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Tips & Advice
Our blog provides valuable wedding etiquette advice, creative ideas, practical tips, and essential information to make planning your celebrations stress-free and enjoyable!
Adding guest’s names to wedding invitations & stationery
Personalising invites with your loved one’s names is an elegant introduction to your wedding festivities.
Wedding Gift Wording
Advice, tips and examples for how to ask for specific gifts on your wedding invitations, including cash/wishing wells and registry options
When to send out your wedding invitations
This New Zealand-specific guide covers when to send out wedding invitations to friends and family – so they have all the details to attend!
Following up guest RSVPs
Here’s our top tips for following up wedding guests who haven’t RSVPed, including our ‘magic email’ template for getting some certainty
Your Guide to Save the Dates
Save the Date Cards are used to announce your wedding date to your wedding guests, giving your friends and family the best possible chance of attending.
Recent Tips & Inspo
- Your Essential Wedding Stationery Timeline & Checklists
- Wording Wedding Dress Codes
- What to Write in Wedding Thank You Cards
- Best Practices for Setting a Wedding RSVP Date
- Adding guest’s names to wedding invitations & stationery
- Wedding Gift Wording
- When to send out your wedding invitations
- Following up guest RSVPs
- Your Guide to Save the Dates
- Wording Wedding Invitations
- The Best Pens for Signing Guestbooks
- How to Apply Custom Wine Labels
- The Ultimate Guide to Wedding Seating Planning
- Entertaining your wedding guests
- Your Post-Wedding Admin List
- How to get your wedding guests to sign your guestbook
- How to request a child-free wedding
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