yeh i think i will get some in red and some in black. im thinking of getting a few more flowers (maybe 2 bunches = £2) then having red water pearls in with black flowers and black water pearls with red flowers. and using them as centrepeices.
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Today I have... 1. Completed Savings Calender 2. Finished designing Inserts 3. Decided to buy some water pearls to test them out (cant complain at £1.98 for both colours) 4. Rough wedding timetable sorted (will post soon)
Now for tonights WEDDING list: 1. find printer software to attach to laptop 2. print one copy of inserts as a tester
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24 Mar 15 14:00 Sort Water Pearls 25 Mar 15 10:00 Set Up Venue 13:30 Bridesmaids To Get Ready 14:00 Bride To Get Ready 14:00 Page Boys Collected From School 14:15 Groom, Page Boys & Best Person To Get Ready 14:45 Groom, Page Boys & Best Person To Leave For Ceremony 14:55 Bride & Bridesmaids To Leave For Ceremony 15:00 Guest Start Arriving At Ceremony Venue 15:30 Ceremony 16:00 DJ/Band Arrives & Starts Setting Up 16:15 Photos 17:00 Reception 18:00 Toasts & Speeches 19:00 Evening Guests 19:30 Cake Cutting 19:45 First Dance 23:00 Last Orders 23:45 Kick Out 26 Mar 15 00:30 Last Guests Leave
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I have just read your post and i wish you both the best of everything hunni xx
AHHHHHHH!!!!!!! I cant find the software disk for the printer... I've looked everywhere... TWICE! So i had to print using my pc, which involved turning my publisher document into a pdf then emailing it to myself, then downloading it, to then print in off!
To then find my pc doesnt have the font i wanted which was used on my laptop, so it changed the font without warning me!
then.... I RAN OUT OF INK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have also just realised i missed my sons speech therapy appointment today & my control panel for my boiler froze last night so i had to turn it off at the mains meaning it was freezing when i woke up this morning and its still not bloomin working! there is nothing on the display and i cant turn the heating off or he water off without turning it off at the mains supply!
This is NOT a good day so far!
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CommentAuthorsarah
:( have things gotten any better? I hate days where everything seems to go wrong.
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well the pics are working again now lol and.....
I've just ordered my... 1947 sixpence (the last year they were made with silver apparently) & my garter that does not look as tho it has lace which is great cos i bought one with lace but lace give me rashes and makes me blotchy.... so i've bought another one lol
and i managed to sell something for £40 that i didnt think i would get £10 for haha! So the £5 scratch card win bought my sixpence & garter, then i have an extra £40 for the wedding savings!
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well i checked the euro numbers for 1st march that my 5yr old picked the numbers for.... won £9.40!
Have just made a box for my sixpence as I bought one without a plastic sleeve or box.... dog ate the first box i made whilst I was opening my front door to the bloke coming to sort my heating/water timer display thingamy... so had to make another! turns out making ring boxes is actually really easy! watched one video in the tube of you and my 1st & 2nd attempts came out perfect!
Youngest really ill again today, got him up to take eldest to school then on way home he asked to go back to bed, and hes been asleep ever since!
Can't wait for my sixpence, Garter & water pearls to arrive...
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Woop Woop! My new garter arrived today! along with... Red water Pearls Black Water Pearls 1947 Sixpence - all polished and shiny!
I have contacted two sellers of the red boots with black bow today.... one seller from the rainforest has them in red with a blue bow and cant get them in red with the black bow.
the other is from a (spanish i think) website where i origionally found the shoes, however they dont have my size lited, so im waiting to find out if they can get my size in.
