July 2011 Brides

Amymo

How have you gone about finding someone to do your make up? It is stressing me out a little as there don't seem to be many people near my venue. I have a hope that my possible hairdresser can recommend someone but if not I haven't got a clue.

I am very fussy about my makeup and only ever go to the MAC counter for makeup for nights out and other people's weddings. I asked if any of their artists would be willing to come to my house, they said that if an artist is on holiday they can work freelance, took my details and a lovely girl called me to offer her services, £25 for the trial, not sure about the cost on the day we're talking about that next week.

sammy_wheeler

abis21 wrote: »

Oooooo, sammy!! 163 days!!! Hows your invite designing going? I had a little go at it the other day. I wanted to just send an email with an attachment on with an invite. One of my friends did this, and it looked really classy and lovely (any very MSE too :T) My attempt... Well, I think I would have been better asking my 4 yr old daughter to do it!!! I am just not artistic at all like that.

162 days now hehe
got a free sample of a pocketfold invite one in the post and taking that to my uncle tomorrow. really cant wait to get them sorted

went to h samuel and got a pair of cufflinks and a lighter- getting them engraved- for the best man and one of the ushers
so got one usher and my dad to stil buy a gift for. no idea what to get them!

im just so excited- all the time i think about the wedding
although last night i had a nightmare about my dress- i dremt that it turned purple from ivory, had big horrible puffy arms. i think i am worrying about it not fitting- need to go for a fitting in march time so will no then!

TC1978

abis21 wrote: »

Hello Everyone :j

TC1978 - have you heard anything about your OH's redundancy? I know what yr going thru, my OH also had redundancy threats a couple of weeks ago. 10 out of their team of 60 had to go, and I was panicking like mad as he was one of the last ones in. Hes safe now, thank goodness. But it was such a worry, and you daren't do anything 'weddingy' in case you can't afford to. Hope you get good news.

Well, we're still here! Thanks for thinking about us. Still all up in the air at the moment- we're both looking out for jobs for him, but as it stands he's most likely to travel to the re-location site at the company's cost, Monday to Friday and staying in hotels. He's said a max of 6 months but I REALLY hate the thought of us being apart
There's a few more jobs about but will still mean travelling quite long distances- hopefully a freelance job I've spied will come up trumps.
Wedding fund is ok thankfully- we've got enough in the joint account to cover it. It's the day to day bits I'm seriously cutting back on- £23 for last weeks shopping for 3 of us!!

T x

sammy_wheeler

hi all
well invites, thank you cards, order of the day and table planner sorted
going again a week tomorrow to see the draft. then they doing the invites and thank you cards and i need to go back to see them in may/june to sort everything else

so exciting
im having a purple pocketfold invite its lovely

all for free

uncle also sorting a wedding car for me and my dad to go to the venue (his pressie to me) sooo excited
big smile on my face

abis21

Curious george, don't be daft about bringing the thread down! Thats why this thread is good, gives us chance to be miserable, complain about things, or be over excited when something goes fab - all without being a wedding bore on facebook etc :rotfl: Sounds like you maybe need a chat with yr friend when you get the chance tho. Maybe tell her how shes making you feel, and tell her that instead of support from her like you need, you feel like shes bringing you down a bit...

AJ money - I'm just going to do my own make up. Don't like the thought of someone else doing it for me. I'm quite happy and confident doing my own thing. I just want it quite natural (but also sparkly and glam :rotfl:) And for my hair I am just getting my usual hairdresser to come to my mums house. Not sure how much she is gonna charge yet - she said she'd get back to me. We're friends, so think she felt a bit awkward. Hopefully she'll be kind to me price wise tho...

TC1978 - awww, that doesn't sound good being apart in the week. I wouldn't like that either Still it will put him on until he finds something else I suppose, so at least money won't be such a problem. Will keep my fingers crossed for you.

Sammy - yayyy for invites!! And yayyy for uncles too :T I'm sure your dress will fit. My friend went through the same panick with hers, even though she hadn't gained weight or anything. Think its because you can't just try it on when you want just to see. Just think of me anyways! I know my dress won't fit when it comes. I still have some weight to lose. Doing well so far tho. My pair of jeans now comes off without me unbuttoning them :j So I'm definately going in the right direction. The dress should arrive in a month, so that will give me some idea of how much more I will need to lose...

deejane

Hi All,
It has to be a quick one tonight, I need to go and get ready for a junior disco - sad I know- helping out with the PTA school disco (in fact its the only discos I get to go to these days) LOL!

