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Guest Writer | The stripped down wedding
All photographs in this blog post were taken by Hafenliebe who specialise in intimate weddings and elopements. Connect with them via Facebook. The Stripped Down Wedding: CC Rossler It may seem...
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Real Wedding | An Exotic Marigold New Year’s Eve Wedding
Family and friends arrived at Tarryn & Brad’s wedding in 2015, and left in 2016 with champagne on their lips and confetti in their hair. The venue in the KZN Midlands, Crystal Barn, was the...
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Guest Post | Selecting your Music Man
Good music could be the difference between 3am dance offs, or people sneaking out just after the cake cutting. The musical choices that you make for your special day are really, really important. This...
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Guest Post | It’s all relevant
Everyone in the wedding industry, whether you are a wedding planner, photographer, DJ or chef, gets asked certain questions that to us seem so simple. It’s so OBVIOUS which side of the church your...
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Real Wedding | Married in the Park
Getting married in a public space sounds like such a genius idea; no venue hire, a casual gathering of the ones you love, the pleasures of nature. Kikitography captured the wedding day of Juanne and...
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Guest Post |Ceremony readings
A couple of weeks ago, I was chatting to a friend about readings at weddings, and alternative options to bible readings. ‘If they’re not from the bible, where do you get them from?’ he asked. ‘Umm, I...
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Guest Post | Just how thirsty are your wedding guests?
At some point while planning your wedding, you will need to decide on how much alcohol you will be providing or how ‘big’ your bar tab will be. This can be a sticky subject with whoever is footing the...
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Real Wedding | Durban Inspired
When Dane and Abi first started looking at wedding venues, there was one non-negotiable. It had to be local. They are both proud Durbanites and wanted to honor this beautiful city that they live in....
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Shirley & Gareth | on a budget
People will often talk about how expensive weddings are, but the truth – in actual fact – is that it costs very very little to form a legal union with your betrothed. With R500 to pay for the legal...
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Erin & Guy | A glamorous tulip affair
The wedding of Erin and Guy at Hillcrest venue Camp Orchards was glamorous while still casual enough for guests to kick off their shoes and loosen their ties on the dance floor. With the bride wearing...
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Guest Post | Table Layouts
So you’re recently engaged, you’re jumping from one cloud 9 to the other and can’t help yourself from gazing adoringly at the sparkling bling on your finger. In parallel to your euphoria however you...
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HOORAY! We’re hiring | Winter Internship
As the seasons change and we say goodbye to long evenings sipping mojitos and welcome cooler nights in front the of the fire place, so we reflect on the past year at Hooray Weddings and make the...
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Real Wedding | Mountain Splendour
When I saw this image on Facebook, I had a million questions for the bride and knew that I had to get in touch. A non-traditional floral wedding gown, a marquee out in the fields with the Drakensburg...
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Guest post | Blomme
This little impromptu guest post by the lovely Kate from Blomme is all about a little overlooked fact at almost every wedding; What to do with your flowers after the celebration is over? You have paid...
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Hooray Advice | How to be a bridesmaid
So pretty much the first thing your bestie wants to do once her hunky chunk of a man has put sparkly on the fourth finger of her left hand, is to choose YOU as her guuurl, wing woman, or as Pinterest...
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Welcome | Hooray Interns
With Christy having just had a baby and Derryn about to take leave after a hectic wedding season, Hooray Weddings is very excited to announce the addition of two new team mates – Candice & Sasha –...
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REAL WEDDING | pink hair, a vegan picnic, bring the kids
Gemma reached out to us via Instagram after we featured her friend Rochelle’s wedding on the blog. After seeing just one photo from Durban photographer Kristi Smith we knew we were in for a treat. Red...
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Guest Post | Invitation Etiquette
So you’re engaged! You’ve set your date, booked your venue, set up meetings with your vendors and started planning the details of your wedding day. Good going! Now you need to let your guests know...
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Non-cheesy Father-daughter Dance
So, it’s time to pick a father-daughter dance song. But, what to choose? What to choose? Should you go with the same song that your cousin Sandra used at her wedding a few years ago? It went down...
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Real Wedding | Anele & Kai take over Instagram
We stumbled across Kai & Anele’s wedding on Instagram and couldn’t help but dive deeper into their story via their wedding hashtag #ASgethitched. A little stalking later and we had fallen in love...
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