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

Thanks Donna :) we are having our official engagement shoot next month who the tog we've booked and can't wait now I've seen these from the other lady! Here's a couple others!

Actually, although you feel a but self conscious to start with, it becomes very natural and you go with the flow. It was really fun and you forget about everything! Do it if you can :)

I think I've found my bridesmaid dress, they both love them and I can get them for £24 each... they'll need some added extra's too them, will have to buy undershirts for them and I've been told to go for one's that are around the £25-£30 mark so they aren't itchy and we'll want to add a satin sash to them I think as well (will check with the girls as to what they think about that)

Just need to decide when to order them though.

OOooooo I just found this thread. I'm brand new to this site, getting married Aug 10th 2015, been engaged since June 13th last year and we so far have Venue (Humanist Ceremony/Meal/Reception all under one roof), Wedding Dress, Photographer and Caterer, we've also got a chat with the Humanist Celebrant this Tues to discuss everything and will hopefully have that all sorted asap. :)

Welcome and congrats Victoria! :)
Any pics Donna?
What ideas did you pick up MrsK? x

MrsBurton keep looking you will find something that suits them and that you like, you do need something that suits them though otherwise no matter how much you like the dress it won't look nice on the day :/

Welcome to the thread Victoria, sounds like you have lots booked already

Oooo what idea's did you get MrsKirkby2b?


We went to a wedding fayre at our venue today, didn't see much, but like we said to the guy who manages our band (who was there) it's weird because we've already booked most things so we walked around thinking... don't need that, don't need that ect. wanted to speak to the new wedding coordinator too, but as we were waiting for her we realised the people she was talking too were booking their wedding and lots of people were waiting, so we thought we'd leave as we only wanted to introduce ourselves and didn't actually have much to say.

We are doing gerberas - Love them and I can make them into half decent bouquets which saves 100's of £'s as florists charge through the earth! We didn't want a photobooth as we thought that's so generic - Everyone has them and thought it soooo boring (no offence to anyone else but we don't wana follow the pack on this, ditto with the sweetie cart as they are everywhere!) so we've found a caricaturist who will go round throughout the evening drawing cartoon portraits of everyone, plus a great favour for them too :D x

Thanks for the welcome ladies, MrsKirby2b we're planning on having a photobooth with alice in wonderland props (this is our theme) and the last wedding I went to had a booth too, they're so much fun and you can get an option of extra prints for guests to stick in a guest book to sign :-)

Had a breakthrough in terms of invite design last night, must concentrate on work today and not be tempted to keep sketching things out. Can you tell I'm excited?!

Photo booth option still in discussion, we figure it's a lot of money and the photographer we like is a little over budget so would rather have him and no photo booth. We will probably use the wedding pics app to get people to capture silly ones.

Ooh I missed the gerberas before, that's an awesome colour combo :)

Of course I can Catherine, no rush... I don't want it any-more myself as not sure if it's too big, but I haven't asked anyone else if they want it yet, I'll probably stick it on the bay if you decide you don't want it. No point rushing into a decision as if you are not happy with it then you'll just end up in the same position as me. I'm sure it'll find a good home ;)

She looks beautiful

Love the veil, shame we can't see you in your dress... can't wait until you can post pictures of your actual dress :)

Don't worry... You'll know when I have as I'll be the excited one bouncing about in the corner hehe!!

I felt like such an idiot when I was trying veils on before, felt like I looked like a complete numpty but once you've found you're dress, it's totally different! :)

I've got a florist waiting in the wings (or at least waiting until I have enough to pay her the deposit she wants)!

Still doesn't feel quite real to me, in Jan/Feb when we first got everything booked it did.... but now it doesn't. I think that might be because there isn't much we can do right now though.... looking forward to when I can start properly thinking about hen do's... well not really thinking just talking about dates and who's coming as my bridesmaids are organising my proper one and some ladies from work are doing me on for the work crew ;)

I think a few of us will be in the same position, but it's dull isn't it.


Although saying that, I had my first wedding related dream last night.. hoping that I don't have 14 months of these to look forward to :/

It was all just silly things, we went to the venue and they had us in two different rooms, when we went through to the other room (after the meal) we realised his parents had sat at the wrong table and were in the other room, I told them they were in the wrong place and should have been at the top table and she was just like ''ahhh well it doesn't matter'' my fiancé told me he didn't think my dress was anything special so I was upset with him and then I realised I was wearing a bra with black straps, I asked my mum if it looked really bad and she told me it did and that she wondered why I was wearing it but didn't say anything because she didn't want to upset me... then we went home where I still was really mad at oh for what he said about my dress.


