We’ve got one final stop on this road trip to Weddingvendorville before we start booking wedding creators and that’s to talk about how the wedding industry isn’t like every other industry.

I believe that one of the leading causes of stress and anxiousness in wedding planning is the beautiful coming together of two people who are, for most likely the first time, planning the biggest event they’ve ever planned, gathering the most peop...

I'm not going to lie, writing a book is hard. You get all excited and start writing and eventually you get all those initial words out, and then - in my experience at least - your brain and your fingers disconnect for a moment and you lose the ability to make words out of the thoughts in your head.

Do not fear though, your intrepid writer spent a few days trying to burst through that dam wall between "figuring out why you're having ...

Writing this chapter prompted me on a future book, The Rebel's Guide to Eloping. There's so much confusion around weddings and elopements I've now committed myself to writing two books. Lord knows how many will come after that.

As always, your comments and reviews are welcome as I write this book in public, it's how a rebel does things, out from under the shadows, in the full light of day.

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Today's chapter is a favourite conversation of mine. Something I love about being in the wedding business is that planning a wedding is one of the first big things a couple does together. For many couples, it’s the most people they’ve gathered together, and the most money they’ve spent, and it’s a fantastic exercise in working on your relationship as you make such a large undertaking.

So as you undertake it with your significant ot...

An attack on being chill, and then, what you actually, probably mean

In my years as a marriage celebrant a common statement couples make as we’re planning their ceremony is that they want a ‘chill wedding’. This sounds like a great idea, compared to all those stressful weddings we’ve heard about. The problem with chill is best described Priya Parker in her book The Art of Gathering when she says, “chill is selfishness disg...

How to have an intentional wedding

The path to an intentional wedding is light and airy, it’s not supposed to be hard. That’s my biggest gripe with the world today, that when you do the hard work of finding someone you really like, and then you fall into love, so much so that you would want to marry, the entire narrative is that it’s hard, it’s stressful, it’s expensive and basically terrible.

It’s the narrative you read a...

After having created thousands of weddings I would, quite bluntly, say that if you’re going to even have a wedding, let it be with intent, or don’t have one at all.

After all, you don’t actually need a wedding to get married.

Some people say they’re “not really into weddings” and those people are so very welcome to head down to the marriage registry office or find a local celebrant to help you with the legals and get it done withou...

Eight years ago I started 2015 with a Facebook post proudly declaring that I was going to "finally" write my wedding book and if you've known me for that long you'll know the book never happened. Lots of weddings happened, lots of travel, two children, a pandemic and a few tacos thrown in most recently. But I've got a fire inside of me I can't put out, so this year is the year, I've asked for help from some friends, and I'm writing...

I've got a very specific and seemingly different way of looking at how to create a wedding, it's my own little wedding planning method, The Withers Wedding Method. If that was a sexier name I'd probably make a book, but until I get a sexier book title, I'll drop it here as an episode of The Rebels Guide To Getting Married podcast and vlog.

Would you trust your wedding photographer if the only camera they had was an iPhone 11 Pro? This week I talk to my friend, and Indianapolis wedding photographer, Jen Van Elk who did just that, her husband Steve helps me find the best wedding venue on the Gold Coast, Sharne Perrett from the Australia-wide Virtual Wedding Fair explains what a virtual wedding fair is, and Michaela wants to know what to do about her partner wanting a b...

Welcome to a brand new format of the Rebel's Guide To Getting Married, we've changed to a wedding talkback show where Josh takes your questions live on the air. Today Scotty asks what to do about a wedding reception and dancing in COVID-19 restrictions, Kristy and Matt are trying to figure out where to elope, and Dan doesn't know how to break it to her mother-in-law that she's going to miss out on the wedding she's always dreamed o...