Planning a wedding in the UK from Australia

Wow!! sounds like an exciting opportunity!!! A lot to think about certainly. Would you still be planning to keep the wedding here? If you are and it's a question of planning it, so much is done over the phone/email/post I reckon you could do it from elsewhere easily enough if you've got friends/family that can help you out from here.

In terms of job risk etc, I guess it depends if you can afford it if you can't find work and what you'd do if not. I always find budget sheets (of the money you'd have if you couldn't find work and how you'd pay for it) and a good old pro and con list works a treat!! Failing that OH and I leave a lot of our big decisions to the 'fate' of 'paper, scissors, stone' if we really can't decide ?

Can I ask when would he know if he has got the job? As in, will there be some time for you to start job hunting? I assume this will be a permanent post for him? Would there be any negative implications on him if he doesn't go for it or is he absolutely sure he wants it?

I am planning a wedding in the UK from abroad, and so far I haven't found it to be too difficult. We saw our venue in person - made a special trip to see it - but pretty much everything else has been done/will be done via email, skype and phone calls. I think I might need a bit of time in the UK closer to the time though. Don't let thoughts about wedding planning affect your decision to move. It sounds very exciting!

That sounds like such an exciting opportunity

I agree with the others. I think a lot of stuff is done via email and that makes it really easy. A lot of suppliers would gladly Skype with you and that way you can actually talk in person about it and get to know them, so much easier to discuss rather than over email.

I hope everything works out for you!

Good morning, I'm from the north east of England and have lived in Adelaide for the past 15months and we get married in the Lake District next year.

We haven't seen our venue, my parents went to see it and knew we'd like it so booked it, everything has been booked over the net having read tons of reviews for things like cakes, entertainment etc so it hasn't been too stressful. I can shop online and have things delivered to my parents house so that's good.

Just a few pointers, our return flights next year for 3 of us is costing $8500, is it possible to get married before you come out here? I really wish we'd done that now!

to legally marry in UK you have to be resident for 8 days befor you can register your intent to marry with registrar then a further 15 days before you can then marry meaning a total of 24 days back there before your wedding.. This for us is using all of our annual leave up and then the cost of living on "holiday" in England for 4 weeks making it a very expensive trip.

Adelaide is quite an expensive place to live. Yes the wages are higher but with that is the cost of living.. Totally off topic but just ensure your other half gets a good pay deal out here especially of you don't have a job straight away. We were here in April and it took me til August to find a job in an office. It really is a good place to live and the chance of a lifetime if he already has a job but I would just advise not putting to much financial pressure on yourselves as travel here to England isn't cheap and the general annual leave allowance is 4 weeks.

PM me if you'd like to know anything else about Adelaide :o).

Ps there's a forum called poms in Adelaide that's really good for info and people living here to chat, meet up, ask questions etc

I'm from UK but am living in NZ at the moment and planning a wedding in the UK next year.

We've not seen our venue yet but sent parents to find the perfect place. Everything else we've managed to do online looking at reviews and speaking to friends and family. It's not been too hard at all. It's also given us a great theme, bringing a little bit of NZ to our friends and family in the UK

As someone else has said there are factors to consider with the license. Just make sure you give notice before you leave the UK so that you don't have to come back a month before the wedding. The period to be in the UK only affects giving your notice, you can give notice then leave the country and return the day before your wedding if you want.

If you can afford to move to Australia and then look for work I'd definitely say go for it. It's what happened with us - OH got offered a job in NZ, we moved over and I found a job after a month or so. Best decision we ever made and love it over here

Thanks all and sorry for the late reply. I agreed to the move, but OH's big boss vetoed on the grounds that he didn't want to lose his technical expertise in the UK business :-( so we are staying here, which I guess is ok! Just gotta deal with all my UK based problems now haha!!