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Dress including hoop = £695 (Local wedding Dress Shop)
My Dress Front.jpeg
My Dress Back.jpeg
My Garter = £1.67 (bay)
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Personally designed Rings = £1032.96 (company a bit like smooch but cheaper for what we wanted)
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Matching cufflinks = £1
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My Tiara = £4.50 (bay)
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Bridesmaids Dresses = £7.99 each x 2 (not yet bought - bay)
Cake = Grandparents Deans Name Change (so he's double-barrelled like the boys then I take his name, cheaper) = £30 Notices = £70 Registry Office (yet to decide which one out of two) = £89 - £174 Makeup = Free - DIY Hair = Free - DIY Nails = Free - DIY flowers = £10 - DIY
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Possibles: Bridesmaids Shoes
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My Shoes
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Centre Peices
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Cake - but a 3 tier for £250
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Favours £28.95 for 50
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Am thinking of doing the parchment favours myself,
The Bay has parchment paper for £4.25 & Alluminium Rings for £3.68 2x ink cartridges £19.50 (this will do all inserts & favours & more)
= £27.43 =£1.52 cheaper but then I will need more ink for the inserts anyway so works out =£21.02 cheaper in the long run!
Have changed the design slightly to include a claddach symbol (im irish decent) and the rose/heart design that will be on our inserts and i think they look quite nice rather than the basic symbol everyone would get if they were to buy the guest scolls.
Plus the rings I have found are silver with black edging so matches our colour scheme too!
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well I have just got a bloomin good bargain! I'm well impressed!
The rings in the above post about DIY-ing the guest scrolls, I won the bid at 99p + £1.69 for 24 rings, I mentioned that I would be using them for wedding favours and could i possibly have all the same size (the description states that they are 3 different sizes so if you want the same size and style to ask for it otherwise you will get some plain red, some plain silver and some black & silver mixed.)
So the seller asked if 24 was going to be enough and of course i could have all the same size and we discussed which design as well so i get all the same size & design. i told them that i was going to bid on their other listing for another 24, so they asked if i would like them to give me 50 in total and charge £1.99 +£1.69 postage!
so for one auction I have managed to get double the quantity listed for an extra £!!!!!
So other than having to get the on call doctor out at 2am for my youngest, I had a pretty good evening!
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CommentAuthorsarah
sweet :)
Hope your little one is ok
CommentAuthorBobsi
Love your pics. Good bargain. :)
hope your little one is ok.
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Getting married June 11th 2014
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CommentAuthorKatya
Thanks ladies. Youngest seems to be on road to recovery. Eldest was sick as soon as i picked him up from school so looks like he wont be going in for a while (its only his 2nd week!). & i seem to be coming down with it now.
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CommentAuthorJennifer84
I love your dress, it's along the lines of what I would like as well! You are certainly getting some great bargains. Hope you are all okay xx
CommentAuthorKatya
Thankyou, I fell in love with my dress when I saw it in a magazine years before I met H2B. It was the first dress out of about 20 that I tried on, & I loved it so much that they let me try it on again. The lady in the shop then said "what would you do if I told you you couldn't have this dress" well my eyes started welling up & I was speechless. Her & my mum then said "thats The Dress". I was upset though as they wanted a 50% deposit but i didnt have that kind of money laying around. The dress was "off the rack" but fit perfectly, no alterations needed, was as if it had been made to measure for me! I went home and promptly burst into tears. H2B asked why i was crying & i told him he will think im being stupid & blonde if i told him (im not a dress person). In the end he called them and asked if they would mind doing a payment plan for me. They did and a few weeks/months later I got to take the dress to my grandparents who have been storing it for me since. The pic was taken just before she told me i couldn't have it!
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CommentAuthorBobsi
Your dress is lovely. Suits you so well.
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i weighed more then too.... and in the dress i look skinnier than what i do now having lost weight! which reminds me..... i didnt get my wedding ring re-sized like H2B told me to..... (I couldnt get it over my knuckle) & it fits perfectly now, i dont know how im losing weight but i am!
Thankyou
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I lost a stone and a half last year just be eating smaller portions. I kept eating everything I liked. Total junk food just slightly less of it :)
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CommentAuthorsarah
What a sweet dress story
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Have just found these....
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problem is, they are blank pages and i would prefer something like these...
