Hi guys thought I'd get my diary started so I could keep a track on everything that needs doing and has been done!
We are having Lilac & Silver/Grey as our colour scheme Our theme's are puzzle pieces as we love the quirkiness we can use to incorporate it into the day, and xbox as it is a passion we both share :)
So far we have sorted.. - The church - we have paid £100 deposit and as we are getting married on easter Saturday the church will already be decorated!
The Church
- The Venue - we have paid £500 deposit and my parents have very generously offered to pay for the venue we get the following included in our package: + Complimentary suite for the bride and groom + Complimentary 4 bedrooms for friends and family to stay in + Complimentary room hire for the reception + Arrival drink for the daytime guests + White table linen and napkins, cake stand and knife, easel for the table plan + A 3 course meal with a choice of dishes for the guests + Half a bottle of wine per guest to accompany their meal + Chef's choice evening buffet + A glass of sparkling wine for the toast + Evening disco + Chair covers and sashes in chosen colour We are also paying an extra £500 to have the whole hotel to ourselves including 2 extra entertaining rooms.
hotel.jpg
Buffet Room
garden 1.jpg
the meal and dancefloor room.jpg
the buffet room.jpg
- Photographer - we are paying £600 for two photographers to come for the whole day and to receive all our images on a disc after the wedding.
- Wedding hair stylist - the photographers partner does wedding hair and has offered me a deal to have my hair done for £30 and the bridesmaids done at £20 each on the day.
CommentAuthorJoanna
Looks great so far :)
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
is just to love and be loved in return
<3
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Thanks hun :D So so excited. :) Making the save the dates soon!
CommentAuthorJoanna
Ooh exciting :D
My hairdresser was also my photographers wife, who have you got? Would be weird if we had the same lol
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
is just to love and be loved in return
<3
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Matt's friends brother! Lee Bull and his mrs Adele West :P
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
is just to love and be loved in return
<3
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Nah they ain't married yet I don't think :) Seem really nice though! They're going to come over one evening with a portfolio of pictures each to show us :) Also got a list of pictures that the photographer usually takes at weddings x
CommentAuthorMattsBride
I have just ordered 3 chocolate plaques that read "Will you be my bridesmaid?" and 1 that reads "Will you be my maid of honor?" to give to my wedding party to let them know I want them to be a part of my special day :) my moh already knows shes my moh but its nice to give them something :D
CommentAuthorMattsBride
sooo here are the chocolate plaques that we picked up today :)
Plaques
We are going to attach one of these labels that are in our wedding colour to each one with a little message inside :)
Labels
CommentAuthorMrs T. 2 Be
Awwwwww that's a lovely idea.
Started Dating: 25th September 2005
Engaged: 26th September 2012
Getting Married: 25th May 2014
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Thank you hun :)
CommentAuthorMrsCross2be
Fab!!
CommentAuthorMattsBride
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EEK! So today we visited our venue again to attend their wedding fayre! After loading up on free alcohol we pottered about the stalls and made a booking for a few weeks time for sm00ch to come to my mothers house to talk wedding rings! Also found a beautiful bridesmaids dress that we are going to look into a bit more (it's a full length chiffon dress with a bow around the waist). We also met a make up artist who I'm very interested in booking!! Feel like I'm starting to get my wedding mojo back!
We also went to see my housemates band perform yesterday evening and I'm now sooo happy we decided to ask him to sing for us in the church as his acoustic voice is just phenomenal!
While away in Edinburgh we decided on our songs for in the church too!
Walking down the aisle: Train - marry me Registrar signing song 1: Oasis - Wonderwall Registrar signing song 2: Rascal Flatts - God bless the broken road Walking out of the church as husband and wife: Queen - Best friend.
So excited now ! :-)
CommentAuthorKirsty
My sister got married in that church, the vicar is mad crazy!!!
CommentAuthorMattsBride
LOL oh dear ! :P Can't wait to hear his opinion on things!
