May 2021
Everything You Need to Know About Twilight Weddings
If you're looking for a more relaxed and romantic big day, minus the formalities of a traditional wedding, a twilight wedding is perfect for you. A twilight wedding starts after 5.30pm, there's no traditional ceremony or wedding breakfast, it goes straight into the evening reception. Doing it this way removes the pressure of entertaining your guests for an entire day, and can save a lot of money by reducing food requirements, and your first dance can be under the stars. Sunset Romance For the perfect Twilight Wedding you need to do a bit of research, for a start you
March 2021
What To Look For In A Virtual Office Address
As more entrepreneurs move to the cloud, and work from a variety of locations, the traditional office is becoming a thing of the past. There are times when you’ll need a base of some sort, but apart from receiving post, it’s unlikely that you’ll have to commit your micro-business to having a physical office if you’d rather not foot the bill. A Virtual office is essentially mailbox addresses: you can have the same features as a PO box, but with a more prestigious address. Additionally, if you choose to rent a virtual address from The Colony, you can use it
Picking Your Bridesmaids: Who, Why And How To Ask
Your wedding day should, by rights, be all about you and your significant other. But the truth of the matter is, it is a celebration that includes many more people than just the happy couple. When it comes to planning, their feelings and preferences inevitably have to be taken into consideration, too. Nowhere is this more evident than in the selection of your wedding party. It can be a delicate business. There are old bonds to maintain, egos to placate, emotions to soothe. Who you choose as your bridesmaids, plus how you do it, can take a diplomat’s expert skill.
Top Five Wedding Transport Ideas That Will Make Your Guests Jealous!
You can look at your wedding day as the occasion on which you will declare your undying love for your partner, and all the rest is mere window dressing. Or, you can take the view that this is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion and you are going to make sure every little detail reflects a dream come true. It’s the latter approach that makes people take how they intend to arrive for their ceremony and then their reception very seriously. We all know the standards for making an entrance in style on your wedding day – the stretch limo, the vintage car
Capturing The Memories: Tips For Getting The Best From Wedding Photography
For all the hard work and planning you put into organising your wedding, when it comes to the day itself, blink and it will be over before you know it. It’s a day of high emotion, intense excitement, a blur of faces, a whirl of activity, a crescendo of all your hopes and dreams. And then it’s gone. That’s why wedding photography is so important! You will have stand out memories from the day itself, or course, those special moments you share with your betrothed, your closest family and friends. But there is so much going on that, when the
Do I Need A Virtual Office Space Or A Co-Working Space?
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘running a business from your bedroom’. It used to be used to describe what young entrepreneurs did when they were just getting started, before their balance sheet was healthy enough to rent proper office space in proper business premises. Because ultimately, that’s what proper businesses did. That’s not the way people necessarily think anymore. A combination of several factors – rising rents, digital technology, increasing numbers of people choosing to start businesses or become self-employed in a crowded labour market – have pushed us all to think a lot more flexibly about how and where
Choosing the Perfect Meeting Venue
The world of business is changing. The days when a commercial organisation was inevitably defined by a set of premises in a fixed location - a shop you could visit, a set of offices, a factory, warehouse, depot or other type of operational facility - are gradually slipping away. Thanks in no small part to digital technology, 21st century business has been able to decouple itself from geography. We now have flourishing retail empires without a single shop in sight, corporations that have workforces dispersed in dozens of different locations, entire enterprises that, for all intents and purposes, exist in
How Not to Make a Song and Dance of Choosing a Wedding Band
For many couples, music is a very important part of their nuptial celebrations. For the modern bride who can’t see herself walking down the aisle to the Wedding March, picking the right song or composition to make her entrance to can be a surprisingly agonising decision - how do you pick the soundtrack to such a pivotal moment in your life? And then, of course, there is the first dance - many a couple have gone through serious fallings out over that particular choice, not to mention whether they are even having a first dance at all. And to top
March 2020
Is It Time To Consider The Time Of Your Wedding Ceremony?
A post on Reddit by a couple who said they were getting complaints from guests after asking them to attend a 5.30am wedding ceremony provoked enough of a furore about the etiquette of timing your nuptials that the story was picked up by a national newspaper. It’s probably not something that even occurs to most couples, until it becomes apparent that some guests are disgruntled about the time they have chosen. So what should you consider when picking the time for your ceremony? It should be pointed out that the 5.30am suggestion was in the name of a very romantic
Should I Bother With Wedding Fayres? Here’s How To Get The Most Out Of Them
Wedding fayres seem to attract quite a Marmite reaction. Some couples swear by them and strongly recommend that all their friends who subsequently get married go to as many as they can. Others recoil at the very thought, viewing the prospect of an entire event dedicated to wedding planning as far too much to cope with in one go. But if you are planning your wedding and haven’t attended any wedding fayres before, it is well worth considering. The key thing is to have a clear plan in mind about what you want to get out of it. Just turning