Sounds like everyone is flying with the wedding plans. Time sure is going by. 2 years ago today was my due date with LO. I'd say the wedding will just fly in now!!

Love it Sarah d lol.
Just had a pre print of my invites sent to me to just check everything is ok on them. I love them should be here end of the week beginning of next week woohoo getting very excited now lol

Woohoo
I'm sending my day invites out early so I can see how many people we have coming and to see if I can pull people out from the evening into the day.
We have to have a min of 60 people to have a carvary

Great minds lol xx

Same here I'm a control freak haha xx

Hopefully will get honeymoon booked next month :-)

I'm not sure. I read on the paperwork you can renew a passport up to 9 months before it expires and the time from the old passport will be added to the new one.

I'm getting confused with it though. As I'm going to apply for a renewal in married name do I put my married name on my LO passport as it says give parents full names?

I read this before -

Post dated passports
A woman or man who is to marry and is planning to travel abroad immediately after their wedding may apply for a post dated passport to be issued to them in advance in their future married name. An application may be received up to three months before the day of the wedding and a standard passport, of full validity, issued with effect from the date of marriage.
A woman or man, if they wish, can travel on a current passport in their maiden name immediately after the wedding. Where this is known (either from the application or covering letter) the applicant should be advised to carry their marriage certificate and consult a representative of the country to which they wish to travel in case a passport in their maiden name is not considered valid by that country.
An applicant applying for a passport in a future married name must submit, in addition to the appropriate supporting documents and photographs, a completed Form PD2 (available from application form outlets and Regional Offices). The application form must be signed in the future married name.
NOTE: Applicants for post-dated passports ought to have been made
aware at the time they booked their travel that certain countries (e.g.
Australia) will not put visas in post-dated passports.
Where a marriage is postponed due to the illness of either party or, the death
of an immediate member of either family (i.e. mother, father, brother, sister)
and a new travel date is arranged, a "gratis" replacement post-dated passport
may be issued. Before the replacement document is issued corroborative
evidence of the illness or the death must be obtained.
Applicants whose weddings are brought forward, postponed for other
reasons, or cancelled, must pay the fee for a replacement passport.
The current process for a woman taking the husband's name upon marriage is
that they produce the marriage certificate as evidence; this process also
applies when a husband upon marriage is taking the wife’s name or a when
civil partner upon a civil partnership ceremony is taking their partner’s name.
As the link of the names would be evident on the marriage/civil partnership
certificate, examiners would not need to request a change of name deed.

This is what I read and its on the gov website xx

Thanks ladies. Just phoned the passport office up for OH passport as we can't find it so got to get another form for him too.

Is it 3 months before the wedding I have to give the form to the vicar then? Sorry if I'm being thick. Would be so much easier to just renew in maiden name but then I've got it for the next 10 years

Thank you x

Love those signs Katie I'm going to order one saying that too and a welcome to our wedding one

I think they are a great idea :) Not sure where we can put it in the church though. I want a stand for it but not sure where to get one from xx

That sounds lovely Danielle x

Yes I would. Grab yourself a bargain :)

Just bought myself this xx

got it off the bay for just under £6, hoping it will give me motivation haha xx

I need to get back to the gym too its been a while I used to be so fit xx

Love it Sarah! I'm going to rejoin the gym again as I need to do something to get back in shape. When I'm actually there I do enjoy it, it's more the thought of going there in the first place lol x

So we've had a very productive week off doing wedding bits and bobs!

We have bought/ordered our centre pieces.. funnily enough we went back to the birdcage idea after putting a few bits together in the r@ng3 and thinking the bits looked fab together. To be honest it's the total opposite of what we originally had in mind! Having bird cages with tea lights inside and then two tall candle sticks and candles either side. Got some gems to scatter around the tables and we have wooden hearts with 'Love' written on them to scatter too, not sure if these will go now but we will see!

Candle stick holders, candles and bird cages:


Got this which I think we're going to put on our sweetheart table:


Made the buttonholes and hangers yesterday, really really chuffed with the buttonholes especially!


We went to Bristol yesterday and OH popped into T3d B@k3r to look at the suit he'd seen online.. he thinks it may the "the one" so we're going back on Saturday with his mum so he can try it on properly and potentially buy it! She's offered to pay/contribute so he wanted her to be there. I'm not allowed to see it though so will have to make myself scarce for a while!

Also ordered some pocket watches last night for the groomsmen and my dad, now looking online for some jewellery for the girls. All very exciting xx

Wow you have done a lot this week! Love your buttonholes they are so different but fab and match your theme perfectly! xx

Well done Flossie you have done loads!!

Me and OH were just chatting about the wedding over a cuppa. We are gonna go soon and look around different places for rings but think we have decided on the ones we seen on Monday. Gonna order them in next few weeks. Going to buy bridesmaids dresses, book flowers and hopefully get my veil and head piece in the sale. August was a very bad month for us money wise with very little money saved for wedding so going to have to dip into savings account to pay deposits. We think we are going to leave booking honeymoon until the new year so we can get that stuff out of the way then concentrate on Xmas. Feeling a bit overwhelmed at the minute about finances!

Been to SW and lost 2.5lb. Booked in to start Pilates next week and hopefully another exercise class. Bride body is underway lol you girls motivated me today

Contacted a florist today, they should have a quote for me tomorrow

I can't get hangers yet as still unsure who is being my bridesmaids. Family's

Love the centrepieces as well. We have ordered our centerpieces and table number holders from the R@ng£ they have some really lovely bits in there