I've been picking up things for the kids activity boxes and I think I'm finished except for the activity book that I will order after Christmas when hopefully they will be a bit cheaper :-)
Just about to go through all the wedding bits now to see what I've got and still need to get :-)
After 7 years and 11 months he proposed to me 18.10.13
Our son is 5 years old and our world
Getting married 15.08.15.
Life hasnt been easy but we have each other :)
CommentAuthorBeckyS78
Getting married 02/08/2015
So far we've sorted: Booked and paid deposit for Registrar Booked and paid deposit for Wedding venue Booked and paid deposit for Receptioin venue Sorted out who we're inviting. My MOHs dad will be doing our photos Cake is sorted, its being made by one of my old secondary school best friends! Bridesmaids and Groomsmen all sorted too! (Well, H2B still has to ask his Best Man, but still)
MIL will be sorting flowers and transport (thank goodness!)
CommentAuthorsALLY
i was making some decorations the other day, my h2b walking in from work at 11pm just looked at me and said 'ill leave you to i im going for a drink' ha ha i really dont think hes going to be hands on at this wedding. all tho he did take me on a 60 mile rou nd trip to get a wooden crate i wanted for the wedding cards :) and treated me to dinner.
my fil is sorting and paying for the church as he will be marrying us but because of this when ever i check my list of things i feel like somethings missing. Im the kind of person that gets things done straigh away so hope he doesnt forget anything. he did tell me the banns cant be done till 3 months before the date so ive gotta wait till may/june which seems ages away
CommentAuthorFitchMcCombe
Starting to get a bit overwhelmed with all the organising to be done :( we have loads of time but there's so many little bits to think about! We've not had a proper budget as we always knew we'd have plenty, but finally sat down and estimated costs for everything. For thinking it would be a relatively cheap wedding its coming to £9000!! Everything has been rounded up but still it seems to have escalated when we weren't looking, and though we can afford it, it still seems a huge amount of money. Just starting to feel anxious most of the time :(
CommentAuthorKimberleyR78
Hi everyone. Finally the one year to go point has arrived. I am quite excited by that fact but h2b is not so. Am currently in discussions with bridesmaids about dresses for them.
No further forward with anything else yet although I would like to get invites sorted soon for the nz crew so they have plenty of time to sort flights etc
Thinking I might skip STD all together. I was not going to do them for the kiwis anyway but now not really sure about doing them at all- just going straight to invite so we have plenty of time to sort numbers. What is everyone else doing?
Fitchmccombe- I know how you feel, suddenly has this feeling today that there wasn't enough time left to do everything. I know there is but just need to get a move on!
I bought save the dates and some people ended up getting them but the rest are still in our wedding folder.... everyone knows the date anyway so I'm not too worried about it to be honest.
CommentAuthorsALLY
yeah we had a tight budget of £2000 and now thats gone up to £3000 with out me realising i daren't tell the other half as we both agreed we were not gonna spend loads as we still have out life to get on with and to spend loads would be a waste. we havent even looked at honeymoons yet as i said we will look at money after the wedding. im not working so everything is coming out of h2b's wages at the moment.
I think it is helpful to set a budget to start with as i can imagine alot of us have come across the increasing budget :(
CommentAuthorGemmaF238
Kimberleyr78 your my wedding twin.. :) x
CommentAuthorthefuture:Mrs_Hurren
Hi Girls,
Feeling rather stressed and not in the wedding mood at all. Im really struggling atm.
Since May ive lost 3 relatives my Nan, aunty and someone who is ike a 2nd Dad to me. Plus 2 of my 3 dogs have died and 10 weeks ago my Dad had a major brain aneurysm and we nearly have lost him twice. He is still in hospital he can talk and has movement but as his brain has been affected he cant focus on tasks and is unable to stand/walk. I had to take a couple of weeks off work unpaid when this happened and as we were working to a tight budget this is now over stretched. I feel overwhelmed and I know i need to do things but I cant motivate myself.
I need to sort my dress, hair and make up. my bridesmaids, page boys, the groom and best man suits, shoes, invites,rings ...thats just what i can think of.
I know its just under 11 months to go but if my dad is unable to stand which is looking likley atm he wont be able to attend my wedding and if he cant be there i dont want it to go ahead. i know that may seem selfish but thats how i feel. i feel so upset.
x
CommentAuthorVictoriaL46
Evening everyone :) been busy the last couple of days. Had a cake tasting yesterday which was a lot of fun so finally have a decision made on exactly what flavours we want and looking into booking an appointment to see both dresses I really like on the same day so I can finally make a decision on what I will wear for the wedding. Exciting days :D
Met in Nov 2005
Engaged 13th June 2013
Becomes Mrs Stewart on 10th Aug 2015 Honeymoon in Florida!
