Wedding Forum - Share hen night ideas here...what/where are...

Unfortunately not. They literally sell tea, tea pots, tea cups, tea strainers but nothing else. I have a while yet to work it out. Plus if there are enough of us I'm sure they wouldn't mind us brining a bottle of coke. We will be buying enough tea from them!

Hope you have an amazing hen weekend Flossie xx

Hope you have fun Flossie. Loved Poole when I was younger. Haven't been in years though!

Flossie I'm sure you'll have a fab time :)

My work hen is a total surprise, I'm not bothered about what's happening more that I will be dressed appropriately!

Oooh Emma very nice, how many of you are going?

Just had a look Faye and that's quite expensive for afternoon tea when you factor in travel and hotels.. Looks lovely though.

Yes, not London is correct. We're in Birmingham :)

Enjoy your hen party Flossie :-) Looking forward to hearing all about it.

Steph - there are 6 of us going, me, 3 of my BM's, my mum and my auntie. SIL (BM) was supposed to be coming too but decided she didn't want to as she didn't really know anybody! Can't wait!

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Does your hen need to be an all day thing. My sister is saying so. She has this idea in her head of what people usually do but I'm not sure.

She was planning a trip to Liverpool because people 'usually' go away for it.
I said yes initially but then said that actually I wasn't planning on going away for it and didn't want to do that. Her response to that was well plan what you want then.

Just messaged her and mom about doing a canal boat party and she has said what will you do in the day then and seems to think it has to be an all day thing because that's what people usually do.

I'm just feeling a bit lost and don't know what to do any more.

She is also saying that if we are just doing an evening thing that we shouldn't go out for food as people don't eat a full meal and then start drinking straight away.

HELP!!!!

I completely agree...... If you want evening only then evening only it should be! If you want to go for a meal then tell her thats what you want! Go for a nice meal and then a few drinks after..... people dont have to get absolutely leathered!

You need to be comfortable hun and not dictated too....

Thats not bad Emily considering..... Its different and you get to do something you enjoy. I dont think £35 is alot to ask to be honest x

Considering my hen cost £135 per person plus food and drinking money, i think thats reasonable.

Just caught up with this tread and when I saw your original question my first thought was that your sister was arranging her own hen not yours!

Yes, nowadays a lot of people will go abroad or have an overnight stay or start early. BUT there is no right or wrong with a hen, it is supposed to be a time for the girls to get together to offer advice to the bride for her upcoming marriage!

Surely the canal boat is a day thing as you don't really want to navigate whilst drinking in the dark??? Maybe you could get the barge for the afternoon, pull up at a nice pub for an early tea, return the boat and have some drinks?

The one thing you have to think of is that if you do an all day thing and some people can only do part of it, you may end up very drunk quite early. On mine, because we had been drinking from about 12, and when we met up for the start of the evening I was being fed shots so was very far gone by about 5pm, and people were turning up saying 'Is Steph OK???' Haha

Just tell her exactly what you want then she can orgainse some surprises within that remit x

Its definitely something different, and to be honest £35 isn't much more than a cocktail making class, some of the bars in Manchester charge that or more! Maybe you could do the perfume making first with however wants to do it and then go on the barge and then have a meal to finish off and people can go to as much or as little as they want?

perfume making sounds really fun, i would love to do that

We are just having an afternoon/early evening meal. One of my bridesmaids is only 15 and i want to include her, plus i want to include my nana and everyone in between as i see it as a proper sit down girl chat time, so it's going to be very relaxed with a few bottles of wine whilst we eat. Nothing fancy but I don't enjoy the usual getting drunk, strippers etc haha a few people have said oh that will be boring but to be honest i don't care they don't have to come I can't wait to be able to sit down and have a nice relaxed evening full of chatting to the girls i love

You could possible to do thing, perfume making in the day snd cocktail thing st night, there is a really nice bar called St1rlings in the jewellery quarter that does a 2 hour cocktail making and a hot buffet for £30 each so I still think £65 for both on your hen do is reasonable :-)

I think you had a lucky escape Mrs P

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Tiffany - I'm not really bothered about having a hen party either, but my bm's are trying to insist on it.

Problem is, I may have to have 2, one back at home (west midlands) and one where I live now probably Cardiff as this is the nearest large city.

I wasn't going to have a hen party, because I didn't want the clubbing & drinking that seems to be all the rage these days - nothing wrong with that for those who like that sort of thing - it's just not for me.

However chatting with my cousin we came across a girls night in spa break that was perfect, so we're going for that. It's fairly expensive at £135 per person but you get lunch, private dinner, 1 hour of treatment, use of the spa all day both days, 2 cocktails each and the overnight stay, so it's not a bad price considering all that. It also means my SIL2B (who will be 17) and my Mum (who is disabled) can join in too.

For my hen party, we are off too Butlins at Minehead for the madness weekender in November. I cannot wait as they are my favourite band and spend some time with my girls.

Our maids and best man are organising ours, so don't really know much about the details, but I do know it may include some sort of joint Disney themed thing :) it's exciting!