Wedding Forum - August 2015 Brides unite ;)...

Voted. Are you having a veggie option for the main?

and thanks for voting

I don't think we'll be able to, we only get to try a dish each at the taster. We'll have to go on what we think sounds nice. To be fair the price that our venue charges for a meal you would hope that all the meals are good.

Ok, just wondered. We can only pick a dish each too so have chosen a meat main and a veggie main so it's fair :) I eat veggie a lot anyway so might have a veggie day anyway. It'll only affect the main as starter and dessert won't be meaty!

Have had a productive few days up in Bristol sorting wedding bits!! Cake ordered (as below but with a black ribbon) talked things over with wedding planner with instalment paid and also met with the florist to order and pay for venue flowers. I have no idea how much flowers cost! But we are having a big ceremony table spray, a pedestal, 4 pillars decorated with bunches of flowers, rose petals for the aisle, wooden heart decs down the aisle and vases with flower decorations for the outside marquee bar plus 4 thank you boxed bouquets for gifts came to £340, is that a good sort of price?

Aww bless, I need to help my mum find something-but she's always so busy

My MIL has her outfit, but I wouldn't be surprised if she changed her mind on it before the big day

Aghh-nightmare about the invites, but good news about the dress :) It will look stunning on the day! I really wanted that dress but it looked awful on me, saying that-the dress I have chosen now is stunning and fits in more with the game of thrones theme we have subtly running through our wedding.


I think you handled your sister right, but a shame she's deciding to be like that.


Suits have now been paid off... and we changed the waistcoats again, when we paid they showed us what we'd ordered and we had silver waistcoats but I was concerned they'd look funny with my dress as it's Ivory and sort of goldy....

Thank you, which one do you prefer? lol. I've gone for the last one (with the straps)

Not having a major theme running though, just little bits like that running through.

Does anyone else have days where you wish you hadn't started the ball rolling with booking your wedding or had maybe just ran away & got married just the 2 of you?? I am having them more & more!!

I've been worrying constantly that our venue isn't big enough but there isn't really much I can do about that now!!
We had to remove children (other than our own & nieces/nephews) from the guest list for the above reason, when I told H2B's cousin she wasn't happy as its her son's birthday that day. I am dreading giving our invites out & having them all asking are their kids invited (invites are only addressed to the adults) because I know its going to upset alot of people.

I bumped into my cousin earlier & she asked me if her OH is invited to our wedding, I was put on the spot & said of course!!! She has been with him a year but I don't have a clue who he is!! Meaning squeezing another person in now.

H2B keeps telling me to just invite everyone but how would that work if there's not enough seating!! He also said not to bother with a seating plan as it was stressing us out, he had a point saying if it was just a party I wouldn't even be thinking about having enough room/seats/seating plan.

Is it too late to cancel lol!!

Mrsrobson I've had moments like that too, I think until you have to plan a wedding you don't realise about how much stress it can cause at times.

I have a meeting with my venue straight from work tomorrow, need to pay some money off and I have a lust of things I need to ask. However I'm sure she is going to think I'm stupid as some of the ?s are so basic lol

Yay! Invites problem sorted. The printers emailed this morning apologising and they are printing another batch which will be cut as requested. Phew! Did not fancy doing that myself! Found out this morning have lost another 1.5lbs! Totalling to 5.8lbs lost this month! Who hoo! Hope the trend keeps up :-D

Where have people got their jewellery from? I'm looking for something sparkly but not too over the top as my head piece is pretty blingy!

Well today has been a success, met with the venue and paid off 1500. Had a good chat about our day and food etc our one dilemma is I really wanted cheesecake as a dessert but they offer lemon and oh doesn't like lemon so they are making strawberry for us :)

Also I had "the call" my dress has arrived in store :) I'm so excited x

I think I ordered mine in October, but hoping it's after I've lost a bit of weight before we have the call

Thank you for your replies, I took my dad to view the venue yesterday & he loved it, for me personally seeing it again has made me remember why we booked it :)

Everyone that has seen the hall has said its definitely big enough so I've been told to stop worrying lol, they also said not to bother with the seating plan as people soon move seats anyway & as were not having a sit down meal it doesn't need to be as formal.

So I'm going to relax & start enjoying the planning again!! I have been asked by quite a few family members when I'm giving our invites out, my plan was for end April with RSVP of 8th June (2 months prior to the wedding) but their saying I should be thinking of getting them out sooner. I can understand giving them out to my family earlier as they need to book hotels but H2B's family are all local.

It feels like its full steam ahead now! I've ordered my 2 page boys a toy car each with their name and wedding role on. I was originally going to put it in their activity bag but me n oh have had a chat and are going to use them as their place card for the wedding breakfast.

I got them from the bay of e

I wasn't looking for them just stumbled across it. You can get them with or without wedding ribbon too which I thought was good

That's awful :/
I hope you complained!


Looked up the cars you were talking about and they do campervans as well :D going to get my son one of them. They're great

Oh imagine if you were in a rush and hasn't checked them?! Awful! Must be a awful feeling like you don't trust they have your best interests

If I'm honest I like both, the first image does look very elegant

Hello ladies.

I have had a bit of a break from planning as I have had a massive project on at work which is about to finish and make my work life soooo much easier.
We are back into full swing now having just booked our cake and car. The ice cream tricycle for the drinks reception will be decided on and booked this week. We met a really nice DJ today at a weding fair we happened to hear about last minute so will be looking at booking him soon too.
MIL has her outfit sorted and my mum is going shopping with my sister at the end of the month to hopefully get hers.
I keep asking h2b to book an appointment for suits but he hasn't done it yet. I want home to do it now as he plays golf and in the summer his weekends are either golf or work or both so he won't want to do it then.

I took H2b to church this morning for the first time to meet the new vicar and that went well, although they are changing the rules for weddings where either one of the bride or groom does not have English citenzenship so that will mean more paperwork for me.
Stud vicar read the banns for another couple today but they weren't there and everyone assumed it was us so we got a few question at the end. Everyone was really friendly though so that was nice.

spruced - I love that first hair style, I thought about something like that for myself but I am not sure if I will get annoyed with it on the back of my neck.

Good to hear how everyone's planning is going, hope no one has hit any major snags.

Has anyone booked their DJ or band? How much did you pay?

Oh seems everyone's going great guns with plans!
Kimberly our do is included in the package does all their events, I've read good review on them where the do is mentioned so that's good but I do kind of wish we could pick our own dj and feel better if I'd met him! We've not ordered suits yet but we are hiring, I keep checking our dates still available though lol!
Mrs robson hope you find your shoes, are they from somewhere that has a lot of stores? If so I'm sure you'll be able to find a pair. I'm not really fussed on the men's shoes they can do what they like unless they're crocs! Lol great news on the accommodation fronts! Good job you got it all checked!
Oh wow lucky you! I'd love a little hair change! Lol up for the ceremony more formal and then down for the reception, now you're giving me ideas!..

It's nice when you get a little something for free. I nearly hugged our coordinator when she said we could use the honeymoon suite for free the night before the wedding :)