CommentAuthorKatya
Awww I'm currently recording a version of Train - Marry me! I'm recording it for me to walk down the aisle to! I'm recording it so that its more "me" I LOVE singing, used to sing in a band, since having the kids I feel like I have no release anymore as singing was my release, I just get lost in the song. H2B loves it when I sing so thats what I'm doing... he even looks through the window to check I'm not recording before he walks in from work in case he ruins my recording lol
Find out who you are & do it on purpose!
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Aww thats so sweet and personal :D
CommentAuthorsarah
A bit late but I really like the music you've selected for your day x
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Thank you !! :-) I can't wait to hear my housemate sing them !
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Hey guys, sorry for the lack of update in a while I have been very busy at work as I'm currently being taught to become a puppy trainer!
Anyhow, wedding wise not a great deal has been done! The sm00ch man messed us around and never showed up for the first appointment so we booked again and still no show! Safe to say we will not be using them. We did have some sad news during November as our priest has decided to leave the church we are marrying in to go and work in a prison - therefore we have no idea who will marry us for now... On the up side we have now created most of our save the dates! They are quite simple but I like them :-)
Front
Back
Hope you are all well xx p.s to the other 2015 brides we can finally say we're getting married next year!!
CommentAuthorMattsBride
So today we went to view some weddings cars and ended up paying the deposit for them as we fell in love! We are having these two, a silver rolls-royce and a matching silver daimler :-) the rolls will have a white ribbon and the daimler a lilac ribbon. So pleased with them!
daimler side
daimler front
rolls side
rolls front
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Hey guys!! Well today was eventful! I ended up visiting a wedding dress outlet in the east midland and bought my wedding dress! I wasn't intending on buying my dress today but I fell in love with it and it made me feel wonderful! Here are a few pics, please ignore my face my friend was taking pictures while I was talking to my mum! I also bought my veil (not the one pictured) :-) So, so happy!
THE dress
the back
Love the side detail
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Sorry I have no idea how to turn the pictures!
CommentAuthorKatieA72
Hiya I am getting married the same day as you! How exciting :) xxx
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Oooh yay!! A wedding twin :D I can't wait!! :)
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Bought a Mr & Mrs sign for our top table the other day at a fancy dress shop that had 20% off :-) Bargain! We're going to paint it in our wedding colours and have also ordered a porcelain bunny for each end of the sign.
mr&mrs.jpg
CommentAuthorWhovianbride
Love individual themes! Your planning looks like its coming along nicely. Woth the xbox part are you going to get the vicar to hold up a sign saying "wife acquired: acheivement unlocked" seen this on the pinning site, an looks so cool!
Met June 2009 on my Birthday,Met again July 2009 and got
together, May 2010 Moved in,Jan 2011 got pregnant,
August 2011 Got our own place, 2011 Had our Baby Girl,
Dec 2011 Got engaged, July 2015 Getting married! Yay!
CommentAuthorMattsBride
ha ha! :) thanks I don't think we will have that I'd have no idea how to go about getting one of these signs!! ^_^
CommentAuthorMattsBride
We have decided on our table names now though which are all maps from the xbox game mw3 which is the game we first bonded over :) The ones we have picked are; Dome, Arkaden, Seatown, Bootleg, Lockdown, Carbon, Hardhat and Bakaara
CommentAuthorGhilaL
Wow I thought I was organised I'm getting married end of April 2015 now I feel really unorganised lol v impressive!!
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Ha ha don't be! I feel like I've got nothing done!! Everything I have sorted still needs a lot of work doing :) x
CommentAuthorMattsBride
We've been super busy the past couple of weeks! The save the dates are completed and sent out, we've made our table confetti (we bought a 1000 piece tiny jigsaw, peeled each piece and then spray painted them silver), we've bought our ring box (will post a picture when it arrives), we've bought some lilac organza bags to hold the mini eggs favours and our friend is having a go at making a post box for cards for us from some pallets we have at work!
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Hey guys the ring box and organza bags have arrived and I couldn't be more chuffed with them, especially the ring box it's so sturdy and well made for the price we paid!
