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

My dreams have started too!

I had one about the shop giving me the wrong dress and not realisingg until the day.

I got the first photos of my cake topper today, pics are in the album.

The first 3 are the original topper and the last 2 with some minor adjustments I wanted. So exited, it is perfect!

Grrrrr! Men! So our package at the venue doesn't include wine on table a toasting drink or evening Buffett, we are eating fairly late so could always just do nibbles and dips or something. But hubby is like why do we have to add all this now, he doesn't see why we need to add it and I don't think you can expect not to get a drink for your guests!! What can I compromise on?! What's others doing re drinks?

6 weeks today - eek!

What's everyone doing about gifts?

Our wedding gift list with J0hn 1ewis went live today so we've just sent an email round to all our of guests with the details. It was so difficult to write the message without seeming grabby - part of me is like of course you don't want to presume that people will buy you anything but on the other hand I would be pretty miffed if no-one bothered!

Gift lists are always difficult to introduce to people.
we are personally not having one. I heard a comment today at work about a gift list along the lines of my oh friends are so cheap only choosing gifts under £40 mark. How rude!

I think gift lists are cheeky, if guests want to buy you something it should be at what value they choose not stipulated by a price and gift on a list at a certain shop.

If I get nothing so be it. I haven't invited people for gifts I've invited them to share the day and love.

Had another wedding dream last night :( this time somehow I ended up sitting among the guests before the wedding started and no-one noticed me until I stood up and my dress wasn't laced up properly either.

On other news I'm going to be bulk buying some fans for the guests on the day as with it being August it is likely going to be quite warm. My question is though... would you buy them for the women only or the whole lot?

Oh forgot to say everyone's outfits are sorted now apart from my two maids shoes! Whoop! Had an absolute bargain with my daughters flower girl shoes in Lewis of john, they were marked down from £25 to £10. Great I thought! Got to the till and they were only £5!!! Lovely little satin pumps with a flower and sequins!
Also got my boys shoes, older boy was composing about wearing pointy shoes that 'look like cucumbers'! Lol kept trying to pick heavy chunky ugly shoes! But we got there in the end!
Every payment has now been made!! It's just getting the last bits now!
So left to do is
Table planner
Kids place names
Make a decision on ceremony and first dance music!! (Grr)
Choose a reading
Choose perfume
Bridesmaid shoes
Dress fitting
Decide on extra drinks/ buffet
Gifts for each other
Groomsmen gifts
Stop eating cake!!

Anything I might've forgotten ladies?!..
These are also our centrepieces now we've finally decided! With some sprinkles sparkle on the table too!

Haha, I must also stop eating cake!

I also had stop drinking coke on my list, but I have just about managed that now. Coke is now only allowed at the weekend, and even now I don't drink it most weekends

I am sitting here in my wedding shoes starting to wear them in. I have put some heel guards in so they don't rub and some gel cushions under the balls of my feet too so they don't et so sore.
I have my first seamstress appointment at 12 so have just been out to pick up my dress, then after that we have a meeting with the venue at 3pm.

H2b wore his wedding shoes to a job interview yesterday in an attempt to wear them in a little. He got the job so they must be good shoes!

my meeting with the venue went great, we just went over all the little details where I will want everything, all the timings, what suppliers I will be using, favours etc. also picked up my banns certificate and dropped it with vicar (FIL) and went over order of service tying to cut out as much as possible as don't want fed up kids and picked up oh baby pics so I can finish my table plan. I've been wearing my shoes in :) I've picked vans to for my son and they look great with his suit!

my last hair trial was a success and it definitely made me a little more excited, my veil has arrived so going to try that with my dress tonight
i'm glad i'm not the only one having dreams!!! just got all the rest of the diy decorations to do now so its all exciting

While dreaming the other night I shouted 'Alan you can just kiss my ars3' I don't remember what I was dreaming about but he said I was pretty angry lol. Dreams are crazy. Think we are on track with everything (bit stressed with the house sale and moving into my parents next month for about 10 weeks)

We have the registrar meeting on Wednesday so we really need to decide on music for ceremony and first dance this weekend. Then we have final venue meeting on 11th July 5 weeks before the wedding. Really not got much to do at all.

Did you sieve your icing sugar? I always find that makes it better! I always follow the hummingbird bakery recipes for buttercream, there's nothing like it!

