May 2011 brides

bikerchick1066 · 10 January 2011 at 11:41AM

We booked the venue yesterday for the wedding breakfast so I'm hoping to order the invitations this evening. Will send out ot beginning of February.

laura2481 · 10 January 2011 at 12:29PM

I'm wanting the invites to be out by early February, at the latest, as it says people need to RSVP by the end of March (gives us time to chase up the none RSVP'ers) Just need to start putting them together!

Angela84 · 10 January 2011 at 2:18PM

We're 28th May, and Id like to send mine out this week or next week really. People are talking about it now, making me actually feel a bit real now!

lisa26_2 · 10 January 2011 at 4:04PM

Our wedding is 6th May and I'll be sending out invitations by this coming weekend at the latest with an RSVP date of 28th Feb to give me time to chase up people who haven't replied!

MrsH...2B · 10 January 2011 at 11:03PM

We get Married 1st May and have posted ours today, have asked for RSVPs back by 1st March. Very exciting feels real now!

gandy · 13 January 2011 at 12:56AM

just bought our wedding rings today thought it was going to be so hard to get a ring that suited my engagement ring as it's an square diamond with the setting sitting out a bit. But we found a gorgeous ring and managed to get it in platimum (same as my engagement ring) with a few little diamonds in it and the OH got a lovely paladium ring, brushed finish with two fine lines running round on it. We did end up going over budget but i'd budgeted for me getting paladium as well as i thought i'd never manage to get a wedding ring for me in platium close to budget.

soooooooo happy with my wedding ring, my OH said as soon as i'd put it on he knew it was definitely my wedding ring :j

so the updated list goes like this

[FONT=&quot]- venue booked
- church & priest booked
- car booked
- flowergirl dress bought
- photographer booked
- wedding dress bought (here's the dress)
- save the dates bought and posted
- wedding invites designed but still to be made and should come in way cheaper than we anticipated & here's the sample)
- traditional and funky shoes bought (soooo pretty)
- petticoat for under my dress bought
- cake topper & ribbon bought
- table crystals bought (but underestimated how much we'd need, need to get more lol)
- felt and buttons bought (still have to do a test bouquet)
- know we're going with an m&s cake or cupcakes just to decide and order
- church music booked and deposit paid
- pre-marriage course done and dusted (and got the certificate).
- decided the charity we're donating to in lieu of favours
- headband / tiara bought here it is
- place OH and the in-laws staying the few nights before the wedding pre-booked.
- pressie for flower girl bought
- honeymoon flights booked and most of the hotel's decided on still have vegas to choose before we go back to the travel agents to confirm booking
- sister's bridesmaids dress bought and got it just before christmas
- wedding website live with all the information and details sent out. (lots of ppl asking for info before we sent the invites out lol)
- and fabby wedding rings ordered, they should be here in 8 weeks!

things to do

- sort out wedding insurance (HAVE TO DO THIS AT THE WEEKEND :rotfl:)
- start looking for florists (but have and idea of the flowers i want already)
- organise an engagement shoot with photographer
- sort out evening reception music
- organise marriage notice application form
- buy page boy suits (found good ones on ebay)
- organise the kilt hire (doing this at end of the month thankfully)
- get hair and make-up sorted (have a good idea of where to go)
- finalise invite list (almost there)
- decide on menu
- finalise order of service (have 99% already done)
- really start looking for decent underwear
- find a bolero to go with my dress (i've a thing about my arms!)
- go shopping with my mum to get her outfit
- visit the priest for the pre-marriage interview
- get card and print out wedding tree design

[/FONT]I'm actually fine with everything that needs to get done even though it's 109 days to the wedding (according to the wedding website!). All the big stuff (bar organising the licence) has been done so the rest will get there in the end!

right i'm off to bed

Chardonnay · 13 January 2011 at 9:45AM

Beautiful dress and shoes Gandy!

Here's my dress: http://www.berketexbride.com/acatalog/Salomi.html (in ivory).

We ordered the invitations online and are really pleased with them - 80p each, so not bad! I am meeting my friend on Saturday, who is going to write the names and addresses in for me, as she has lovely handwriting! Hope to get them out by the end of the month, and like Laura, we have a RSVP date of 31st March (getting married 21st May).

We have a gift list online, and are asking for Marriott vouchers for our honeymoon, with 10% going to Cancer Research.

Still got a few things to do, but so enjoying it. It's so exciting!

bikerchick1066 · 13 January 2011 at 11:48AM

designall.dll?action=realview&pdt=invitation&pending=false&pid=161536608360898283&style=5.25x5.25&media=basic&color=white&context=default_invitation&view=back&view_hack=fvbv&bg=0xffffff&max_dim=80&rvtype=product&square_it=true

Invitations ordered , postage was ridiculous £7.30 for ten invitations but I love them!

laura2481 · 14 January 2011 at 9:29PM

bikerchick1066 wrote: »

Invitations ordered , postage was ridiculous £7.30 for ten invitations but I love them!

They look nice.

I'm in a bit of a flap at the moment as I was reading the paper today and there was a Irish lady on honeymoon in mauritius who has been murdered by some staff members, it appears, and it was at the hotel we are going to. It's really really sad and I am freaking out a bit. How weird to go to that hotel...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12176149

It's a big big thing in northern ireland as she was the daughter of a famous gaelic footballer but it hasn't really made the news here much. I did hear a bit about it earlier in the week but they didn't say what hotel it was, and they said they thought it was an accident but today it was a bit more in detail. It's so sad, and I feel like it's put a bit of shadow over our honeymoon now as I won't be able to not think about what happened to them when they were there. But i can't cancel and go somewhere else as we can't afford to loose the deposit...

3tails · 14 January 2011 at 11:56PM

its not been the best week for me in the planning department. i thought i was getting things sorted and now i'm going backwards.
On Saturday i tried on some dresses and i've now changed my mind (for the 4th time) about my dress.
On monday i had a consultation with the florist who set me lots of homework tasks - and i now realise i've got a lot more things to sort out than i thought.
Since Tuesday i've been persuing having a live band (again) but keep running into problems e.g not available, too dear or don't have necessary certificates as requested by venue!
Wednesday the lady making the invites informed me she can no longer do them.
Sometimes i just wonder if its all worth it!
I also wish i was better at making decisions then things wouldn't take so long to get sorted.
Rant over for now!
:eek:

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