Well Rachel I had a hunch, then my mum bought me a reading for my birthday and in my reading i was told only 3 bridesmaids would be at the wedding, she said one was jealous and I could understand who she was talking about. Then I sent invites out etc and they should be back to me by 5th march, this one hasn't acknowledged the invite even and she hasn't been in touch, except to ask why her sis and mum have only been invited to the evening (I hardly know them, I only invited them to the evening to make her happy) and I haven't heard anything since, I am waiting until the 5th to see if she sends the RSVP back but I just don't think she will....

I know and I will be really disappointed to be honest. Not because i need her to be bridesmaid I have 3 and 2 flower girls but because I would rather she was more grown up about it tbh

I hope so, I will still be a tad annoyed as I have already bought her dress, shoes, jewellery, hair slide etc but that's life!

Oh how lovely! I emailed my reverend and he hasn't replied and I haven't had an answer on his phone :(

Can't believe our wedding is less than 4 months away starting to think i haven't got everything organise!!
Rachel we are going Italy on honeymoon and doing a little trip starting in Venice then Rome ending is Tuscany :)
Can't believer how much stress can come from a wedding though and how everyone has such views when it should be about the two of you getting married. That's the stressful part lol

99 days! Whoot! Payday today and Ive gone and sorted the mother of groom and my mother's gifts, bought the pocket folds, bought remaining bits and bobs decorations wise and combined savings for the last £250 to pay towards the hog roast. WELL ON OUR WAY TO BEING SORTED WHOOOT!

Honeymoon - we have booked the last week of june off, so will book a last minute hol to somewhere like tenerife. This is our mini-moon. For the main honeymoon, we are going to save and go to hawaii next year, full on luxury!!!

oooh Tenerife is lovely!!! Ive no idea where we are going, Dave is in charge of it and is refusing to tell me, its our neighbour who is packing my bag LOL hahaha

Exactly so we've said bet they have done that expecting us to get in touch with a day invite but to be honest there lost lol. We are having a familywedding. I've really enjoyed planning for the wedding and my h2b has been great it's just things like that which irritate me on well shoudnt let it ruin things :) xx

Yea we've got 55 day which is family close friend such are either bridesmaids or ushers and 140 in the evening. Yes I agree things are all coming together just finalising things and paying final amounts now :) exciting times xx

I posted my invites out on wed (2nd class), I had people messaging me on Thursday saying that they had received it, and I had my first RSVP yesterday (on fb)!!
Also this week, the bridesmaid dress has turned up (it fits but is MUCH too long!!), I've ordered my guestbook, postbox and activity packs for the kids off 4m4z0n, and I've designed and ordered 250 cards for the wedding pictures app (from vprint, as it was MUCH more expensive to order through the official site, and at least its now personal!)
I can't believe how nicely its all coming together!!!

I did the last of the evening invites today....we now have a 'reserve' list for the evening as we're way over on numbers and the sacrifice has been half his family much to his mums annoyance (her fault for being one of 12!!). My mums in hospital with an infection from the chemo. I can't even think to imagine getting married without her. Xx

Ive had my first four RSVPs through in the past three days, and one couple cannot attend and have already bought us a gift off the registry! I never thought I would get so excited about such little bits and pieces happening! But I guess it is because it makes it feel so much more real, that 12 weeks today I will be getting married to my best friend, and we can be mad together for the rest of eternity. lol

Had a bit of a rough week. The lady who was meant to be marrying us, a friend of Dave's, who we had gained permission to come do the wedding, filled in forms etc, told me on Thurs night that they had looked at accommodation prices and couldnt come. So this means they couldnt do our wedding either :( Ive spoke to Inverness Registrar General and informed them, and they will appoint one of the local registrars to do the wedding instead. So a bit sad. But then had the FMIL on the phone the next morning asking if we would consider moving the wedding down closer to them because its looking like a lot of them cannot attend. THIS annoyed me. Everyone has had since we got engaged and planned it being here to think about the fact the wedding is here. They got given accommodation lists with their Save the Dates, and yet hardly anyone has booked accommodation! Now a few are complaining that they cant possibly come to the wedding as its too far and they cant afford it, and that would be fine, and a very fair comment, if it werent immediately followed by "why cant they move it down here? It wont cost them too much to change it!"
Um...because thats not where we live, thats not where we love, its not where we planned to get married. It has no significance to US, my family wouldnt be able to reach it and attend. Oh and nevermind the £5000 we have spent to get it to this stage! Oh no, to save you £35 B&B, your lunch, and your fuel, Dave and I will magically pull another £5000 out of our backsides and put it on your doorstep instead.
So I think we are in the bad books. Oh well, OOOOOPS!! lol

Ah what a nightmare Susie! We have had similar, people moaning about the cost etc (we are getting married abroad) - and it's like 1. you have known about it for 2 years and 2. no one is forcing you to come! I think people just don't realise the work that goes into planning a wedding and the stress that comes with it!

Anyway 60 days to go for me (and exactly 2 months today!) eeeek xx

Oooh Rachel, thats a shame!! Brilly on here posted an idea about turning a magazine file holder on its side and dressing them up with paper to match your theme and filling with sweeties! They looked amazing!

