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

Although it is personal choice you would think considering the circumstance they would book you in and the vicar would have to honour the weddings that were already booked in... they could be choosier with the others if they are booking then. I mean it's only like if you had booked it with the first vicar a year or two in advance and then they left and the new one took over.

Our Church doesn't have a vicar at the moment, not sure whether they'll have one by our wedding or not either... so no idea what vicar will be marrying us, but not worrying about it as we've been promised that someone will be able to lol

Born in Exeter, lived in Lyme Regis through my childhood/teens and all my family are from the local area. Year in France, a summer in Windsor, then lived in Aylesbury for 3 years to do my nursing, back to Lyme briefly and now I live between Canterbury and Oxted but I'm a West Country-er at heart! x

Am from Nottinghamshire, kimberleyR78 my wedding is also bank holiday weekend :) on the sunday!! X

What dates are the bank holiday next year?

Gemma, I thought bank holiday would be quite popular as well.

I haven't booked our honeymoon but we won't be until next year. Our honeymoon will be combined with a blessing ceremony back home in New Zealand. We will also be asking for money towards the honeymoon instead of gifts when we send the invites out.

My family also want to combine it with a big family reunion as well so that will be interesting as there would then be a lot more people there than I would have had otherwise.

Were going to turkey all inclusive for 10days.. we didn't really have a honeymoon budget and was going to stay in uk and have a week at a log cabin. . But my mum has very kindly given us 1000 towards a honeymoon as well as buying my dress..

We was looking into cape verde but its rainy season. . I know rain is not likely but its very humid..

We was going to wait kimberley too.. currently we are living with the in laws saving for a deposit on a house.. we decided we would do wedding also as not sure when we would be able to afford it once moved out so a honeymoon wasn't on top of our list.. however with the money from my mum we can afford to go after the wedding. . Within 2 days actually . Really glad as I just feel we need some time alone away and our own space.

I hope my wedding mojo comes back soon... I have just got back from my friend's (bridesmaids)house and she was actually a wedding planner/supervisor at the hotel were getting married at.. she is a godsend as I dont really know what I am doing..

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I want to share our news! I can't remember if it was this thread or the 2015 brides thread but figured you would all see it anyway (will post on that one too) but some of you might remember that I was getting a little upset that we weren't going to France for our honeymoon. It's a place that means a great deal to us; I've lived there, first holiday as a couple there etc etc. Anyway, our bestman started chatting on fb about details, plans etc and we thought ok, maybe bring it up subtly as he's in wedding mode and the answer was......... He was bluffing! WE ARE GOING TO FRANCE FOR OUR HONEYMOON!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D we couldn't be more thrilled if we tried!!!!!! I know it might not seem like the dream honeymoon for some but it is truly our most favourite place and we will have the most wonderful time and utterly happy soaking up the French culture, cheeses, wines and sun :) YAY!!!!!

On an unrelated note, our MOH has just announced she's pregnant and due next March which means we won't have to worry about dressing a bump for the wedding day and the only thing we need to do is move the hen do that was going to be at the beginning of April but that's absolutely no problem. We are more relieved that she's pregnant now so we don't have to worry about altering dresses and her travelling or potentially not being there as she's too far gone! :) xx

Thank you honey :) we both love it there.. Been on holiday there more times than I can recall, lived there, first holiday together, friends there. It's just right as it's our second home really :) xx

Clair never feel like you're butting in. Get involved. Be Random. Ask Questions. Have fun!

That's what we're all about :D

And yep, super excited even though it's still a ways away but whenever we tick something off the list it's VICTORY! currently sorting out chair cover/linen hire :D

Thanks girls that made me feel better :). It dose seam really far away I know I just keep telling my self it will go really quickly!
We booked out chair covers a while ago, a friend of a friend is just starting out as a wedding planner so doing chair covers really cheaply. It only costing us £108 for 60 chair and sashes that includes her travel, fitting and taking down the next day the offer was far too good to refuse :). Xx

:)! Some of the venues we looked at the chair covers are included. Our venue is quite posh so they packaged was rubbish! But is is so beautiful I couldn't resist it. We are getting married on a Sunday do we can afford it lol! X

Catherine-that's excellent news, I am so happy for you both.
Clair-that's a pretty good deal.

