Will Salma be your Star Bride?

I only really started feel­ing com­fort­able about my wed­ding when I started read­ing wed­ding blogs and started real­is­ing that I was allowed to incor­po­rate ideas into our day that made it our own and per­sonal to us.

In fact, I wasn’t even really excited about the whole thing until I began to think of the wed­ding in a com­pletely dif­fer­ent way to how most of the indus­try makes you think you should feel!

Enjoy­ing the wed­ding by focus­ing on the marriage

So I guess I’d like to share my story about how, over the two years I’ve been engaged, I’ve really matured in the way I think about mar­riage — I used to be pre­oc­cu­pied with the fairy­tale wed­ding story — but now I am much more in tune with a wed­ding being about a MARRIAGE, and I feel so much bet­ter about every­thing.

A wed­ding — and mar­riage — built around music

My fiance and I met when I joined his band in 2009 (and we’ve both been in sev­eral oth­ers) — so our music revolves around music! We’re hav­ing four dif­fer­ent bands (about 90% of the band mem­bers I know as friends) and we’ve had music writ­ten and arranged espe­cially for us.

We got engaged after seven months and we’re now at the stage where we’re final­is­ing the nitty gritty details and really find­ing ways to make the cer­e­mony and recep­tion totally per­sonal to us.

We chose very for­mal sur­round­ings to get mar­ried in (a cas­tle!), and of late we’ve decided to try to make it a lit­tle more casual and friendly by adding lit­tle touches here and there.

We’re also hav­ing an engage­ment shoot in Feb­ru­ary — and some of the pho­tos taken that day will be very inte­gral to the wed­ding day itself!!

I’ve devel­oped a real inter­est in blog­ging since dis­cov­er­ing wed­ding blogs — so much so that I’ve now set up my own blog with a friend based around the city in which we live — ded­i­cated to show­cas­ing local busi­nesses and things to do in and around the area.

To be fea­tured on a wed­ding blog would sum up the last year or so for me in a really pos­i­tive way, and to know that I am able to help oth­ers on the road to the dis­cov­ery of mar­riage rather than the per­fect wed­ding would make me very happy indeed!

Fol­low Salma’s wed­ding plan­ning story here