@catherine , my cousin is like that, she loves flip flops, as for me I hate them, the feel really uncomfortable to me between my toes.

Me too; I've seen some lovely sandals but they all have the toe bit which I can't stand :S

I love my dolly shoes, When i was at college tho I lived in Heels all day and if I wore flats my legs hurt, but now I can barely wear heels. been trying to wear my heels for the wedding to get used to them and break them in a bit, but after 1/2 hour to a hour have to have a break

I love heels, but I can also wear flats, my mum keeps getting on at me not to buy too big heels as I'll be uncomfortable, but its not always the case, I wore massive heels to my friends wedding and was on my feet all day and had no issues what so ever :) but I won't be going for massive one's anyway as would like my fiancé to look taller then me on pictures

Ahhh had a call from the bridal store I ordered my dress from. Thought it couldnt possibly be in already. Nope. They are closing their local shop and moving it all to their Weston-super-Mare shop, a 45 minute drive away. Grrrrrr! Apparently its only because the local shop was too small and not because they are in financial difficulties - I asked them direct! The lady did say I could take my dress away when it comes in and take it elsewhere for alterations, but think id rather use their in-house team. Just means I will need 2-3 trips to WSM before the big day. Was also going to get my bridesmaid dresses from them, as I get 10% off, but know what a pain it would be for my girls to get there for fittings etc. Now im convinced its a bad oman and things are slowly doing to start crashing down around me

Interesting you are all thinking shoes now. Was only looking online last night. Bit disheartened though as couldnt find what I was looking for.

I have hot pink stilettos to match my colour scheme mud heeled though as h2b is only 2 and a half inches taller x

Had a wedding dream last night!!
It was awful, I had a ripped dress, messy hair & rubbish make up. The transport didn't arrive so we had to walk, there was no food at the reception, everyone left early, I really hope that dream doesn't become a reality lol.

Well we've just got back from the shop who have offered to get my dress for the cheaper price and WOW! The lady was the nicest woman I've come across in the business, we feel so comfortable ordering my dress through her. She was so knowledgeable and kind but didn't push her products/sale down our throats so the ball is totally in our court! The best part - She will do my dress for £999 at the longer length, with sleeves and the corset so if I wanted the extra length on the train, the most I'd have to pay extra is about £60 which is even better! All I have to do is hope that when I go to try it on again tomorrow, I still love it! Very successful day so far :) xx

Fab news Catherine :)

Just ordered the blue one of these. Awesomeness.

Ive bought my sister a travel bag and I'm going to fill it with different bits and bobs I. Going to get miniatures of toiletries a sleep mask and other things.

I'm also looking at getting thesethey are glass coasters and was going to get one for my parents and my sister to go with their thank you gifts, they don't do a mother of the groom one tho so don't know if I should just get a mother one for mil (although I don't think she deserves anything as she doesn't help out and won't help in any shape or form with the wedding) but I'm not that petty I was thinking get the coaster and a personalised candle for the mums instead of flowers as they don't like flowers

We now have a photographer! So glad he changed his package for us. We will have full coverage during the day for photos from getting ready up until the first dance, a wedding album, a USB with all the images on and a slideshow of some of the pictures for the evening guests which is just what we wanted. I' ve also ordered my jewellery and placecards with a swan on :)

Hi ladies, thanks for the good luck wishes but tbh I'm not sure now. I tried it on and I didn't get that 'wow' feeling again, maybe I was so excited, so in love with it and thinking about the varying opinions from others that I wasn't able to enjoy it? I don't know what to think as I adored it last weekend but when I tried it a second time, I just thought 'looks nice'! so I'm a bit confuzzled! I think I'm more upset that I don't love it as much than upset that I don't love the dress on me if that makes sense...... What should I do ladies? I've spent over 6 months searching for a dress that a) suits me b) I can afford and c) that I love and now it feels like I'm back to square one as I'm a big girl and there's only a few shops I can try dresses on. There's only so many dresses that are suitable too!!!! :( xx

Catherine, don't be too upset. Maybe it's not the dress, but maybe like you say you got caught up in the excitement and were expecting too much from it. Personally I think it's probably not the one, if that's the case just be glad you didn't put your deposit down last weekend, imagine if it came to your first fitting and you didn't feel as good about it.

All I can suggest you do is leave it a few weeks.... a month or so maybe with a break from trying dresses on and then go back, try on some different one's and try that one on again and see how you feel again? What did everyone else think of it?

I'm off to a wedding fair today as well, one of the big one's :) hoping to see some florists.... although I have seen some really cheap artificial one's which I'm tempted by if they can do them in my colours as people on here have said they look great.... I've been put off cheap one's a little as I've seen photo's of someone elses wedding who had artificial one's and they looked artificial :/ but I've also seen plenty of artificial one's which look great.

