Wedding Forum - August 2015 Brides unite ;)...

I noticed that the July 2015 brides have a thread and think there's a few of us Augusts on here at the moment as well.

We're getting married on the 8th of August 2015, when's your big day? How are plans all coming together

Woohoo, I'm the week after you two 15th August.

Getting married at 2pm everything under the one roof. My future BILs dad is doing our photographer at an excellent price will sort out the coaches later in the year when the prices are finalised for 2015.

We aren't having cars as Ill be staying at the hotel the night before and H2b will just drive our car. Registrar is all booked and half paid for the rest will be paid 6 weeks before.

Dress is organised and will get re-measured in Jan so it fits perfectly.

Band is organised and deposit paid.

Alan will be at our venue with is best man and ushers an hour before the ceremony he needs to be there before guest arrive and they will start to arrive at 1.30pm 30 mins before the ceremony.

Duh, not an hour before the guests arrive, well he can have a drive around then :p or do you think next time we speak to the cars we should suggest a half 11 pick up instead?

Yeah, fair enough. We're making our own invites so anyone who we think may arrive late I might even add a note to their invite to say start time 12.30, please arrive by blah blah....

My heads all over the place when it comes to all this wedding stuff.... I have so many idea's, some of them end up being good one's ;) lol

hi all!
mine is 15th August at 3pm - very excited!

We are having our ceremony at the church H2B's mum and dad got married in and then on to our favourite hotel for the reception. We had to choose like Keira - an early ceremony with fewer guests (and a bigger headache!) or a later one with more people. We're not even bothering with a sit down meal, having a big fat BBQ on the terrace instead as neither of us wanted it to be too formal all day.

We have so far:
booked the church
booked the reception and paid deposit
booked and paid for transport
booked and paid deposit for singer/DJ
booked and paid deposit for photographer
booked venue decorators and paid £150 off their bill so far
and we are waiting for quotes from videographers and cake makers.

I've also been scouring the bay of e and have my 2 adult BM's headpieces, my tiara, and a headband for the youngest BM, and we have superhero cufflinks for the wedding party.

It's all so exciting! x

Hi All, Our wedding is booked for Monday 31st August at 3pm on a beach in Cyprus all I have booked so far is wedding date and Photographer, as soon as I have booked the Holiday in April I will start getting other things sorted and booked, It is so exciting I cant wait. :)

I would have loved to have got married abroad as well, but I know some people wouldn't have been able to make it

Ahhh don't talk to me about favours lmao

Yeah we have thought about them and so has MIL, I'd thought about the American candle wedding day votives a few weeks ago but fiancé didn't like the idea (MIL found them the other day as well and suggested them... and kept going on about them lol) but I have come round to fiancé's thinking as we think a lot of them would be left if people didn't want to carry them around, they'd end up being a thing for the women and we'd have to have something like whiskey for the men which with our guests is awkward as we have couples where the man is T-total and the woman loves a drink (so we'd have to give her the whiskey and don't think he'd appreciate a candle lol)

So at the moment we're thinking miniature drinks for everybody (certain people will have something we know they like, such as my nanna will have a baileys, T-total will have one of those mini cans of coke or a mini lemonade.

We've also seen some lovely cookies... we thought they were £2.75 at first which was too much, but then we've seen slightly smaller one's for £2.25.... so may still consider them as well as the miniatures. All depends though because then we are starting to look at about £4pp which all adds up.

No idea on kids, we'll only have two at the wedding breakfast. But probably some sort of activity pack. (One is my son who will be 7 and one will be my bridesmaids daughter who will be 18 months old.... so they'll have to be personal to them anyway as they won't want the same things)

O and I am planning of giving the children activity packs (may even make one for myself)

I'm picking things up as I go along for the kids activity packs. There is only 5 kids including our own.

I have thought about the Marie currie badges for favours but not sure.

Hope your bils girlfriends recovers quickly.

