Wedding Planning Tips

hi, im making my own wedding planer, what are the things i need to include?
im kind of clueless when it comes to planning a wedding.
ive goggled this but nothing helps.
thanks

Whenever i talk to people about what profession i would like to do once out of college I always think Photographer but i don’t say that, to many people shut my idea down and stuff. So i got curious, can you make a living off of being a photographer? Here is what i do and where i will be:
Locations:
Boston, MA.
Miami, FL
possibly LA? (another words, a major city)
What i shoot:
Weddings
Horses & riders (this includes horse shows which can be a 4 day event)
Motocross races (also can be a 2-4 day event)
Senior pictures
and random things.
What do you think? How much do you charge on average for a wedding?

Things such as Wedding or Party Favors, Buisness cards, Holiday Cards… things of that nature… where do i start?

My mum’s friend is getting married on January 7th and has asked me if I can make her wedding favours and macaroons for the reception and that she will pay me for my work. I’ve talked to the bride about what it is she wants because I wanted to know how much work I would need to do.
For the favours she wants to do boxes of white chocolate drops with crystallised rose petals on top which I am making as well. Each box will contain 10 drops and there are 140 guests. I would also have to buy the boxes to package them up.
For the macaroons, she wants 6-8 different flavoured and coloured macaroons to go with her wedding colours and 200 of each flavour.
I think I can do it myself as the chocolates can be made in advance and the macaroons will have to be done a day or two before but if I start early and concentrate I can do it. How much should I charge her? I was thinking maybe £250 – £300 to do it or is that too much?

I would like to make my own wedding favours. I have checked out various websites and although their ideas are really nice I find with shipping and all the hidden cost it become a little pricey! If anyone could give me any ideas or even websites that are a little more reasonable I would definitely appreciate it!! I was thinking along the lines of shot glasses! Thanks in advance!

My girlfriend of three years and I are going to school to be Doctors ( we want to be Pediatricians and specialize in mental disabilities) so I know that we will have a pretty income after we pay off our schooling. I don’t want to just buy things with the money I get. I would like to make investments that will allow my income to grow more (Not to be greedy; I just want to allow my family to grow up financially secure after watching my family’s finances crumble from the economy). I have already invested three hundred dollars in a particular stock which I plan to keep until I finish my residency and begin my medical career. I also invested 100 dollars in a certain thing my father talked me into doing because it has the potential of a 1,000% to 30,000% increase and if that goes through, I want to begin making investments then and of course save some to buy my girlfriend a nice ring and allow us to have the wedding we want to have (we want to get married at the Magic Kingdom at Disney in Orlando). What are some good investment ideas when I am making a pretty penny?

I have various video clips, most of which I have taken on my Panasonic Lumix digital camera. Other clips have been emailed to me through various other formats. I am trying to put them all together as a surprise video for the bride during her bridal shower; however, Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker are not recognizing a lot of the clips. Also, there are a few that it did recognize, yet only the sound comes through with no picture. Can someone please recommend the simplest, easiest to use program out there? Or, can you instruct me on how I should go about doing this (compile clips and bring them to a professional, convert the clips, etc.)?
The bridal shower is in 3 days, so I am in need of help asap.
Thank you so much!

I have various video clips, most of which I have taken on my Panasonic Lumix digital camera. Other clips have been emailed to me through various other formats. I am trying to put them all together as a surprise video for the bride during her bridal shower; however, Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker are not recognizing a lot of the clips. Also, there are a few that it did recognize, yet only the sound comes through with no picture. Can someone please recommend the simplest, easiest to use program out there? Or, can you instruct me on how I should go about doing this (compile clips and bring them to a professional, convert the clips, etc.)?
The bridal shower is in 3 days, so I am in need of help asap.
Thank you so much!

Young and Dumb
When I was in 17 years old I transferred from Erie High School to Pittsburg High School. My senior year had just begun, and I was almost finished with school. It seemed kind of silly to switch when I had just one year left. It wasn’t because my family had moved, or because they got a job somewhere else, it was because I was engaged. I transferred schools because I had decided to move in with my fiancé. I had heard it all from everyone. I wasn’t going to amount to anything, I was going to drop out, and I was throwing my life away. Of course I didn’t listen to what everyone told me, I had known him since I was 12 years old and knew what I was doing.
I had a lot going on in my childhood so I stayed at my Aunt’s house a lot. I was really close to my older cousin and he was often like an older brother to me. He’d have his friends over sometimes and we all liked to hang out, and naturally I started crushing on his best friend. But because he was 4 years older than me, it was not easy to be together. We went through the whole parent clash thing off and on for years, but he still stuck around. This proved to my mom that he really cared about me and at 17 I got engaged and she gave me the ok to move in with him.
I was always a fairly good student and made good grades and loved school. And I kept that up after I transferred. I was so eager though, to start my life with my fiancé that we started planning our wedding. When I had talked to my mom about this she said she wouldn’t sign the marriage papers until she saw that diploma. So here I was, going to school during the day, and an after school program in the evening to get those extra credits I needed in order to graduate early. And by semester in December ’06 I was graduated. My mom was really shocked and by no means expected that I would do that, but she held up to her word and agreed to let us get married.
The planning didn’t take long, as I was not concerned with a huge ceremony but only to be happy and begin my new journey with him as my husband. Again I was tried to be talked out of it, that I was much too young and should wait. I just didn’t see a point. Everyone else always says to wait and you need to live first, but to me, that was living. My main priority in life was to be happy and to start a family. So on February 28th, 2007, I married my best friend.
We have now been married for four years and have two beautiful children. Not every step of the way was easy. It has been a great journey and adventure all along the way. It’s had its up’s and downs but I wouldn’t trade what I have, and how close of a bond our family has for anything. So many people try to direct you and focus you on the order in how life should play out. And to me that just doesn’t make since. I don’t think there’s any certain way or “order” to live your life. I got married young, had two children, and I’m just now starting college. But my life is perfect to me.

They will only be small a bit bigger that the size of a golf ball. They will be made of felt and have wadding in them (i want them to be scented so people can hang them in there wardrobe.
Please don’t tell me to make cookies or have chocolate’s as my favors that is not what i want to do.
Thanks