Hi all. I am getting married on 24th September 2015 and this forum is great to see where everyone else is at when planning a wedding that feels so far away. I panic and just want everything organised and booked although I need to hold back as I'm scared that I change my mind or see something nicer plus I haven't won the lottery yet so that holds me back too.

At the moment I have booked my venue, which has a fantastic package which includes chair covers, table centrepieces, cars, dj, accommodation etc and I have booked my photographer. I have started looking at dresses but not seen any that wow me yet (one has come close) but scared to make the final decision.

What has everyone else found the easiest decision and the hardest decision to make so far?

Hi ladies and welcome :) hope you find this forum as useful as us!

Thanks Donna.. Thanks for the words of advice. I'll leave it a while, it's just a shame as I truly loved that dress last week and the logical part of me looks at it and thinks that's beautiful and give me a lovely shape but the other part that should say 'wow' doesn't! Annoying! Debbie, her sister and Mum thought it was stunning and still loved it though which is confusing... I think my problem is that I can't get the satin dress out of my mind, I always wanted a satin and maybe it's trying to tell me I will regret it if I don't have that? xx

welcome to the thread Joanne



I wouldn't worry about it Catherine, you know where it is if you want to go back to it :)

I'm starting to have second thoughts about mine as well, not because of how it looks but because of the extra money it will cost :/ there is so much more we need to pay for, really want to have a unforgettable honeymoon as well.... I think we need to see if we can save some more pennies, but oh isn't so sure as he thinks we can do it all without-but I am starting to worry. We're asking for money towards the honeymoon instead of gifts as we've been living together for almost 4 years now, so have most of what we need and own our own house, but obviously don't want to assume how much we'll get towards it so only want to book something that we can afford without any money towards it.... but then that dress is stunning and made me feel amazing.... I was also getting a good deal on it with 20% off and free alterations...

Well I was hoping my dress would be £1,000 or under.... but decided I could go to about £1,200 before alterations.... my dress should be £1,800 but with the money off will be just under £1,500 and she'll do alterations for free.

So I suppose if I'd gone for a £1,200 with say £100 alterations its only £200 over, but if you look at my plan of £1,000 then it's £500 over. My fiancé has said he isn't bothered like I say.

I do love it and I want to feel special on my day, like you say I don't want to look back and be disappointed (I know someone who ended up with three dresses as she wasn't happy with her first one, so got another, then saw another and she says on the day she still wasn't happy) but I'm usually so tight when it comes to buying clothes lol... so it's also going against my nature.


went to a wedding fayre today and it was amazing, got loads of great idea's. Ended up spending £100 on pork pies (I know we're mental) but I found somewhere that does beautiful rings, expecting them to be really expensive and they're cheaper then I was looking at before AND will do 10% off AND throw in some free pearl earrings... oh and they cleaned my engagement ring for me too

We have spent quite a bit on entertainment as well, I think once we know what we're doing for honeymoon and know how much that is costing I'll feel better.

We have saved over £500 on our photographer and quite a bit on the cake as well... so we are saving in some places.


Yeah, it's a pork pie wedding cake, we were laughing at them at first but then they said how they weren't really used instead of a cake but as a centre piece for the evening buffet.... they tasted really nice as well, nice different flavours

It will be slightly less then £100 as well as we're getting 20% off, and you get loads of pork pie for your money.





It might be worth posting the pic in a new thread and asking anyone if they know what it is, as I saw one on ebay and wanted to know what the designer was and someone told me from the pics :)

Ha ha that is a cool idea Donna.

I just booked photobooth; was intending to but mum said that she also had £1000 saved from my late granddad's money so that is paying for it; saved £245 on it though :D

Elizabeth; we saw some at a wedding fayre yesterday for £4.50 a piece ! which would have worked out to £225 for 50 and that would have just been for the ceremony and wedding breakfast guests! Yes they were beautiful but personally I couldn't justify spending that on them; I'd rather use that money to do something on the honeymoon; as it was; we got some diy ones for a tenner :D

^ have you thought about DIYing the invites? Im DIYing mine. £2.50 for the card, then prob end up being £10/20 for printer ink. £16 for envelopes. plus postage.

thats for all my guests 50 invites for day, 20 for evening

I did think you had a cake organised lol yeah it will look great.

I don't know where to start with DIYing but it is a possibility Im looking at pocket folds though I think ill have a route around on line and see what I can come up with.

We're thinking of buying a pack of 50 folded cards with envelopes from the r@nge for about £5, will do our day invites (we're having about 50 but most are couples or families so won't need an invite each) and then cutting them in half to do evening invites too.

Just going to do something simple with a ribbon to decorate them.