Wedding Forum - Any other 2016 Brides????...

We are thinking of making our own cake.. not sure if that is brave or stupid! lol x

Emma, like Flossie said can only give it a try, I am def not going to attempt my own cake lol sounds like to much stress to me xx

It would save you a lot of money! Make sure you show us when you've done your first trial run

Ha ha I might come to my senses before then! ;) x

Getting married Dec 2016. So far only have venue booked, starting weight watchers today, and once I've lost 7Ibs I can start trying on dresses. Everyone else seams far more organised than me :)

We decided on our name place settings at the weekend. Pictures in my planning thread or on my profile :) I fell in love with the second dress I tried on which was a good and a bad thing as I only went to one appointment (plus it was free!) lol x

I got our videographer booked today, I was watching his videos and I was so emotional! I dread to think how im going to be on our wedding day! Xx

Hi Sophie

Hi so the church, reception my dress are all done :-) just looking at save the dates cards. I have a relative who is a photographer and friends who do all sorts so hoping to keep my costs down that way. I want to just do everything now but know I can't hehe! Xx

I'm getting married 22nd December 2016 just provisionally booked my registrar too which is exciting knowing I have a time. Just need to confirm it 12 months prior :)

Hi Sophie

I'm getting married June 2016 and I have booked the venue, registrar, photographer, harpist, magician and DJ. I have my shoes (because I fell in love with them not because I actually wanted to buy them so early!) and all 4 of my bridesmaids dresses. OH and I also have our wedding rings. We've ordered all the stuff for our DIY invitations and favours, so just need to get making those nearer the time.

I've decided on flowers (I think).. also making those myself so just need to buy the bits and have a play. We've decided on what cake we want, just need to get a few quotes and now and decide who to go with. We have pretty much decided on everything we want now, it's just a case of spreading the cost and booking things/paying for things as we go along :)

As for OH being involved.. my OH has been fantastic and has an opinion about everything. He has been heavily involved and gets upset if I am looking at something wedding-related without him! A lot of men seem to lack excitement though until it gets a lot closer to the day, I don't think this is uncommon! x

It's so nice reading what everyone has/is doing. It's not that h2b isn't involved he just thinks we have plenty of time, I am to impulsive sometimes but I have been getting quotes for things just so we know were we stand etc and I said to him that if we get something every month then we aren't going to end up paying for everything all at once if that makes sense and I am trying to save money my save the date cards for example the website give you 20 free I need 40 so only paying for half of them :-)! What is everyone's colour scheme?? Zxx

I am doing the same Sophie buying bits each month now because its all the little things that really add up and id rather not buy them all at once and spread the cost.

Our colour scheme is silver/grey and touch of sparkle too, what about yours? Xx

Definitely better to be organised and spread the cost as much as possible. I know it's do-able planning a wedding in a short space of time but I know I would majorly panic if I didn't feel I was on top of everything! Good luck with your bridesmaid dress hunt :) pastels seem to be quite 'in' at the minute so I'm sure you'll find something. Do you want to buy from a physical shop or have you thought about ordering online? There are a few 'China' sites that have fab dresses in a wide choice of colours, but it depends if you want to take the risk!

We decided not to send save the dates as our wedding will be quite intimate with just close family and friends, so everyone knows the date already! Decided it would just be a waste of money. If we were to send save the dates we would probably have sent them around now x

I just booked the registrar today! felt so exciting speaking to them and so real but now I know what I need to know about all that as I was clueless!

I was going to be sending save the dates anyways and our venue actually provided them so we have used them as its saving us money. I have given mine to both our family's so far and close friends I need to get the rest out but without having guest lists finalised im not 100% on who else to hand them to at the moment as I would hate to change my mind and give someone false hope of an invite.

Xxx

Yay Sarah, that's great if you can save anything the that's great! I am the same but we only really have our families (he has a huge family) and a few close friends so we know that won't change. We have had to be brutal with out guest list as he has tons of cousins who all have children so we have decided to just invite them all to the night thing minus the kids. Xxx

Hi. We have about 50 family and 20 close friends. Exactly we are getting no help from anyone so we are doing it our way! No neither have we YET. I would honestly love to invite everyone to day but we have in total 150 day and night so just can't do it. I am having some kids there as I have two of my own and want them to have someone to play with as well! What are you doing for the kids? Xx

I'm so glad we won't have many kids at our wedding so don't have to worry so much about keeping them entertained! My worst nightmare would be kids running around everywhere causing havoc haha.. not sure I could bite my tongue and would just end up telling them off hehe.

We will have my flower girl who will be 2 years and almost 3 months, my step brother's babba who hasn't been born yet but will be 15 months and my step brother's girlfriends' son who will be 8 or 9. Oh and OH's cousin has a baby who I think will be about 2 by the time of the wedding so she might want to play with my flower girl :) think that is it though..

I have 2 cousins who will be roughly 7 and 3 but not even sure if I am inviting them yet and my uncle/auntie yet. I have never even met the youngest :/

Like you Flossie im glad also I wouldn't like kids running about screaming lol but the important ones will be there, we don't actually have that many people coming who have who have kids sonot really much for us to worry about. My bridesmaid has her MIL on stand by to collect the kids so they will be there for most of the day but away at night for herself and her husband to enjoy the night.

Sarah xxx

Yeah I would just have children who are part of the close family, wouldn't invite friend's children. I haven't got a very high tolerance for children... the parents would be probably be thankful for the night off anyway x

I am the same most of the children I am inviting are close families children and they have to travel quite a long way so wouldn't be fair. And the other are my bridesmaids children. But at night no kids are invited as you say it's nice for them to enjoy the night and. It have to run about after their kids. Xxx

Yeah my OH family live miles away too so they have to bring their kids really. I don't mind a few being there as long as the parents are responsible for them x

Hi ladies, I am new on here. Got engaged November 2014 and getting married 14th may 2016!!! Venue and church booked. Just started looking at save the date ideas. Extremely excited!

Hi Everyone. First time here! feeling a bit overwhelmed with getting to grips with the forum. never joined one before!!!

Hello Ladies,

Am new to the forum and the whole wedding thing! We're about to confirm a date for late October 2016 after getting in engaged in August this year.

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