Congratulations Kaya, hope your day was absolutely perfect!! x
CommentAuthorKat
Honeymoon of 2 weeks in Domincan Republic (Iberostar Bavaro) all booked and finalised today! It freaked me a little to book it as Mrs!!!
CommentAuthorAtaraxia
Just ordered my bridesmaid dresses... Absolute bargain from ff at tesco! £10 each and also found scarves for £4 each so those are winging their way to me now.
MIL & FIL to be have just booked our flights to Spain at the end of the month so we are hoping to get a lot done while we are out there. We have also decided that this would be the best time to look at suits, Zara in Spain is very cheap and having both h2b AND best man in one place means it could be an easy decision! No fussing around with measurements!
Got married 27th June and blessed on July 5th 2012
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Love, love... Here we are.
CommentAuthorMrsL2Be
Saw a pic of those bridesmaids dresses and I have to say Ataraxia they were lovely and definately goes lovely with the scarves..
We have paid deposit now for my dress, car & photographer.. The only things left is suits & bridesmaids dresses..
Has anyone posted invites yet? xx
CommentAuthorKat
Not yet MrsL2Be. Mine will probably be posted Feb half term. I don't see me getting round to it before then
I'm posting mine end of January - if they arrive on time xx
CommentAuthorSijen
No our invites are going out end of March.
Don't know about anyone else, but I'm freaking out a little too about being a Mrs lol. Not in a bad way - just in a "Oh poo...I'm finally going to be married!" Lol...
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CommentAuthorMRSL2BE
hahahaha I know what you mean Sijen, even our caterer has been counting the days till the "BIG DAY" & sending me emails just to remind me!! Last year it was easy saying oh we've got ages yet, not get married until next year ... Now it is like CRAP I'm going to be married in a few months hahaha. How are all your arrangements coming?? x
Well, my invites all got written yesterday. seemed to take forever! now to hand them out. very exciting! everything sorted now really apart from BM dresses. not too long to go ladies!!! :-D xx
CommentAuthorSijen
Yep MrsL - that's exactly my thinking lol.
Our plans have come to a halt at the mo as we did a lot before November and I've been so busy with work I haven't had any time to think weddings. Looking forward to February half term as that's my "get stuff done" week. Going to finish my invites, meet with our chair cover / decoration people and cake person and hopefully get more sorted out. It's coming around so fast!
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CommentAuthorlows
o ladies all this talk of posting invites out is freaking me out!!! ive not even made mine yet!!!! I was planning to send them out at the beginning of march. With an rsvp date of end of May surely thats enough time of everyone as they already have the save the dates???!!! :oS
CommentAuthorKat
lows, that sounds like enough time to me. We didn't send out save the dates though so thats why we are planning to post ours earlier than you.
I've got a long list of feb half term jobs for the wedding as well and family keep booking things in, not sure how I will manage it all tbh. Panic is most definitely starting to set in
CommentAuthorlows
Thats ok then, I was starting to have major stress over not having enough time. I already had a nightmare that I had to cancel the wedding as I never send out any invitations!!!!!! Having serious issues with the Honeymoon too, its looking far to expencive and we are now trying to find ways of cutting down the costs. :o(
CommentAuthorLofty
I've just ordered my tiara, veil and jewellery set. All three were half price so I managed to get them all for £65 which I'm really happy with. I don't get to see them for just under 4 weeks though as I've sent them to my mums house rather than France where I currently live! :-(
I have two weeks for Feb half term and that is definitely my time to get everything sorted. Need to make 100 invitations, meet with various suppliers, sort out suits, rings etc. Will be busy but I can't wait to get all of that stuff sorted out and ticked off!
Very happy to say I'm now Mrs Keates and loving it!
CommentAuthorMRSL2BE
Just arranged for my first hair and make-up trial .... nervous isnt the word for that day hahaha But I need to get my tiara and to be honest I havent got a clue on what style I want OR that will go with the dress!!!!!
At the minute BRIDES2B I'm more concerned about toning my arms up for the wedding, I'm literally trying every concoction known to man & every exercise that will sort of help me, any ideas would be VERY VERY HELPFUL!!
CommentAuthorLofty
MRSL2BE I did a 'boxfit' workout this morning on the xbox kinect that involved a ridiculous amount of punching and really worked my arms hard, as well as my legs with all of the kicking. So some boxing type thing might be useful, whether it is a dvd or a class or whatever!
Very happy to say I'm now Mrs Keates and loving it!
CommentAuthorbecky -mrs firth
ladies........... not bein nasty or anything lol but i wish ure weddins will cum quick so then i know its nearly min elol
Engaged 27th November 2010
Hen Do Newcastle 2nd June 2012
Marrying the man of my dreams 11th August 2012!
