April 2011 Brides and Grooms

ruthybee

Got the keys to my first (owned) house yesterday. Its very excititing but needs so much work...

Glad to hear everyone seems to be getting on with they're planning. Getting inspiration from you all!

The Vicar is leaving the church where we're planning to marry so i'm waiting to hear back if they can find a vicar for the wedding. Keeping my fingers crossed!!!

Have got a couple quotes for caterers, they are over budget (coming in at £15 a head). Deciding between curry or chilli. Not traditional but hopefully tasty. I'm meeting with the village hall in a couple of weeks to discuss all the arrangements.

2/4 of my BM have found dresses. i've found inspiration on the Once Wed website website (which is just fab). And they are buying individual dresses on the same colour theme (ie blue/greeny blue). It seemed less stressful as finding something all 4 would love seemed such a hard task.

Take cake and best of luck with the planning

Jane81

ruthybee wrote: »

Take cake

Don't mind if I do, thanks!

I love the idea of getting the bridesmaids to get their own dresses in a specific colour scheme - especially as blues and greens look particularly gorgeous together.

Hope you get the church bit sorted soon.

x

curlylou1986

Hi Everyone, hope you are all ok! I have a lot of catching up to do on here, so please bear with me!! have just found out that i am expecting first baby on 1st June.... our wedding was arranged for 24th june, so after a lot of talking and deciding we have moved the wedding forward for the 15th April!! so i am going to be joining this thread... its a strange feeling going from one week having 8 months odd to do the pplanning to the friday after being pregnant and only 6 months for it now!! lol.

brief info on whats going on with me wedding wise so can hopefully catch up...
me + Oh got engaged last november at disney paris infront of mickey mouse (on ur 3rd visit! lol), so there is a disney theme through the day! colours hot pink, orange (BM dresses/ushers shirts black)
Registry office changed date over,
photographer changed date over
rugby club for reception changed date over
BM and FG dresses picked - just need to do measurements in Jan to order,
Wedding breakfast - fish and chips with ice cream van turning up as a surprise after the speeches
sweetie bar - jars all brought, sweets to be got
all table decorations sorted and brought (apart from table cloths)
invitations - all in spare room, ready to be assembled
save the dates were sent; will update in most peopls xmas cards then send invites out in Jan
Flowers - all artificial and ready to be arranged
Honey moon - waiting to hear from OH parents if able to push it back to 2012 (they brought it for us as a wedding present to go to disney florida for 2 weeks..never been on a plane before and so excited- we dont want to cancel as its once in lifetime for us and wont get the chance for years otherwise! hoping to go april 2012 as honeymoon/anniversary)
we have had to take a cut on our budget so rings and few other things have been cut - so not sure what we doing there at the moment.

cant think of anything else at the moment!
we been really fortunate and at the moment we have only lost around £40 on things we ordered from vista print with our original date on. going to reorder few bits. We have got the brochures through thursday that were orderd to go in our invites with date/address/time/food choice information - look really professional!
I will try and read up on the other pages today so know where i am at!

hope everyone is ok!!

Magicboo

congratulations Curlylou!
My goodness me, you have been very organised already, you've got far more planned than we have and we've been planning our April wedding for 6 months now!!
We're going to sign off the proofs for our invites this weekend hopefully, then need to sort out catering next, I reckon...also got to start making the sloe gin for the welcome drink for the begining of the reception..
x

loopylass81

congratulations and you are very organised..

loopylass81

hi all

hows everyone getting on? Went for my measuring for my dress yesterday so thats now ordered.. trying to find some shoes and also a tiara however our budget has been distractly cut now so got to be careful on what i spend..

i still need to find insurance who has everyone gone with??

boys outfits have been brought as have the bridesmaid dresses just need to by oh's suit now and finish sorting the flowers with my friend.. invites I am planning to start on tuesday and get oh to approve the wording.. lol

tartantotty

Hello, can I join this thread too please? :j

H2B and I have a tentative date of 23rd April for our wedding, just waiting for confirmation from venue. We hadnt been able to make a date until this last week as H2B is in the forces, and is being posted in January and we werent sure where he would be going/whether I would have to move etc, and we now know, so its really exciting!

I have ordered my dress, the rings have been bought, the hen night is being planned, the blanks for the invites, and the bits and pieces needed for them have been ordered. Need to get BM's dresses, start thinking about my accessories, hair and make up booked.

I have an idea for table decorations, but want to wait and see what venue can offer. We are not having favours, but handmade chocs in the rooms of everyone that is staying at the venue, so need to speak to the chocolatier about that.

I am getting really excited now, we have been engaged for a year and a half, and it was so frustrating not being able to make the date! We hopefully hear tomorrow about the venue, and then assuming H2B can get the time off, its all systems go!

Oh heck, we will need to think about our honeymoon too - I can forsee a few sleepless nights in the coming months!

curlylou1986

Thankyou for the congratulations everyone .... lets just say that me and OH are very glad that i am as organised over things all the time otherwise we would be in a right pickle now!!
7been looking for some maternity dresse online and think it be best to look after xmas as will have bit more of an idea then. Dont have too much to spend on it, but OH mums neighbour is a dress maker so may talk with her see what could be done!
Dont know where to really look for table clothes really, cant remember measure ments of tables at mo so need to get that first.

have booked in with the BM a date at end of Jan to take their measurements to buy their dresses - getting them from a ebay seller and they ae really nice black knee length cocktail dresses, so hopefully all good! then we are going shopping for the day as they are paying for anything else they want - hair/shoes/etc, and they all decided they want matching so that will be nice. I will have to get some white flat pumps i think... am short enough as it is, was hoping for some height in the photos! lol.
We have just got scan date through for 15th November - so all being well will be able to reorder the leaflets for invites from vista and add another little picture!

have any of you been getting things from vista?

grownupgirly

oh my goodness I am finding this so daunting!!!

Mrs Moore To Be, you are sooo organised!!!

without knowing for sure the colour of the BM dresses, we can't really move forward on colour scheme/invites/flowers blah di blah. .. and, I am sure I have forgotten something! Hey ho!

Oh and I can't quite believe what people are charging for coming out to do hair and make up!!! Daylight robbery!!!! what are you getting done, re: hair and Make up, April brides?

And yes like many others I am pretty much planning it all on my todd! although, OH is happy to talk things through, he's pretty s-l-o-w at making decisions!!!

anyway nice to 'meet' you all!

Take care

Grownupgirly. xxxxx

tartantotty

Ooooooooooh I am so excited!!!!!! Venue confirmed today that we can have the place on 23rd April, and now H2B just has to check something with his work, then its all systems go! We have waited so long to be able to do this, that I had a wee maddy in the office and wooped a bit!:j