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Eek rather you than me catherine! :P

Lol Catherine, Ive been enjoying the videos of everyone doing the ice bucket challenge.

The next 6 weeks or so we will be f=doing nothing wedding wise its Oh birthday 3 weeks then Connors 4 weeks and mine 13 days after that. Setp/oct is a very busy time in this household. WE also have my best friends baby due, my parents wedding anniversary, our nephews birthday, My nieces birthday before our birthdays.

Went shopping today and got the rest of Connors toys in so his birthday is all sorted just now to get something for OH but have no ideas what to get him he is the hardest guy on the planet to buy for.

Catherine, I can't wait to see it :D Ha ha! Awww April yeah it is annoying when people do it and don't donate seeing as that's the whole point, I love that it's bringing ALS to everyones attention though x

Ooooh fooood we don't get to go try ours til like October!!

Ah my works really bad sometimes for when they pay us ! ALS is an illness that basically shuts down your body bit by bit, there's no cure and there's no funding for research into treatments or anything. x

You're paying for your tasting?! Say whaaaaaaaat lol x

You have to pay for your tasting! Mine was on a Sunday and the caterer never charged us.

Yeah we've been told we'll go for a meal and we'll pick two starters, two mains and two deserts to try between us yummmm

Als is also known as Motor Neurone disorder.

we don't get our tasting until a month before the wedding at the same time we make our choices we get to try 2 of each course so one per person ay no extra charge. I've been to my venue for afternoon te and lynch and I know no one is going to be disappointed with the food :)

mmmmm I'm hungry now ! I'm quite looking forward to the breakfast the morning after too! Ha ha

I don't agree with the ice bucket challenge, I don't like how it started as do the challenge or you have to donate... I think making donating to charity a forfeit is a great thing, it was only when it hit the celebrities that it became do it and donate. My brother has nominated me, but I'm not doing it, I will donate some money though. It's good that it's raising awareness, but I just think there are so many people out there who do it and don't donate. My brother had a right go at me saying how wrong it was that I wasn't going to do it after I was nominated and that I'll be tagged in it so everyone will see, I mentioned that I'll donate and asked if he was donating and his response was ''when I can afford it I will'' I think that says it all.

It is known as ALS more in America. I just hope people are donating too.

I didn't mean anything against you with my little rant Catherine sorry, I just meant a lot of the people doing it are really annoying and I also had a similar rant about Macmillian to my fiancé after commenting on here as it really annoys me that they have even set up their own TEXT service for it. I just think it's rude for one when it's about awareness for a charity that people don't really know much about and two it's sort of under the belt for a charity to take money from another charity. Don't get me wrong, again I think they do brilliant work as well and I don't begrudge people giving them money either....

Like I say I couldn't believe it when I was accused of being the one in the wrong for not throwing water on myself but giving money anyway, whereas he is going to give when he can afford it (which will obviously be if he remembers to give when he can afford it)

Also although I am all for raising awareness I kind of don't agree with being told when I should give money to charity and exactly which charities I should support. I often give money to different charities and even do things for charity, I ran the York marathon last year for charity and I'm going to do a sky dive for charity either in October this year or March next year.


But overall I do think it is a good thing to raise awareness and at least people are giving money and it's nice to see it's for a charity that people don't know much about as well, so it feels like the awareness actually means something.

One of my work colleagues tried nominating me and I just said no, I then felt very under pressure by people around me almost forcing me to do it when I said "Right, no, I already donate through work to Diabetes UK, I regularly give to SPCA and also eczema awareness. If I give to every single charity I will end up penniless myself"

I've just been nominated by my MOH I'm going to kill her!! I would be putting her in the most ugliest bridesmaid dress I could find as revenge, if I didn't have to live with the pictures forever!!
I'm not doing it, I have seen about 50 videos posted today on my newsfeed & can count on 1 hand the amount of those that mentioned anything about donating. It just seems to be turning into the latest trend & everyone's being sheep, there not doing it to raise awareness just to get more likes!!

Sorry ladies, really didn't mean to offend.. Not my week obviously :/

I agree with people should donate if they do it but it's really raised the awareness of the issue which I think was the main focal point to raise the fact that there is no funding for research into it.

Ive been nominated twice, and OH as been nominated 4 times! I agree with you all, most people arent even donating, just doing it for fun, and no nothing about MND all x

D3ssy is a good site where you can get them in any colour you want. Also Light in the b@x.

I saw a really nice floor length dress on tescos for £20 in my colours which i though that would be a good back up if my other dresses fall through.

Are you wanting to make or buy them? Have you had a look online for ideas Teresa?

We've made pocketfolds! I'm pretty sure you can get champagne coloured card and maybe even the actual pocketfolds themselves, not sure though? We got ours from ebay and stuck the pocket together. You could incorporate the gold colour with ribbon or some kind of embellishments? should be able to get gold butterflies I'm sure.

Now I've got what Adams spent for the wedding I've updated the spreadsheet. We dont have a number for how much the suits are or transport, but without those its £11,000 in total! We have roughly £5500 left to pay! I dont have a clue where that moneys come from ha, I have a nervous laugh!!

I need to make a final decision on flowers and get them booked in as well to be honest, but I keep changing my mind on what I want.

I really struggled with the flowers but have made a decision and I've booked them.

April it's scary when you look at the total cost I can't even say how much ours is costing without giggling nervously I feel sick at the thought of how much it's all costing but it will all be worth it.

Hi ladies

Hope everyone's planning is going smoothly. Have not been on much lately - need to catch up :-)

Gave notice on Tuesday and can collect our certificate on 11 September to give to our registrars. Money is a bit tight next month or so so not able to book as much as I'd like, but just ordered card etc to start on our invites. We were going to make pocketfolds but have decided on a kind of flip chart type style instead, hard to explain, but keeps everything together and works out cheaper! Really only 'major' thing left to organise is flowers but waiting on florist to supply a more accurate quote based on pic of something I like, everything else is booked and deposits paid. I see alot of people have gone for artificial. I looked into artificial but worked out not much less than real so decided to go for real. If I had time to do them myself I might have attempted it but I don't have a particularly artistic eye so probably would have e been pants ha ha!

Tried on 'my' dress recently too which I'm paying off this month - YAY. Found a nice headpiece and shoes I absolutely fell in love with but are VERY expensive, so on the search for alternatives at the moment.

Aside from wedding, I've recently passed my recent 2 exams, only another 6 to go and I'll be fully qualified :-) probably won't bother with exams next June so can focus on wedding, but just want to get them done!

Awww my MOH just had her first baby, she had a girl whereas I have two boys so been nice to buy girly things for her. Doesn't stop people asking "when's the next one" though lol.

I'm studying to be a Legal Executive (specialist lawyer). Was hoping to be qualified by time I was 30 (which is next year) but not going to happen with everything else going on. Will be nice to not have to sit exams in June though :-)

DIY invites are keeping me busy, but I keep changing my mind how I want them, and then I think they don't seem as nice as pocketfolds, but it's saving about £70 doing them myself so I am persisting. Kind of feels like once you have the 'big' things booked there's not so much you can until closer the time. I'm still pondering bridesmaids dresses though as toying with idea of using she who must not be named to make it cheaper but really unsure. Ahhhh. At least that's the worst of my worries at the moment.

What entertainment are you having April?