Honeymoon To Jamaica 14th October 2012
CommentAuthorSijen
Lows - don't worry. I started making my invites in Aug becuase that's when I had time and only got the daytime ones done. Haven't been able to do the evening ones yet as been so busy so that's why I'm booking Feb half term to get them done as we're going to send our end of March with RSVP date in May.
MrsL - have you tried chair presses? Or just walk around with some weights lol. I've started doing the workouts on the wii to try and tone my arms up...I'm normally not arsed what I look like but I'm really freaking out about my arms and don't want to look huge on the day lol. Don't know what's come over me?!?!
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CommentAuthorGem1102
I'm using wii fit and the Just dance game. seems to work for me.
Ordered my cake topper today too, really back into the organising after a hectic christmas at work.
CommentAuthorGem1102
Oh, and we paid the deposit for the flowers yesterday too! :-)
CommentAuthorMRSL2BE
Thanks girls, to be honest I've been using the wii & other arm exercises aswel but the problem is the very top of my arms that will not for some reason tighten up. Several years ago I lost A LOT of weight & now because the wedding is getting so closer & i'm getting more & more excited everything seems to be going wrong :-((. xx
CommentAuthorlows
getting married in exactly 6 months today!!! very excited!!! plus my wedding shoes arrived on thursday!!! they are soooooooo pretty i didnt want to take them off! :o)
CommentAuthorSijen
Hello ladies, only 5 months to go hey? Any updates on plans?
I booked my hair trial yesterday for 4th June, got a meeting with our venue to go over finer details at the beginning of April and going to the venue with our decorations people on Monday to sort out specific details, decs and choose chair covers etc. Can't wait.
We also booked our cake last week with my cousin's wife who is baking 50 cupcakes for us so we've got pretty much everything sorted now. Going to finish off the invites next week as its half term and then things can get sorted out.
Ooh it seems so close now!! Can't believe it's been 6 weeks since Christmas! Where is the time going?
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CommentAuthorlows
Hi sijen I cant believe how time is racing away!!! Since my last update, we have decided to get our wedding cake from M&S and I have just bought some foam flowers to decorate it. saving ourselves about £250 on the best quotes we got for cakes from bakers. I also need to get my invites sorted and plan to give these a good go in half term. My plan is to have them all made by the start of april to send out. Hopefully once I get started on them they shouldn't take too long. I have spent ages trying to get the design of them perfect. both myslef and H2B are designers and I think the invites have to so that off. Also have our food tasting booked in for first weekend in march, very excited about all the yummy food. :o) Glad you have got your hair trial and cake sorted. happy planning. :o) xxx
CommentAuthorKat
We have now sorted out flowers. White roses and gerberas. Think I might the plunge and order some shoes of the internet soon so I know they are right and will be sending out invites in a couple of weeks (half term). My decorations person has disappeared though. As in can't get hold of her, and she has apparently had a change of career, so looking for a replacement. I'm getting a but antsy about bridesmaid dresses as they are not sorted at all.
All getting a bit close!!!
CommentAuthorSijen
Ooh that's worrying about your decs person...have you paid her anything ? I only got my BM dress in Nov because my sister has changed her job which requires her travelling a lot (both UK and Europe and USA) so we wanted to get sorted before she started. When I was BM for my friend I only got my BM dress in the February and she got married in the July so you've still got time hun. Maybe start looking for ideas though.
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CommentAuthorxxJennyxx
Does anyone else think that time seems to be speeding up....my weekends are filling up really quickly with little jobs to do!
My most exciting part of the day has arrived....my shoes!! So excited (picture in my album!). I'm a shoe person so to me this is more exciting than the dress itself!
Feel like i've got most things covered - Venue Booked - Photographer Booked - Legal stuff - sorted! - Dress/shoes bought - Venue dressing booked - Harpist and DJ booked - Car hire booked - Rings bought - Men sorting suit hire this week - Honeymoon booked
All thats left is hair/make up / flowers. Bridesmaid dresses have been found so now on a mission to get fit (with my bridesmaids) so we can get the best size possible before we really need to order them!
Invites need putting together and baking my own wedding favour biscuits!
Definitely a wierd feeling being so excited but nerve at the same time
Soon to be Mrs Mawee!
Hawaii - Booked! Dress - Bought!! Bring on the day!
CommentAuthorKat
No we hadn't paid her anything Jen. Although that's only as far as I know as my mum was sorting it and apart from a consult I really had nothing to do with it. Thinking about taking control now lol.
Going to nose at your shoes now Jenny!
CommentAuthorSijen
Well we chose our covers and sashes today for our chairs. went with a totally different idea than originally planned but soooo excited now!
Getting really excited for the wedding this week heehee.
How are everyone else's plans coming along?
