Hi i live in the Manchester area and am looking for relatively low prices on chair covers and starlight backdrops and drapes if anyone could help id be ever so grateful. Budget of £300.00 in total for it all

Just booked our hair and make-up for a very reasonable price!! Both of us for £227 :D

My first post on the 2015 brides page!

Yet to go dress shopping myself but the pics you girlies are posting we gorgeous! Catherine yours is stunning and Donna, I'd personally say dress 1 but then it is your personal preference and whatever makes you feel like a princess!

Me and hubby 2b went ring shopping yesterday and found the perfect rings £100 below budget so very happy with that. How some places charge so much for exactly the same I do not know!

Bridesmaid dresses all done. Just going to change the belt and make something with ribbon or get some bling maybe, which Do you guys think- ribbon or bling?

My mum hates the dresses but I told her tough in a nicer way. After all, she isn't the one wearing it!

Im getting married next year as well, we were supposed to be getting married this year, but had to postpone s OH lost his job, so Ive been paying for my dress since last year! it was due to arrive in the shop next month so cant wait to try it on! we bought the card and envelopes and magnet strips fr the save the dates yesterday, just need to change the design of them slightly and get them printed :) xx

Ali what about a blingy belt (I live bling) or a big ivory ribbon of sorts.

Mrsbull2b sorry your oh list his job it's a big stress for everyone hope he finds one soon if he hadn't already.

I've had a major headache all weekend stress I really don't need to be involved in and I had my first wedding related rant, the hotel messed up the rooms that had already been booked, my SIL has caused a stink and I'm stressed, h2b has been great and gas said to take a step back and let them sort it out themselves if they had booked when told they wouldn't have this problem, he's right and he's also said if they don't stop stressing me out he's going to say something to them as he's not having me I a state when really it has nothing to do with me. (He might be an ass at time but he does care lol)

On a positive note I get to try the sample dress on again on Thursday evening and my mum and best friend are coming with me as well as my sister but she has seen the dress, I'm going to try on veils and tai areas while the sample is still in store (or so the store can push me to buy one) either way it will give me a chance to see what looks good with the dress while I ihave it on and I'm really looking forward to it. Hopefully I can get to take some pictures xx

I would go for 12 months if you can get them organised for then - it links in nicely with the whole 'this time next year' thing and it means that people hopefully wont book anything else up...but i don't think it matters too much getting them sent somewhere in between the 12 month to 9 month mark...? although i am not exactly an expert as I decided not to do save the dates in the end as we will be out of the country til 4 months before so it would have been too much agg! i'm probably tempting fate but everyone who I most want there definitely won't be making any other plans and anyone else who does just means I can bump people up from evening to whole day haha! we are sending our invites out pretty early though - nov/dec this year...we are getting married in May too but right at the end :) xx

We sent our STD's out a few months ago - not sure when we are aiming to send the invites out yet! Possibly November as I have this fear of people forgetting they've received them around christmas time!!

We've also booked a meeting with a local florist for Tuesday the 15th of this month! So excited to go an get some ideas of what I really want!

We are going to send out std's as well but through emails as apart from about 10 people, everyone will be on holidays and don't want to overrun with them and also give people time to get leave. At the end of the day, it'll barely cost anything and we may send our invites the same way! x

I think a honeymoon fund is a great idea, you can get some lovely poems you can send to ask for them as well. Our friends asked for money towards the honeymoon, they just sent a letter with the invites basically saying that people did not need to get them anything, but if they really wanted to give them something then they'd like money towards their honeymoon as they weren't sure if they'd be getting one or not.

Wow-that's an interesting idea MrsMalinb, can I ask who you've contacted?

I only have a signed photo from David Tennant; would be so nice to have a written letter or email though. So far; two people (agencies) have got back to me; one said that she couldn't help me with my request Ramin is currently performing in the US and she suggested writing to him there but I've tried that before and didn't get a response so not going to pay out to send to the US as it can be quite costly and apparently you need to get a customs note now to post anything....

The other one told me she could arrange for a signed photo to be sent but I have to send a SAE to them...guess I'll have to do that :)

I wanted to see if could get anything like that from Michael Bublé saying congratulations kinda thing. Not really sure how to go about it Though.

Bumped for Becky +phil

Aw well that's a shame Paula :(

However, I did order my bridesmaids dresses today! They are beautiful but I don't have any pictures :/

I went to an event for accessories tonight and ended up buying the veil and tiara I love them but cant get proper photos of the veil or Tiara, The veil is a 72 length with scattered crystal and the tiara goes well withmy dress and best of all the veil wa sonly £99 and the tiara was £79.00 all in all im very happy

Elizabeth you look beautiful x

I have been planning on getting a 'china dress' & as they are made to measure I was planning on putting off ordering until next year. My OH has been pestering me to order it soon, his reasons being that if its badly made, poor material/detail etc then we have plenty of time to order the real dress from a bridal shop. I've compromised a little & have agreed to order it once I have lost 3 stone, I've lost 17.5lb so far so hoping to achieve my target by July/August.

I've not done anything wedding-y for a while....

Not sure what I can do now though, I have another appointment booked to try on my dress and some others as she's having a sale Easter week, so thought I might as well see if I can get a good discount on either mine or you never know I might see something else in the sale as well.

Well if mine isn't in the sale she's offering me 20% off and free alterations anyway :)

But you never know it might have even more off or like I say if I see something better ;) as the sale she's doing is up to 70% off (doubt mine will have that much off though as it's the most expensive in the shop lol)


I need to look at florists as well, I'm the same as you don't know when's best to book it :/

Fantastic Catherine I love a bargain, its always great to save some money :)

We have just went through the wedding spreadsheet and im depressed at how much everything is going to cost approx. £16k

We can afford to save for the wedding so I'm not worried about saving for it it's just the overall cost that's a bit depressing. I think on that we have to forget about something's and see where we can cut some off.

Been looking into caricaturists this weekend! It's a bit different, guests have got favours and a fun time all in one and acts as a different photobooth option which seems to be the typical norm nowadays! A bit pricey but now we'll have a bit more money to play with, we can afford a few more things like this :) excited!

Just be careful where you book one from though Catherine, as my sister booked one through an agency and he just never turned up, she called the agency to see where he was and they said ''oh well maybe he's not very well'' they then went on to say how unreasonable she was being because he was an old man and she should understand that he might not be very well!

I can never remember whether she got her money back or not

Oh gosh Donna that horrible.

My wedding planner at our venue has just went off on Mat leave until the end of October. Not a big deal as most things are sorted for the time being and She will be back well before we need to do anything further plus there is two other girls that are wedding co-ordinators if we really need anything.

I think it's a lovely idea Catherine, much better then a photo booth as it's something different (no offence to anyone having a photo booth)

just had am email form the wedding ring jeweler, they will be ready on the 15th.... eek cant wait to see them