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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.

When to send out Save the dates?
We are renewing our vows in July 2014, i was wondering when to send out save the dates? I wouldn't normally think about it but being July and when people go on holiday, i'm thinking i should?
Honeymoons!!
What is everyone doing about them? We are getting wed in Spetember and hoping to book a last minute deal a week or two before we go although we have very specific dates that we can go that arent very flexible (parents having our children) so Im wondering if we would be better booking somewhere in advance, but then, where?…
Wedding at Sandals Grande Antigua. Anyone done it?
Morning All, My Fiance and I are planning to marry at the Sandals Grande Antigua resort in April 2015. (Long way off I know, but we are saving hard and refuse to get into debt!) I pretty much have everything planned out, but I was wondering whether any of you have been married there and what your thoughts and opinions…
Wedding venue damage...
I got married to my beautiful wife earlier this month here in Brighton. We had our ceremony at the town hall and then hired out a restaurant for the reception. After a wonderful day, we were told by the manager at the end of the night that there were puncture holes (from ladies high heels) when people were standing on the…
Catholic church - marriage course?
We're getting married next year and my fianc!e is catholic so we're getting married in a catholic church. We went to see the priest to discuss it and he's said that as part of the wedding preparation he wants us to go on a 'course', specifically the 'Marriage prepartion at DABCEC Crawley'. It's a day long course on a…
Registrar a few weeks before your wedding....
What happens at this meeting please? I've left a few messages at the registrars but no one has replied back to me from their offices. We get married in 5 weeks, I have the notices from our own district which I presume we can take with us. I 'think' we pick our vows and tell them the songs we want but is it anything else?…
Intoruding myself
Hi, Thought I'd better do an intro as ill be hanging round here rather a lot. Im Kirsty 23, engaged to Paul 26, we have 2 children O who is 6 and S who is 3. We have been together for 9 years this year and engaged about 4 years now. We are planning on a 2014 wedding (pending our savings plan). We have started to look at…
BHS Wedding Dresses
Hi All Just thought I would let everyone know 50% off wedding dresses and if you use voucher code vcbonus25 you get a further 25% off Alison
Seamstress Nottingham/Derby
Afternoon! Long-term lurker here, just hoping one of you lovely MSE brides-to-be can help me. I need to get a bridesmaid's dress altered professionally (my basic sewing skills are not up to the job!). My bridesmaid lives in the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border area, so I think finding someone local to her would be best.…
Wedding dress cleaning NW London/Herts
Our reception is on Sunday and I've discovered marks on my dress which mean it needs cleaning before then! Does anyone have a recommendation for a wedding dress cleaning service in NW London? (Harrow/Watford/Uxbridge area) My mum scared me by saying a dry cleaner ruined the finish on a silk dress of hers! My dress is silk…
No Sign Of Wedding Dress - Cancellation Consumer Rights Help Needed
Hi My daughter is getting married in September and starting to get very concerned about her wedding dress, so much so that she is thinking about cutting her losses and getting something else whilst she still has time but is concerned about losing her deposit. June 2012 In June 2012 she ordered her £800 dress by placing a…
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…
Bridesmaid dresses - advice needed!
Hi Everyone, I am looking for a bit of advice, and just people's opinions really! I am going to be having 5 bridesmaids (don't ask how I ended up with that many!) and as you can imagine I don't want, nor can I afford, to spend £200 on each dress. That seems to be the price in a lot of these dress shops! I've been looking…
6th April my wedding day (incl pics)
So, having been back from honeymoon for a week I am finally getting round to writing up my wedding day! :)I hope no one minds me having my own thread - but I have really enjoyed reading other people's posts about their days in the past so hopefully no one will mind. I am going to post some pictures but I will remove them…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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