hey girls

so on here we are all about how much are we spending on our weddin... loads lol

so i thought i wud tell u tale of my mum n dads weddin.... they go tmarried in reg office, mymum had a white skirt suit on ( size 8 back then lol) with nice hat and my dad a suit... they got married got bus back home and all had fish n chips! th emost important part of their day was th evows.... which technically come free!!!

my dad did say to me she wishes she had a dress like mine so i said afte rmy weddin she can put it on and take piccies of her!!!

wat was ure parents weddings? btw my ma n pa are 65!

My mum and dad had the full white church wedding - the pics are hilarious!! they're divorced now though!

My mum and dad had a small wedding at their local chuch, and they had a small get-together with family afterwards. my mum paid £30 for her dress, she looks stunning in the pics i've seen. that was almost 30 years ago and still going strong. If my marriage can even be half as happy as my mum and dad's, i'll be a very lucky lady! xxx

ha ha no way Becky, they both have really awful glasses and look like the two Ronnies!! ha ha! Mum's dress has long sleeves as well....really awful!

My parents decided to get married because they really wanted a party and wanted their parents to pay.

They had a civil ceremony with their immediate families and two of my mum's friends (who snuck in). My dad wore a kilt suit and my uncle was his best man. My mum wore an antique Edwardian lace dress and my two female cousins were her bridesmaids in sailor dresses.

After the ceremony they had an enormous party at Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms with a friend DJing and more friends providing the catering. They also had clowns and jugglers and stilt walkers. They played their families off against each other in order to get more and more champagne... I think they were still drinking it for years.

So all in all they had a pretty offbeat wedding. It was a big wedding and while it would be a minute budget today after inflation, they didn't exactly scrimp on everything.

Wow, that sounds amazing specialsundae! i'm liking the sound of the circus entertainers! xxx

We've got a lot to live up to as there will only have been one family wedding between ours and theirs and that's my cousin's next month... It's fun trying!

lol bless

My uncle was due to move to Canada and sold his house to my parents, they had 6 weeks before he went to Canada and they moved in - my mother refused to move in with my Dad before they were married. They had a beautiful white Wedding at Mums parish church followed by a lovely buffet at the pub - this was 34 years ago when they were 20 and 21. Funny thing is this is also the church where Rich's sister was married and we live right next door to said pub and church :)

My mum and dad now divorced lol.. but both happy still, had a church wedding, my mums dress was from a charity shop and washed and altered by my nan, her bm's dress's all six were made out of floral curtains but lovely pink and plum colours!

Her wedding cake fell-over she blames this for a fallen marriage lol and most people in the photos have afros and brown velvet suits!

Oooh re reading some posts it reminds me - Mum bought her stunning dress new it cost about the same as what im paying today for mine - it was the most expensive thing for the whole day. Then my Dads younger sister wore it on her big day and my Dads Sister in Law's sister wore it to her wedding - so My Dads sister in law went to 3 weddings were the bride wore the same dress lol

joey same wiv photos n my mum n dad! i say they shud renew lol rae she still got dress now?

My mum got married at a registry office in a green suit and is like your mum Becky wishes she had a dress like me. My Dad was in an ordinary suit and then he got a lift home in the back of his mates van and slept on the sofa as my mum had my brother (2 then) in their room lol. But there have been married for 25 years now...

i think that may be why my mum is very involved with my wedding and is loving the planning as it is a bit like the wedding she never had..xx

My mum and dad got married 25 years ago and both tell different stories about it. Both agree it happened in a registry office and that my mum was pregnant with me at the time but I have never seen any pictures although I have helped organise all our old fam photos. Never thought about it until now and never asked but there probably aren't any photos. Might explain a bit about their reaction to our wedding

I love that you're letting your mum wear your dress = D it's so sweet!

My parents got married in the same church my fiance's parents got married in so we're thinking about doing so too - 'cept i'm not religious so need some persuading! Then they went to Wales for a honeymoon! = D x

my mams been married 4 times. shes a expert xx

my mum and dad got married as she was 7 months pregnant with me and my dad's mum wanted them to get married.

they got married in a registry office and mum mum had a big dress which covered her bump and then a reception at home in the garden with about 20 guests. small and intimate! my mum still has her dress and actually wore it last year as a fancy dress party as it still fits her 23 years later! xx

awwww what a cute thread... me likey...

my mum and dad got married nearly 25 yrs ago (they celebrate it this dec 23rd) i was a bridesmaid in apricot and shinny white shoes....

they had been together exactly 3 mths before they married!!.... it was a simple day... they married in the church that they got for free because my dad was head of sports at the school so they married in the school chapel, they walked out of the church under and arch of hocky sticks that the kids at the school had arranged in secret (my dad used to play england aand gb hockey) and there reception was in the school conferance room and the school catered it

so it cost my parents a whopping £50 quid for the notice of marriage

the dress was made by my nan and so was my dress... the pictures are so beautiful ... and very happy memories...

they could have spent more but they didnt see the need....

when i think how much we have already spent on our wedding and how much is left to pay and what we could have bought with that money instead... i keep thinking omg am i being silly i could by a house!! But at the end of the day its not how much money you throw at a wedding or where you get married, or how you have the wedding... it will never be to everyones taste ... and at the end of the day as long as your happy and love your h2b you could wear a bin bag and still feel the luckiest lady alive... and it just goes to show you dont have to spend tonnes to have a life time of happy memories... and thats all that counts ... is marrying the right guy that makes you feel special

My mum and dad have been married 29 years (celebrated this 20th march) and they we're both 20 and had been dating since they were 15, they had a lovely church wedding and when my mum took her dress to the dry cleaners 3 weeks before their wedding day the bloomin shop had burned it so my mum was well upset and couldn't find another dress but 2 weeks before they got married my mum won £1000 on a scratch card which helped buy my mum buy a new dress, pay for cars and a 2 week honeymoon in benidorm :) xx (pics in album called family) xx

my mum and dad have been married for 31 yrs in may, mums dress cost £65, dad wore a suit with platforms they had there reception at bernand mannings club in blackley i think, they also borrowed his car, for there 25th wedding anniversary dad organised for them to have there vows renewed at the original church with the original vicar, he even managed to track his bridesmaids down xx

My mum still has her dress 44 years on...
Think she was hoping I'd wear it for my wedding, but she understands that styles change. I just hope I keep mine that long...