July 2011 Brides

redredrose

Hi Rose1960, you seem very organised! We've booked the church, venue and photographer, and I've fallen in love with a dress that's about 300 pounds over budget - eeek! We're having our reception in Clifton, how about you?

It would be great to chat about supplier prices - I too am constantly amazed by how expensive things are, so it would be great to see if we can get a Brizzle bargain!

sophief333

I'm all booked for July 9th!

Rose1960

redredrose wrote: »

Hi Rose1960, you seem very organised! We've booked the church, venue and photographer, and I've fallen in love with a dress that's about 300 pounds over budget - eeek! We're having our reception in Clifton, how about you?

It would be great to chat about supplier prices - I too am constantly amazed by how expensive things are, so it would be great to see if we can get a Brizzle bargain!

Hi! Clifton very nice! I wanted to have the Avon Gorge hotel but H2B refused as to close to his work

We've decided on the Riverstation restaurant in the centre, nice food and by the docks so should be good photos! The church is on Frenchay Common, really pretty with the green opposite and hopefully will get some photo's down by the river also.

Prices so far:

Vintage car from Weston quoted £310 got down to £275
Photographer is quite new to the business so £350
Hair £27.50 each and Make up £25
Church £750! Was shocked by this!
Venue £5050

Left to book:

Chair covers, table cloths & set up £440 so far little unhappy with this as more than any of the other suppliers so may try and haggle a little. Have you had any quotes for this?
Cake - thinking about Waitrose as they have some really nice 4 tiers chocolate cakes for £300
Flowers - quote so far £500 approx vat hikes this up quite badly but aim to book before rise in Jan 11. Most florists have quoted £50 for bouquet and £25+ for centre pieces.

And all the rest....!

Suppliers do give me strange looks when I tell them how far off the date is, but a room has already gone in a hotel we wanted! So it cannot be too early! I just want to make it as stress free as possible by getting everything sorted, as I saw a friend a couple of months ago who was very stressed out and not enjoying the build up to her day at all.

I'm on the forums daily so keep in touch!

*Jellie*

I'm trying to spread things out a bit to spread the costs.
Keeping an eye out for jewellery and shoes at a decent price at the moment!

Kazz81

*Jellie* wrote: »

I'm trying to spread things out a bit to spread the costs.
Keeping an eye out for jewellery and shoes at a decent price at the moment!

Yeah me too, its such a pain lol

I have ordered save the date magnets from vistaprint and some other bits. Will be paying deposits on church, reception venue, photographer etc next week. Then when I get back from Spain I will start paying my dress so it can be ordered (need to pay 40% to order it)

Does anyone else think its strange to be asked to order a dress in November for July?

sammy_wheeler

Rose1960 wrote: »

Church £750! Was shocked by this!
Venue £5050

Left to book:

Chair covers, table cloths & set up £440 so far little unhappy with this as more than any of the other suppliers so may try and haggle a little. Have you had any quotes for this?

couldnt read and write back!

church £50 my god this is very very expensive! maybe a breakdown of the costs would be useful, for you and other MSE users!
regarding chair covers etc- £3.50 and less for each chair seems the average price- so it will depend on how many chairs you are covering- do you defintely need these?- what do the chairs look like in your venue?
also with your table cloths- does the venue not supply these? my venue suppliers plain write ones, and then i am having table runners in my colour which are £1 a table. to give you an idea of my quote- i am having 60 chairs covered, about 9 table runners, and a top table swag for £237 set up- and then they are at a bridal fayre i am going to at my venue in september, so i am going to get them to knock it down if i book that day.

also your venue for £5050, what is that for?- is that room hire, plus food?
hope that helps

**dancingbutterfly**

Hiya all!!

We're booked for july 9th 2011!!


good luck all!

sammy_wheeler

congrats dancingbutterfly and sophief333

happy planning!

**dancingbutterfly**

thankyou sammy_wheeler!!

we booked the church yesterday and just trying to book the venue, my local brand new community centre.

i have managed to get the guest list down from 268 to 148 (116 adults and 32 children)

my mum wanted me to invite distant relatives ive never even met! i agreed at first then realised there wasnt enough room for them!

sammy_wheeler

remeber its your day! and you don't want people on the pictures who in years to come (or even months!) say 'who on earth are they?!' hehe

hope you get the venue sorted