Just fun token things like groom socks, boxers etc

What are you spying on? :)

Ive just had to google what it is lol! He'll love it if hes wanted one for so long!

Yeah i might just start getting bits and hiding them :) I'm struggling on other little tihngs to get now though x

Ahh it sounds awesome Elizabeth; they definitely complete the outfit :)

I really want to get my h2b a watch to open on the morning of the wedding, with a tag saying see you at 4pm dont be late. I saw it on p!ntere$t & loved it, hes always wanted a nice watch but wont spend much on himself, so it would be a nice treat. Its just a case of wether I can afford it with everything else we have to pay for.

Leasa I agree with AqTi that your car quote seems high, are they from they same company as they usually offer a discount when using 2 cars. We are having 2 vintage rolls royces at a cost of £780, they will pick the boys up 1st & take them to the church, back for myself & the girls to take us to the church, then onto the reception venue & they are collecting us at the end of the night to take us to the hotel. Our quote for a vintage rolls & a Daimler was £650, I was really shocked at the car costs. AqTi yours is an absolute bargain, I got quotes from all over & none of them came in that cheap.

really excited today. I committed to going to see the transport im wanting for the wedding after many weeks of debating whether it maybe too early or not. Anyway I've just got back and Im so glad I went as dates for next year are going like hot cakes. The company is run by an older gent and his wife and they are so lovely, honest and reliable, in fact I was there for over an hour just talking through our wedding plans hahaha. They know so much about wedding planning its great and they mentioned things to me that id over looked and never thought about. I'm also very pleased with the price and they have given me my wedding mojo back as i was beginning to get down about it all

Hope you manage to get a better quote Leasable, thankfully cars aren't something we are bothering with as I'm staying at our venue the night before and h2bs best mate has offered to drive him on the day.
Went trying some dresses on last night (I know mines ages away but got carried away at wedding fair last weekend &booked an appointment lol), really liked one but it's WAY over budget :-(. Got a nice surprise when I got home last nite , had an email telling me I'd won a £150 voucher from a place that does bespoke brooch bouquets, haircombs accessories etc!

Hi everyone, when are people sending out invitations? My family keep saying 3 months is fine but that will be Christmas time and I am paranoid about people forgetting to respond- daft I know!

im planning on sending mine 6 months before end of Jan, with a rsvp of asap but end of may at latest.

Thanks Aqti, I'm so excited to win something as I never normally win anything lol. I'd ruled out brooch bouquets as they're so expensive and wasn't sure if I'd be up to making my own lol, but I think I may well go for one now. Just hope my florist understands as I'll be changing what I want from her now x

We are doing day invites 6 months before (also worried cos of xmas) and evening invites 4 months before that way we can always bump up evening ppl if day ppl decline.

I'm sending mine out in April and want them back for the end of April that way if people decline I have time to bump up people from the evening without them really knowing. My cousin gets married in May so I can't really have them too close to his wedding and I can't leave it until after as it won't be enough time.

I'm putting an RSVP by date so people know they have to reply by that time and hopefully they will. I would send them out earlier Donna a week is a short time period to chace people of they don't reply.

Instead of people having time to moan about not having a plus one it gives them time to get used to the idea that they don't have one.

Lovely prize Debbie, well done!

Hope you find something more reasonable Leasa!

Donna, I would maybe say middle April, give them about 4 weeks and leave a little bit of time to chase up stragglers who haven't RSVPd?

Just found out today that FMIL is paying for h2b suit hire photographer and half venue cost!! So happy it's lovely that everyone is really happy to help! Not much left that needs doing this year apart from invites!!

I hope it carries on in here too, I could do with winning a honeymoon haha.

Oh Elizabeth I know that feeling our house is on the market hope we move this year because I just couldn't cope with it next year

Hi Gemma. Congrats on booking your wedding date :-)

What have you done so far?

I'm from Scotland getting married in Scotland and having a bit of a Scottish theme going on :-)

Booked both the church and reception, sorted meal and buffet, DJ and photographer, sweetie cart, wedding party all sorted. Just the rest to do now lol xxx

Feel a bit un-weddingy at the minute, really looking forward to it and wanting to sort more stuff out.... but I think we've reached a point where there isn't really much more we can do.

There is a wedding fayre at our venue next weekend on the 18th :D cannot wait for that.... hopefully that might give us some idea's of what we can be getting on with as well. We have friends over this weekend but the next time we're free I might see about buying the extra bit's for our invitations and just suggest having a play about to decide how we are going to make them... I know we don't have to make them yet but I think it's an idea to at least know how we want them to look, will also give us an idea of how long we need to give ourselves to make them too.


On a slightly unrelated note, there has been another quite big family fall out this week... which although it doesn't involve us has made us realise we don't want to invite family just because they're family, they can all have evening invites but only the family we are close to and who make the effort with us (and vice versa) are getting day invites, as we were at the point where people we wanted at the wedding were getting pushed to the evening. This has sort of opened our eyes and reminded us how volatile families can be anyway.

we are having the same sort of thing. My OH has a very small family about 10 in total, but his sister has already said that if we invite HER eldest son and his girlfriend, then her, her husband and their son wont be coming. OH has already asked his nephew to be second Best Man (in order to help OH eldest son who is BM). So makes OH family only 6, we are obviously wanting to invite more of OH friends to the day. Then we come to my family, I have a massive family where I have loads of cousins and they have children theirselves. I would love all of them there but we do not have the room during the day. We have catered for 50 people during the day. I am happy to invite aunts and uncles to the day and cousins to the night, but they will all be travelling from England while I am in Scotland. To be honest I am not sure that they would make the journey, but I feel that if they are not invited it will cause all host of trouble. My cousin got married last year and clearly said no children, I was obviously unhappy about this as my son was only a few months old, I had made the trip to England without my OH so there was no one else to look after my son. In the end a compromise was made, but that was only because the reception venue was my mums house!!!. So I am going with no cousins during the day but they can come at night if they want to travel xxx

Thank you Donna, I do hope so xxx

Ive just found out the wedding co-ordinator has changed at my venue. I think its a good thing but still a bit unsettled. I found out on good old FB when they announced the womans promotion. I have heard a lot of good things about this woman but never seen or spoke to her makes me a bit uneasy but im sure it will all be fine

I'm getting married in a country hotel in RHU just past Helensburgh/Loch Lomond area

Hi girls. A little off topic and I can't find the threads but a few people lately have been looking for children's favours. I've come across a website with a few on, check my wall for the link x

I'm sure it will all be fine just a bit I settled, the woman that was dealing with my wedding was the wedding and events manager but she is now on maternity leave and the new woman Lynn has been promotes to wedding, events and sales manager. The first woman Jen was due back in October but now I'm not sure if she will be back or in what capacity. I just want to meet the new ladies dealing with my wedding as the whole dept has changed faces. The other girl that was available to me has now went to work in reception.

It can only be a good thing in my eyes as the original coordinator was a bit snooty but we could see last that and know she is good at her job. The hotel has won a lot of awards not just wedding related and they are going from strength to strength but still a bit unsettled. Once I meet Lynn I'm sure I will be fine or once Jen is back from mat leave either way I know the hotel will do all it can't for our big day.

Thanks for link April some of those things are quite cool.