need help sorting out my wedding please help

traciemk

getting married 12th august 2006

so far ive only booked
register office
photograph man
evening venue, disco, food

still got to find wedding dress(size 14/16)
flowers (do i go for real or silk)
cars(do i go for rolls royce at £265, or limo for £250) when deep down i really want a vintage car but cant find a company in milton keynes where they aint booked up for that day
can anyone think of what else i need to sort out regarding weddings as you can see my mind has gone blank


please help me

margaretclare

Are you having any attendants - bridesmaids? Or a little boy to be ring-bearer (do they have these in the register office?)

Whether you go for real or silk flowers is entirely up to you.

Have you got a budget for all this, and a realistic idea of how much it's all going to cost you? What does your other half say?

Aunty Margaret

funky-footprints

as a money saving tip, we asked a friends to provide the cars.

traciemk

having 2 bridemaids( my daughter) having 1 pageboy(son)
groom is having 2 bestmen(his brothers)
im trying to do whole wedding on a budget of £2000

im thinking silk flowers are going to be cheaper then real ones

Counting_Pennies_2

Pop on to Confetti.co.uk the dedicated wedding website, you are bound to pick up stacks of helpful info from fellow brides. It helped me enormously when preparing for the day. However, be wary about buying from them, they are expensive and customer care not brilliant!

margaretclare

You could save money by doing the flowers yourself - there are short courses run by local adult education which always include doing wedding flowers. It's not the flowers, it's the floristry which costs!

I sometimes wish I'd popped round to Tesco and picked up a bunch of roses with greenery, instead of paying £60 per bouquet which I didn't like - it would have been cheaper.

Look in the local paper for second-hand wedding dresses.

I agree about Confetti - I got the music CD from them. There are versions suitable for civil or church weddings.

Aunty Margaret

homersimpson_3

invitations, pressies for bridesmaids etc, honeymoon, wedding pressie list, hair and make up done, hen night.

Callisto

Monsoon, BHS & Debenhams have bridal ranges - saw recently in a wedding magazine a white dress from BHS for £150, looked very similar to a few dresses costing £600 plus in the same magazine!

Cars and flowers are completely your own preference. I am going for real flowers, but to keep the price down I'm just having a bouquet for me and a wrist corsage for the bridesmaids. We probably won't have a car at all as we will be at the same venue all day, although if we needed one, I would borrow one from friend/family member as I would rather spend the budget in other areas.

If you still need a cake, you can get them ready iced from Marks & Spencers or other supermarkets (Tesco, plus a couple of others I think). A three tier sponge cake will not cost you any more than £70 and you can decorate it yourself with flowers or ribbons etc.

As counting_pennies says - log onto https://www.confetti.co.uk - if you register on the site it will give you access to a month by month planner with reminders of everything you still need to do! You can also do a budget planner, guest list and table plan there, so it is very helpful!

deecy

Ebay for wedding dresses, I've seen them go for £10 (worn once!) depends how you feel on it being 2nd Hand. New ones too - cheap as chips

How about a black taxi? different - vintage if you can get one and cheap cheap cheap giving you more money to spend on flowers or whatever

buglawton

Yeah this IS Moneysavingexpert after all. Don't spend £8,000 on the Wedding - put it into paying your 1st. mortgage off!

us,thecat&thedebt

have you made a wedding gift list i heard debenhams are doing a £50 gift voucher just for setting one up