I like that idea Catherine. I've just finished work, feet are aching and no OH waiting for me in bed as he's out in Leeds for his brothers stag do :( got a few things to do next week that will hopefully finish off the things we can do on our list x

Ahh it feels like forever since I've been on here!
Catherine your dress is going to be stunning!!
We've been out and bought the bridesmaid dresses after a million and one strops thrown by my sister! Also got all the mens cufflinks and all the bridesmaids jewellery sets :)
Feeling like we're getting somewhere now!

me & h2b are going to wales for the day tomorrow for some us time so very much looking forward to that!

Hope you're all enjoying the bank holiday x

Got my glue gun and ink today and made this. Super happy with it.

Nope just a normal blue hobbycraft ink pad which you wipe the edge of the design across to 'ink' the edges.

Thank you gona try make a load this week and get a polybal and floral pubs and tape next week to make a posy

thats nice, me and my mum only live about 1/2 mile from each other, so see each other about 1/2 times a week. if we go a week without seeing each other we go a bit crazy but we have phones too. lols

Cherish your mums ladies!
It's one of the hardest things about my big day...we lost her a few years ago suddenly, she was only 52

I'd give anything to have her interfering in the planning, and catching up on the phone/over coffee/wine
Xx

My step sister has a friend who runs a venue decor company, so iv had a fantastic quote from her for chair covers and sashes, table swagging for top table and cake table, and a sweetie favour station. She also has a recommended DJ who is cheaper than our venue's resident DJ, plus can sort us out with first dance choreography lessons. It's all coming together :)

NatashaR22: It really depends on the style of photography you're wanting. Do you want something traditional or do you want something a bit more dynamic or artsy. Figure this out first and you have completed half the battle. Next is have a look at the people who supply this. Recommendations are brilliant as well as literally typing the area and photographers in g**gle. For example my OH and I didn't want someone who was use to working with people who wanted a lot of group shots with traditional poses etc. We also wanted someone who focuses a lot on the lighting as well as prefers to work in a relaxed way. Our photographers is a couple who instead of doing a bunch of group shots will maybe do one or two groupies and then throughout the evening will take us away for 10-15mins a time to do some Bride and Groom shots and do candids of the guests in between those.

Yeah it is a bit overwhelming to begin with but once you have the big things out the way you're good to go such as Venue/Officiate/Photographer and Caterer. If things are looking a bit too expensive then negotiate, if they're not willing to drop the price then see what they can throw in free. You'll be surprised. We got £600 off our venue just by pointing out that we're only having 60 guests for the ceremony/meal and the rest aren't going to be there until the evening reception so I wasn't happy about paying for the full 100 guests when they are not there for over half of the day. WIN. Make sure you have fun bringing it all together as well. Go to wedding events and meet photographers, even look at photography students at nearby Uni's/Colleges. Some hidden gems there.

April I love your rings :-)
I think I've decided on the make up artist I want for my wedding just need to see if she is still available for our date

I love them, didn't want to take it off lol. I ended up with palladium and Adams is white gold. Much cheaper than we were anticipating too!

I know what you mean April, every so often I can't help but put mine on for a moment just to look at it and get a bit giggly.

Went out with the fpil yesterday so managed to get the contract to them for the band, so hopeful that will be sent back with the deposit soon. But not before the fmil has her say about out choice of day and would it not be better, easier to change to a Friday or Saturday. *breaths* doo had to expiration again, we have already changed the date so its easier for thos with kids (now in holidays) and sheer like blah blah, people getting time of work , to which my response was if they care about us they will come and they have been given plenty of notice , Lots of people not don't work covential mon-fri /9-5 jobs doo would have to get it off if we had it on a Saturday anyway plus we don't have an extra £2000/3000 to pay for the extra cost of having it on a Fri/sat. But it's done now, stood my ground and won.

