is that little church you got married in located, it’s stunning
Hey! With your covid regret, why did you not just delay your wedding so that you didn’t have to deal with this? Like do you wish you pushed it back a year? Not hating, just curious as to why you still chose to have it if you regretted a covid wedding xx
Honestly we did consider that! And a lot went into our decision! We had already booked our venue and we couldn’t get a refund if we cancelled, our only option was to post pone. But they didn’t have any available Friday or Saturday dates for over a year after our original wedding day! So we would have had to push it back over a year if we didn’t want to lose our money. Also, covid kept changing in Australia, so there would be months where everything looked like it would be fine and all our guests could come, and then things would change overnight with border restrictions and lockdowns. And lastly, no one really knew when covid would end, so even if we’d post poned a year later, covid may still have been around and it still could’ve been cancelled! Honestly so much more I could say, but hopefully that gives you an idea 😂 (and hopefully it all makes sense!)
I'm currently planning my wedding for March next year and I have yet to book in a florist because of the same reasons. I've sent so many emails and received 2 back. But I don't know how much is really cheap or really expensive because of the lack of replys 😓
so annoying!! I hope you find one soon!
I have had a horrible experience with Florists, I don't understand why they have such bad customer service.
Great video Rachel!!! 😊
Your video is super helpful to me thank you!
Hello lovely, can I ask where your hubby got his outfit for the wedding from I need exactly the same suit haha.
im so early i love u xxx
Here what is the name of your wedding venue
Did you get the venue idea from Jess Contes wedding? :) I was like heyyy that looks familiar
i was thinking the same thing!!!
Also, love your background. 🥰
I really love your ideas
~ respect the restrictions ~ i feel bad for everyone who missed having family at their wedding over a tyrannical ruling that studies show doesnt help.
i love your accent!
instead of a gelato truck or something like that my cousin hired a gambling table LOOOL
that sounds so fun 😂
@@RachelCatherine it actually was!! he even made his own fake money for the table 😂😂
5 things I regret… I don’t regret anything, If I went back I’d do it all the same…
You are amazing..i love you 💕💕💕
Early January hot? Where do you live?? I am jealous 😂
She's from Australia :) Jan down further south is anything from 23 to 35+ depending on the year so I guess NSW where she is could he a bit hotter. There's also a risk of bushfires which would have altered the venue's view a lot, so she was lucky in that respect.
I once went to a wedding where it was 47 degrees. Everyone left early as we had huge bushfires all around the state and had to get home to protect our homes. (My family couldn't, the highway closed. Thank God our house and precious dog were ok!)
That was in early Feb.
Ok wait I’m so freaking confused. Throughout the video you say you got married in January but then you say stuff about a summer wedding. So was it a summer wedding or a January wedding? 😹
January is in the summer where she lives
she lives in australia so january is a summer month
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
thank you so so much!
To everyone: Jesus loves you so so much and He died so we can be forgiven and go to Heaven with God if we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior! Have a great day! God bless everyone!
The wages of sin is ----,but the gift of GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord ACIENT OF DAYS thats a song this is bumblebee I really did let honey bees eat from me