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Anyone still getting married in 2021?
Speaking to registry office recently and they are struggling for dates in 2022 and beyond. Is anyone just getting on with it and hoping to get wed in 2021? Our original date was September 2020, rearranged for July 2021. Hopefully all restrictions will be on their way out so we can have everyone we originally planned to but…
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Theft from Wedding
Hi all I wondered if anyone has any ideas as to what I can do regarding theft of gift cards from our wedding? We had requested John Lewis gift cards for our wedding and were unaware of missing ones until I had a message from my work saying they hoped we'd enjoy spending them....we were unaware that they had given us a gift…
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Changing name on accounts
I recently got married and I'm having to change items to my married name on is there anything I'm missing? BankCar (insurance v5 licence) Birth certificate for my kidsMy work and husband's work info I can't think of anything else My passport had 8years left on it do I need to change that as I don't want to loose the years…
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Do I need Wedding Insurance!?
Hi, We are getting married in Lisbon in September 2022. We are about to book our wedding and are wondering how best to protect ourselves should the worst happen (company bankruptcy, covid etc.). We need to put down a 50% deposit (£4000) on a hotel to reserve all the rooms. I am wondering if anything can be done to protect…
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Hotel rooms for our wedding cheaper on booking.com vs direct book with hotel
Hello, my fiancé and I are due to get married in September next year. We've found the UK hotel we want to do it in and have asked the hotel for their room rate for special events. We have asked to block out 50 rooms for our guests (the hotel has around 200 rooms). The per night room rate offered directly by the hotel is…
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Hiring a Licensed House
We've recently got engaged and neither myself or my partner have any interest in a large wedding and cannot reconcile spending stupid money on a wedding. We have an absolubte maximum of 30 people we'd want there and to be honest could easily cut that to 20. Instead, I've been looking at hiring a large property with grounds…
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Wedding cost
Hi. Looking to plan a wedding for around 50 - 60 guests. My partner wants a "party" wedding whereas I just want to sign the paperwork and keep it quite lowkey. If we opted for something between both extremes, how much should we be looking to pay? Had a look at some venues and they charge tens of thousands. Is £5,000 a…
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Registrar help
I was married a few weeks ago. 4 weeks prior to my wedding I hadn’t received any contact regarding my options for the ceremony from our registry. I chased them up and received a booklet with the standard options but with some unclear sections to fill out and it included no copy of the vows we’d be reading on the day. It…
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Venison for wedding breakfast
We're seriously considering venison for our wedding breakfast. Venison medallions with say mushroom sauce and potato rosti or something similar. Would you greet this with joy, indifference, or dislike?! FYI the wedding is in October in a place surrounded by Epping Forest.
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Name error on marriage notice.. advice needed
Hi All, Really need some advise and reassurance. Our wedding is at the end of October and I’ve been told our marriage notice/ schedule has been rejected due to a error with the name of one application (entered double barrel surname entered as a middle name e.g Joe SMITH BLOGGS as Joe Smith BLOGGS. What do we do in this…
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Printing stuff
Guys, our wedding is 16th October this year, and we've started to look into some of the smaller items now we have all the suppliers etc secured. (This is our third time having to reschedule, for obvious reasons). We were discussing table names and plans last night, I suddenly thought where do you get this printed up?…
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Can my grandfather pay for my wedding in care.
My grandfather wishes to pay for our wedding or at least make a contribution but is now in a care home and he pays for all his own care costs, he is wealthy and has significantly above the minimum assessed assets, the wedding would be a small fraction of his assets worth. My question is can he now do this or would they…
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Italian wedding deposit
On 31st Jan 2020 I paid €6500 deposit for a wedding in Italy (30%). This included hotel stay, food for 3 days for 50 people, wedding cake, set up of decorations, Alcohol and the wedding ceremony. We had to change our date due to concerns over Covid 19 from August 2021 to May 2022. Since doing this I have become pregnant,…
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Wedding budget/ statement of accounts
Hi everyone, I think a lot of the wedding planning posts have been closed and am the first few pages on this board are all covid cancellation discussions 😕 I got married 10 days ago after 2 years planning, one cancellation and one last minute change of venue. One thing we found helpful in the early planning stages was…
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Cash gifts
Hi! I'm due to get married this year. In usual circumstances when it comes to gift choices we would have invited our guests to gift money into a Honeymoon account with a travel agent. However with International travel still restricted, and the worry that more travel agents may fold I have kissed that idea goodbye. Instead,…
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Wedding Public Liability Insurance
We are about to book our wedding (fairly cheap and small) and the wedding venue are asking for £2 mil public liability insurance. From research this looks like it’s quite common, although I’m pretty sure they will have their own insurance. Due to the pandemic it looks like a lot of companies are no longer offering it, and…
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No Appts available for "Giving Notice".
Hi Everyone. Daughter had to rebook wedding from Oct 31st 2020 because of covid and she rearranged it to October 29th this year. She was advised today to book the "Giving Notice" appt in her area, so she has gone online but there isn't an appt at all before Oct 1st this year. She will phone them in the morning, but has…
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Advise needed regarding no contact with supplier please
Hello. To cut a very long story down, our daughter had to postpone her wedding from last year due to Covid to this August and so we then decided to book them an ice cream tricycle. Booked them and paid a £100 deposit via BACs. Had great reviews on their web and fb page, ( the fb page has since been deleted) Moving forward…
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Is marriage certificate void ?
My friends daughter has recently got married and she had her ‘stepdad’ on marriage cerificate, but he actually isn’t married my friend, they have been living together for 30years, and he has raised the daughter. Friend is now panicking thinking marriage may not be legal. Can anyone she’d some light n this ? Many Thanks
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Wedding insurance
Hi all I am planning to get married on 16th April 2022 its an Easter Saturday. So I have the venue (which includes catering and dj) and the photographers. I have paid the deposits via credit card which where 100 quid and over. We have the registrar booked but it's a low deposit so partner paid on his card. So I've been…