Advice From A NewlyWed

allydowd

Hi all,

We just got married in a tiny £500 wedding. Everything was wonderful but we learned a few valuable lessons:

* I decided to do my own flowers and left the assembly til the morning of the wedding. Even though I'd practised it took longer than I'd estimated and I had to rush. For one bridal bouquet, one big corsage and three buttonholes allow one hour.

* If you're having a tiny wedding make sure you have a back-up witness so that if one of your witnesses drops out a fortnight before there is someone ready to step in.

* Make sure your cake boxes are big enough. We ended up sticking two together for each slice.

* If you have temperamental teeth see a dentist two months before the wedding so that you're less likely to develop raging toothache the night before the big day. (Luckily this didn't happen to us, but it was a close call!)

* If you shop around and use Freecycle you can cut High Street costs in half, at least.

*Use lots of suncream if you go on a sunny honeymoon. I came back part-cremated from the Scottish Borders!

Hope this helps someone.

bluezone

thanks for your input - congrats on getting married xx

Ruthie5

Thanks for your advice! Maybe we should have a regular thread of things we learned/wished we had done etc?

rinroo

Congratulations on your wedding and thanks for your tips.

Ruthe - great idea on the regular thread

Horace

Congratulations ally - how are the old gnashers these days:D

allydowd

Gnashers are fine now. I could eat everything at the wedding...and I did...

Thanks.

Tigerlilley1980

Congratulations on your wedding. This should be made into the thread for newlyweds so we can all get lots of hints and tips. Did you use fresh flowers for your bouquet Ally? xx

lindaatno9

I did my own flowers the night before and left them in the fridge. I gave them a misting of water after I had tied them and another just before bed time. They were absolutely fine.

allydowd

My flowers were fresh, Tiger, wish I'd known the fridge tip. LOL