Hello friends welcome back to my channel if you're new welcome my name is Christine so
today I actually thought I would sit down and talk you through everything that I have planned
for our wedding bran and I got engaged almost a year ago now I actually got a reminder on my
phone that this same time last year Brandon and I were wedding ring shopping we're getting ready
to go to New York for a month and I do have our engagement Vlog linked up here if you missed it
and we also have a q a as well and now we're a little bit further in the wedding planning
process and we actually leave for Italy in three days so this is gonna be like my last video here
in La before we go to Italy for a month we're planning to look at venues while we're out there
we're actually going to a friend's wedding while we're there so it's gonna be really fun we have
a lot of things planned and you guys have been wanting to see wedding content ever since I got
engaged all I've been listening to is podcasts wedding Vlogs wedding q and A's like I just just
love indulging in all that content so I hope you guys will enjoy this let's take you back
let's go to when I was in Seattle Hello friends today I'm actually in Seattle I'm here for a
couple of days visiting my family but I wanted to sit down and talk to you guys about wedding
planning and I'm just now starting to dive into some of the venues that we're looking at Bray
and I are actually going to Italy in a couple of weeks less than 10 days we'll be there and
we're gonna be in Italy south of France for a whole month we're renting a car we're planning
to kind of Pop around Italy and then along the coast and do like the French Riviera Coast big
thing whatever they call it I don't know I've never really spent a lot of time in Italy or
even been to south of France so Brandon are going to be exploring that for the first time we want
to get married in Italy or south of France we've always wanted to do a destination wedding and we
love Europe I feel like the food and wine is amazing and we want to keep it really
small and intimate we can dive into that if you guys are interested but I wanted today
to be more of a like overall wedding planning video like kind of like give you an idea of
what I Envision and what I want for us and I also wanted to say a big thank you to minted
for sponsoring a part of this video a couple of months ago I hopped on a call with minted and
we kind of did some mock-up invitations and saved the dates and obviously this is all just kind of
like drafting kind of what I want and the vision and the style and stuff like that because brand
and I still don't have a date or a venue in mind I also want to work with a wedding planner and then
I also want to work with a photographer to do our engagement shoot while we are in Italy so all this
is in the works we have a lot of things planned I currently on my computer have so many tabs open
and I'm just looking at photographers and kind of finding like the vibe that we want we are hoping
to find a place that also has accommodations for guests so that people can spend the night there
and especially because if it's a smaller a more intimate wedding it would just be fun for us to
be able to spend a couple of nights together with the wedding party and guests I'm really excited to
finally dive into wedding planning I feel like I haven't really talked about it because we haven't
had time but I'll walk you guys through some of the stuff that I have planned with Minted as well
so I actually created my website with minted and you could see it's very basic right now because
we don't have a date or a venue or anything like that but I'm hoping by the end of this trip we'll
have a date and a venue and we are planning to hire a wedding planner as well so obviously as
we get further along we'll have like more stuff to fill out on our website I'm also really excited
to be working with minted and do our save the dates invitation all of the stationery that we
need for the wedding with minted and I actually found it super helpful to hop on the phone with
the wedding concierge and I'm like one of the first of my friends to get engaged and married
and plan all this stuff so I just feel like I don't really know that much that goes into it
so minted is great because there's a lot of resources on their website they have a whole
wedding planning checklist things that you need to do 9 12 months in advance six to eight months
and then up until like two months and then one month in advance so this is really how helpful
for me I need a checklist like this so This is actually downloadable on their website and
it's completely free there's so many different resources on here that are super useful and I
even did like a little mock-up of the save the dates for me and Brandon and we actually are
planning on taking our engagement photos while we are in Italy so we're going to have some new
photos to kind of pop in on our website all of our stationery that we're going to use so that'll be
really exciting for our actual wedding I'll pop on some pictures that I have on your Pinterest
board kind of the vibe that we want we want a really small wedding around 30 to 40 people so
this is really tough because my family is really big like my immediate family with just my mom dad
brother his fiancee and my sister her boyfriend is already six people and then there's obviously me
and Brandon his side of the family that's already 15 people that's right half of the wedding party
so we want something very small very intimate and at the end of the day I just want to have fun with
really good friends and family and that's what is important to me I would much rather spend that
money on having a smaller longer celebration with people that we really care about we also have lots
of content planned while we're out there maybe we'll do like little Vlogs of each little area
and then if you guys are interested I'll do like a big Italy Roundup video of like how we planned
our stay how we got around how we found certain restaurants to go to some of our favorites let
me know if that is of interest but yeah I'm really excited to dive into wedding planning I eventually
will do an engagement party because I have yet to have one I think I want to have one either
in LA or Seattle because a lot of my family is in Seattle and I do want to have a bachelorette
little trip with a lot of my girlfriends and I think for the actual wedding if you guys have
planned a destination wedding yourself and you have any like Insight any regrets pros and cons
let me know super interested in hearing what you guys think but I do really want to work with the
wedding planner so hopefully at the venue tours that we have set up we'll meet someone a lot of
things are up in the air but Brandon and I are very go with the flow see what happens so we're
really excited I'm just excited to have a date and get into like wedding dress shopping packing
some goodie boxes for a lot of my girlfriends that I'm gonna take on a little Bachelorette
trip and just a lot of fun content planned yeah so anyways I'm really excited for this I want
to say a big thank you to Minton for working with me for a part of this video I do have a
discount code that I'll leave right here and I'll go ahead and Link it down below in the description
box as well but I hope you guys enjoyed this video we're leaving for Italy so soon so the next video
you see after this would probably be in Italy so I hope you guys are excited for the content
if you want to see more of the wedding Journey some of the wedding planning process make sure
you subscribe so you don't miss a video and that is it I hope you guys enjoyed see you in Italy