shall we have a wedding chat thread?

monkeys_bunny

Got home and the tickets for the honeymoon have arrived as well woo hooo

Gemmzie

bubbles0169 wrote: »

ooo i love dressing up monkey have fun x

gemm just wait for another year, you have the rest of your married lives to save for the house!
id like to do it now too but want the same as you!

ive done the table plan..it took me two hours on word processor which probably would have took two mins with pen and paper...glad its done now though!
its a bit strange to do it wondering who will still be here in over two years time though

So you think do it in 2011 and put off the house savings? We've already lost our ideal property, I guess that's what has promoted the re-think. We can save £400 a month without any house savings, plus my parents are giving us some money... should give us about £7k to play with.

Dinah93

We went with just wanting to be married, and picked our date and fitted our budget to that date. Plus you may well find the wedding guests help towards the house deposit and everything gets done quicker.

bubbles0169

i would get married first gemm as i dont know if id be in a postion to save again for our big day
household bills/mortgage could take up your earnings not leaving you much left over
if you want the big fairytale then save for that first
your ideal home is out there somewhere dont worry maybe it was a sign to put off house buying!
and anyway i would regret not having a fairytale wedding and resent the bloomin house:rotfl:

monkey where are you going?
im looking to going to LA
i did want to go back to NY then onto LA and vegas but itll be far too dear to do it all in one go plus i couldnt leave the kids for that long

clearing_out_my_pockets

bubbles0169 wrote: »

and anyway i would regret not having a fairytale wedding and resent the bloomin house:rotfl:

I'm going to throw a spanner in the works here... We did it the other way round. We bought our first home last December and are getting married next year. We're still having the fairytale and we also have the house of our dreams. Prices in our area have just started rising again - there's a house opposite us that's just had an offer accepted for 10% more than we paid for ours. If we'd held on and done the wedding first, I think I would have resented the wedding for making us have to settle for second best with our home.

Of course everyone is different, and I can see reasons for doing it each way. The way we did it worked out for us, but wouldn't necessarily be best for everyone.

Incidentally, after we moved, we could have brought the wedding forward a year (parents are offering £5,000 to the wedding) but have chosen not to. I do regret that at times...

Mrsbibbs

bubbles0169 wrote: »

mrs bibbs is it august this year as linda is booked up til november?
send her a PM then she will see your question if shes missed it on here

Its august next year )

I need to do a list of eveything we have done and what we need to do

Only things left to do a deposit payment on are the disco and the cake )

x

monkeys_bunny

bubbles0169 wrote: »

monkey where are you going?
im looking to going to LA
i did want to go back to NY then onto LA and vegas but itll be far too dear to do it all in one go plus i couldnt leave the kids for that long

We are going to Riviera Miya in Mexico

my OH wants to go to Vegas but i wanted a relaxing honeymoon so Vagas will have to wait

Mrsbibbs

[Clearing out my pockets, can i ask what the olympic challenge is?:money:

deano23285

monkeys_bunny wrote: »

We are going to Riviera Miya in Mexico

my OH wants to go to Vegas but i wanted a relaxing honeymoon so Vagas will have to wait

snap, we're in the riviera maya area not far from playa del carmen, which resort are you staying at??

I'm going to throw a spanner in the works here... We did it the other way round. We bought our first home last December and are getting married next year. We're still having the fairytale and we also have the house of our dreams. Prices in our area have just started rising again - there's a house opposite us that's just had an offer accepted for 10% more than we paid for ours. If we'd held on and done the wedding first, I think I would have resented the wedding for making us have to settle for second best with our home.

we did it the other way too, got our house on the shared ownership scheme last june, got engaged last august and are getting married next september on our 6th anniversary

monkeys_bunny

no idea what resort haha