love the poem - i also may need to steal it if ok?

My wedding ring has now arrived (was on sale), and have met with 2 florists, so now awaiting quotes. Can't believe 1 year and 9 days to go!

loving the engagment shoot, I recently discovered that there are alot of (more or less) full ceremony videos on youtube, by just searching civil ceremony wedding uk. which as I have only ever been to one ceremony when I was 9 and can't remember that much, give you a good idea of how they go. which I have found very educational, while planning my ceremony in my head

Gorgeous photo Catherine

good idea to watch the ceremony's online.. We're having a Church wedding but I can't decide how many readings or hymns to have, we've picked 3 songs.... is that enough? readings we haven't looked at yet but I was thinking maybe two?

Ahhh gorgeous photos Catherine :)

We have our appointment to give notice next Tuesday :D

Less then a year to go now too :)

Those photos are lovely Catherine! Looks like you made a very good decision on choosing your photographer :) Were going to make an appointment to give notice in the half term week x

Those photos are lovely Catherine! Xx

Having logistical issues with bands and insurance and lighting and argh! I need to get lots of different people in one room to figure out what would work best, very frustrating!

Oh its a very long story involving public liability insurance and needing lights from somewhere if i don't use the venues resident DJ. The band we are having are good friends so have given us mates rates, but that doesn't include lighting as they only have full show lights which cost more to run alone than the quote they have given me.
And my other band has lights but no PLI.

I can pay another 300 for their lights, they were trying to save me money for quoting without them :)

Well I've officially finished 2nd year at university today and to to celebrate, I've been in and had a wonderful time yet again at my dress shop!! I went in to try on veils to see which length to order from a certain veil lady - Definitely going with the full length 126" as it looks beautiful with my dress :) went for a different style I thought - Completely plain but with waterfall crystals on it to pick up the detailing on the belt!! The only problem is that I don't think having a musical note veil would really work now as the detailing would look right on it :/ but, we did start chattering about sleeves as I want sleeves put on and eventually we came to the conclusion that I am going to have a lace overlay over the top bodice bit with sleeves rather than a bolero or just sleeves added. The lady who helped me pick my dress knows me to a tee - Picked out my dress, knew exactly which veil I'd go for before I arrived AND knew exactly what I meant when I was telling her our ideas after veil trying - It's guna look goooooorgeous!!!!!!!!! :D I have attached a couple of photos of my fiancee in the dress as the smaller size in ivory doesn't fit me as they only have the burgundy in my size but I wanted to get an idea of what it would look like!! Going to be a vintage, classic look but very me.... PLUS, I still love my dress.... Result :D :D :D xxx

Try it!! It's really special and makes you feel like a princess :)

Do it do it do it!!!!!!! You know you want to lol x

talking about veils im not sure if i want one or not. I thought I did but then my sister said why do you want a veil when getting married at a hotel. This confused me and I was starting to think they were only appropriate for church weddings but in the back of my mind I want one, but at the same time I don't want every ones negative comments. What do you ladies think?

Amanda, I don't think veils are just for Church weddings. I've only been to two weddings, one was a Church wedding and one when I was younger and I can't remember it.... but if I went to a hotel wedding I would not think twice about the bride having a veil on... in fact I think I'd be more likely to notice if she didn't.
I would still have a veil if I were getting married in a hotel, don't worry about what your sister said, have what you want.

I'm going to after half term :) I got some colour samples from an online company as my dress isn't white but a very pale shade of ivory, so difficult to match!

I definitely wouldn't associate veils with only church weddings. I'm getting married in a castle and I'm wearing one.

My mil goes to slimming world every week. She's lost about 3/4 stone in a year. If anything is like to put a little weight on so I look healthier in my dress x

Well now we've finished uni for the year, we've finally found the time to sit down and properly decided on what we want for our wedding we originally thought we'd have our favourite colour; royal blue with ivory but we've decided that as we are having an August wedding, that's going to be a bit too heavy. We also have the problem of SO many different BM sizes ranging from size 4 all the way up to size 26 so not exactly easy! We've decided to go with pastel colours for our colour scheme instead and dress them each in a different colour! They can choose their dress (with guidance obviously so they all gel nicely together!) which means they can keep them but also the style that suits their figure making the day a very relaxed, gentle, calm feel we want... Summery, light and simple :D we going to have butterflies, Harry Potter and music all incorporated into the day as those are all very important parts of our relationship so I'm very happy that we've sorted that as we can sort other stuff now! Been busy drawing up cake designs we'd want, choosing HP names for our tables and researching other items for the wedding like HP banners for our top table! xx

Here's a picture of what we were thinking - Lemon, mint, pale blue, rose, cream and lilac for the bm's :)

^ weird how that happens is'nt it, I always see on here brides who are like 6-8-12 weeks aways from there wedding panicing because there dress is not here yet, but ours is here 1 and 2 months early. lols

wooooop! go you Christina, can't wait till thats me, only got just over 2 months till its 1 year for me

Lana - Yeh, I'm such a pessimist though, after the initial excitement I thought "hmm that's a bit soon, what's wrong with it" lol. Can't wait to go see it again though. Just hope I love it as much as when I ordered!

Went and saw our venue again yesterday too and it's funny how you forget little things, like it's bigger than I remember lol. Got room all measured up for ceiling draping and mood lighting - has really given me the buzz I've been missing last few weeks. That and sending my save the dates ☺

I'm still having trouble funding shoes I like for a reasonable price which is starting to get to me lol

Loving the mish mashy pastel bridesmaids Catherine!
I asked my best friend from uni to be a bridesmaid and her (now 5 month old but will be 20 months by the wedding) daughter to be flowergirl, unsuprisingly they both said yes, well the little one just smiled at me and threw the card around so taking that as a yes :)
We have an appointment next weekend at our reserved venue to speak with the wedding coordinator to make sure we are completely happy before we put the deposit down.
The photographer we originally wanted to go with is over £1200, so we have realised we can't quite afford him. Have been looking around and found a local woman who did a school friends wedding last year who does the sort of thing we are after, thank god for f@cebook! Have got a quote from her which is very reasonable so that is looking positive!

Decided I'm doing a degree through the open university starting in October, so going to be busy but will have finished my first year before the wedding.


Love the bridesmaid colours Catherine

Thanks ladies :)

Wow, good luck Donna... I'd much rather be finishing my 1st year rather than 3rd year with dissertations next year lol. What are you going to be studying? x

Wow maths and physics - you must be really brainy lol. Maths was my worst, and probably still is, subject so admire anyone who does it at degree level.

Haha, thanks!! We've been doing our planning through our 2nd year, we graduate next year in May/June 2015 time and then get married less than 3 months later in August 2015.... It's certainly a challenge!! We are doing the majority of the planning this year so that come 3rd year, we can concentrate on dissertations etc and seems to be working as last week we confirmed our last big thing and now it's just smaller things like BM dresses, suits, decor and stuff like that :D

Oh yes, I remember now Donna - I know Physics is tough though as a friend of ours is doing Physics at Loughborough and she's struggling even with A-Level Physics... A-Level Maths is impossible and Debbie gave up lol but if it says you are at the right level you must be amazing!! :D xx