Anyway, Not much has happened really, I saw some nice prom dresses in a local shop, so I might take a nosey to see what they have.

Sammy_wheeler- great news about the invites, it was such a weight of my mind when I got them sent out, the whole 5 of them! I have had 2 replys back, a kind of reply back and the other 2, well I think they are coming, but being blokes not sure i will they will probably just turn up!
Hopefully the link will work, this is what I sent out as invites, something a bit mad!
http://www.paperchase.co.uk/doughnut-wedding-card/invt/00474790/
I'm a bit mad though about our holiday, oh was meant to book it up, and didn't so when I went onto the website yesterday, I found that the campsite was fully booked, so I have spent my 1 1/5hr lunch hour looking for more campsites in vendee!
Hopefully I will find some where this weekend.
Right best go.

Curious_George_2

abis21 wrote: »

Curious george, don't be daft about bringing the thread down! Thats why this thread is good, gives us chance to be miserable, complain about things, or be over excited when something goes fab - all without being a wedding bore on facebook etc :rotfl: Sounds like you maybe need a chat with yr friend when you get the chance tho. Maybe tell her how shes making you feel, and tell her that instead of support from her like you need, you feel like shes bringing you down a bit...

yeah.... tried that last night and apparently im not being supportive enough of her choices, i am a little too sarcastic for her liking and shes upset that we have been talking about her behind her back,

well I have been talking, only to my OH and other BM about the situation but not in a bad way, and she has been telling EVERYONE about this but in her eyes thats completely different.
shes been telling everyone that shes the hard done by princess and we are all horrible to her by daring to tell her the truth.

she thinks she only does good things and sprinkles fairy dust everywhere she goes when infact she creates an atmosphere and makes people keep secrets for no reason... for instance, she met this bloke just before halloween and was talking about getting pregnant and getting married within the first 2 weeks... shes not actually divorced from her ex (a childhood sweetheart marriage of 20 years) yet and obviously we were and are very concerned for her, particularly as she got together with a few guys between husband and new bloke and she was hopelessly in love with each one...
anyway, shes told all our friends that shes marrying new bloke at the end of this year but nobody is allowed to tell me because i will get upset about her taking the shine off my wedding!!!!
how shes come up with this as i have actually been planning my wedding along side a mutual friend of ours who gets hitched in august, so how come im fine with everyone elses plans but shes decided her plan (which seems to consist of 'marry someone') will upset me??

I was actaully more annoyed about the fact that she took it upon herself to decide what i would be upset about but also that she actually thinks she could possibly ruin my day anyway! dont flatter yourself love!

she said everything was fine last night and then seconds later started texting the other BM and had a row with her about what we had talked about... its exhausting trying to keep up with her level of crazy.

meanwhile MIL hangs on, shes always been a fighter so im not surprised this is taking longer than anyone expected,
shes had cancer 12 times, and had so many organs and bits removed we always joked there was nothing left of her to get ill... so of course this time it went for her bones,
shes an amazing woman, if i had half her spirit i could take on the world!

Rose1960

Thanks Abis21 for the message - no me and OH are determined not to get into debt with the wedding and all our friends and family know we're paying for the whole wedding ourselves. Those that we have mentioned the gift request to have been supportive, i really hope no one takes it the wrong way but if they know me an OH as well as they should we're not ones to ever get funny about money!

We've basically said in the invite that we would appreciate contributions to the honeymoon and ideally before June but have not been rude with the wording. We also went to a wedding where there was a cut off date for gift money which we didn't bat an eye lid about, and to be honest attending weddings is not a cheap day, add wedding gift money as well your talking a fair bit to pay out all in one go. Also getting time off work is difficult and we really want to go somewhere straight after the wedding to keep that buzz feeling and to have a break!

Getting really excited now, picking up rings on Monday and i got a promotion today at work so will be a lot more comfortable as i was getting really worried about costs! Bridesmaids shopping the end of the month also, that's going to be pricey! :eek:

How are your plans going?

TC1978

167 days! 24 weeks! eeek!

Tomorrow is major wedding invite sorting day- after lay in, gym, football training, lunch, snooze, play on fb... maybe not 'major' sorting then , more 'doing a bit'!

WITNEY_BRIDE

Sent out my save the date invite today using smilebox and their free trial, along with link to a website I built with all the details of venue and ceremony and it is all suddenly feeling very, very real! So much to do still but a relief that guests can start booking their hotel rooms!