May 2012 Brides (and Grooms) + Diary of a 2012 Bride

bride2be2012

woo hoo, invites have arrived!! They are fab! Just now have to get card for doing our RSVP cards, and then find the time to write the addresses on - saying I do not have neat handwritting is a bit of an understatement! Would it look really impersonal if I printed lables with peoples addresses and stuck them on the envelopes?! I already have names printed on the invites!

katini

bride2be2012 wrote: »

woo hoo, invites have arrived!! They are fab! Just now have to get card for doing our RSVP cards, and then find the time to write the addresses on - saying I do not have neat handwritting is a bit of an understatement! Would it look really impersonal if I printed lables with peoples addresses and stuck them on the envelopes?! I already have names printed on the invites!

Could you print directly on the envelopes? That's what we did. Otherwise I am sure a label would be fine.

My nan is upset with me because I put everyone's proper full names on the invites and she didn't like it.

Cleverclogs

I can relate to everyone's stress-related skin breakouts! I abandoned my usual supermarket face wipes a couple of months ago and switched to a proper cleanser. I've always looked after my skin but it's been very temperamental of late!

Congrats on the arrival of your invites B2B!

OH is picking up our inserts on Thursday and we're looking to have them all done by the end of the week. After playing around with different ideas, I'm going for a simple ribbon and bow on the front of the pocketfold - like this...



However, with my first trial I ended up getting covered in glue so I am now hand stitching each bow to fasten it, and I'll be using strong double sided tape to attach the ribbon to the invite. It seems like a lot of work but glue was just too messy. And I guess it'll keep us busy over the weekend...groan!

My grandma has an opinion on EVERYTHING katini so if your nan is anything like mine, you just have to take it on the chin. I don't know about anyone else but quite frankly, I've had quite enough of people telling me what I should & shouldn't do. It's MY wedding and I WILL go Bridezilla on their a*s if I need to!!! Ignore me, I'm in one of those moods. I'm sure pancakes will cheer me up later.

bride2be2012

ooh, pancakes, I'd forgotten about them! That's cheered me up a bit after a rubbish day at work!

Just got to say, I love my mum loads!! We went to the florist earlier to see about decorating my sister's wheelchair, and she just paid the whole bill off for us I've been slowly chipping away at it, but really had over £150 still to pay, and my lovely mummy paid it off.

My dad is the opposite with the invites lol. We have
'Mr and Mrs B2B's parents
request the pleasure of
Bob'
on the invites. He think instead of 'Bob' we should have 'Mr Robert Smith'. Too late, they are printed now and I'm not shelling out another £60 for a new batch. Just need to get some cream coloured card so I can print out my RSVP cards, then they are good to go this weekend! (and people had better RSVP quickly, or I will get grumpy lol!).

Cleverclogs, I love your invites! We were going to make ours but I can't face the stress lol, I'm bad enough with our small basic RSVP cards!

ETA - Yes, I am also very fed up with people telling us what we should be doing. B**ger off and leave us alone!!

clairus

We printed out address labels for 90% of our invites, I did read on some American wedding sites that printing address labels is incredibly vulgar/tacky/against etiquette etc but I don't think that our guests are too fussed! We had 99 invites to send so I didn't fancy handwriting all of them!

You have all reminded me I need to need to start my skin regime, must invent it this week!

I have had a busy few days, got a hair trial booked for a week on Sunday so need to sort out hair accesories. This reminded me to find out where my dress is (due end of February hopefully) and that I can't remember what my dress looks like! I called the shop and they have it in in a different size but in white, rather than ivory, so I am going to see it on Saturday. I am a little scared though, as I have only ever seen the dress in red, rather than the ivory I have ordered it in, and I can't remember much about it at all. Hopefully it will be a good surprise!

Have also met the church organ man so we are picking hymns (delegated to the mums!) and spoke to the church flower lady so are picking church flowers (delegated to the mums as we're not having a floral bouquets or buttonholes).

Weekend job is to buy card for order of service cards (and perhaps optimistically for Thank You cards).

Also, 10% of RSVPs returned, yay!


Xxx

MsShopper

Hey all

Nice to see our thread's getting lots of action this week!

Clairus, glad your marriage course went well. We haven't picked our readings yet – haven't even looked to be honest! We're meeting with my uncle (our priest) on Saturday and he's going to talk us through things. I'm not having anything to do with silence/obeying nonsense either! (My OH knows me better than that! :rotfl:) Good luck with the dress trying-on this weekend!

Sationaryace, I am dreading those sorts of requests (swapping out someone's place for another). I'm counting on a good few 'no's to help us stick to our budget!

