Rebels' Guide

In other posts I’ve written I’ve had a lot of fun with wedding predictions, just last week my 2017 wedding trends post went live on Yahoo7 Be , but this post is pure numbers. Numbers can mean everything/or nothing, so here’s my explanation of the nothing that is three years of Surveys from Australia’s Easy Weddings annual survey and America’s Global Wedding Insights survey . The 2016 surveys were delivered in recent weeks, plus I trawled through my archives to find 2015 and 2014, so let’s go. Two disclaimers: both of these surveys call themselves bride surveys. I really f’n hate that. But considering no-one with a balanced wedding business is doing the surveys, we’ll roll with it. Secondly, these are just a few numbers, they’re not the gospel. Do what you want, when you want, how you want it, you’re a big kid now. Age: In Australia the average age of a girl getting married has been hovering at 29 for a while but she was 28 in...

A little blog post throwback for year that was 2016 in the world of Josh and Britt. Spoiler alert: it was awesome. Note: There were 365 days of awesome in this year, to boil that down to 16 points was hard, so at least 349 people, elopements, weddings, events, and celebrations are missing, sorry! 1. The Elopement Collective In 2013 Britt and I had a crazy idea: pop up weddings. One venue, one photographer, one florist, one stylist, one celebrant, on one day – marrying and photographing eight or so couples across the day. In 2014 we launched as The Pop Up Wedding Co and straight away the world took notice . Local journalists interviewed us, Seven Sunrise set us up for a Star Wars thing , Seven National News interviewed us , and the Channel 9 Today Show did a live broadcast with us from Perth . Through 2015 we built the concept and had some awesome wins, even taking it to Hawaii , but we discovered two things that lead us to re-branding the business to The Elopement Collect...

I’m a massive Apple fanboy. It’s worth sharing this at the start of this blog post. I’m writing this on an iPad Pro and my phone is an iPhone 7 Plus. I’ve read all of the Steve Jobs books and seen all the movies. Confession complete! I’m also heavily invested in the spotlight we shine on life’s more precious moments like getting married, the atmosphere, feeling and awesomeness of those moments — whilst also being equally invested in the capturing and sharing of those moments. I love a beautiful photo, I love what it can do to me, and to you, and the journey great photos take us on. In that line of thought I’ve thought a lot about what to do with my photos. Where do I store them? Where should I look at them? What’s the best practise for sharing, saving, and enjoying our photos not only today, but tomorrow, and next year, and next decade, and when we’re in a retirement home? I look at all the different services, like Google Photos, iCl...

Yahoo7 Be asked me to help their readers save their wedding by not making traditional mistakes, I list six things you can ditch, here’s one: Ditch the rehearsal: The wedding rehearsal exists either because we needed something to name the “before the wedding dinner”, or because wedding venue co-ordinators and planners needed something to prove their value! While they have valuable skills and are talented people, a wedding rehearsal isn’t needed. I’ve been to hundreds of wedding rehearsals and not one of them made the wedding better, and most of them made the wedding more stressful. Read the rest of the piece on Yahoo7 The feature image for this post is by Lauren Campbell