June 2010 Brides (and grooms)

sarah_elton

I'm taking my bridesmaids shopping on Saturday. Must get their dresses and shoes as they are the things they need to try on (they're travelling in for the day as they don't live locally any more).

Any tips? I have Friday off work so will be doing a recon mission round the bridal shops plus Monsoon/Coast/Phase Eight etc.

samidevils

Debenhams have some lovely dresses too.
BHS??

I'm looking at a dressmaker for my BM now. We'll see.

caitlinsmummy_2

Hi,
Wanted to join this thread too.
We are getting married on the 12th June and have only recently set the date so hardly any plans made yet!

Have chosen venue and will hopefully be booking on Thursday
Guest list drawn up
Auntie is making our wedding cake
Hairdresser friend has offered to do mine and bridesmaids hairs for free as our wedding present!

Still have so much to do! Am taking my bridesmaids and mum shopping on sunday to hopefully find a dress. Can't try BM dresses yet as maid of honour is 7 months pregnant!

Wooooo so excited!!!

xxx

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

ooooooooooo can i join??? 26th June over here!

Venue: Booked and paid in full
Registrar: Deposit paid
My dress: Picked, deposited, measuring in a few weeks to order it
Bridesmaid dresses: picked, deposited, measured again in few weeks
Suits: pha he's dealing with that!
Photographer: Booked and deposit paid
Cake: booked, deposited, 3 tier choc sponge (bottom tier is mint choc!)
Invitations: Made myself - golden with butterflies on them. RSVP cards

Picked Flowers, booked hairdresser (a friend) and brought a tiara, ordered Cars, brought table decorations and grabbed some helpers.

Disco Booked

only thing we are struggling for is a caterer and my wedding ring (OH has his!)!

My dress is Hilary Morgan "jilly" and i CAN NOT find a pic of it through google. These are bridesmaids http://www.allthingsbride.co.uk/moredetailma.asp?pic=7/Eleanor&dty=Child But they wont be that colour!

TugaGirl

I'm getting married on the 25th June.

We have so far:

Venue: Booked and deposit paid
http://www.thistle.com/en/group/weddings_and_parties/index.html
Registrar: Booked but not paid (they are coming to the venue)
My dress: Chosen and paid for!! it's at my mum's house.
Bridesmaid dresses: I CAN NOT FIND ANYTHING!!
Suits: haven't looked yet.
Photographer: My sister has just become a professional, so she will be doing it for us. PM me if you would like her to do it really cheaply as she need the experience!
Cake: started looking and getting quotes.
Invitations: Making myself - RSVP cards and Save the date cards. Save the date cards sent, currently making the invitations.
Honeymoon - booked and deposit paid.
http://www.firstchoice.co.uk/holidays/maldives-holidays/north-male-atoll/meeru-island-resort-hotel/

Picked Flowers, Cars, table decorations, chair covers, backdrops etc

If anyone can give me some good references for places to get cheap bridesmaid dresses it would really help (budget is £100 per dress, shoes etc per person) I live in Luton, Beds

sarah_elton

So how are we all getting on girls?

I took my bridesmaids shopping for their dresses on Saturday (one now lives in Edinburgh, one in Reading, and I'm in Essex, so it's a bit of a logistical challenge, hence the early shopping!).

Had sooo much fun. Think we're going for this one, in Cabernet (click on the third swatch along):

http://www.dessy.com/dresses/bridesmaid/2056/#FabricList=8&attributeMask=131074&catid=1&displaytype=GridMedium&activePage=1&rpp=9&SortOrder=Default

It's not quite as mermaidy as it looks there - it doesn't come in so much from the hips as it does on the teeny tiny model. Just really classic and elegant with a little bit of a train. The beading under the bust adds the detail and is much more sparkly in real life.

Dessy make flip flops for the evening and clutch bags in all the dress colours, so going to get those too. (Bargains at £8 for the satin flip flops and £12 for the bags!).

