July 2011 Brides

Amymo

Been making a list of the 'little things to do' today, it's only as long as my arm! If I write it here I'm held more accountable to get things done, starting a Masters before a wedding is insane!

Still to do:
Bridesmaid dress for sister - she's ordered one online to try fingers crossed, we have another M&S one to try if this one is no good!
Confetti (need to ask priest what's allowed)
Ring pillow - asked Mam to make one about 6 months ago, she's kept it quiet if she's done it, haha!
Need more paper to wrap our postbox, might sort this tomorrow
Need a frame for our wishing tree poem
Need to get H2B to help me remake the wishing tree as it's decidedly droopy!
Sort a date for hair trial
Still need to sort a table plan - bit of a headache!
Still got a way to go on savings for honeymoon spends

sammy_wheeler

meant to be seeing the wedding coordinator at our venue tomorrow- but had to cancel as my car playing up and garage cant fix until tuesday. annoying! hoping it will be rearranged in the next couple of weeks.

Things to do:
Buy 1 usher and father of the bride gifts (really really struggling with this)
await the bridesmaid dress that got sent back, to be sent back to me
hair trial- a week on saturday
appt with florist- 15th may
print off childrens activity books- when back in work next week(!)
lose 4/5 lbs by start of June

RSVP date is 31st May- so can't chase ppl yet!

I want to make all the favour boxes up- but cant really as no space to keep them all!

Honeymoon has been paid off so that good.

Am off to Spain on thursday until Monday. So am looking forward to that

lollyb84

Hi ajmoney, not sure if they're even anything close to what you're looking for but I got my bridesmaid dresses from m and s.

They're Autograph Tie Back Fit Flare (sorry it won't let me post links yet). I got mine in Light Magenta, which is more like a lilac, but there's also a pink - no idea if it helps! xx

Edit - sorry just seen you're looking for pale pink - the Light Magenta is definitely lilac, and the bright pink will be way too pink.

Mum_on_a_mission_2

sent invites out yesterday and have had two acceptances already - very impressed by their promptness!

still hunting out shoes for me, but have been offered the loan of a fascinator that matches my dress which saves a few more pennies for

the suit for DS, think I've sorted out which one but need to not buy it until July because he'll just grow out of it..

Moam

sammy_wheeler

well after i wrote my to do list on here before i decided i was bored and wanted to do something wedding related. and i have just finished putting together 50ish favour boxes with 5 choccys in. i need some ribbon to tie them together so will get that tomorrow.
they are all in a pile in my spare room aka the wedding room hehe!

ajmoney

sammy where did you get your favour boxes from? We are considering an extra lot of favours seeing as our costs are coming down. We have found somewhere that will do boxes and chocs etc but would like to price up doing them ourselves.

BM dress crisis over. An emergency shopping trip later and we have this dress http://www.johnlewis.com/226697/Style.aspx it looks lovely on my sister although I had to find a tactful way of saying the bigger size looked better.

I also tried on my dress and now have a picture. I love it when I look at myself in the mirror, not so sure about the pic though. The dress wasn't arranged for a photo and my hair etc isn't done which doesn't help. Have been able to check that my necklace works too, it is the first thing OH ever bought me so we were both passionate about me wearing it.

Bought my sister some earrings for the day and looked at shoes for her and my niece and hair bits. After seeing her choices I have given her the go ahead to buy without me seeing as I am happy with her choices.

A few more RSVPs in today and we have sent a couple of reminders through some teachers about remembering to do it. I wonder if there will be any post on Friday?

April is nearly over then we have May and June and then it is our turn :j

sammy_wheeler

these are the boxes i brought (from ebay- seller foilthecardcompany http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/50-Purple-violet-Wedding-Favour-Gift-Boxes-Lids-/350455630539?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Celebrations_Occasions_ET&hash=item5198c88acb £10.20 for 50
filled up with 5 chocolate hearts- http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220578449579&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123


had 2 more rspvs today. loving the messages on them
not long now!

sammy_wheeler

brought scratch cards from tesco today- so that another thing done
also brought some more ribbon for my favour boxes

so all good. am stopping now coz going to spain 2morrow night until monday- so see you allthen

ajmoney

I am itching to be doing wedding things now, maybe with 10 weeks to go I am being too eager but I would at least like to discuss exactly what we want with suppliers so we know exact costs for payment days. Our florist was planning on getting in touch next month to arrange a meeting for 4 weeks beforehand, I can't bear the thought of having to wait another 6 weeks for that! I have emailed her and our venue styler this morning so hopefully we can get some appointments booked. The last thing I was is the venue styler doing multiple weddings that weekend and being unable to give us the colour we want.

Right I made a general list of things left to do yesterday, it can probably be put into more detail but I haven't reached that bridezilla stage and hope not to.

THINGS LEFT TO DO
Meeting with chaplain to choose items for service, sign passport form and approve order of service
Send passport off
Meeting with photographer
Meeting with band
Meeting with florist
Meeting with venue styler
Buy wedding underwear
Dress fittings
Accessories for bridesmaids
Order favours
Oder wedding cake
Meeting with venue
Organise hair trial
Buy gifts
Book a hotel room for me
Timings for hair then check make up booking times
Rough schedule for the day
Book a rehearsal at the venue

I am not sleeping well at the moment, I wake up around 2 feeling quite uncomfortable knowing I have had a wedding dream but I can never remember what they are about. I hope they don't continue for much longer!

Curious_George_2

2 months today... *gulp!*