Ring Box
Ring Box Open
Organza Bags
We also have got the bridesmaids hair clips which are very pretty and floral! Just need to get my tiara now!
Hair Clip
and a few updated pics of the detailing on my dress now that we've received the bow to go on the back! I love it!
Dress Front
Dress Back
Dress Detail
We're going to look at some wedding rings in a week or so and we are going to book appointments with a couple of florists too so I shall keep you all posted :-)
CommentAuthorAprilS61
It's so exciting to see other wedding diaries especially when it's on the same day as your own :) I love the bow for the back, I'm very into bows. I like that your theme is so individual! You've got a lot planned xx
Mr & Mrs Swan 04/04/15
CommentAuthorTheFutureMrsK
Your venue is lovely both the church and the hotel, Your dress is beautiful too :) You should have got a sign for the top table or somewhere saying "Achievement unlocked: got married" or something like that, also have you got your cake topper yet? We're getting one made, the grooms playing warcraft on pc and the bride is dragging him away but you can get it made with any console and any game xxx
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
-Ambrose Bierce
CommentAuthorMattsBride
April - Oh my gosh I know I'm so excited! Super excited to have a wedding twin and it's officially exactly one year to go hun! Yeah I'm very much bows and animal print - so is my maid of honour we make an odd pair x
TheFutureMrsK thank you very much the church is so so special to me :) Ha ha that would have been funny! We are thinking about having an xbox at the evening reception! We have spoke to a lady about doing a personalised cake topper of matt holding an xbox controller and a bunny sat between us :-) (I have 11 rabbits) It's amazing that people can make such personal and detailed cake toppers these days, my mum just had a flower!
CommentAuthorAprilS61
Haha omg leopard print for me too! My sister is the same! 1 year! Xx
Mr & Mrs Swan 04/04/15
CommentAuthorMattsBride
I'm toying with the idea of getting zebra print converse for the evening do! EEEEEK! So excited! Lol! This time next year I will be having my hair and make up done!
CommentAuthorCatherineR
1 year to go now!!!!!!! Excited much?!?! :D
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorMattsBride
VERY EXCITED! Feeling weirdly nervous though! Not long now til it's a year to go for you hun! D: then we'll both be flapping xx
CommentAuthorCatherineR
Oh lordy, don't!! I'm already worrying a bit as it is lol. My ticker is going down too fast for my liking...... xx
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorAprilS61
That's a brilliant idea ha! I've just noticed it now says we're getting married in 11 months :O xx
Mr & Mrs Swan 04/04/15
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Eeeeek! my ticker suddenly jumped to halfway which made me giggle! We'll be there in no time ladies
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Just ordered this gorgeous dress for my maid of honour from China! Seller has really good feedback so just hope it fits! Will keep you updated (the back is lace up)
MOH Dress
CommentAuthorCatherineR
Oh these are GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!! Wanting a lot lol xx
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Ha Ha My moh loves it! My sister says she doesn't like it but I think she's a tad jealous that it's not her dress!
CommentAuthorAprilS61
That's lovely! X
Mr & Mrs Swan 04/04/15
CommentAuthorMattsBride
Thank you hun :) Just come back from our visit to the florists! Can't praise the ones we've chosen enough! Have ordered my teardrop bouquet to look like this but with ivory germini instead of roses:
Bridal
4 of these for the bridesmaids with a lilac ribbon instead of pink:
Bridesmaid
5 single ivory germini buttonholes for the groomsmen and the fathers 1 single lilac rose special buttonhole for the groom 2 thank you bouquets
All of this delivered to the venue and our houses for £239! I thought it was quite a bargain! The only things left to decide on are the mothers corsages and the tulips for the centerpieces :) Really pleased!
CommentAuthorCatherineR
Ooooo, looking lush hun! Quite similar flowers to us actually :D xx
Married my wife on 15.08.15
Honeymooned on the Isles of Scilly :)
CommentAuthorMattsBride
I loveeee my bouquet they're putting eucalyptus in it as well to give it a silver shimmer