3 Cool Ideas for your Engagement Party

3 Cool Ideas for your Engagement Party

You're engaged - hip, hip, hooray! You've made the commitment to marry and you're probably distracted by the thought of what your actual wedding is going to look like! It's all very well to imagine your wedding but now that you're here - so. many. decisions! Before...

Confessions of a Wedding Planner

Confessions of a Wedding Planner

Having been to over 150 weddings, it will come as no surprise that there's not a lot that we haven't seen! Wedding days are beautiful and magical and lovely! But things do go wrong, it's just the way the cookie crumbles (yum, cookie). Lately, we've noticed some of the...

Top 5 Honeymoon Hotspots

Top 5 Honeymoon Hotspots

Us? Writing a blog about Honeymoon Hotspots? HEY! Someone's gotta do it! We've been asked on several occasions to help, weigh-in or recommend honeymoon destinations for our couples because 1) we're obsessed with travel, 2) we love asking our couples about their...

What to Ask your Prospective Wedding Vendors

What to Ask your Prospective Wedding Vendors

A successful wedding day comes down to preparation and communication. Being adequately prepared to manage suppliers, vendors, timelines, and budgets is key to a successful wedding day production. (Yes, we just referred to your wedding day as a production, because,...

What a week it’s been!

What a week it’s been!

Wow wow wow! What an amazing week we’ve had here at Hire a Bridesmaid! It’s been a rollercoaster of fun, excitement, joy, strategy and no-sleep, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Watch me on Sunrise here. When I started this business 4 years ago, I knew the name...

Unique and Non-Religious Wedding Ceremony Readings

Unique and Non-Religious Wedding Ceremony Readings

Feeling a bit stuck on your wedding ceremony readings? We get it! It can be hard to put into words everything you want to capture on the day. And many of our couples are not bound to religion or specific beliefs, which can make it even trickier! Here is a list of...

Our 2020 Wedding Trend Predictions

Our 2020 Wedding Trend Predictions

Can you believe it’s almost 2020? Well, we still have a few more months until we officially sing ‘so long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night’ to 2019 but if you’re planning a wedding for 2020, it probably feels like it’s just around the corner. Good news! We have...

How to ask your BFF to be your MOH

How to ask your BFF to be your MOH

The time has come. You’re engaged. You’re excited. You get to dress up, marry the person of your dreams and have a celebration! But first you gotta choose the people you’ll have up there by your side in your wedding party, namely, your girls. Or your boys. I don’t...

3 Tips for Being a Kickarse MOH

3 Tips for Being a Kickarse MOH

Being a Maid of Honour is so much bloody fun! When else can you get glammed up, drink champagne before 9am and have an excuse to "wear that colour lipstick you always want to wear but never have the balls" to? Plus, you get to watch your best mate / sister / cousin...