Funny thing is when I told my fiancé about it I said how I think the bra thing was the weirdest as him saying about my dress is something I can see me worrying about (obviously I want him to love it) and he said well, the thing is how both are mums were in your dream is how they can sometimes be so I can see where you got that from.

We've been trying to pace ourselves but it's sooooo hard!! Now that we've finished uni for the year though we can concentrate fully on getting everything done before the final push in September. It's scary to think that this time next year and we will be graduated and on the final weeks to the wedding eek! We've sent off loads of deposits last week to confirm everything which makes us feel a million times calmer now that it's confirmed. Arranged to see a florist on Monday - it's a wholesaler just outside Exeter but they also make up wedding flowers for a small fee. We think it's going to be great because we can go in with all our ideas and we can actually help make up our flowers next year but at wholesale price which helps the budget. It's a compromise I think - no florist fees but still involved. We've also decided that I'll definitely be making the cake - current idea is to test drive it on Debbie's Grandma's birthday next week to see how it turns out! We are thinking a 2 tier, buttercream, bunting round the edge of both cakes and on the top - 2 sticks with bunting saying just married or something similar! Our fans have arrived and although they aren't as big or as high quality as we thought, they will certainly do the job so at least that's bridesmaids pressies sorted! Biggest thing though is that we've had time to sit down and sit on buffet and drinks ideas at the hotel..... For our drinks we've asked for non-alcoholic mojitos (arrivals), alcoholic and non alcoholic fruit punch (for the meal)' elderflower with cava with just elderflower for non alchies (toasts) and lots of jugs of iced pink lemonade with strippy straws (during buffet). Then, for our buffet, we've enquirer as to whether we can have a big English cream tea and a cheese board instead of choosing from the normal buffet options so hopefully we can have scones, jams, clotted cream, strawberries and our jugs of pink lemonade brought out in the evening!!! A bit different and much more summery and light :) xx

I've booked my first dress appointment for the 17th July!! Eek!!

I love cream tea and cheese boards.... if I wasn't going to be on honeymoon I'd well be after a invite to your wedding ;)

Catherine your wedding sounds amazing (Slightly jealous lol) What time are you getting married at?

I told my bridesmaids about my dream and they've promised to make sure noone goes to the wrong room and to stop me putting any black bra's on ;) lol

Hehe, I doubt it.... Sadly there's no automatic upload from the secret camera inside my bouquet LOL ;) apparently our honeymoon is being organized for us and we have no idea where or when just that it's probably going to be a week. We are extremely grateful about not being able to decide as we had set our hearts on France and were looking forward to planning it all..... When we asked, he said definitely not France and we are a bit devastated. Any ideas on how to broach the subject? Of course we are so grateful for it but we should get a little choice shouldn't we? :/

Could you not have half and half Donna? Half cold meats etc and half cream tea maybe as a compromise? Fingers crossed we can arrange something - I know they've said that anything is possible and just a case of chatting to them about what we want so hopefully we can. We are now on tenterhooks waiting to hear back from the church as it's barely a month away from knowing if it's a yes or no to marriage. The closer it gets, the more nervous we get! We want this so much :(

If we get the church wedding, it's going to be at 2pm like yours Elizabeth. If we end up having the marriage, it will be 12pm and then 2pm blessing wherever we decide. You are at 2pm aren't you? Don't be jealous though, yours sounds amazing too! I know my MIL is jealous of you marrying in Scotland as her Daddy was Scottish.. We haven't persuaded anyone into kilts yet though LOL.

Ah I see.. You'll have to a cream tea for breakfast then! ;)

I don't know what to do on the honeymoon, we also have the same problem with our hen weekend. He wants to organize drinking and stuff like that but that's just not us - we'd much prefer a quiet day that everyone will enjoy like go and have a spa morning, come back to my parents house, have a BBQ and garden games maybe... It's difficult when it's being done out of the goodness of people's hearts :(

We aren't too stressed waiting yet.... Give me 3 weeks and that will soon change lol!!

Yes, precisely.. It's just wording it right so he doesn't get offended as that's the last thing we want to do :/

We have an engagement shoot tomorrow that I had completely forgotten about. We bought my engagement ring from an independent jewellers in our home town and they gave us a voucher for a free shoot including 2 prints. Waiting to see what else he will try and sell us, but still that's exciting!