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ok so the pictures are pathetic... so here is an idea of what the pages say... left: draw a picture of the bride & groom your advice to the bride & groom where will the bride & groom be in ten years?
right: sign your name how do you know the bride & groom? your favourite memory of the bride & groom draw yourself and print your name
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Could you replace the pages?
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it doesnt look like it from the picture
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Forum Poll
shoes
which is your favourite?
Poll Results
Total Votes:
32
image 1
66%
image 2
0%
image 3 original shoes
34%
Ok so im having problems finding the ankle boots i like (red with black bow) - i will be looking for plain red ankle boots and then adding a black bow, but in the mean time.... i found these and are interested in your opinions... image 1
Shoes black bow s8.jpg
image 2
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image 3 - original shoes
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I have had a thought....
I cant seem to find a guest book i like with: 1. The right style cover 2. right type of pages 3. right amount of pages
So I have thought.... Why not have two? 1. One where the pages are stuck in when filled in (I will do this after the wedding so that i dont get "post-wedding blues" - a type of depression you can get once you have finished planning such a huge event then have nothing to do after it - im prone to depression so this should help) 2. One where the guests can say what they like & will have a whole page to do so.... (Ordinary guest book as styled above)
here are the pages I can have printed for guests to fill in....
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And some for us to fill in...
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I also redesigned the guest scrolls...
scrolls
rolled up
rolled up
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CommentAuthorInDreamland
Oooh, first time on this thread. Loving all your stuff hun!
For the guest book, have you thought about getting a personalised one? I ordered a lovely personalised one off the bay of e from a fab seller, great quality, absolutely beautiful and fast service too xx
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CommentAuthorKatya
can you post the link on my wall please? and do you have pics?
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Sure hun, I'll find you the link and post it. Here's a pic of my personalised one xx
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CommentAuthorInDreamland
I don't seem to be able to post on your wall hun, can you accept my friend request please then I can pop it on there?
Ta xx
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My Favour Rings arrived! Not due to arrive until Saturday!
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Ok snuggling on the sofa with a freezy child and he tells me he likes the shoes. when i ask him to point to his favourite he chooses the red shoes with the black box as apposed to the red ankle boots. apparently he likes the shoes better. he also said the ones with the blue bow "look funny"
I think my 3yr old just made my mind up for me! Going for shoes "Image 1" as chosen by young mister freezy over here! (Definately something to record for future reference... "my youngest boy chose my wedding shoes" so when he asks when hes older.... "who chose those awful shoes?" i will inform him it was him lol!
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Well that screws my honeymoon plans up big time!
I was planning on getting tickets for Run To The Sun Festival 2015, hiring an old skool camper van and taking H2B to the biggest Modified Car Festival in the country! He's a HUGE Petrol Head!
Well I googled ticket prices just now... got led to the official RttS book of face page..... to find out that this year is going to be the very last year they will be running the festival cos the COUNCIL wont allow them to anymore (they started the festival in 1987... thats 26 years!)
Do the council not realise that people come from all over the world (yes we met people on the way who came from Sidney - Australia & USA etc) for this festival?! Have they not noticed that newquay is a tourist location & that RttS festival is what get Newquay most of its money through things such as... parking tickets, shopping, etc
SO ANNOYED!!!!!!!!! HATE BLOOMIN COUNCILS!!!!!
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CommentAuthorsarah
:( that's a major bummer - maybe there will be a campaign and the council will be made to keep it.
CommentAuthorInDreamland
Oh no, how awful!
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CommentAuthorKatya
thing is... i cant afford to get him there this year for the final RttS either..... he keeps saying he wants to go again, but having the kids we havent been able to... and now they are old enough for the camping trip... we cant afford to right now.
I'm dreading him finding out this year is the last one...
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Oh that's awful.
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Getting married June 11th 2014
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yeh its like £75 per person (kids half price) considering wouldnt be able to get childcare we would be looking at £225 plus about £200 fuel..... and thats before we even eat! RTTS is May 24th - 27th... 10 weeks til the last ever RTTS!!! Thats £212.50 for the next 2 months..... no way we can afford that.
