Welcome to your  July Newsletter, I hope the planning of your wedding is going smoothly and if you're big day is fast approaching and your nerves are feeling frayed I can certainly recommend a Summer Spa Day at Ardencote Manor (see our specials section for offers).

Fancy £250.00 worth of Marks and Spencer Vouchers?

We are looking to run a special diary feature on a couple planning their wedding in 2012, from the engagement through to the wedding, we'd like to know all about the highs and lows of your planning and the actual day itself.You'll also be immortalised on our blog, facebook and twitter! Contact Jean on jean@wedding-organizer.co.uk if you're interested.

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Check out our specials page at: http://www.wedding-organizer.co.uk/news-and-offers/ to see a full list. 

You could be missing out on offers like these!

	20% discount when you mention The Wedding Organizer
	Offering a massive discount of £100 off any 3 hour wedding booked for this year up to October
	Offering a fantastic £200 off all packages standard and above on confirmed bookings taken before the 31st July 2011

Don't forget to download your latest edition of our ebook which contains lots of lovely new suppliers in your area! Click here and type in the password: banweddingstress1 to find links to the books; your region will be there.

Don't miss out on Local Wedding Fayres

Don't forget to check out our wedding fayre page, as mentioned in our blog fayres are a great way to meet potential suppliers, view the venue and glean some fantastic ideas for your wedding. 

What do you think of our site & ebook?

Jean - EDITOR

Okay, so the last one is a bit silly, but what I'm trying to get at is that there is an entire wealth of traditions and hundreds of years of marriage ceremonies to draw upon.

When I have spoken to gay couples, many have said they are a bit bamboozled when thinking about the kind of wedding they want. I remember speaking to one lady who said "it's not like we can just do what everyone else does, like straight couples can."

I nearly fell off my chair when I heard that – it was so contrary to the way I see it. For me, a gay couple has an entire world of wedding traditions to pick and choose from, and reject entirely if they so wish. If you want to be 'given away' by a parent, or best friend, or family friend, then why not? If you want to have a best man AND a best woman, why not? If you want to have a very traditional styled ceremony in a grand civil venue, why not?

Just because those traditions and rituals were developed for straight marriage, it doesn't mean that they can't be drawn upon for a gay wedding. After all, union and love underpin many of them, and that's what this is all about.

The world of weddings is your oyster, a veritable feast of ideas and traditions for you to peruse and pick the ones which are right for you and your civil partnership ceremony, and that is exactly what this section is about. You'll find information about worldwide traditions and what other people have done too, all with the aim of inspiring you in the planning of your ceremony.