Anyway, while doing that, I saw an AMAZING wedding dress in the window of one of the bridal shops. They had an appointment free so I tried it on and felt, just indescribable. I got full on jaw-drops from my mum and the girls when I came out in it. Though we're not sure if part of that was just because it was the first one they'd seen me in. Tried on a couple more after that but they didn't do anything for me in comparison. I'm going out shopping with mum on Sat 7th Nov to look properly, try on lots, and then inevitably go back and order that first one.

Really glad I started looking now. Was originally going to leave it till January, but the front-runner has a six month lead time so Jan would have been too late!

svjenni

hey june girlies!!

heres my still to do list with amendments

Stil do do: (OMG)

• Choose vows and readings - registrar sent us some but I don't like them so I need to research
• choose music for ceremony
• choose 1st and last dance music
• make cd for wedding breakfast
• choose menu
• meet wedding co ordinator (jan)
• make menus, order of day, placecards, table plan, rsvp
• [STRIKE]make bouquets and buttonholes[/STRIKE] all done!
• order dresses - Bridesmaid day out coming up on 14/11 will make final decision and take measurements that day!
• order groomsmen suits -Chosen suits will order from slaters on next trip to leeds

[STRIKE]set up wedding list[/STRIKE] - now swapped from john lewis to next but no items added - too early

• [STRIKE]buy rings,[/STRIKE] choose engraving can't decide on engraving - may not bother -rings are in royal mail depot awaiting collection :mad:
• book hotel for me for the night before
• buy wedding cake ingredients and make - have decided to slyly add 1 ingredient to each weeks shopping to minimise budget - so far have marzipan
  
• make favours and buy sweets for favours - first favour trial is tomorrow - halloween cookies (they'll be hearts for the wedding)
• [STRIKE]book honeymoon[/STRIKE] - yay - its still a surprise for me though
• make cake topper

Since my last post we have booked and payed for the night after the wedding as we are staying in London and the flight down there so we are ready to be in the airport the next morning - i'm seriously excited about the honeymoon

I've also been thinking a lot about after the wedding and honeymoon lol - about my name change and how our joint finances will change. I may start putting plans in place now so that I just need to put envelopes in the post once we get back

New items added:

• Prepare for name change
• Populate gift list
• send invites
• make colouring book packs for kids
• decide on hair, nails, make up
• start practicing hair, nails, makeup!

Am back to work fully now and things are better but i'm trying to do silly little things at the moment rather than the big decisions like readings and music
Its not feeling real at all, but that may change once I pick up our rings, I think we are both really looking forward to getting away - my fiance and I usually go on 2-3 cheap holidays a year and due to the cost of the wedding and honeymoon we are waiting for the honeymoon, - this is probably the longest we have not been on a holiday and its only 6 months!! lol

We have just had some good news for us at work - our jobs have been declared safe after over a year of uncertainty - but with certainty our workload will increase by at least double in the coming months and there will be a lot of travel for me and h2b soon, i'm wondering if the brizilla in me will be able to cope come May, when we are on top of the wedding and its the busyist (sp) time at work

buzby_boy

Ok my turn

Getting married on 5th June

Registry office - Booked but not paid yet
DJ - booked
Casino hire - waiting for contract to book
Venue - booked and paid for (£30 what a bargain)
Buffet - need to pay for
My Dress - paid
Maid of honour dress - Paid
Suit - Need to order
Rings - Found but need to get
Wedding invites - got
Cake - Maid of honour making it
cake topper - got and paid for
Flowers - friend making them
Tiara - need to pay for
Hair piece - need to find
Wedding post box - making as i type
Plates,Napkins,table confetti - got

I now have little to do and getting bored lol

passion_pit

hi all

Thurs 3rd June

been talking about it for about a month but decided on date yesterday, and he's not even proposed yet!!!!

Venue - booked but not paid deposit yet
registar - booked and deposit paid
Invitations-£10 from Ebay (48)

I know I have alot to do , but trying to keep costs down as much as possible

Oh and

Honeymoon - Glastonbury 2010

caitlinsmummy_2

How is everyone getting on with their plans?
We have venue now sorted
Registrar reserved
I have my dress! (well MOH does!)
Colour scheme chosen
Menu chosen

Feel like we are getting somewhere now and our daughter is hugely excited and cannot wait to 'get married', bless her!