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CommentAuthorWifey2be
i booked my chair covers also this week :)
feel like i havent got much more to do now lol xx
CommentAuthorSijen
Ditto wifey...it'll soon be here
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CommentAuthorWifey2be
i know :) defo you get married a day before me lol
i am going to wedding fayre on sunday though with hubby to be so i am sure i will want more things haha x
CommentAuthorSijen
Yeyyy...
We're not going to any more fayres as we'll just end up booking more stuff lol.
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CommentAuthorWifey2be
hahaha well hubby to be wasnt around when i went to them... so he wants to go to one now his back lol x
CommentAuthorSijen
Aw he'll love it. I was really surprised my H2B did ha - fashion show was boring for him but he loved the suits and cake tasting lol.
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CommentAuthorWifey2be
hahahaha yeah he will like it as a guy he works with is also getting married so the four of us are going.. so he has a bloke to help him out when me and kate go wedding crazy haha x
CommentAuthorSijen
brill - just what he needs lol. My H2B only made it through 2, one of them he had no choice because it was at our venue and the 2nd one was only down the road at Liverpool Football Ground so he wanted to go ha.
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CommentAuthorWifey2be
hahahaha bless him i chose the reception venue while he was away in a war zone was ment to give him a choice but i booked it haha!
ohhh i am coming to liverpool at start of march! as my hubby to be is on hms liverpool and doing a march on friday 2nd march in liverpool :) x (our top table name is hms liverpool) x x
CommentAuthorSijen
Aww brilliant, good choice lol. My friend is in the Navy, she got married in St Ives last year at Tregenna castle.
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CommentAuthorKat
I'm currently sat writing my invites out andd I was not expecting the rush of emotion that I got when I sealed the first one up! Maybe it's just all the hours of work I've put into making them!
CommentAuthorlows
im totally panicing now as ive still not made my invites!!! how far in advance are you sending out your invites?
CommentAuthormelliecake
Don't worry, I haven't made any yet either. I'm making and sending them out in April. x
CommentAuthorLofty
Well, it has been a busy few days for me and H2B! It is my half term at the moment and he is also off work this week so we have been going crazy trying to get everything wedding related sorted that we can!
Since last Friday we have: Started making the invitations (all 100!) and tonight I have pretty much finished them. Tomorrow we will just need to finish addressing the envelopes, put them in, buy stamps and send them! Lows the only reason I'm sending them out now is becuase we live in France so we aren't in England very often, and I wasn't paying to send them from France! I am very proud of them now that they are finished, I have spent so many hours on them in the last 6 days! Chosen our rings, mens suits (and payed deposit), confirmed our cake design, got my shoes (I think!), had my hair trial and then tried my dress on with my accessories and decided that I do like them - I was a bit unsure before! I also went to a wedding fayre at my reception venue, met my DJ, chatted a lot with our wedding organiser and met someone who will hopefully do my makeup for the wedding. We also met with our priest and discussed readings etc and we're meeting with the church organist this Sunday and I'm meeting our florist on Frida
I've also had lots of parcels that have arrived this week like bubbles, disposable cameras and outdoor games for the kiogetds.
It feels like it is finally coming together, just over 4 months to go!
Very happy to say I'm now Mrs Keates and loving it!
CommentAuthorSijen
Ooh exciting.
We booked our menu tasting yesterday too for 28th March so looking forward to that. I'm starting to get really excited now and can't wait to finish our invites at Easter to get them out.
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CommentAuthorDeeC
I am actually panicking at how much everyone has sorted and how little I have!! Got flowers sorted now and we have picked the type of cake we want. Just have to have a quick meeting and pay the deposit. We have sorted cars, suits and bridesmaid dresses, my dress, chair covers, centrepieces, dj, photographer, church and reception venue.mos of the big stuff really but we still have to sort rings, hair and make up, shoes, invites, jewellery etc. Panicking just thinking about it.
CommentAuthorLofty
Invites have gone out now and we've started getting RSVPs on our website, so exciting! Only posted them 4pm on Thursday second class and most people got them on Friday, I was really impressed! We've also been to Debenhams today and set up our gift list. Just giving notice to do tomorrow, then I can head back to France for a few months knowing the wedding is almost sorted! My auntie has also just offered to pay for my shoes too which is lovely and I've finally decided which ones I want. 132 days left for me, can't wait!
Very happy to say I'm now Mrs Keates and loving it!
CommentAuthorLofty
Another productive day! Notice given and honeymoon booked! We're off to the Maldives, I'm so excited, it looks amazing!
Very happy to say I'm now Mrs Keates and loving it!
CommentAuthorKat
Wow Lofty, super exciting day for you!!!
CommentAuthorSijen
Ooh the Maldives...jealous!!!
I'm hoping we can book somewhere fancy for our official honeymoon/1 year anniversary holiday. Don't know where we facny though. Would love the maldives.