Wedding Forum - 2020 Wedding - The Official Thread....

Hiya Lauren, welcome to the site, I hope you have fun here and happy planning. You'll certainly find lots of useful tips.

As for planning, nope, you can look at places, some may not take bookings yet but at least when you can you'll know what and where you want.

Thank you. We are planning an early 2020 (February) wedding so just over 2 years away.

The venue we like is taking bookings and will give us the venue at 2019 price as they haven't released 2020s yet which is a bonus. They want half of the venue cost as a deposit though which I am reluctant to pay.

I'm feeling the same as you right now, Venue cost OK, but food is costing us more than the venue.

It's crazy

We are May 2020, but haven't paid deposit just yet, making sure we can afford it first

Just crazy as although the venue price is 2017 prices, the food will go up as they cant stay the same due to food costs...

GAH. So hard!

Rhi - have you looked at paying a deposit now for the food? When we were looking at a venue we were told we could pay 10% now and the food price would stay the same.

We did however look at a different venue last night and booked it. They had such an amazing package on which included:

For up to 80 day guests
Fully licensed Gazebo & Water Terrace for Ceremony
Candle Lit ceremony area with cosy blankets
A choice of vintage fish and chip van served outside or a traditional hog roast served on the terrace for a more relaxed feel
Red and white or rose wine served with meal- a choice of 2
Champagne and canapé reception
Champagne for toasts
Toastmaster supplied from Toastmasters Kent
Up to 3 tier Wedding cake
Cake stand & knife
A choice of Vintage bridal cars
Table Centre Pieces- design to be selected
DJ Disco
Evening Bacon Butties and Chip Cones for 150 guests
Fully dressed Venue Hire including table linen, cutlery & crockery.
Personal wedding reception planner
White chair covers with sash colour of your choice and table runners to match
Kids vintage drinks dispense station
A Sweetie Table
Post box
Full set up of event to Bride & Groom’s brief

The price was so reasonable and worked out the same price as just the venue and food where we were originally looking. Obviously it helps that we want a winter wedding.

So glad I am not the only one looking so far ahead and love the idea of a 10 year anniversary wedding :)

I hope you get somewhere booked soon xx

I hope you don't mind but will make this the official 2020 thread so anyone who joins can chat in here if they are getting married in that year.

Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum. My partner proposed in august this year and we have already set a date and booked our venue.
We are getting married August 2020. Decided on colour scheme and style of cake.
Still lots to sort but loads of time to save x

Lauren, that package sounds so good! So glad you found somewhere amazing.

I'm not too sure about deposit for food but i'm going to their open day (which i'm hoping will be the time to put down our deposit and save our date - eeek!) in a couple of weeks, so will ask then, thank you! :)

& yeah me too, I love the symmetry as well - 2020 and only one date to remember haha, they have no excuses now!

I have a full pinterest board of ideas but havent done anything yet - we brought our first home in feb, so savings are shot at minute - working on getting some money behind us first.

I did however try on 2 dressed at Wed2B just as we were near the shop, i LOVED it, but wont do it again until lost some weight - but actually i didnt even feel bad in the dress, was amazing.

Whats your proposal stories?

I got engaged 20th August this year, at 7AM in the morning! haha

I must say first, he isnt romantic atall, so this is a shocker :)

I had predicted it was coming, i had already waited 7 years for a ring, but he showed me a text message a colleague of his won a balloon ride and couldnt go so asked if we wanted to go. (He knew this was on my bucket list)
Then in the car one day he mentioned it was just us in the balloon with the pilot
I was thinking (as weather dependant) if it doesnt happen why couldnt they (the original text) reschedule
So, i got my nails done haha and prayed for good weather.

Was due to go up at 6am,and we slept through our alarm, my grandad called me at 5:20 wishing us a nice time so safe to say we slung on clohes and was out the door within 10 minutes, and i sped haha luckily before 6am, there was no traffic.

Anyway we went up and after a while he admitted he booked the balloon ride and got down on one knee.

On the way back to the car, my mum, stepdad and our friends were there to greet us, and us and our friends went for a posh breakfast.

Was the best morning ever (& i hate mornings haha)

Amazing proposal Rhi! So jealous.

My fiancé wasn't at all romantic which doesn't surprise me but he did an amazing job picking a ring for me :)

Lovely that you have booked your venue! How exciting xx

Congrulations 'PenguinJ' !

You're defo more organised than me, just wanted to get venue out the way.

I have no idea about the rest haha

Where abouts do you live?

I'm Bristol, but getting married about 30 mins away! :)

Thanks! :)

He loves telling the story to people ;) so smug of himself haha

Finally, seeing as I booked my venue 6 months ago, i'm now less than 2 years away until the wedding so I got wedding insurance :) Feel more confident to start thinking about booking more things.

Which suppliers @RachelP132? I know they have a questions for photographers on a thread here.
I wrote one for venue and photographer. Haven't got any further yet.

So far we have set the date, booked venue, photographer, florist, cake, registra and chosen rings

Paid 6 lots of deposits

Worked out how much our wedding will cost

We got engaged in Auguat this year and we figured we would have a long engagement.... its now october and we have booked our venue, registrar and get married early feb 2020! We arent quite sure how that happened haha

We signed our contracts today for the venue and handed them over so its all official! We marry on our 3rd anniversary together which is really special to us. I cant wait! I already have my flowers picked out (artificial because i hate real ones), our cake makers, our photographer and my dress so im just able to spend the next 8 months saving before i have to start looking for bridesmaid dresses etc.

Its all so exciting :)

Hey everyone! I’m new to this site. Got engaged recently on 3rd November and planning a May 2020 wedding. Hopefully booking the venue in the next couple of weeks eek! X

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