Our venue had an open evening today so I took the in-laws, they seemed happy which is good.
Got a meeting with the wedding coordinator on Saturday morning to go through everything and we will probably put the deposit down, yay!

I've more or less booked everything now which is kind of frustrating as now its trying to find something to do. Luckily for the next month and a bit I have my local town carnival to concentrate on , as im organising the entertainment and also helping with the float at all the other carnivals.

Then im going to get on making the flowers for my bouquet and get a proper design done for the invites. Which i need my Oh and BM to help with.

also found that h.samual now has a ring specificaly make to match mine and is lush, but about £100 more than I planned , will just have to skimp on Oh's ring lols, hes not bothered anyway.

i have less than a year to go now! 1 year countdown started yesterday! i can't get my head round the fact i am going to be a wife - it sounds so weird! Donna i have really tiny hands so I can't have 2 rings it just looks wrong and nothing went with my engagement ring anyway cos its unusual...so I am having my nans ring as a wedding ring and then after the wedding I will wear that on my right hand and just wear my engagement ring on my ring finger...you could do that? or the other way round just wear a wedding ring and wear your engagement ring on the other hand? people make up all these rules about how things have to be done but does it really matter? just do what you want...xx

yeah I looked in warren james for me tho, lols, will have to take Oh up to have a look.

^ as for your own rules, when I was looking at rings yesterday everywhere everyone was telling me to put the wedding ring on first and I was like um no I prefer it the other way, my mum was like its traditional, I was like I don't care, I don't like it that way IMO it looks stupid and ugly.

Met with one of my bridesmaids today to have a discussion about the wedding morning arrangements, we also chatted about hair and makeup plans. It was good to get her opinion and input on this matter. Weve arranged to get our own hair and makeup done so this relieves us of some costs

Woooop go you ! its all gearing up now.

hooray it's a great feeling isn't it!!!

omg, even tho my in forum thing reads 13 months (which gave me a minor heart attack, Lucky I have 2 :) ) its more like 2 but under 2 end of July. :)

I had a really bad nights sleep last night with lots of bad dreams, about the wedding, about rehearsals going really wrong, dress getting ripped, and then the actual wedding the bms walking down to fast and ducking in the aisle before the front is some venue I don't even reconise, and then I get to the front and Oh is not there and in looking around wildly freaking out going where is he and his BM who is not even the guy who is his best man is like "I don't know" and im like but you were supposed to be staying with him last night and this morning" I run out crying my eyes out to my room to find my phone, and ring him he answers and says hes not coming as he does not love me, cue more tears and me waking up crying , and my Oh woke up and was like whats the matter? so I told him and he was like "thats never going to happen, I love you more than anything (other than Izzy <our DD>) and would never every do that to you " we hugged and eventually managed to get back to sleep.


I don't know what its supposed to mean , as I know he would not do that, and I know he loves me/us and would not do that to us.

My parents have brought us our favours. They are little miniature bottles of wine with a personalised label (Jade and Jasons Wedding 12th May 2015) on with chocs in n organza bag :)

I will post an photo when I can :)

Congrats LeasaD! One year woohoo! best feeling! VictoriaL its amazing getting to less than a year to go...its weird though! I can't imagine calling myself a wife...obviously i pretty much am a wife already - its just the word it sounds so grown up and strange!

Lana I have the most vivid dreams - sometimes when they are really bad I wake up and I feel like I haven't slept for a week - have had LOTS of wedding related ones - some good and some bad - the worst one was really bad so I woke myself up (i can usually do that by telling myself in my dream its not real - weird!) walked to the bathroom but I can't have been fully awake because I looked in the mirror and I was wearing a veil and my face was falling off like a zombie! and I am not worried about anything wedding related at all! I think its just your brain processing information - just annoying! xx

I know what you mean Kitty, I'm 29 soon and will be 30 when we tie the not and I still don't feel mature enough to be that age let alone a wife... I mean, I don't even cook! (I can, I just really hate it and OH is a fab cook)