Getting Married in Bali?

Are you among the growing number of Australian couples planning to get married in Bali?  If you are, take care that your Bali wedding planner is legal.

The Bali Wedding Association is a new organisation of registered wedding organisers. Currently, the Association has about 100 members.

Deden Acep Saefulloh, Chair of the new organisation, suggests that couples ensure they have a means of contacting their planner other than just email address. Office address and phone contact is a good start. He also advises using locally-based planners rather than an overseas-based planner that may not be fully aware of all the rules and regulations relating to marriage in Bali.

Couples - be true to yourselves!

Planning your wedding? Remember that your special day - the start of your married life - is about YOU as a couple.

Be true to yourselves. Be guided by your beliefs, your interests, your feelings ...

Be brave enough to rock the boat if that will make your Wedding Ceremony one to remember forever.

Work with your Marriage Celebrant - religious officiant or civil celebrant - to create a Marriage Ceremony that celebrates your coupledom, that speaks to who YOU really are.

• Traditional or not?
• Hundreds of guests or intimate and cosy?
• Indoor or outdoor?
• Religious or civil?
• Beach, winery or back garden?
• Trailing veil or small head piece?
• Write-your-own or standard vows?

Above all else, be true to yourselves. Honour your reality. Katie & Kellan were brave enough to do just that. Check out their ceremony & reception on the Offbeat Bride blog.

Photography by Cheryl Bolton-Reuter

Your wedding : what would you do differently?

Planning your wedding can be one of the most stressful times in your life; so many people to deal with, so many decisions to be made, so much choice ...

But what about if you could redo the planning, with the hindsight of maturity and access to more amazing technologies to assist?

Nicole, on her blog, Our crazy beautiful, has done just that!

In her post, 'Wedding do over list', Nicole writes with humour and some regret over decisions made when planning her wedding, and offers her take on how she (and husband, Luke) would do it today.

'Before the days of Pinterest and blogging, I got married. It was a very sweet lovely day. But it really wasn’t ‘us’. I just don’t think at that time we really knew who ‘us’ was- in a style sense of course.'

What about YOU. Would you do anything differently? Or are you still as happy with your special day as you were on the day itself?

'And a flower smile' by C. Frank Starmer - CC licence