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I am living in Melbourne, AUS and will be getting married in January in Seattle. I went home in December and planned EVERYTHING I could, including ordering a dress, so that I wouldn't feel the pressure to go home again before the wedding.

Becasue I won't be near my vendors, I picked vendors that I knew that were wonderful, and I picked venues that had their own coordinators. I ended up paying more then I could have, but I will get more out of the venues/vendors because of the extra money. I also picked a church and reception venue that have plenty of character and won't need a lot of decorating, in order to cut down on DIY.

For centrepieces, I decided that I wanted white milk glass vases, and heaps of them. I am lucky my mothers friends love antiqueing. They have gotten me all of them I could need or ever want and hand them to my parents (who live in Seattle) to store until the wedding. I have another one of my mother's friends who is going to be doing all of the flowers for the centrepieces.

As for Bridesmaids: they are all living all over the world, as are our groomsmen. We are giving them a color and just being ok with having different shades of that color for the bridesmaids dresses and the groomsmen's suits.

I am having a friend work as the DOC, to make sure everything gets done.

I still have a long way to go but I am getting there. The big things I have to figure out is the best (and cheapest!) way to send out invites, since most of them will be going to the US or Canada.

That all said, you can do it. I don't think it will be that bad as long as you pick venues and vendors who respond well and even better if you have been to events in the past there.

I'm also in Japan planning for my wedding in my FI's hometown. We are relying on his mom and sisters at the moment to secure placesl, etc but will actually be moving back in time to start planning on our own. However, a friend of mine who left Japan last year planned a wedding completely from here and got married as soon as she moved back. Luckily her now-husband and mom were both in the US and did a lot of the major lifting for her- her husband even scoped out dresses for her! As long as you have dedicated family members, it can work out without a planner or anything, I think.

Oooo!  I'm in Melbourne planning for June 2012 in NY (engaged to a kiwi).  I'm managing the planning okay but miss being home to be able to do it all with everyone else.  We'll head home for Christmas 2011 to get a lot of things out of the way - dress shopping, meeting with vendors, engagement shoot, organizing ceremony stuff, etc... SO much to do.  I was thinking for invites that I'll probably ship them home in a parcel for my family to stamp and post for me.  There are tons of those little things to sort.

Latest problem - BMs want to throw me a shower while we're home but I'm not sure how that would work with registering/gifts.  Any ideas on that?  Maybe we could have a bridal planning brunch in Mellie sometime? :-)