My news is the OH has finally chosen the colour for our day. We are going with royal blue. I gave him a few options, and that's what he chose. Also it matches my engagement ring which has a ceylonese sapphire in it.

I've been engaged for 9 months so have a lot of things booked I'm a control freak though, you've only just got engaged so it's all new to you you will soon catch up :-)

You've got two of the biggest things booked so I'd say that's a great start.

Oh Hurren, I'm sorry to hear that *hugs*

Hartley2b Welcome to the group. My OH and I have been engaged over a year now and our wedding is 2 days after yours. So far we have:
Venue
Photographer
Humanist
Caterer
Wedding Dress
My Wedding Ring all sorted but we're taking our time with it so we don't feel stressed.

I can understand why you are annoyed... however don't let it get to you, noone will be comparing the weddings and although it's in the same Church it won't be exactly the same, all the little touches will be different. I understand your main problem is more the closeness to your wedding, but a lot of families all get married in the same Church (all of my family have gotten married in the same Church.... well apart from me as we live out of the area now. But noone has ever thought the weddings were the same)

Just enjoy planning your wedding hun, however I would be wary of telling your brother and sister in law too many details as it sounds like she might steal some idea's.

At the end of the day you are both getting married because you love your partners and that is what is important

Hey MrsHartley2b, don't take it personally. If anything see it as an opportunity. Keep a close look on what they do and you can do better ;)

The save the dates have arrived back from the printers, have to wait until next week to pick them up! Eeeeeek! It's real!!

Excited to be going to see our CHURCH!! again tomorrow!! We are going to show my Grandma the CHURCH!! and our reception venue but to also check out a florist wholesalers who do flowers at cost but only charge a small fee for making up the bouquets so everything is falling into place! Btw, a little excited that I can finally say for definite that .... WE ARE GETTING MARRIED IN THE CHURCH!!!!! I will calm down after a while lol

Sorry... I will get bored eventually..... Hopefully!! ;)

Oh dear, try not to worry hun. Scale things down a bit if you can? We have yesterday and it's saved a grand already because of the CHURCH!!!! :D seriously though, it is do-able and will make you feel a lot better :) xx

We've just had to have a culling session with our bridesmaids.... I must admit that although it's not nice having to tell them, I feel frigging awesome because now we only have 2 bridesmaids each!!! A sister and a friend :D because our church is so diddy and cute, taking 6 bridesmaids up the aisle just isn't going to work so we've cut my cousin who is lovely, and an old school friend who ignores us and chucks all her problems on us. Felt abit bad about my cousin so she's going to do a reading instead and is more than happy luckily :) it also means we personally only have to fund 2 bridesmaids dresses as the other 2 are paying for theirs which means we can afford to have the dresses we want now which is great!! xx

Wow Catherine it really is all falling into place. I am so happy for you :D

I'm way better off without them they cause nothing but stress they almost split us up 2 years ago and they don't like it that Alan has decided to marry me after all this time ohh well. We have been through too much not to come out the other side together.

I'm thinking the florist will be the one we go for they stuff they do that I've seen online is stunning, and of they weren't great the venue wouldn't endorse them so to speak.

Hope tomorrow is a good one for you too :-)

My weekend away will be in June, we thought it was best to start planning ASAP so everyone has plenty of time to save and know what's going on. I'm not to know where we are going or what we will be doing.

I don't know how far we will be going lol. Im kinda scared at the thought of it as I like to organise and be in control of everything but ive let my sister have free rein so to speak ive told her what I would like and a couple of places id love to go so we shall see what she comes up with.

I emailed my SIL a list of their side of the family and she has just told me We need to invite all these extra people I asked Oh who they were and he was like emm don't know so ive said fair enough to an evening invite but we are not paying for a meal for people I don't know never mind ones he doesn't know and they are his family, Can see this becoming a big issue though but im sticking to my grounds we have a fairly lavish budget but when Im not inviting all my cousins all day I don't see why he should invite people he doesn't even know. AM I wrong?

Ditto Catherine, I've had a few people not complain so much as be surprised I am not inviting great aunt *** or second cousin *** who are people I have only ever seen during other family weddings. I think they know better to not complain.