Wedding Forum - Getting married in 2016...

Book a date at your venue first - we are getting married June 2016, we booked our venue and registrar a few months ago. The only other thing we have booked at this stage is the DJ for the evening reception, and we will be organising the photographer very soon. I'm going to start trying on dresses around Easter time 2015 - most dress shops ask for 9 months notice so that they can make alterations etc. if required.

If you make a list you will have a clearer idea of what you need to do and you can start prioritising things :-)

Have you thought about going to any wedding fairs? We are going to the National Wedding Show at the NEC in October. :-)

Everywhere is different, it just depends where you are getting married! I am in Wiltshire and was able to book no problems, we just have to obviously give our notice 12 months before the wedding :-) we weren't able to secure our venue without having booked a registrar first! xx

It would definitely be easier - I don't know what they get from making you wait. Surely the earlier the better for all parties involved! I think I'd go mad if I had to wait until next year.. !! xx

Yeah you do need tickets, advance tickets are on sale now - £15 per adult xx

MrsP2Bx we have the same wedding date :) xx

Happy planning ladies

We are getting married in 2017, it is never too late to start organising! Especially if you have children! We have provisionally sorted through the guest list, table plan, and playlist. We know the colours we are going with, the theme, our bridesmaids, best woman, flower girl, usher, I know what kind of dress I want, what kind of suit I want for my h2b (he said he wants me to pick), what kind of dress I want for my flower girl etc. And I have even started preparing decorations and getting family members to set aside old glass jars or bottles that they have so I can decorate them. It just means a lot less stress closer to the time if the smaller things are already done. You find that it the smaller things that actually take up the most time! But yes, our venue and everything is already booked, just need to send off the deposit for it. (oh god, I sound like a bridezilla!). So don't worry about what people may think about starting early, there is no such thing. And it will soon pass you by as well.

Hi Bianca, first of all congratulations.

It's never too early to start planning. First things to think about is whether you want a church/registry office and get those booked along with your reception venue.
Also the bigger things like cars, dj, entertainment, photographer as these get booked up well in advance.
If you're making your own invitations, you have plenty of time to make them before you have to send them out :-)
When I went wedding dress shopping I didn't book appointments but it may be wiser to book so you are guaranteed to try them on x

I would say the most important thing is to get the venues booked! The first thing we did was to get on to the church, met the vicar and booked that. Now we're looking at reception venues. I'm a teacher so we're going for an August wedding, might be booked more quickly than a July one (not sure) but my friends who have got married have all said venue first then you can take things more slowly! :-)

Congrats and enjoy! :-) xxxx

Hi Bianca,
Congratulations!
I know one of the first things you should do is to pick your venue and church, and one of the important things you should book is the photographer, because as I know they get booked in 1 or 2 years in advance most of the time.
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Hope that helps! Xx

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hiya im getting married on the 26.08.16. im just wondering what people have already booked or payed for . i keep getting told to take my time to book things but i want to have time to pay for everything i need. iv booked my venue and my registra. iv also got some added extras for my evening reception. im making my invitations and all my center pieces myself to save on some money. xx

I found my venue yesterday, they told me to email the registrar and they had an online enquiry form which I filled out, they phoned me today and I've just paid my deposit. Before emailing them I actually phoned them as I thought it would be quicker and the person on the phone said that I can't book until 12 months, but she was actually talking about the notice of marriage which is 12 months. Try having a look on your local registry office and try and find the online enquiry form. Surely they would all work the same

Bolton2Be - they don't all work the same. Some councils do not allow you to book a registrar until 12 months before your wedding date x

Im getting married July 2016. I started with my dress which most people will think is mad but i seen the one i loved and didnt want to risk losing it. We booked our church in January and we have just booked our venue, I would definitely book your venue first as we had trouble finding places as they were all booked, that god weve found somewhere at last.

ours is 10th July was 9th but changed it to the Sunday for costs, we were able to get more with our budget on the sunday! Definitely start looking at your venue first we were looking at places last year who where booking for 2016! x Then just write yourself a list of people you need to get i.e. photographer, car, cake, rings, florist braids/flower girls

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Well said Flossie