It's quite a different colour though.
They have to do us a few more favour tags too as they messed up their end. They were done with space at the left side for hole, and when the printers cut them up they did it so the text was centered and now there's no space for the hole! As in they ignored the cropping guidelines. Both can be redone this week so no problem.

I love the lovespoons. I'm hoping people will like them too!

Lol i think its stressful writing invites

Ive found one reading - i couldnt read it as the tears started...

You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance
to this point of commitment. At some point, you decided to marry.
From that moment of yes, to this moment of yes, indeed,
you have been making commitments in an informal way.
All of those conversations that were held in a car, or over a meal,
or during long walks – all those conversations that began with,
"When we're married", and continued with "I will" and "you will" and "we will" –
all those late night talks that included "someday" and "somehow" and "maybe" –
and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart.
All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding.
The symbolic vows that you are about to make
are a way of saying to one another,
"You know all those things that we've promised, and hoped, and dreamed –
well, I meant it all, every word."
Look at one another and remember this moment in time.
Before this moment you have been many things to one another –
acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dancing partner, even teacher,
for you have learned much from one another these past few years.
Shortly you shall say a few words that will take you across a threshold of life,
and things between you will never quite be the same.
For after today you shall say to the world –
This is my husband. This is my wife.
Robert Fulghum

Ah that is lovely :-)

H2b made them using a hand saw & router, the wood was mdf. I love them! They are even more specail because he made them for me.

Wow that's fab! Well done him! I've bought our names in letters and will paint them. H2b couldn't paint them never mind hand make them!

our Love is Sweet sign will be painted in silver paint with purple spots on, just need to get the right purple to do it, excitings!!!!!

bought the BM cardigans this weekend and took the new dresses up to see them as the smaller one, age 3 wanted to be a princess that day bless her.

they looked gorgeous!!! the age 10 one fits my 8 year cousin perfectly, its a tad big but she is in the middle of growth spurt, need to put her in a small heel shoe as it is a tad long but its minor nothing serious

also bought my mum a new wedding outfit, she's lost loads of weight and now the dress she originally bought doesn't fit!

found a perfect outfit in cadbury purple with ivory and diamate detailing - fits perfectly with my theme which she loves!!! the original dress was pink and aqua. stuck it on bay of e last night and its hit its £100 reserve already!!!! just need to get her a hat/fascinator to match now, she did find a hat she loved but it was a tad big for her, she needs the height of a fascinator as she is quiete short bless her.

What you think?


(excuse her face lol and my mum didnt want her head in the picture for the pink one as the dress is too big i think i could fit half of me in it aswell lol)

yea my mum asked that and i said no you've just cost me £180 for this one you wear it all day!!!!!!

when she takes the jacket off it is a tad plain but we managed to find a butterfly broach that matches her shoes which have butterflies on (again goes with my theme) so she's bought that to attach to the dress when she has taken the jacket off

i'm really chuffed with it and glad i made her try it on!

My invites have landed! They went 2nd class yesterday but have arrived today which is odd. Have also hand delivered a couple today. Exciting!

Also means i've finally ticked it off my list!

mrs mann your mum looks gorgeous in her dress, lovely! My mums went from being not particularly interested in the beginning, to talking about nothing else! She's been talking about all the things she wants done for the wedding, got herself a beautiful mother of the bride outfit and is talking hair, makeup, teeth lol she's not usually so girly but she's right into it now :) x

hahaha sorry i know it wasn't a nice dream but i found that amusing! hehehe

thanks my mum feels a million dollars in it and her old one is at £107 on bay of e which is £7 more than what she paid so she's chuffed and she only owes me £73 then hahaha.

my dad was in a grump when we brought the new one home but after i'd gone home he told my mum that she looked stunning in it and so much better than the other one so that made her feel even better

I know how you feel I had a very strange dream about the wedding I woke up with swollen eyes from crying!

Hi all, not been on for ages, had a very dramatic weekend, which involved trips in an ambulance and an over night stay in hospital, but thats another story. And everything is ok now after a few days off work and plenty of rest.

Mrs Mann, your mum looks amazing, both of the dresses are lovely! Think my mum has so far bought 4 outfits!! and still hasn't decided on one.

I'm glad i'm not the only one who has had horrible dreams about the wedding, I had one last night where I forgot the send out the rest of my invites!! (maybe just a reminder to get round to sticking them in the post) so there was hardly any guests, my sister had offered to do the favours, but got bored half way through so didn't finish them. I forgot to take my dress to the venue, so I had to get married in my PJs, I got so stressed with my sister, that I forgot to go get my hair any makeup done, so looked a total mess!! Woke up feeling so stressed today!

Glad it was only a dream, it got allot worse too.

Hows everyones planning going? I was completely finished with it all, except now I need to find a new dress!!! which is starting to worry me with only 5 months to go :( but with not knowing for sure how big i'm going to be (i'm 8 weeks pregnant) making it difficult. and I don't seem to like the normal maternity wedding dresses :( argh!!

I have sent out most of mine already but havent given the ones out at work
We are inviting some family who dont live that close so given them enough opportunity to book accommodation etc if they do want to come
I guess the longer you leave it the more chance that they may make other plans and not come

I had a really bad wedding nightmare last night :(

i sent my day and first round evening ones out lol if i don't get RSVP's from the evening i'll send another round out to different people who didn't quiete make the cut.

I'll probably end up with 40 people over but never mind haha

thanks my mum still can't stop talking about her dress lol it makes me want mine but its not coming in for ages :-(

Ahh :-(

I've had a few bad ones now. One where my family were angry that the wedding was costing them so much. One where I was sitting down to the breakfast and was panicking as we hadn't had the ceremony yet and everyone said 'yes we have!' I couldn't remember it!

Well I keep dreaming I'm having affairs lol not with particularly desirable people either! I could understand if it was someone hot but 2 nights ago I dreamt I was sneaking about with a man from my work who's 50 and definitely not someone I've looked at like that. In my defense though, I do always wonder in the dream why I'm doing that to h2b lol x

Lol jill - i dont have many dreams of running off with other men but when i do they arent often lookers either!
I will be glad when the dreams are over

Im off cake tasting on sunday :D

We have a design we are just going to taste flavours!
I am having a hand piped lace cake, three tiers, and a campervan grooms cake!

Thank you, the invites were designed by someone who has worked for h2b, as well as our invites, she has done work for abolut vodka, sony and vogue - get me eh!!
Im not having that cake anymore, the lady who made it went out of business i think :(
We met her and she was trying to find a smaller premise and we tried contacting her a few times but she never got back to us
I cant get a pic off the new cake lady's website - we had a few probs finding the right cakemaker, the other one i loved her cakes but they were all fake

I know although the original lady was expensive so our two cakes are costing less than that one :s
The new lady is very talented - probably why she protects her pics lol

Some people are very rude. We are fairly relaxed with the evening as we have a hog roast so the numbers are flexible but if we were paying for a buffet pp I would be much more strict!

i have no kids but i know that a few people are struggling, my friend from primary school has got a 2 year old and will be 7 months pregnant and has fallen out with all her family because they don't approve of her getting pregnant again etc etc so i said well bring her its fine.

also my cousin has twins and a 2 year old, she wants to come with her other half but can't leave kids home alone and all her usual babysitters will be at the wedding so i said just bring them as long as you can keep them under control it will be fine lol

Lovely Nic, enjoy! We done ours at the start of the month, it was the best! Probably shouldnt have gone on to buy 6 cupcakes from them but hey ho - done now lol x

I was really surprised by how much I liked the toffee flavour so cake tasting is a definite :) let us know how it goes x