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Weddings & anniversaries

Planning a wedding, civil partnership or anniversary celebration? This is the place for MoneySaving tips to ensure your big day doesn't break the bank.

Cheap and easy DIY catering ideas needed!
Hi all, My future hubby and I are on an extremely tight budget and need to keep our spending to a minimum. We've decided to buy drinks via glitches etc and stock up before the big day (May 2015). We are hiring a lovely hall but need catering ideas keeping in kind that I don't mind cooking and preparing before the big day…
Inexpensive ways to decorate a venue
Hi all, Well things have changed recently (very stressful!) as the room in which we're getting married in is smaller and fits in less people than we had first been led to believe. We were told the room fit 80 people, invitations have been sent and numbers stand at approximately 33 day guests and 73 evening guests. Turns…
Boudoir shoot
Thinking of booking one of these (if I'm brave enough) Looking online, prices range from £99 to£600 and more Has anyone any recommendations or seen any offers? South of England best Thank you
Venue Help
Hello, I'm going to visit a potential venue for my wedding soon and wanted to know if anyone has any tips on what to say and how to negotiate prices etc. I want to go in with a plan and try to come out with the best price possible. We have a budget of about £7k to spend on the venue. I have been told not to tell them how…
Shedding for the wedding!
So, ideally I'd like to drop a dress size or 2 before the day. Does anyone want to join and 'buddy' up for support and motivation?
hen party/chief bridesmaid advice
just wondered if anybody has been a chief bridesmaid/maid of honour/bridesmaid and how people have worked out the costs of the hen party? I don't mean the actual cost of the activity, because each person is paying their own way. it's mostly the cost of the sashes/badges/hen party bags/table decorations in the restaurant,…
Catering Invoice More than quoted
Good evening, Myself and Fianc!e are due to get married in August. We are therefore starting to pay off balances for various things and today the invoice for the catering has arrived. To our amazement it is over £2k more than the price stated on the proforma invoice which we received when making the final adjustments to…
Cost of DIY wedding invitations?
Hi all, I've just started looking into doing my own invites, and I'm getting a bit overwhelmed by it all! I was just wondering if someone could give me an idea of how much they spent/are going to spend on doing their own invites so that I can get an idea of how much it might all cost! I'm looking for fairly straightforward…
Fill in the blanks advice cards
Hiya! does anyone have a template for fill in the blanks cards? Really want to use them instead of a guest book but only ones I can find are American and my laptop is rubbish and won't download them so I can tweak them xxx
Wedding Fairs?
Hi everyone, i am doing a wedding fair in a couple of weeks, i have done craft fairs etc before but never a wedding one, so i have a few questions: It is 11am -4pm What should i expect as a seller? What sort of things sell? What do you go looking for? TIA
Getting married in Gretna Green!
We're planning our wedding at the moment - early stages just yet, but hoping to do it on a shoestring! He is very anti-religion, so a church service is out. We've been looking at alternatives, and I really liked a local manor house. I phoned them for a quote today and they want £1400 for just the hire of the room :eek:…
Looking for a ring! (Gulp!)
Hey Everyone! Currently looking for a ring for my OH - It's that time!! I have a budget of up to £2k - She's identified the style of her perfect ring: https://www.adiamor.com/media/Rings/Round/White/R-1320.jpg With a .47ct colour E SI2 cut diamond and that band (white gold), I'm getting a price of about £1,600. The issue…
Best way to pay for a wedding
Its a very simple question but what is the best way to pay for the wedding. currently we are using the Tesco Clubcard credit card and clearing it off each month. this way at least we get some Clubcard vouchers and can buy people christmas presents with them (thus saying money which will go to the wedding!) Are they any…
help with MIL to be...
Hi all just wanting a bit of advice really please! I get married in 3 months and opted to do all the decor etc myself as no one else either wanted to or was V crafty, so I have had a bit on my plate recently with work and the wedding! I have just seen my mil to be and she has decided to let me know that she doesn't have…
Wedding Venues - HELP!!!!
Hi! I posted this on the wrong board first time :) Am looking to try and find a violinist/pianist for my wedding next august. We'd really like a band but we are to be honest fairly brassic. Can anyone suggest where to look for either and still keep n a budget? Can someone edit the title as well! Autofill in - Stupid thing!!
Anyone having a 2014 wedding?
I know it's a bit early, but I just wondered if anyone else is planning things slowly. I've been engaged for about a month, been with my OH for four years, and we're having to slowly save up for everything, we're having to wait about 2 years, so we can get enough cash together. Even with loads of time to go, I'm still…
Hen Weekend - Party Bags
Hi, Just wondering who usually arranges / finances the party bags at hen nights / weekends? Cheers :p
How to begin the Venue search?
Hi everyone, Just started planning and finding it difficult to start lol. We are looking at about 2016 spring time as a guide, we know we are only having 14 people there (including us) but we don't want a 'typical' wedding venue... Ideally looking at the central Scotland region (if anyone has any suggestions) but with such…
Looking forward to making use of this forum...
Hopefully I'll be getting engaged at the weekend, as long as my girlfriend says "Yes!" Looking forward to joining in on here, even though I'll not be the bride and this seems to be a bride-led forum! ;-)
Worst Week EVER!!!
This is purely just a little rant 'cuz I feel like rubbish. We are having some work done to our house (bad timing I know - nobody else needs to tell me how dumb I am) including replacing all the doors, frames and architraves, all new carpets upstairs, replastering in my upstairs bathroom and bedroom, new upstairs bathroom…

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