first of all tell the school its a family wedding ..( how old is the child you need to take out )....start saving now , the flightsto zante arent bad at all and you can accommodation quite cheap

my daughter will be 6 by then and i already dont like the head who we would have to ask the permission of to take her out of school. we could ask if anyone could look after kids but we will ahve three by then, 6yrs, 3yrs and 5 months. but your right its the emotional side of it too. i could handle leaving my eldest two but im not sure about a baby. i've never gone more than a day without my children so i dont know how that would feel. having said that we are having a minimoon, three days in edinburgh after the wedding without these two so that will be experience. see at the moment im not actually bringing any money into the house and all my oh wages are being stretched as much as possible to cover anything. i dont qualify for maternity pay with me being contracted to 0 hours. so we cant put any money away until i can get back to work. the other thing is i dont know how much work i will get when i go back as they have taken on more bank staff and we no longer get the a+e support shifts cus a private firm has now got them as part of their contract with the a+e side of place. basically its all a big question mark at the moment as regards to income and what we will be able to afford. i have just heard that one or more full time positions may be coming up so fingers crossed thats not till after ive had baby so i can get a chance of applying for that cus thats our security right there and i would hate to miss out on the chance of applying cus of being pregnant xx