My Diary Thread: My Alice in Wonderland Wedding Diary
CommentAuthorJennK
Met up with an old friend last night from a job I left over 2 years ago for a catch up and gossip. Got talking about the wedding and turns out her dad is in a well known funk and soul band and has played at the hammersmith Apollo and with pee wee Ellis (saxophone player for James Brown). They do lots of weddings and she says they will probably let me sing on a song if I want to! Iv been having a battle with the band I originally wanted as they were being really flakey and then changed their mind about costs and packages so I was a bit disgruntled. So watch this space for band confirmation!
Our perfect day - 08.08.15 <3
CommentAuthorbeximo86
got round to some DIY-ing recently, have put some pics in my albums. So far we have done the front of the 'Mr' and 'Mrs' signs, and made a start on comic book confetti - which is going to take aaaaaggggggeeeessssss!
Come payday, we will be getting the black invites to make, and card for confetti cones. I'm also waiting on my cool glue gun to come to start playing with paper flower making. :) x
CommentAuthorsALLY
thefuture:Mrs_Hurren i hope your ok, its not selfish at all my partner wanted to get married abroad just me him and the kids and i said no i want my family there. i wouldnt get married with out my dad there. i even changed the wedding date cus my sister couldnt make it. my granda is really ill now and i think he wont make it to the wedding wich is very upsetting for me. i really hope your dad gets better x
CommentAuthorsALLY
progress has been made :) convinced my other half to order his wedding ring and he picked the one i liked, ive ordered my son's suit which is naughty of me as its early but couldnt resist as monsoon had a sale on which helps. and took keira to look at bridesmaid dresses today she ran straight in and picked the one ive ad my eye on i want to order that soon but trying to hold off til january. might even sit and finish my invites tonight
CommentAuthorVictoriaL46
Appointment booked for seeing both the wedding dresses on Saturday with MOH, really looking forward to it :D I think I know which one I am going to go for but not going to say just yet. ;)
Trying to sort out a chocolate fountain for the wedding and the supplier I really like the look of is just not getting back to us so I think we've reached the point where we're going to go with someone else.
OH may have decided on kilt he might be wearing which could be the hebridean thistle to go with a grey jacket and waistcoat. Just need to organise a visit to a kilt shop to see how it looks on him
Met in Nov 2005
Engaged 13th June 2013
Becomes Mrs Stewart on 10th Aug 2015 Honeymoon in Florida!
My Diary Thread: My Alice in Wonderland Wedding Diary
CommentAuthorjulez
hi i get married 7th august registry office 4pm then community centre venue 6pm as on very tight budget of 1000 0r less hiring dress got dj for 100 pound as his wife doing the bar doing food myself and decoration invites being made just need to sort cars out getting activity and colouring books for children we doing mini sweet table instead of favours but will have bubble wands on tables any other tips could do with help please
met 2007
got together 24th january 2008
engaged 4th july 2008
getting married 7th august 2015
CommentAuthorsALLY
Yay my sister has been in touch and finally visiting me on the 27th sept, ive aske my other half to have to day off so he can have all the kids so i can try my dress on again and look at veils :) so happy
CommentAuthorDonnaH39
Yay nice that you have a date so that you know when your going April :)
I'm getting measured for my dress in October and the diet hasn't gone to plan.... I think part of the problem is although I know I look better a little bit slimmer, I'm happy how I am, it's just my tummy that bothers me, but that always bothers me lol.... maybe next year my diet will really kick start as I'll panic realising that the wedding is in that year.
CommentAuthorLisaW974
Hi Everyone.
Cannot believe its just under a year until i become Mrs Clarke :)
Anyone else getting married 28th August 15 . How is the planning going?
CommentAuthorMrsRobson2Be
I keep moaning at h2b to have more input in the day as previously he's always said 'I'm happy with whatever you want' fast forward to today & he came home with £70 worth of led candles!! I have already got led tea lights for our centrepieces but he saw these ones today & decided they are so much nicer & more realistic. I don't know wether to be angry that he's wasted £70 on unnecessary items or happy that he finally got involved in the planning lol
CommentAuthorCatherineR
It's our one year anniversary since we got engaged today and by this time next year, we will be a married couple of 3 weeks and 3 days eeek!!!!!