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Ok so I haven't updated for a few days.....
Today I bought 5metres of sticky back plastic from £land - £2 (2 rolls of 2.5 metres)
I started a post box at the beginning of last year but never got round to finishing it due to our engagement ending.
Well today I finished making the box, I just need to decorate it. Please excuse the air bubbles, my eldest insisted on helping and considering our kids will be hosting this wedding, i couldnt bring myself to say no.
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I used sticky back plastic to hold the sides togther, and the lid together. Split pins to hold the hinges and padlock thingamy on
this box has so far cost me £5 Sticky back plastic - £2 2 x hinges - £2 Padlock thing - £1 Padlock - I have a pack of 3 laying around somewhere Decor - TBC - however I have quite a nice black flower clip with faux pearl centre around somewhere. Red Ribbon maybe?
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Good little box. It's cute that the kids helped you can tell everyone they did and theyll think it's sweet.
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Getting married June 11th 2014
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losing my enthusiasm for wedding stuffs now.... Ive been ill for a while and now that im better im just so tired all the time. there was a stupid *beeping* noise whilst i was trying to sleep that woke me up on a number of occasions, im just so.... knackered!
I'm not sure there is even anymore left for me to do....
VENUES 1. Registry Office - Nearer Time - Money 2. Reception Venue - Masonic House - Nearer Time - Money
DECOR 1. LED Candle? Submersible Light? Flowers? - Decision needed 2. Water Pearls 3. Vases - All the same
STATIONARY 1. OOS - I Only have one atm 2. INK!!!!! - H2B to drive me to cartridge world! 3. Photo Frames for Gift Table - Time to buy them 4. Printer Software - Need to find or I cant print anything 5. Parchment - Money 6. Inserts - SET A DATE!!!! 7. Guest Book Pages - Ink 8. Guest book x2 - Money
OTHER 1. DJ - Money 2. Photographer - College - Money 3. Dean's Name Change - Closer to the time - Money 4. Licences - Money - Date - Closer to time 5. Honeymoon Van Hire - Money - Closer to time
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SO CHUFFED!!!!
just realised that I have saved enough for the following:
2x Black & Red Guest Books as above 1x Black & Red Pen Holder & Pen as above Shoes for me; red Stiletto's with black bow above (shoes not boots) My Veil Bridesmaids Dresses!
Ok Ok, so I'm short by 19p for all of the above.... but I'm sure I won't miss an extra 19p!
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16 Order Of Service almost complete!
15 of them need hearts on, and they all need pages but cant do the pages until confirming everything.
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CommentAuthorsarah
Yay! I think 19p isn't bad at all. I wish I was as good at saving as you are x
CommentAuthorKatya
WooooHooo!
Travelled 20 miles to get ink to then realise I had forgotton the ink cartridges to get refilled and cheaper prices..... The bloke recognised me (I've only been in there 3 times)! But he recognised me, gave me 2 new cartridges & I still got the discount! Without the discount I should have paid £28..... I got them for £19.98.... wooo!
Anywho I have also just found the printer software! So watch this space.... Pictures to follow!
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CommentAuthorSamanthaG76
Ooo success!! I love it when something like that happens! Also, only 19p short? That's good going! I was in £land earlier and they had some lovely photo frames there for £1 (well obviously! Lol) may be worth a look :-) x
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Ok so the printing didnt go so.well.. The printer works fine but despite mt laptop stated the colour i was printi.g was black, how it was supposed to be as thats how designed it..... It came out blue with the second ink cartridge.... The first cartridge wouldnt print at all! Luckily they are sending me new ones in post on monday. They will test them personally too. All i have to do is send these 2 back once i recieve the new ones which apparently should be tuesday.
I saw lovely vintagey frames in 99p stores but they only had gold and i need silver. Werent keen on the £land ones here they.are all to small or hangable but not standable. Hehe