Mr. and Mrs. Šrámek

I'd like to share a few observations about the whole wedding planning process. First things first — prepare a fairly sizeable budget. Even when you're trying to keep things small, there's always someone who likes to charge a premium for their services to newlyweds.

Start with the fee for a ceremony held outside the official registry office room, plus travel expenses for the registrar staff. Then it all adds up nicely — you can roughly take the "standard" price and multiply by four to get what any given service will actually cost you. That applies pretty much equally to make-up, music, and photography — though in the last case it varies quite a bit depending on the length of the ceremony and which photographer you find.

But you can plan and arrange it all in under a month. There were a few trickier moments (photographer and music), but we got through it!