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorsALLY
i know what you mean I want my h2b to be more in volved but he says its my day..i not though its our day!! and he says hes not gonna bother helping as the few suggestions hes apperently made ive knocked back. i didnt realise he had made any suggestions tho oops
mrs robinson2be Is there any chance you can return the ones you have bought to get a little money back??
CommentAuthorMrsRobson2Be
April I took them all out of the packets so couldn't return them, its ok though I'm sure ill find a use for them. To be honest the ones he picked up are so much better, they look like real candles with wax dripping down the sides & I'm glad he finally got involved. He also picked up some bigger matching candles for our top table, were going to pick up some more of these as we didn't want the bird cages on there.
CommentAuthorsALLY
eeek!!! booked the florist yesterday and picked my sons page boy outfit up today, he looks so grown up and cute. it makes me so excited..
CommentAuthorJennK
I keep getting excited whenever our photographer puts another wedding on his website. Love love love his work and it's lovely seeing other venues and ideas through his eyes :)
Our perfect day - 08.08.15 <3
CommentAuthorVictoriaL46
MrsK2b I know what you mean. I get the same feeling whenever my photographer posts new pics :)
Met in Nov 2005
Engaged 13th June 2013
Becomes Mrs Stewart on 10th Aug 2015 Honeymoon in Florida!
My Diary Thread: My Alice in Wonderland Wedding Diary
CommentAuthorEmmaBabycakes
Hey Everybody
We are getting married friday 7th August 2015 @ 3pm
We have so far: (Giving notice next week on friday) booked the Reg office booked the reception and paid deposit which includes DJ, decor, food etc. booked and paid deposit for my amazing photographer my sister in law in making our cake. Ordered favours ordered save the dates just designing our invites at the mo.
i've chosen my dress just need to buy it now. still lots more to do but i am loving it
We met 2nd September 2010
I became his girlfriend - 11th September 2010
I became his fiancee - 16th June 2013
We become Mr & Mrs Cressey-Briscoe on Friday August 7th 2015
CommentAuthorCatherineR
Congrats and welcome to the August 2015-er's! Sounds like your planning is going well? :)
We are very pleased today as we've found a very good, local florist to do the flowers for our wedding at a reasonable price, highly recommended from my Grandma too which helps! We even got more than we thought included for the money we had available - Mine, Debbie's and the bm's bouquets, buttonholes for the boys and mum's, thank you bouquets and even things like flowers on combs/vines and church flowers etc should we want to, all for just over £300 so it's been a successful day! Here's some pictures too of what we've got sorted...
Mine.jpg
Debbie.jpg
BM's.jpg
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorCatherineR
Also sorted our colour scheme out - pinks and yellows as you can see so nice and summery!
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorDonnaH39
Gorgeous colours Catherine. I love love love yellow and it goes so well with the pinks. (I think I would have had pinks as well if my fiancé would let me, but he's really not a pink guy... I'm surprised I got him to agree to purple as he was always very against that as well lol, but he seems very happy with our choices now)
We were going to make our own invites... and still think we will make the evening invites as we ended up buying some card to make the invites with, but we have looked on vi$ta after the talk about it on here and have figured out we could have the day invites sorted for less than £20 which is fab (would be more expensive for evenings as we're inviting a lot more single people and just more people in general as well) only question we have now is.... is it too early to just say stuff it and buy them now? I think we want to send them out probably about Feb time as our venue wants to know numbers by 2 months before, so if we send them out feb we can ask for R.S.V.P's for mid-May? does that time frame sound right? Also back to the invites should we buy them now to save for when we want to send them out or should we wait and risk them not having the same offers on as what they have now?
CommentAuthorElizabethF49
I'd buy the invites now especially if they are on offer. As for your time frame for sending invites I think that's ok it's very similar to ours I'm sending them out feb/march for RSVP by May this gives us time for any declines to be filled by other guests x
After 7 years and 11 months he proposed to me 18.10.13
Our son is 5 years old and our world
Getting married 15.08.15.
Life hasnt been easy but we have each other :)
CommentAuthorDonnaH39
Well, we've decided against ordering now as the sale ends today and we don't want to rush into ordering them and get the wording wrong or something silly. I'm sure they'll have another sale in the next 6 months, if not before surely they'll have one in January. Spoke to my bridemaids about it and they think I should send them out in Feb with end of April R.S.V.P so I have plenty of time to chase anyone up who' a pain.