I've been thinking all sorts of wedding stuff today. Pretty much decided what I'm getting my sister for being my bridesmaid x

What are you getting your sister?

we need some idea's for bridesmaids

Flowers just seem silly money, I'm def going artificial as don't fancy paying a fortune for fresh and having the wilt if it's really hot. I've seen a lovely silk set which would go with our colour scheme, but I'm liking the look of the brooch one's and the mixed one's as well.... would I ruin the bouquet if I bought the silk one and added some brooches do you think?

That sounds lovely :) I have two bridesmaids, think I'll get them a jewellery set but might give that to them for the day so maybe a bottle of wine or flowers to give them during the speeches

Thanks everyone, positive thoughts.

I have decided on artificial flowers, because they are cheaper and one of my bridesmaids has really bad hay fever so I don't want flowers to irritate her on the day.

My mums friend has just started up a vintage wedding business including custom made bouquets, stationary etc she's even making a bouquets entirely out of Swarovski crystals. I bet it will look fantastic but completely out of my price range, as the Brides bouquets costs more than my all my flowers.

For my flowers its going to cost around 200 and that's for 1 bride bouquet, 4 bridesmaid bouquet, 7 button holes and 2 flower girl wands. does this sound reasonable? I do like the idea of artificial, I was a bridesmaid March last year and our bouquets were Cream Gerberas, when I woke up the morning after the wedding they had already started dying/ going floppy :(

I love the idea of the broach bouquets too xx

Hi everyone,

I'm getting married at 2pm on Saturday 1st August 2015.

I've still got to book photographer and hair and make up and also get my dress and bridesmaid dresses.

Xx

These are the flowers I love, I cant decide between them



I cant decide between mint or coral as my theme so thinking of combining the two, I know my OH wouldn't want just coral. This is the bridesmaid dresses I think I will be getting, just have to confirm the colour.

Just checked the website for the flowers and it will cost £118 for 2 bouquets don't know if I want to spend that much my initial budget was £75 and that's how much mine would be H2b will say if its what I really want just get them lol

Elizabethf49 will you be getting buttonholes too? Maybe the flower shop will knock some money off if your ordering more.

Gemmaf238 I found the mint one on p!nterest (searched mint bridesmaid dresses) the coral ones are from k!ssy dresses. I love them, my mil thinks there to plain but when describing what she thought would look nice she basically described a big prom dress lol. My bridesmaids love this too, so hopefully it suits them.

Keira for some reason it didn't show the dresses when I commented earlier I love them and either of the flowers will go with the dresses.

Yeah Ill be getting buttonholes too so she may do me a deal I need 6 buttonholes but they are £8 each. I think I have totally underestimated the price of flowers oh dear lol.

Im going for quite a plain BM dress too, My dress is a showstopper IMO lol so don't want my BM's dress to be the same.

Donna I love your flowers too (I didn't know I had such an appreciation for flowers lol)

xx

I love that dress too, Ive decided on a dress but its not exactly the colour I want but if I don't get the exact colour in a similar dress then it will be the one me and my sister both love for her

Stupid question but what is TOG?

Well done on winning you dress.

Favours are the bain of my life cant decide what I would like keep changing my mind and driving H2b nuts lol.

I had a look at our spreadsheet tonight and must say im pleasantly surprised at how much its costing 9Still costing far too much for my liking lol)

Do you have an idea of what you would like for centrepieces?

well done on winning the dress :) that must have been a lovely surprise

Could you not to miniatures for the ladies as well, we are, not decided which drink yet (certain people will get their favourite drink but most will have the same)

TOG = photographer, sorry x

We have decided on 50cm Martini glasses for centre pieces but can't decide on which flowers I like for them. Been considering favours again and thinking I might not bother with them, we are having a candy buffet so might just personalise bags/boxes for that.

Winning my dress was awesome, now just need to get it altered as the designers sent it out unaltered, needs tonnes taking off as it's way too long (I am 5ft 3.5 lol).