April 2011 Brides and Grooms

bella-h

hi girls

hope everyone is well - have just been running an event with work so been away for a week and a half and feel like i have totally neglected any wedding planning! am pleased to be able to get back into it this week. our wedding organiser at the hotel has also just told us that she is going to thailand for a month and wont be back until the week before the wedding! there are other wedding organisers at the hotel who can look after us but have been working with her all along so would have preferred her to be there. but oh well, we are going to try and meet her this week so that we can as much sorted as possible before she goes

had our first banns read at church on sunday - we regularly go to the church and know the vicar well so he decided to call us up and make us stand at the front of the church whilst he read them out! so felt a bit silly but was nice as we had loads of people coming up and congratulating us afterwards

also went to meet our photographer on saturday for a pre-wedding shoot - was nice but felt a bit weird - am not really keen on any attention (which i guess i'll need to get used to for the wedding!) so it has made me think about what i need to do - have pm'd becks for the photography tips too!

feel like i've got loads of little bits to sort now and dont really know where to start! fingers crossed ill get back into the swing of things this week

betty101

Is anyone having trivia boxes on their tables? Been looking online and don't know whether it's worth the cost.

becks92

Bella, - on their way hun

Betty - I've thought the same thing... Def think we need to do something even if its a please read these questions to the person two seats to the right sort of thing.... questions on how they know us who they are etc

becks92

insomniac03 wrote: »

hehehe I'm going to have a practise! P.s I was watching Gavin & Stacy last night and I recommend watching the episode of Ness's wedding! Some brilliant walking down the aisle tips lol!

Insomniac I am going to HAVE to google this !!!!

Hope you had a fab weekend

insomniac03

becks92 wrote: »

Insomniac I am going to HAVE to google this !!!!

Hope you had a fab weekend

Its hilarious, Stacy is being all bridal and teaching her the left, together, right, together way of walking to slow her down then Nessa just absolutely bowls doen in the most masculine way possible and is just like 'well, I'm just getting for a to b innit'

But I have to admit I'm defo more of a Nessa than a Stace!

aarchk

not bothering with table trivia but I was think of doing a type of pass the parcel for the tables. Wrapping a few chocs up in different layers with things like 'who is the youngest at the table' who has known the groom the longest type questions to get people talking.

bella-h

i am thinking about putting some of these on the tables - http://www.partypieces.co.uk/special-occasions/wedding/butterfly-wedding-theme/butterfly-table-trivia.html

honey_rose

becks, thanks for the tips! no claw hands for me!!

We've got these for each of the tables: http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/15116825/Mensa-Pick-Up-Puzzles-Wooden/Product.html

We're doing a little sheet to go with them which explains the details of the 'wedding puzzle challenge' (basically whoever finishes them first) and the winning table gets a couple of bottles of champagne and some chocolate.

Hoping that should get them all working together!

becks92

honey_rose wrote: »

becks, thanks for the tips! no claw hands for me!!

We've got these for each of the tables: http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/15116825/Mensa-Pick-Up-Puzzles-Wooden/Product.html

We're doing a little sheet to go with them which explains the details of the 'wedding puzzle challenge' (basically whoever finishes them first) and the winning table gets a couple of bottles of champagne and some chocolate.

Hoping that should get them all working together!

What a good idea!!

Also like Aarchuk's pass the parcel -- hmmm might have to nick that one well done you

aarchk

These are the pass the parcel instructions...

Pass the parcel

Pass to the oldest player
Pass to the youngest player
Pass to the person who has travelled the furthest to be here today
Pass to person who has known the bride/groom the longest
Pass to the tallest player
Pass to the shortest player
Pass to the person with the largest/smallest shoe size
Pass to the person with the largest handbag
Pass to the person wearing the most jewellery
Pass the person with the longest/shortest hair
Pass to the person 3 to your left
Pass to the person opposite
Pass to the person who has the least left in their drink at the moment
Pass to the person that can make the loudest animal noise

Pinched off another forum....