But stop talking about cake else that's just torture! Lol
Yes I thought of going for converse or something but they just didn't look right, they were only £19 each the shoes so I'll just use them as school shoes afterwards! Lol
Glad everyone's getting on so well, the weeks seem to just be whizzing by now! I'm finding it very hard with this heat wave to not get bloody strap marks! It's worrying me just how hot we all might be in August!! A tomato faced hot sweaty bride is not the look I'm going for!

oooo can you send me some of your nice weather please, we have rain :( and I have a pile of washing to get dry!!!

It's been raining on & off here this morning.

I'm wondering if I should cancel my hen do?? I only arranged one as a few family members had complained that I hadn't organised anything, only to then tell me they cant make it!! Anyway the plan is to go to a pub/nightclub saturday 4th July but have just realized that on sunday our banns are being read at church at 10am. We have already missed the first 2 times our banns were read due to H2B being away so cant miss this one & I really don't think I'd be feeling up to it if I do go out saturday.

I'm honestly not bothered about having a hen do, I've had 1 already with my bridesmaids & Mil in a lovely log cabin with a hot tub, so don't feel like I'll be missing out by not having this other night out, I just don't want to upset other people!!
I've sent messages to everyone letting them know it's cancelled & my reasons, so will see what they say.

3 people have bought things off the JL gift list already! Eek! :D

Victoria sounds exactly like my oh's sister! She's the most evil person going! So now he doesn't talk to any of his family because he said he wanted nothing to do with her and couldn't forget and forgive her behaviour so His fam sided with her and left him out on his own! Means a cheaper Xmas for us though! Lol 3yrs of not talking now so of course non of them are invited to the wedding.
Which brings me onto my moan of the evening the best man still hasn't booked his bloody hotel for our wedding!!! When every other guest going has!! Oh text him this morning asking him to let him know when it's booked so we can arrange times for stuff the day before the wedding, he replies no worries as soon as I get paid! Yet his status on fb an hour later is about being emergency taxed!.. Erm so you have been paid then?!!!' Grrrr you'd think being a big role in a wedding and being one of the only representatives for my oh as it were that he'd step up to the plate so to speak!

@Sprucey yeah you'd think it would light a fire under their butts being that involved in the wedding. I'd tell him straight.

My MIL is not happy with my aunt right now after her asking a second time for me to talk to my sister 6 weeks before wedding and trying to guilt me with the "life is short" thing. The 10 years my MIL has been in my life all she has seen from my side is indifference, appalling morals and disgusting attitudes and she feels my aunt has no ground to stand on to make these requests after she goes around telling people she thinks my sister and I like daughters but 99% of the time is indifferent to me but panders to my sister.

Here is a good example of what my sister is like.

Out of generosity when my sisters phone broke my OH sent her his old phone with explicit instructions from both him and me to delete all the contacts on it because we couldn't find the charger for it to turn it on. A week later my future FIL starts getting disgusting text messages with incredibly foul language. My OH and I just by chance were at his parents house that evening and he showed us the texts, I immediately recognised it and checked the number... lo and behold it was my sister who had just had a fight with our father on the land line and she then started to send him hateful texts having not removed the existing numbers like we had told her to. Suffice to say my FIL... was not amused and he is normally very calm, quiet and humorous.

Did my sister apologise? No, just said "whatever" and hung up.

Ooh I loved my first fitting, I think I was in shock more than anything!

My hen is THIS WEEKEND!! :D :D
My chief BM text me with a little camel emoji saying "my humps my humps my humps!!" as she is putting together a playlist for driving there and that black eyed peas song is a song we used to sing at college ;)

Happy July everybody - we're getting married next month!!

Admittedly I'm not 'till the end of August, but still, it's next month! Is it a month today for anyone?

NEXT MONTH!!!

oh no mrsrobson2be speak to the church im sure it will be down by then, cant believe its july!!!!

Thank you ladies ive managed to get some lovely weather but been hit with hayfever so off to find some good tablets that I will be able to take on the wedding day just incase.

Back from the florist, as we have ordered so much from her she is letting us hire the postbox for free :)

I am going to the church on sunday when our banns are read, so will hopefully get a chance to speak to the vicar then

Loved the menu tasting. I think it was the first thing the OH got excited about lol.

Eeek I get married a month today!!

Still debating if I should get us all dressing gowns for wedding morning for while our hair and make up will be done x

Where'd people get their robes from? I was considering this but haven't seen any I like the price of! Lol

Mine are from an online company called r0be trader$. They came with slippers and each robe has a paper label attached with the sizings etc. The one on mine says "huge congratulations for your special day!" :D such a fab company