Had a great weekend chilling with one of my bridesmaids, only bad thing was she was forced to tell me what my other bridesmaid had planned for my hen do. I am blooming glad she did. For 6 months the bridesmaid who is with me just now has been telling the other one(the one who has caused problems throughout) that I am not the kind of girl to enjoy inflatable willies etc nor skimpy outfits, and the other bridesmaid has just carried on her merry way buying bits and bobs and not listening. Despite my fiance also telling her there was no way in heck I would wear a skimpy uniform to the local pub.
So the non-trouble bridesmaid told me all about it and we spent a day chilling out at the pub (not something I usually do) trying to figure out how the heck to get out of this. I only wanted to drive back from inverness with a chinese takeaway, have a few drinks in the house, make paper flowers, maybe go to the pub, and watch a film. This, I was happy with. Not inflatable willies and other phallic things. I am just not the girl that finds that all that funny. So we eventually managed to get the local pub to confirm they dont allow dressing up like that, so PHEW could tell her that was one of the reasons we werent doing what she wanted. But in order to wear the outfit she has chosen, in a fun way (again, all I seem to do is keep the peace) is to opt for a blackening (taken down the beach, tied up and eggs, flour, etc thrown over you) while wearing the outfit (with leggings and a cardie). So we think we have averted disaster. I may sound like a prude or a fuddy duddy, but that stuff is just NOT me. :( Im beginning to think her continued aggro is because my wedding isnt how SHE would do it. But hopefully thats the end of that issue.
Off to show my non-trouble bridesmaid the wedding venue now :) Happy happy happy!

hahaha now THAT is brilliant!!!

I would be ok if people would stop mucking us around! lol

My rsvp deadline is on Wednesday and Im still waiting on 43 people to actually respond! Some of which is my sister and 4 kids, my gran, my aunt and her parnter and my cousin and his partner. I actually had to send a msg in the family book of face pm to them asking what their plans are. All I got was a vague response from my sister that she would be there for the day, with three of the kids. I feel like saying, there are all four kids on your invite, get a definite frikken answer and tell me before wednesday. I want to say to my aunt, get a move on, and same to my cousin and gran. They have been the most reluctant people ever. I get annoyed because we went to my aunts wedding on the isle of Wight, despite living the top of Scotland, we did the same for my sister, we helped them move, we helped my gran move several times. All im asking is that they make a decision and tell me. but all im getting is half-ar5ed responses which tell me nothing. If they dont reply, they wont be coming as far as Im concerned at this point, because I have finally reached that moment of, why am I bothering with you lot, you have never been anything but a hinderance. :(

So hey ho, other than that, things are good~! Its my birthday on wednesday too, and my friend is coming over to do my make up and hair trial, so I am trying to be positive and think on that instead of my family! lol

How is it going for all our other June ladies and gents?

We've put our RSVP date for tomorrow and we still hasn't had all the replies, im going to give it a few extra days as quite a few of them may be on the post but I'm not going to be chasing everyone. Just been to have the dress fitted, it needs a few changes but nothing major. It is so near now. X

I sent a fb msg to all non-replyers the other day saying that there was 10 days left until the deadline. I'm still waiting on a few people, but there's still time. On a really positive note, I had a msg from the bridal shop today saying my dress has arrived...eek super excited!!!

Good news on your mum Rachel!!!

So far, so good with us, 5 weeks and 3 days for us and its all coming together. Went and paid for the cake today, so that is another thing to tick off my seemingly never ending list of things to do haha.
We are moving house two weeks after the wedding, so we have everything to try and sort out for that too, which isnt much fun! But we got news today that the house we have applied to rent, we have been accepted for, so that was a massive relief for us (esp since i went for a job interview today and didnt get it *sad face* ) So it was nice to get that good news at least.

Just £600 left to pay now, £300 on the night for the band, £200 budget for us to make buffet food, £60 for enough helium for our baloons, and £40 for one more box of prosecco. And that...is it... :) Which really is just as well given we have to save up to move and then be frugal for a while if I dont immediately find work! Eeeek!!

Hope everyone else is ok!!

Well I've just ordered my underwear (££escos only &19 for the matching bra and knickers!!).
My dress isn't in the shop yet it was due last Monday. Not getting too stressed about it but will be happier when it arrives. Just tried the boys converse on them and Yeahhhhh they fit. My 16 yr old wears a size 12 they look like boats!! Going to sort out the table plan later and send it off ready to print. Hen weekend 2 weeks time and getting my hair and make up trial that morning so looking forward to that. Still can't tell if I'm excited or terrified!!

29 days to go for me but hey whos counting - oh yes that would be me haha

Hen do this weekend and I am beyond excited, scared but excited. Everything seems to be coming along now and pretty much everything is paid for except the gifts, table plan and table names.

Little worried as without even trying I have lost 3lb since my final dress fitting so I am worried now that if I am loosing weight without trying will I loose more?

So its off the chip shop for dinner :)

xx

Six weeks to go hen weekend starts tomorrow and like you Nikki I'm a bit worried but excited :) xx

Hen weekend was amazing had trauma night before as my 19 year old daughter couldn't come, she fell over earlier in the week and can't put any weight on her foot but she will be fine for the wedding, cue massive row with my mum over everything so if had head ache and big red eyes the following morning - hey ho. But I just put everything to the back of my mind and get on with it and I am so glad I did I had both my make up and hair trial done and it was great and my chicks were brilliant, now I can say 3 weeks on Saturday and I can't wait xxx

lol glad you had so much fun Rachel!
Eeeek Nikki, Ive so far managed tog et through everything without arguing with my mother, but Im very close to having a full on argument with my FMIL lol How is your daughters foot now?

The local pub is putting on a pub quiz for me, so I can have a relaxed, fun hen do! Going out and getting drunk isnt my thing at all, (mainly because Im not the best at hangovers lol) so we get chinese nibbles and a pub quiz, so much fun to me! Yay!
2 weeks...3 full days and 6 hours to go...aaaaaaaahhhhhh