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How much time/effort required to plan?
Hello all! Been browsing the site a long time but have a question so here I am... Recently got enganged (yay! :j) and we've just started talking about what we want to do etc. However we both work full time and I'm currently studying part time so free time is at a minimum at the moment and will be until the end of August…
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Supermarket cakes
Hi everyone I remember the last time I got married ( I like to call it the trial run heehee) there were lots of supermarkets that made plain iced cakes that you could decorate up and transform with a bit of glitz. I was going to do that same this time but can only really find M and S that allow you to do the jazzing…
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Getting copies of your marriage certificate on the day and after.
I have heard that on the day you can get a copy of your marriage certificate for £4? Does anyone know if we can get more than one on the day? I ask as straight after the wedding (literally next day) we want to be updating everyone, sort passports, my fiance's visa etc before we take our honeymoon :D If we can only get one…
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Custom Printing Service Recommendations
Hi! We have designed our own save the dates for our wedding in May next year, but we are looking for somewhere to print them. preferably on card, with our design one side and a plain background the other. does anyone have recommendations on where this can be done? thanks skizz
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wedding dresses from china
Just wondering if anyone has purchased from diydress or inweddingdress and if so any advice/feedback Thanks
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Sweet Jars in the 99p store
Just brought a load of these yesterday and they are brillant. Really handy if you are doing a sweet cart or similer so thought I would give you the heads up. Plan to sell mine on ebay after the wedding and make some money back on them
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Changing surname by deed poll, will we have to reaply for notice of marriage?
Bit of a pickle but we want a double barreled surname and have just realised we would have been better with him applying for a surname change via deed poll. My question is if we change his surname now, would we have to reapply and pay the £70 for the notice of marriage again to show this new joint surname? Or do we just…
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Gift help please
We have been invited to the evening reception of a neighbours daughter. I know they would like money as gift. What amount would you consider appropriate?
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Blowout Honeymoon in Argentina.... is it a good idea...?
I posted this on the holidays board but no replies so figure it might be better placed here.... We get married in October and for various reasons we have not been able to look at our honeymoon until now. So we have ended up being really keen on Argentina but it's working out so expensive. We would need to card quite a bit…
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What did you put in your invites?
Ok, i'm stuck! Apart from the obvious, what did you include in your invites? Did you include a map of how to get there? (our venue is a little out in the sticks but reasonably well known in the area) Did you include your menu? How about details of hotel rooms and b&b's? The venue has blocked off 20 rooms for us, i have a…
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Mother of the Bride Outfit
DD getting married next year and have started to look at outfits to get an idea of what's out there. Shocked at the price of some of them and how limited the selection is. Seems to be a stiff dress with a bolero jacket in as many colours as you want or a floaty floral dress and edge to edge jacket and neither of them would…
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Renewing of Vows
Hi My husband and i have been together for 15 years and married 10 years in July 2014, we are thinking about renewing our vows as the wedding we had, was a make do one if you know what i mean. Everything was budget and not really what either of us wanted but was good enough at the time. My question is Where do you renew…
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Signature on marriage certificate
Don't know whether this is the best place to ask, but... Got married last week and looked at the marriage certificate for the first time after getting home from honeymoon, and its not the one we signed. Our names are handwritten, by the registrar I assume. Is this normal?
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Dealing with the post-wedding blues?
Ok, all you ladies who have been there (I know some of you still hang around!) How did you deal with the post-wedding blues? I have just got back from honeymoon and feel, tbh, pretty wretched. Even though I know logically I have a great life and should be excited about starting married life (which I am!) I can't shake just…
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Real Petal Confetti
Hi I am getting married in August 2013. I have got most things sorted, but I really want purple flower petals to be thrown instead of confetti Does anyone know where I could buy this at a reasonable price? Many thanks Nic
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Changing my name - undecided
Hello everyone, I'm hoping you can offer your feelings of changing your name when married. I am still undecided as I don't think I want to give up my name as I consider a big part of my identity and I am very close to my family and don't want to feel less like a part of them, yet I also want to have the same name as my…
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Wedding favours - anyone tried asking for free samples?
Hi there, I have emailed various different cosmetic/perfume companies (probabaly about 50 in total) this evening, asking them for a batch of free samples to use as wedding favours. Has anyone ever done this, and more importantly, had any sucess with it? I shall keep you posted on the rejection emails I am expecting :rotfl:
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Are promshoeschina.com legit
http://www.promshoeschina.com/Coventry/Wholesale-wedding-dresses-made-from-china-c10473/ My friend is getting married soon and is thinking of ordering her dress from promshoeschina.com I'm a bit wary as even though they're based in my town there is no contact information on the website apart from a e-mail address not even…
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25th wedding anniversary bbq
Hi there, new to this thread so sorry if i've done this wrong! It's my Mam and Dads 25th wedding anniversary in June and i would love to do something nice for them (they are already booking a weekend away so can't do that) so i thought about gathering the family together and having a bbq. The family have had abit of bad…
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Offbeat wedding?
Hi there all Is anyone planning an offbeat wedding? I quite fancy the look of this.. http://offbeatbride.com/filed/real-weddings/global
