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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!
Wording Wedding Dress Codes
Wording what wedding dress code can be tricky! Here we have examples of the different dress styles and how to specify wedding guest attire
Your Essential Wedding Stationery Timeline & Checklists
This wedding invitation timeline has been developed to help New Zealand couples identify the important milestones to meet when planning, ordering and sending save the dates, wedding invitations, signage and day-of stationery
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
- Best Practices for Setting a Wedding RSVP Date
- The Ultimate Wedding Thank You Card Guide
- Adding guest’s names to wedding invitations & stationery
- Wedding Gift Wording
- Wording Wedding Dress Codes
- Your Essential Wedding Stationery Timeline & Checklists
- 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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