CommentAuthorsALLY
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I Kind of know what you mean as we have our invites printed and now my other half wants to change the wedding time by 1 hour to give me more time as he thinks ill be rushing around. ive told him im not changing them now and ill be fine as im super organised. and if needs be ill be a little late all tho im never late!! guess everyone will let me off on this one occasion
CommentAuthorCatherineR
Crap crap and triple crap... Ticker is saying 'getting married in 10 months'... How is this happening?!
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorJennK
I know, scary right?!
Still battling to sort the band out at the moment, must remember not everyone in the world views the wedding the same way we do in terms of importance!
Our perfect day - 08.08.15 <3
CommentAuthorCatherineR
Very scary, each time it goes down I have a minor wimp moment haha. It's starting to feel like we actually need to do stuff though but I don't want to believe it's creeping up on us so quickly!
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorsALLY
omg ive just realised that 10months eeek!! my sister is coming up in 2 weeks so gonna get her to write names on invites. then thats done. I cant wait i got out some of my decorations the other day to make sure everything ties in together and have started putting everything in to boxes e.g church decorations, wedding breakfast things, wedding reception bits, and important things. my guest bedroom in being taken over and is prob gonna get worse over the next few months :D
CommentAuthorDonnaH39
I realised earlier that although I've been saying the invites website will have another sale on in the next 6 months, it's actually only 5 months until we want to send them... that's scary. Although I'm still sure there will be another sale before then
CommentAuthorJennK
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Ohh darn just been quoted just shy of 2 grand for a band, was quietly hoping they would be a bit cheaper! :(
Our perfect day - 08.08.15 <3
CommentAuthorsALLY
My goodness i would of loved a band but sticking to a dj
CommentAuthorDonnaH39
Wow-that's very expensive, I thought our band were expensive at a couple of hundred over 1 grand, but we have paid for lots of extra's (like a 5 piece instead of a 3 piece, dj service and for them to play later)
CommentAuthorbeximo86
wow, that's a lot for a band!
Saying that, it depends on the size of the band. We have a singer coming to ours (used to be part of a duo), who will also be our DJ for the evening. For 3.5 hours singing and the rest of the evening as DJ (til 1230) we are paying £450ish. Although he has agreed to learn an acoustic version of our first dance if it is necessary, which includes having a backing band to record the music and then learning the song too.
Eeeeekkk, it' so exciting! x
CommentAuthorJennK
They are a professional 9 piece funk-soul band, so can't say I'm too surprised really, was just kidding myself we would be able to afford it. Speaking to a band I have sung with before now, they have quoted me 700 which is better :)
Our perfect day - 08.08.15 <3
CommentAuthorDonnaH39
Ahhh so excited, my bridesmaids have sent a message out about my hen do :D
I still have no idea where it is, or what we're doing BUT now other people know and it's def happening....
CommentAuthorJennK
Eeeeek we give notice on the 26th, so excited! Already fathered together the documents we need to take, just too excited.
Our venue is having a wedding "showcase" on Sunday so we are going for yet another nose around :)
Also ordered some white hangers I'm going to personalise for my dress and the bridesmaids dresses, exciting to get a DIY project on the go!
Our perfect day - 08.08.15 <3
CommentAuthorCatherineR
Oooo, exciting Donna! What did they say?
Our reception venue is holding a wedding fayre on 2nd Nov so we are going to try and make sure we are visiting my parents that weekend too :D
Managed to FINALLY get rid of Debbie's dress to a preloved wedding shop and hopefully it will sell and we'll get some money back from it! xx
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorDonnaH39
All they've done is confirmed names with me, told me messages have gone out and told me that they have replies already-so I officially have a hen ;) I'm getting very excited even though I have no idea what we're doing haha. I do like having a surprise though, although I want to know I quite like that it's completely out of my hands and will just be a little more exciting :)
CommentAuthorDonnaH39
Fab news about Debbie's dress, fingers crossed they sell it and quite quickly for you as well
CommentAuthorsALLY
I keep pestering my friend about my hen do, i know we are going away for the night shopping and drinks not sure where to tho. she said she was going to book something soon so i have a date to look to. I know its just going to be me and my 2 friends but at the mo them 2 friends arent getting on to well. i am also having a spa day the day before my wedding with some family (sister, neice,...) and im having drinks in our local town with all my other friends prob the week before the wedding but ill organise this myself. i cant wait so much to look forward to
CommentAuthorCatherineR
Thanks hun. Tbh, as long as it sells for something, we don't really mind just as long as it does really!
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
