hey all, me and the w2b decided on doing everything ourselves eg food etc we pretty much have an idea of what we want just thought it would be nice for some more ideas, and what you ladys are having and decided on :)
Waited 10years to be with my beautiful bride to be
cant wait for the day i can call you my wife 17/04/12
soon to be mr & mrs bennett-rivers
CommentAuthorGuessWho
Hya
I am making the following:
- Save The dates - Invitations - Website - Favour Boxes - Childrens Favour Boxes - Table Centre Pieces - Button Holes - Corsages - Boquets - Matchboxes - Chair Ties - Thankyou cards - Guestbook Postcards - Cake Toppers
:)
Engaged 20th May 2011 - Times Square, New York
Wedding 18th May 2013 - South of France
CommentAuthorkimmy
Wow you are very clever, ive been lazy and bought most of mine :D
CommentAuthorMrsL2Be
Wow send some creative ideas my way lol.. I'm being lazy like kimmy and buying most of mine.. xx
To be fair you have 9 months to go Kimmy so I would be buying everything too lol. with 23 months to go I have some time to get this lot done, mess up, try and again and then buy it if it doesn't work out lol. There is a cracking website called Project Wedding which gives you tons of ideas x
Engaged 20th May 2011 - Times Square, New York
Wedding 18th May 2013 - South of France
CommentAuthorMrsL2Be
Thanks Toria I will look at that website :) xx
CommentAuthorcj
ye we decided on doing most ourselves least then we'l have the acheviment of we did something lol il defo have a look at that site tho x
Waited 10years to be with my beautiful bride to be
cant wait for the day i can call you my wife 17/04/12
soon to be mr & mrs bennett-rivers
CommentAuthorKevsgirl
I have made:
Invites Thank you cards Order of Services Adult Favours Children Favours Name place card thingies Centre pieces
Thats it I think
xxx
CommentAuthorGuessWho
I made a mock up invite last night - it took me hours! x
Engaged 20th May 2011 - Times Square, New York
Wedding 18th May 2013 - South of France
CommentAuthorSijen
We're doing...
- save the date's - invitations - place cards - favour boxes - truffles for favours - table plan - wedding card post box - table decorations
10 years together...
Finally Mr & Mrs
27.07.12
CommentAuthorKevsgirl
Before I met my hubby to be, and I was quite depressed (I was rather down trodden by my ex husband) and I needed a hobby that kept me indoors, so I started making cards. I made quite a good little business out of it.
Not that all those who make home made crafts are depressed, but I got such self satisfaction out of making the cards, it gave me a little lift.
Anyway, I med H2B and I sold all my craft stuff, just keeping key bits.
The order of services have taken longer to make.
x
CommentAuthorcj
ye they do i no my w2b did her ex's brothers and it took 54hours to do them :O im sure she will manage haha she was the inhouse florist for weston park so ours is tiny compared to some lol i no what you mean about wanting to do things yourself its just the enjoyment you get out of it just have to hide them so wen our 5months gets bigger theres no finding them lol x
Waited 10years to be with my beautiful bride to be
cant wait for the day i can call you my wife 17/04/12
soon to be mr & mrs bennett-rivers
CommentAuthorAli
I had a little help from VistaPrint for invites and stickers to personalise favours, but i'm decorating the venue myself, have sourced the balloons and clintons will put hellium in them, personallising champagne bubbles and favour boxes, having purple sugared almonds and silver balls (french thing) that i'm going to put into purple voile, have bought a "make your own" centre peice for buffet table, buffet i'm doing myself with the help of friends.
A lot of my stuff has come from the poundshop too as they have some really good items in there.
Happy to be Mrs Holt, love my husband and love the memories
of our wedding day
CommentAuthorcj
they do i no one lady on here put up some bargains she had found, i agree with the vista print lol we also are having the invites printed there a bargain not to miss on there x
Waited 10years to be with my beautiful bride to be
cant wait for the day i can call you my wife 17/04/12
soon to be mr & mrs bennett-rivers
CommentAuthorAli
have you got a Quidco account?? If so, go use that for VistaPrint, with everything that i got through them, it worked out that with cashback they acctually paid me to buy through them - just love it!!!! x
Happy to be Mrs Holt, love my husband and love the memories
of our wedding day
CommentAuthorGuessWho
Hi Ali, did you get stickers from Vistaprint? If so were they good?
Engaged 20th May 2011 - Times Square, New York
Wedding 18th May 2013 - South of France
CommentAuthorcj
erm no i havent lol tht does sound gud tho x
Waited 10years to be with my beautiful bride to be
cant wait for the day i can call you my wife 17/04/12
soon to be mr & mrs bennett-rivers
CommentAuthorAli
will post the link to Quidco on your wall and if you go through that i get money for refering you :o) x
Happy to be Mrs Holt, love my husband and love the memories
of our wedding day
CommentAuthorcj
:) kk
Waited 10years to be with my beautiful bride to be
cant wait for the day i can call you my wife 17/04/12
soon to be mr & mrs bennett-rivers
CommentAuthorMel D
well you're braver than I am! Good luck with it xx
Got married Sat 28/05/2011
Renewing vows Sat 29/05/2021
We're planning WELL in advance!!
CommentAuthorKatie
I have made invitations ,I have decorated my letters I am making choc lollys for the name place things we are making our table plan we have bought some fake trees and I will be decorating them. We are doing our own table decs and sweet buffet I have blinged my shoes and made the bouquets.
xxx
Those who mind dont matter
Those who matter dont mind
CommentAuthorjo Santa
I would do everything except the food - and I've been in catering for over 10 years. If you insist on doing the food, then I would advise the following. Allow time to do the whole food shop the day before. Prior to that, ask specific people to do a plate each - eg, sandwiches whatever and plan the shopping so that they can come to collect exactly what they need, including the plate / tray to put it on.
Let each helper bring it to the wedding venue, with strict instructions to leave food in their fridge and appropriately wrapped for as long as possible.
Buy the desserts unless you have a fab cook amongst you. Costco lemon cheesecake, chocolate gateaux and tiramisu are fab to just cut and self serve.
Don't forget you will need trays for everything, and serving utensils. Black bags for the rubbish too. If I were you, I'd buy everything you can disposable else you have to let someone wash up or leave it to go mouldy until you're back from honey moon.
Assign a couple of people to keep the buffet tidy every now and again.
Assign people to clear away at the end. Hopefully most can be swept into bin bags and left in the venue's commercial bins.
You have two big issues - 1) time: food prep is exhausting and you will not have time to do everything on the day, unless you are caterers with staff and commercial fridges - and 2) food safety: a lot of buffet items need to be kept in the fridge, so you can't prep it and lay it out before you go into a service which might be an hour followed by an hour of photos before your guests even get as far as the reception.
Hope that helps :0) It's do-able with careful planning and logistics, just don't get so exhausted you can't enjoy your day.
