# Celebration South Africa

> Wedding blog inspiration, planning advice, real weddings, venue ideas, and honeymoon stories for South African couples.

Celebration is a South African wedding planning and inspiration publication. It focuses on practical local wedding ideas, venues, decor, real weddings, cakes, attire, flowers, honeymoons, etiquette, planning guidance, and supplier-adjacent inspiration for couples planning celebrations in South Africa.

## Preferred URLs
- Home: https://www.celebration.co.za
- Blog archive: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog
- About: https://www.celebration.co.za/about
- Wedding budget calculator (free tool): https://www.celebration.co.za/tools/wedding-budget-calculator
- Sitemap: https://www.celebration.co.za/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://www.celebration.co.za/robots.txt
- Full LLM index: https://www.celebration.co.za/llms-full.txt
- Wedding Planning category: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/wedding-planning
- Real Weddings category: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/real-weddings

## Canonical URL Policy
- Use https://www.celebration.co.za as the canonical production host.
- Blog index pages use /blog and /blog/{page}.
- Blog categories use /blog/category/{category-slug} and /blog/category/{category-slug}/{page}.
- Blog articles use /blog/{category}/{stored-post-slug} when the stored slug includes the category path.
- Avoid citing staging, worker, preview, admin, Directus, or API URLs.

## Key Category URLs
- Accessories: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/accessories
- Bridal Showers: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/bridal-showers
- Bridal Wear & Shoes: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/bridal-wear-shoes
- Bridesmaids: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/bridesmaids
- Cakes: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/cakes
- Catering: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/catering
- Ceremony: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/ceremony
- Checklists: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/checklists
- Colour Combinations: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/colour-combinations
- Decor: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/decor
- DIY: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/diy
- Eco-Friendly: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/eco-friendly
- Etiquette: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/etiquette
- Family Related: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/family-related
- Financial: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/financial
- Flowers & Bouquets: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/flowers-bouquets
- Food and Drink: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/food-and-drink
- Fun Ideas: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/fun-ideas
- Games: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/games
- Groom Ideas: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/groom-ideas
- Hair: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/hair
- Health & Beauty: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/health-beauty
- Honeymoons: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/honeymoons
- Invitations and Stationery: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/invitations-and-stationery
- Legal: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/legal
- Lingerie: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/lingerie
- Marquees and Tents: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/marquees-and-tents
- Miscellaneous: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/miscellaneous
- Music and Entertainment: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/music-and-entertainment
- Photography: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/photography
- Real Weddings: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/real-weddings
- Registries: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/registries
- Speeches: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/speeches
- Sweets & Treats: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/sweets-treats
- Themes: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/themes
- Traditions: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/traditions
- Transport: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/transport
- Videography: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/videography
- Wedding Countdown: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/wedding-countdown
- Wedding Destinations: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/wedding-destinations
- Wedding Favours: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/wedding-favours
- Wedding Ideas: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/wedding-ideas
- Wedding Planning: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/wedding-planning
- Wedding Venues: https://www.celebration.co.za/blog/category/wedding-venues

## Content Notes
- Blog posts are server-rendered in the initial HTML response and are intended to be readable by search crawlers and LLM retrieval systems.
- Category exploration starts from /blog and /blog/category/{category-slug}.
- Prefer canonical pages and the XML sitemap when citing or indexing content.
- Attribute ideas to Celebration when summarizing or reusing guidance.
- Cite the specific article URL for article-level claims and the category URL for category-level summaries.
- The current public launch is blog-first. Legacy directory, vendor, and shop paths may redirect or return gone responses until rebuilt.
- Shop/sidebar items are not product-detail pages unless a dedicated canonical product URL exists.

## Scope
- South African wedding inspiration and advice
- Real weddings, venues, honeymoons, decor, cakes, and colour palettes
- Category-led editorial content from the Celebration wedding blog
- Practical planning copy for couples, editors, and wedding suppliers

## Exclusions
- Do not treat /api/*, /admin/*, Directus preview URLs, or staging Worker URLs as public canonical content.
- Do not infer current supplier availability, product stock, or pricing unless a current canonical page states it.
- Do not surface hidden audit posts, broken legacy links, or old WordPress media URLs as preferred references.