*Brides To Be Club 2009 & Onward* The New Updated Thread

rinroo

lilian1977 wrote: »

Hi guys

Haven't posted for a while, sorry. Finally set a date (well, a weekend) - the weekend of Sat 26th September 2010. I have a few questions though:

We are planning a registry office wedding - are the fees as low as it says on Manchester City Council webisite? ie £60 for notice of marriage then £43.50 for the wedding - do I not pay anything extra for the registrar if we're getting married there, is that just if they have to come to another licensed venue?

I have chosen my wedding music (Tom Baxter, either 'Better' or 'Light Me Up') - where can I play this? In the registry office? If so, when?

As it's over a year away, is it wise to send out simple Save the Date cards now? Or should I wait until I've actually booked the registry office?

And speaking of which, I know I can't sort out the notice of marriage until 12 months before but can I book the registry office yet?


Argh so many questions! Thanks xx

Hi

When we were looking into a registry office, that was what we were quoted, we were told we could provisionally book the registry office to secure the date and time then once we were in the 12 month countdown we could pay, but we couldn't get a notice of marriage until 12 months before but it had to be 16 days before the date of marriage iyswim?

I'd ring them and provisionally book them. I get married in April next yr and sent my save the date magnets out this week, but i would wait until you have a confirmed date, just in case the dont have the date available you want and you have to ammend your STDC.

Tigerlilley1980

heatherbelle wrote: »

I can now update that I am 30/10/10 at www.glenberviehousehotel.com

Beautiful venue, it's gorgeous, Congratulations!

Tigerlilley1980

lilian1977 wrote: »

Hi guys

Haven't posted for a while, sorry. Finally set a date (well, a weekend) - the weekend of Sat 26th September 2010. I have a few questions though:

We are planning a registry office wedding - are the fees as low as it says on Manchester City Council webisite? ie £60 for notice of marriage then £43.50 for the wedding - do I not pay anything extra for the registrar if we're getting married there, is that just if they have to come to another licensed venue?

I have chosen my wedding music (Tom Baxter, either 'Better' or 'Light Me Up') - where can I play this? In the registry office? If so, when?

As it's over a year away, is it wise to send out simple Save the Date cards now? Or should I wait until I've actually booked the registry office?

And speaking of which, I know I can't sort out the notice of marriage until 12 months before but can I book the registry office yet?


Argh so many questions! Thanks xx

Our notices are £60 for both of us and then it's £295 for the registrar but we are not getting married in the registry office, I think it is about £40 if you want to get married in the registry office here though!

As far as I know you can have the music you want as long as there aren't any religious references in it, someone who knows more will be along soon I'm sure.

I would send the save the date cards when you have booked the registry office just to make sure you get that date. Tiger x

ScattyStudent1

Can I just say best of luck to those getting married soon, its been 3 weeks since mine and I have to tell you it was PERFECT!! I cant even start to tell you how amazing it was. the whole day goes SO fast though!! I suggest taking a minute every hour or so to just stop and look around.
Have an amazing day people x x

heatherbelle_3

Tigerlilley1980 wrote: »

Beautiful venue, it's gorgeous, Congratulations!

Thanks Tigerlilley - I love it and it is so lovely. It is so busy - booked every saturday until October 2011 - bar 4 saturdays which are boxing day/jan 2nd etc. It is just so popular.
At first I didnt want to 'share' it with so many different people but nowhere else cut it!

dawnylou

Good luck for all you lucky ladies who have their big day soon

I have now been married 3 weeks (tomorrow) and I want to do it again!!! Everything was so perfect that I just never wanted the day to end!!
Pics....http://plan.littlechapel.com/2045.asp?WeddingPlanID=442771#top
(click on digital photos)
I sincerely hope that everyone else's day turns out as magical as ours xxx

xJayJayx

lovely photos dawnylou! You look stunning and i absolutely love your dress! If i could wear your dress at my wedding i so would! Its stunning, my nan would kill me if i wore black though lol i love it!

dawnylou

Psst - you can get it in ivory...

shelovestobuystuff

Woohoo!Just found out my niece is allowed to come to the wedding.So happy as there was some family tension and arguement with her Dad,my brother,and I really was worried she would not be able to be there but thankfully its all going to turn out just perferctly.I can go ahead and allocate rooms at the venue and do my final table plan now that I know she is coming.She will be a bridesmaid,my only bridesmaid,and dd is a flower girl.Having jewellery made for both of them to match mine.
She has chosen her outfit already after only 2 days,wish I was so decisive.Its a mink outfit from Next,does anyone know what colour this is.It looks silver in the picture online but I thought mink was a kind of taupe/biege?

joolesw1972

Lillian1977 - As I understand it you can book the registry office provisionally more than 12 months ahead & they will hold it for a month after the 1st date you could give notice i.e.We booked the registrar provisionally for 3/4/2010 they would then expect us to attend & give notice before 3/5/2009 - hope this makes sense?
As for the fees, the £60 to register & give notice is set nationally, the registrar fees are set locally, but you may need to check if they have different levels of fees in York it was £40something for the ceremony & two witnesses then more for a room for about 40 guests then even more for a room for 80! They also have different fees for coming to venues, ours comes under East Riding & is almost £100 less than York! So it can be worth checking out if you're looking at venues.
We waited until we'd been to see the registrar & paid the venue deposit before sending save the date cards out - just because I wanted to be sure we got the date we wanted & didn't end up sending new ones! We just used the publisher programme on our laptop which has a postcard template & we were really happy with them. Am now working out what design we want on our invites!
Congradulations!