Aaargh.......

I proposed on 20th Feb, thinking we would be marrying 2015/2016...but my fiancé decided to get some brochures for venues.

"that's ok, she is excited" I thought to myself....so we get a call from 2 of the venues asking if we wanted to go for a viewing Saturday (1st March) so off we went.

Long & short of it, we have booked venue & registrar for Fri 27th June 2014!!!!

HELP!! 114 days till the day & we are trying to plan it all.

The venue takes care of all the ceremony, reception, wedding breakfast, reception drinks, evening buffet etc. So, outfits, rings,flowers,dj,photos,favours,invites,gifts for bridesmaids etc (not mention Hen & Stag do's) in very little time. especially as we both wrok, my fiancé works shifts so we don't always get days off together to do bits.

Its going to a very quick 3 months now!

Very exited but very worried we won't get it all done in time. Fingers crossed!

You'll be fine - my FMIL planned all her wedding in one day!!! To be honest - I don't know about you, but I tend to do things better and be more organised if I've got less time. Somehow I seem to be more structured about things.....plus you've got us lot to help!! How exciting :-)

Wow congrats! I'm sure you'll be fine; you both just need to sit down and set your budget. Is there anything you don't need? For instance how about setting up your own wedding website so people can have all the details on there? With 3 months to go; you don't really need to send our rsvps; just the invites :)

Attend as many wedding fayres as you can as they often offer deals if booked on the day such as your photographer? Try and haggle or get something thrown in for free with your suppliers. For instance do you really need the expensive album included in the photography package or can that be removed? It will save you £££'s and you can get a just as nice and cheaper album elsewhere :)

Ok, so venue booked, catering sorted (nearly, meeting cateres in a couple of weeks to finalise numbers and menu), flowers done, her dress, my outfits and bridesmaid dresses sorted.

Our "family" DJ is already busy, so need to find one and photographer a nightmare to find!!

Registrar meeting tomorrow followed by ring shopping.


Cheers
Drew

Yeah. The biggest is sticking to the budget....

Rings are the main one now.

We know what we want, just need to find somewhere. Loads of online places but i dont know if we can trust them.....anything could go wrong. Ah well.

We are almost all ticked off with our "to do's".

Thanks. Yeah it is good to do it quick, but as i am not great at decision making its been a tough couple of weeks!

Still we are doing it, doing it well ( i think lol). So fingers crossed we sort the last few bits then a couple of weeks break till the next round of organisation....

What part of the country are you in? Brids on here generally very happy ot help and if you unrestrict your profile we can leave you links on your wall x

Hi, i am in essex.

I can't work out how to unlock my profile....help please lol.

Yeah it is exciting but i never appreciated just how much organisation and how many things there are to consider!!!

Hi drew you unlock your profile on your page click on your account and it will be in your information their is a part for a photo and underneath will say edit its in there hope this helps and how exciting I'm having to kick my h2b in to helping me make decisions and get things sorted dragging are feet at the moment as we find it hard working different shifts and we only get Monday evenings together where we can plan but we have got the venue sorted and registery office booked and photographer book and bought my dress of line but starting to regret it but going to wait till it arrives before I make my mind up have been hearing bad reviews so its got me worrying but anyway I think you both are doing an amazing job keep us all posted x

Hi all, well we had our "interview" with the registrar this morning. All went well so 16 days and our "blues" will be in the post so thats another one off the list.

I am meeting a photographer saturday hopefully to book him.

Dj and rings are all that's left to book/buy so all good!

Invites have been hand written last night, hand delivered today with a rsvp of 30th april as we need to meet caterers 1st week of may.

Stress and worry is subsiding, enjoyment and excitement building!!

I will try and unlock my profile now. Thanks!

Your welcome

You're doing great! I wish my OH was as into planning as you haha!

Wow, you really are on a bit of a roll! keep up the good work!

Wow you have put me and my H2B to shame! You're doing amazingly well! Xxx

Wow i think you've actually got more organised than me and my fiacne!! hah and were the week before you!! Well done :) xx

Good work! And good luck for the big day!

I envy the fact you have done yours so well! I keep finding things I've missed off my endless lists!
Hope you enjoyed your stag!

So, last weekend before the day!!! Bagged up the gifts last night, mum has finished the cake for us and looks stunning.

Outfits should be ready in a couple of days for collection. Everything paid up.

Finish work tuesday, then friday is the big one! We are there!!!

Wow-I can't believe how quickly it has come around, good luck to the both of you. I hope you will update us on how it all goes

Well done you, I imagine being tight on time means you have to be strict on decision making!

Thanks all.

Weather is lookin a glorious 21-22°. No rain expected.
As for decision making....the w2b changed cake design 4 days ago, was talking of changing colour scheme, changed seating plan around after a slight family misfunction. So not really stuck to plans but yeah the big decisions were made and had to be kept to.

I will update on Sunday. Thanks again

Drew

Well, what can i say!! Thunderstorms forecast for the afternoon, cloudy in the morning... but travelled to the venue and the sun peeped its head out. The nerves kicked in, legs went to jelly as i stood at the altar.

As the music started, i welled up and shed a tear. The rain fell for a few minutes during the ceremony but then glorious sunshine for the rest of the day into the evening.

Speeches went well. People laughed and said "awww" in the right places even though i was a nervous wreck.

All in all a brilliant day! Would not change a thing except the speed it all went by!!!!

Thank you all for your advice, suggestions and support in the lead upto the big day!

Congratulations! We would all love to see to some pictures!

Congratulations to you both, and yeah, please post some pics! Xx

Added a couple to my profile. Will add more when i have some on my kindle.