Bride2be, thank you! I'm loving getting a few more readers in my blog stats. I'd better figure out what to ramble on about next…

Glad your invites arrived at last. Our printer is having to reprint all of ours because they messed up the first lot. Hoping they'll be done by the end of the week and we can get them out next week. I can't wait to get some proper RSVPs!

Also, great news about your mum helping you out with the flower costs. What a lovely thing to do. :j

Cleverclogs, I **love** your invites. They are gorgeous! Where are the pocketfolds from? And did you make the bows or buy them? I'm on the look-out for some like that, as I'm doing a 'fancy' set of invites for our parents as a keepsake, popping the pocketfold in a nice presentation box instead of an envelope, and I want to put a bow like yours around the box.

Not much new with me, other than my OH heard today that he's getting a long-overdue payrise! It won't kick in until April, so won't help much with the wedding costs, but it will help us out massively after that. So pleased for him! :j

Cleverclogs

Pancakes definitely cheered me up! And I have tomorrow & Friday off work so today I have that Friday feeling! :j
Thanks everyone. MsShopper - I got the pocketfolds from pocketfoldinvites.co.uk. They were part of a bumper bundle pack - so we got 25 pocketfolds, all the card for 3 inserts per invite & envelopes - all for £25 (I think it was!). We've got our inserts printed separately after all so I have a lot of spare cards for inserts, but it was still good value.
Google 'tailored bows' which is the kind of bow I've used. There's lots of tutorials but as I've used 10mm ribbon, it was a bit too narrow to staple/glue like most tutorials suggested. Argh. So I'm sticking the ribbon band to the pocketfold using double-sided tape, using a couple of hand-stitches to secure the bow, and then sticking the bow to the ribbon band with tape. Hopefully it'll hold. I'm sure you can probably buy the bows pre-made on eBay - which I wish I'd now done! And well done to your OH on his pay rise! Every little helps!

What a lovely thing for your mum to do for you B2B! We'll be writing the invites to 'Bob & Mary'. We haven't got a lot of space to write out the names so that'll have to do.

And if I had 99 invites Clairus, I'd have printed off the labels. I've ignored some of the etiquette advice from US sites. Some of them say it's rude to put in your gift list. We have. I've got enough to cope with, without having people ringing me to ask me what we want - or even worse - they don't ring and we end up with 15 toasters! As a guest, I don't like turning up empty-handed and it makes life much easier if you know what the couple want. And as it's only close friends & family coming, I know they won't be offended!

Good luck with your dress Clairus. I'm sure it'll be lovely. It's been nearly 6 months since I ordered mine so I've forgotten what it looks like. And my first fitting isn't until 26 March!

You've also reminded me that we need to start thinking about our hymns and whether or not to go for flowers from the church lady or ask our florist...the church flower lady is sooo much cheaper so I think we will probably go down that route.

stationaryace

So this is going to sound silly at 70 days to go but I'm trying on my mock up wedding dress next weekend and am getting very excited. it's going to be sky blue, which will be interesting, and my dressmaker has ordered a new set of samples so we can chose the correct material. MIL has offered me her veil for the day which I can alter/cut up as much as I want as if I don't have it then it's going to charity shop/in bin

Dressmaker was talking about tying in the dress embellishments to my flowers or my bridesmaid dresses - she thinks I've got my flowers sorted :rotfl:

next - flowers, stationary for the day, shoes (for me and the BM), pick the reading/hymns for the ceremony, chase up the 12 straggling RSVPs.

MsShopper

Doesn't sound silly to me stationaryace! I'd be super-excited!

A sky blue dress sounds wonderful. I saw this photoshoot with a gorgeous light blue wedding dress a while ago on ruffledblog. It goes beautifully with the red detailing.

So what's your dress like?

Cleverclogs, thanks for the bow info. I might try and make them myself too!

stationaryace

Sky blue is just the colour of the sample dress, in the cheap material that my dressmaker has at the moment. Her previous mock up for another bride was done in bright orange :eek: in my head the final version is some sort of white but I'll find out when I see the material samples next week.

That is a pretty dress but don't think I could pull off that colour with my skin tone. I had thought about a coloured dress but my family all support different football teams (apart from me) and like to tease each other about this so sky blue would be chelsea blue, red would be man u, green would be celtic, dark blue rangers etc. Would only be in jest but my dress is NOT football related.

Have all the church wedding people done the church pre-marriage prep now? My OH took the mick at the time but has recently starting quoting one or two things said in the course 3 months ago so something stuck!