Kicking off the first Wedding Wednesday!

As I am beginning my journey as Kathleen Hart I can finally exhale because my wedding is in the past. It's a bitter sweet feeling because I had a blast planning my wedding!  But it is a lot of work and it can be overwhelming at times. As you will soon find out I was a very hands-on bride when it came to planning. I had SO many ideas and I was determined to execute every single one as perfectly as I could.  You would think that would stress a girl out but I gave myself plenty of time to get everything done and in the end time was only side.

A lil background into my relationship, I met Jason Hart when I was a lil 21 year old and 7 years later on March 5, 2013 he got down on one knee and proposed to me! I let the engagement sink in for a few days and decided I wanted us to get married in 2015 because 15 just happened to be my lucky number.  But wait, I got married in 2014.... well shortly after we got engaged I couldn't wait to start planning.  My mom will even say: "One day I was getting married in 2 years in 2015 and the next I had my wedding date as 9/6/14 and that was it."  Which is entirely 100% true.  I think a part of me just didn't want to wait any longer. Plus, Pinterest doesn't help. You can find so many good ideas on there! And I did.

K&J June 2014

Because I am still enjoying being a newly wed I thought it would be appropriate to dedicate Wednesdays to a day of wedding tips!  I have SO many!  To kick off the first Wedding Wednesday I will start at the beginning with the WEDDING WEBSITE. This was one of the first things I did. It can be quite overwhelming when you first start because there are so many fields and pages to fill in but if you do it little by little it's not bad at all.  A lot of sites allow you to make adjustments to the site and mark it private until you're ready to make it 'Live' for others to see.  Its also a great place to document your proposal too! I don't remember the exact details of the proposal or when we went shopping for rings but if I read my wedding website its all there!

I did have to do research when I was ready to make my website- there are a lot of sites to choose from.  My biggest piece of advice is: do not pay for a wedding website! There are plenty of free customizable websites out there. I used the site mywedding.com - they have quite a few backgrounds to choose from that there's one for every wedding theme plus you can customize the pages too!  I included my wedding website on my save-our-date magnets and on my invitations. That way my guests could go online and get all the info they need as well as questions answered by me.  This allowed me to keep my invitations less bulky.

Even though my wedding is over (sad face) my website is still available to view.  Take a look!
My wedding website!

Mywedding.com also offers many other wedding planning tools on their site like setting up budgets, finding vendors, and they have a section similar to Pinterest where you can gather ideas and inspirations that you find online.   I only used the wedding website but the other functions seem to be very useful.