Calling all December 2009 Brides

hels102

Hello girls, How are we all?
Tiger & Lydia lovely to hear all your plans are coming together!
I got my rings today also ended up with a new engagement ring, I'm thrilled with them.
Still to do:-
1. Contact lady who is doing flowers for final price etc
2. Sort out my DS & OH's & my dads suits
3. Table plan
4. Mens favours can't believe I've still not done this!
5. Table name thingies
6. Underwear for me

lucylouwoo

Hi girls,

How is everyone???

Well my day is 9 weeks on thursday, arghhh!!!!!
Still feel like I have a million things to do.

Table plan (when people finally decide to RSVP, arghhh!!)
OH shoes
My underwear
My dress fitting
My hen night
DD socks/tights to get
Flowers
my earings
Make up artist (had a trial today and the women was awful!!!)
Presents for Bridesmaids
Get appointmenst for nails/tan etc
Cake toppers
Pick songs for service
Get a postbox for gifts
OH suit fitting
Airport hotel to book for honeymoon
Apointment with photographer
Register the marriage
Lose 2 stone!!!

Really need to get my butt in gear!!!!!!
I have felt so calm about it all and suddenly it has hit me that it really isn't that far away now and I feel far from organised!!!
Have never felt so stressed in my life!!

Hope everyone is doing better than me!!!

Tigerlilley1980

Lucy you will be fine. I have found that all of a sudden things fall into place! Hit Ebay and Google and it will all be fine lol! I think Ebay has saved our budget for the wedding lol! I have been having overwhelming feelings of excitement this week lol! 6 weeks today and I will be a Mrs, Woohoo!!!

Tiger xx

kelda_shelton

well, our invites are out and SLOWLY getting replies back...

We bought OH's ring at the weekend.. went in and had a look and decided on a style he liked and then we went on to ebay and got one thru elma jewellery for £62! 6mm white gold in size X. Thanks for that tip tiger!

Also, my button bouquets are being finished as i type. They're looking cool and when final photos are avaialabel I'll show them off.

My bouquet will ahve lace leaves round the side that have been put on craft wire - these are lace leaves from my grannys wedding dress and there a few buttpns on my bouquet which were special buttons of my grandpas. (Both ahve been dead for years - I was 18months when my grandpa died and 12 when my granny died)

Also the £1 shop were doing indoor fireworks so I bought a pack to try out. In the pack is one big one medium and two small for £1! And they're great so gonna buy more of them and have them for the tables during the day and maybe for night too..

Thinking of using minimoo card for palce names but not decided on thatyet. the venue can do place names but the mini moo cards could have our own pic on them and you get 100 (and all 100 can be different images) for 11 so was thinking since we're only having approx 50 during the day I could use the rest for silly things like magnets and stuff as little extras for the bridesmaids and flowergirls. You know pics of us on nioghts out and stuff.

First fitting is next Sat for my dress. Ive ordered my underwear and think its arrived as I have a red card from the post office.

And all my BM and FG dresses from China arrived and only need minor alterations and look fab!

We've (or should I say OH - that was his job as well as choosing the band as he hates cheesy bands at weddings!) now chosen our new first dance - we were going to have "What about now?" by Daughtry but now that Westlife have released it, the OH refused to have it!! So we're having Everything by Lifehouse.

Thats all I can think of at the moment.

Meeting wedding coordinator on Monday to decided on meals etc.

Mme.Hibou

So how are people getting on now we've only got a few weeks left?

Things seem to be going pretty well at this end, this weekend I seem to have got a few things sorted.

Bridesmaid dresses (for OH's DDs) I hope they fit and that they like them


Wedding shoes


Shrug like this one


Underwear


Flowers, will be paying for tomorrow, receiving soon and then will post a photo.

We still need to sort accommodation out for the night before and after the wedding, finish our Christmas shopping.

I'm not sure what else we have to do!!

Tigerlilley1980

I love your shoes and the bridesmaid dresses are gorge. It is 3 weeks 6 days away for me eeeek! We had my hen night last night and it was so much fun. All my lovely friends came to my house and we made swarovski crystal watches and bracelets with a lady who does beading parties. We had such a laugh! Anyone who is friends with me on facebook can see the pics there!

I only have to get dd's shoes, OH's shirt, underwear and sort out eyebrows and nails just before the big day. I still have a few things to make, such as the holly for the registrar table and print out the names for the table plan!

It's getting very exciting over this end, how's everyone else? xxx

lucylouwoo

Hi girls,

I had a productive weekend to!!

Had a trial with a make up lady who did my friends wedding and LOVED it!!! I had a bad experience a couple of weeks ago with a women who should not advertise as a make up artist so am relieved that it is finally sorted!!

Also had my first dress fitting and it doen't need any alterations so thats another relief!!!!

Just got a few more things to do, now the big things are sorted I am starting to relax and enjoy it all rather than being so stressed!!!!

I have very similar shoes from Dune Lydia, except mine are last years style as got them new off ebay, they are beautiful!!!!!

Need to get some underwear, not sure what to get though as when I had dress fitting the lady there said I didn't need a bra (a shock after having 2 kids and having 38f boobs, lol!!) but the dress pulls it all in and she said if I wear a bra then it would change the style of the dress!!! i was going to get some big pants to pull my tummy and hips in but again don't really need it with the dress (plus not very sexy on the wedding night, lol!!)n beed some insperation really!!!!

Rosie75

Oh my word, I think I have stumbled across the most stressful thing known to brides. The table plan. It's a major diplomatic exercise - keeping certain people away from each other, making sure people aren't offended because they're not sitting near the bride and groom. Would it be really ridiculous if we were to remove ourselves from the politics of this whole situation and sit on the children's table?!

kelda_shelton

I had my first dress fitting on Sat.. I wanted a halter added to the dress - its currently strapless and so theysaid they would order the material in for it - as my dress is by St Patricks which is apparently nitoriously difficult to colour match to but they said it will be 8 weeks!! So I'm having a chiffon halter now and some beading from the back of the dress moved and added to the chiffon halter.

kelda_shelton

And the table planning yes, I think that could be stressful!! We have 5 relatives - my OH's aunts and uncles at that who should know better - that havent replied to the day invitation yet.. - I'd asked them to reply by 1 November and gave them 6 weeks to do that!

So we're going to have to ask his Mum and Dad to chase them this week about that..... as we have a back up list that we'd like to go to if these 5 cant come- which we think is likely.