The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

honeybear_2

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Hens in FLOWERY wellies - better still!:j

Stripey at Fay's, surely?

Pippilongstocking

two pairs, one striped, one flowery - each hen has one of each.

Pippilongstocking

Welliefest 2010 nonsense - just ignore it will put you to sleep!!

Inbetween writing - sorting out wedding type paperwork and trying to identify a budget of costs for said welliefest -

Humanist ceremony 270
Join humanist society 30
Wedding legal stuff 65 - not sure if this is included in the same said 270 charged by the humanist society - so just emailed them to check otherwise want to know exactly what is included in the £270
Venue - as close to free as possible or actually FREE

Invites etc - ? will ask LT rough idea of costs for a nice HM card. Or may just do an email (free) (prefer cards though I think)

Buffet type malarkay, or just a picnic or mince and tatties - Will do it mostly myself and with 3 chef chums (its a no brainer who's helping on the day) need to set a budget once I get a ball park figure of any numbers. (£100-200?) including cake (either HM by me or may ask a chum). Glasses, cutlery etc borrowed (FREE)

Frocks - ? - if indeed there are frocks - I have on which will be OK, DD will need something (£50ish) or we will borrow but I think she needs something nice for her.

Any flowers if we have any - free - you can't surely know this many gardeners and buy flowers? May grow some specially

Kilts - ? hire of which starts at 29 each (DS and OH) (58) TBH I am more inclined to do a 'come as you are' thing - BUT OH is now being a big girl about it all wanting to dress up. (LOL)

Wellies - DD has requested a new pair (5-15)

Rings - seen what I want in silver for both of us £50

Holiday house is the biggest expense - ball park between 350-550 but negotiating that we can hold a gathering there and don't therefore need to hire anything - or will actually no bother and just do a pitch up tent (marquee) in the forest and have our picnic there. (TBH if I thought we'd get the weather I would just set up darwin and a pile of tents and have welliefest as a hippy type outdoor event festival!)

Music - free we know many musicians - so - they will be helping if we even have a doo - had some offers already DD offered to play her cello (bless!) then she offered the jaws music (LOL) also MP3

One of my best pals hubby's is a magician and has offered to keep the troups happy at random during event, grub etc for FREE

Photos may put DS to use with my digital slr FREE

Trying to set a ball park budget - wanted to get it all sorted for under £1k but combining it with a holiday makes it more expensive, identified costs at the mo £1258 perhaps £1.5k is more realisitic when there's a weeks holiday as well.

Maybe I take the holiday bit out of the welliefest budget but as we need to go on holiday to do this then maybe its easier to leave it in?

I want this to be a money neutral event - so am planning on raising the lot via ebay/quidco/extra work/ for the stuff that really needs cold hard cash and by donations of time/food etc (I am not particularily proud) for the rest of it. And by bartering some of my services (gardening/cooking) for other folks time.

Food wise - I am thinking of using BOGOFS, deals etc and reduced stickered food etc to make the buffet stuff. I ALREADY HAVE ABOUT £100 in tesco vouchers/gift cards from people staying over last year - so I need to work on using those productively to expand their worth. Once we start a definate date I will clear out the freezer in the garage and designate it and put up an extra stripey sock shop shelf for 'wellie-fest 2010'

Martin would (maybe) be impressed!

gallygirl

fayjmck wrote: »

Welliefest 2010 nonsense - just ignore it will put you to sleep!!

Kilts - ? hire of which starts at 29 each (DS and OH) (58) TBH I am more inclined to do a 'come as you are' thing - BUT OH is now being a big girl about it all wanting to dress up. (LOL)

:eek: OMG it's to cover his expanding waistline..... maybe he is with child after all :rotfl:.

My OH wore a kilt to a wedding once. Let's just say I liked it quite a lot

Pippilongstocking

GG - I will ask him tomorrow night when he arrives and feed him things like coal and alcohol and guage his reaction

If he's recently up the duff am not sure its mine TBH (sorry if TMI)

starnac

my uncle got married in a kilt (st david's tarton sp?) and everyone kept asking "is anything worn under the kilt?" haha not heard that one all day etc. so when they had the photos done all 14 of them lined up, turned around, bent over and lifted their kilts revealing............



all matching red dragon underpants!!

redsquirrel80

What an amazing Wellie-wedding-fest plan, love it! :T

Pippilongstocking

lol to dragon bums! waves hello to all chappes and chappessess's

DD mini lime green laptop has just arrived - woo hoo - tis been paid for by various contributions and quidco and stuff

OH just offered to give me some (maybe even half) towards it too...........

Which means - rather sickenly - aside a few things to turn up like a pair of slippers and something for OH - I am finished my chrimbo shopping.

DONT SHOOT ME!!

Karmacat

Thats dead impressive! Well done you - and I *love* the sound of the welliefest even more....

Lemon_Tree

Re cards - they can be as cheap or as expensive as you like in reality. It's just time which always make things like that a labour of love. Plus if you enjoy doing that sort of stuff you don't mind. How many are you thinking that you'll need?