April 2011 Brides and Grooms

aarchk

ooh that sounds lovely wba31! unfortunately our pooch is not happy having his picture taken and runs and hides. We did an enagagement shoot and had him there so we have one photo but we both had the pooch pinned down on the ground and he looks a little unhappy! oh dear...

sammr - good luck getting the H2B to church. I havent managed it yet and its him thats the religious one (I was never christened as the Cof E kept refusing to do it, lond story) and its his childhood church. He gets out of going to all the banns readings as he has to work weekends in March unfortunately due to lambing. hmmm...

Magicboo

wba31 wrote: »

she got some photos of us with the dog too (he's very photogenic).
With the rest of the photos I have made a photobook on iPhoto which will be a guestbook to be signed at the reception

I love that your dog is photogenic! :rotfl:
We've got to organise a pre-wedding photo shoot with our photographer, I think I'll suggest taking our 3 dogs along, especially as one is an 8 week old ginger (red setter dad!) labrador-SO photogenic! :A I like the idea of the guestbook too-I might have to look into that!
I'm thinking about hymns and readings today-does anyone know what they're having and is willing to share?

wba31

Magicboo wrote: »

I love that your dog is photogenic! :rotfl:

I'll post of one the photos of him on here later. He's a 13 yr old Border Collie, but still looks like a young dog. he loves having his picture taken (as it involves attention i think...)

csh_2

wba31 wrote: »

I'll post of one the photos of him on here later. He's a 13 yr old Border Collie, but still looks like a young dog. he loves having his picture taken (as it involves attention i think...)

That explains why you will be sad to leave him! Border Collies are the best, thats what we have! Ours is also very photogenic and poses for the camera lol

sexymouse

Well I've got a little more done in the wedding prep. I went to Sainsbugs yesterday, and found some photo albums to make into our guest books (we are going to buy Jamaican postcards whilst we are out there, so that each guest will fill one out, so I needed clear pages so the picture will be one side and the writing on the other). Really pleased, as I'd been searching for them for ages, and they were only £2.99 for 3 albums. They're not the best quality, but are nice colours (hot pink, turquoise and purple), and I'll cover the word photos with Guest book in some form or another (maybe a wedding photo of us in Jamaica too).

Also went to the jewellers to drop off my engagement ring today so that they can mould the wedding band around it. I feel naked not wearing it, but I'm hoping Moon will get my platinum ring (was originally going to be my wedding band, but didn't sit with the engagement ring and was the wrong metal) out of the safe when he gets home, so I can wear that for a bit instead.

Had a look around the shops in town to see if I could find a delicate dress watch to wear for the wedding (only 1 clock in the entire hotel), and couldn't find any, so going to have a scour on the net again.

Pleased to hear everyone's plans are going well.

Love the idea of a ginger labrador - sound's very cute, and I love border collies too (I think it's because I used to watch Lassie and the sheep herding programmes with my grandfather when I was little).

Magicboo

I am biased about my puppy, she was an unexpected surprise one sunday morning (didn't even know my dog was in pup ) here's a pic:sorry it's big, don't know how to re-size!

sorry, got to add one more..it's a bit dark

BTW-she's called Pickle!

sammr85

aarchk wrote: »

sammr - good luck getting the H2B to church. I havent managed it yet and its him thats the religious one (I was never christened as the Cof E kept refusing to do it, lond story) and its his childhood church. He gets out of going to all the banns readings as he has to work weekends in March unfortunately due to lambing. hmmm...

How convienient, my OH is a shooting man and I'm sure if there was a way he could get out of going to church he would!! and yet, like ur OH it was his idea to get married in church, and that church in particular, as he lived in that village all his life until he met me!!

Magicboo wrote: »

, I think I'll suggest taking our 3 dogs along, especially as one is an 8 week old ginger (red setter dad!) labrador-SO photogenic! :A I like the idea of the guestbook too-I might have to look into that!
I'm thinking about hymns and readings today-does anyone know what they're having and is willing to share?

Oooo fox red labs r lush, my MIL2B breed her labs and one of hers produces fox reds, funnily enough they are always the 1st to sell!

Sorry can't help with the readings or hymns Magic, we have no idea either! to be honest we have no idea about anything to do with the church, except the costs of the organ and that we don't have to have flowers as our ceremony is during Lent. I'm thinking of just buying some black and white pull bows to put on the pew ends, does that sound ok? I'm a bit concerned about not having any flowers in the church but we're already struggling with money! Is anyone else having a ceremony during Lent and not having flowers? also we have been told that if we do have flowers we need to take them with us! last thing i wanna worry about is making sure all the flowers are picked up from the church!

ETA, we cross posted. Pickle is gorgeous, I'm so jealous!! I feel the need to share a pic of our dog now haha

wba31

csh wrote: »

That explains why you will be sad to leave him! Border Collies are the best, thats what we have! Ours is also very photogenic and poses for the camera lol

Spotty Nose! my Ben has spotty nose and spotty legs. My original plan was for someone to fetch him on the wedding day and meet us at the park with him, it would give him his walk and we would have photo's with him. But he's been a poorly boy the last 2 years (severe arthritis in his front legs and a prostate problem the last couple of months) and I feared he wouldnt last until the wedding, so we got him on the photoshoot so I have some good pics with him before he departs us (having said that he's been as fit as a fiddle again recently!), but also if it's muddy in the park on our wedding day, i doubt Mrs 312B would be happy...

wba31

Mrs312B and I are both christians and attend a church already, so the "hymns" we chose are not so much hymns but more modern songs. We are getting married in a methodist church so have avoided the banns being read and necessary attendance, we simply had to get permissions to marry from our respective councils. We cannot marry where our church meets because it is in a school so would have been a bit minging...

Magicboo

Right, sorry about that puppy interlude..back to wedding matters!!
I think we are having 2 readings and 2 hymns-I think that's the norm..I also think one reading HAS to be a religious one. If I had patience I would be waiting until our "wedding preparation class" to find out exactly what we can have, but I want to find a really great non-religious reading that everyone will chuckle at and also have a tear in their eye at!!