Any 2013 Brides

JanineB

Not ahead of yourself at all. I went to a wedding fayre to have a look at my preferred venue last Sunday and ALL the Saturdays for 2013 are already booked, including many for 2014! Insane!

Anyway we've since decided to downsize and are doing it all ourselves. So 2013 is the year, no date set yet, although we are looking at August!

Spencer_Li

After quite a bit of looking, we've booked our photographer.

We've decided to spend a bit more than previously thought, as the photography is one of the most important things for us.
The main thing, apart from his photos, was his professionalism and confidence.

Glad it's out of the way as I hated telling the other photographers that we wouldn't be using them.


Also, some advice on what I should do about double posting? Here and in the July 2013 Brides and Grooms thread?

rubysmummy_2

sorry dont know about double posting

Ive booked our marriage preparation course this weekend, that will be happening in January, also found out we were runners up in a photography competition we entered so will be getting 2 photographers all day from bridal prep to first dance for £400, just trying to organise a time to go and have a look at thier portfolio and hopefully booking them sometime this week!! Also ive just aqcuired another bridesmaid - i originally wanted her but family talked me out of it and said i should have more family and not friends but saw her this weekend and my other bridesmaids have agreed they will pay for thier own shoes and accessories if i wanted to have her as a bridesmaid - so i asked her, so glad i did she was over the moon!! Now i am in the process of finding a cheap place to buy a3 card to start making my invites - or at least have a go. anyone know of anywhere??

Spencer_Li

rubysmummy wrote: »

sorry dont know about double posting

No probs - I'll just continue to post in both!

If anone else is a July 2013 bride or groom - come and join us there as well. There's only 2 of us in that thread at the moment!

rubysmummy wrote: »

Ive booked our marriage preparation course this weekend

What's a marriage peparation course?!

thelizzyfiles

can i join please

boyfriend only asked me to marry on the 4th oct (my birthday) and I've gone mad on the web looking at wedding stuff :j

so far got two lots of chair sashes , a car ribbon, a tiara for one of the bridesmaids,my wedding shoes x 2 lots (didn't like the first pair but they are very fancy blue to wear anytime), a necklace and earring set and going to get the table centre's and a postbox tomorrow where the lady has the most beautiful wedding dress that i'm going to try on :j

i'm also biding on two bridesmaid dresses as we speak
i'm (sorry) we're looking at june the 8th 2013 :j

thelizzyfiles

:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

won my two dresses £30 for two M & S new and lovely :money:

sunshine2223

Well I had a completely random day! Went into town to meet my Mum for a coffee, looked around a few shops and ended up buying my wedding dress for £120! How MSE is that?!

It's a vintage 1930's dress and looks like it's never been worn, absolutely pristine. Considering that I nearly bought another 30's dress in worse condition for £1300 a fortnight ago I think I've gotten myself a complete bargain!

I would like to ask everyone for some advice though... my Dad told me this morning that he thinks my OH and I should elope abroad as he thinks he might punch my mum's partner in the face if he has to see him... obviously I'm very upset about this and now I'm wondering if I've been naive thinking that 2 sets of divorced parents could spend half a day in the same room.

OH and I have talked about it before and we'd already decided that we wouldn't have parents on the top table (just bridesmaids and best man) and would be as sensitive to the situation as possible, but given that both sets of parents have been split up for over 5 years, we thought they could tolerate being in the same room for 1 day.

Is anyone else in a similar situation with divorced parents? how are you dealing with it?

elliebobs

sunshine2223 wrote: »

Well I had a completely random day! Went into town to meet my Mum for a coffee, looked around a few shops and ended up buying my wedding dress for £120! How MSE is that?!

It's a vintage 1930's dress and looks like it's never been worn, absolutely pristine. Considering that I nearly bought another 30's dress in worse condition for £1300 a fortnight ago I think I've gotten myself a complete bargain!

I would like to ask everyone for some advice though... my Dad told me this morning that he thinks my OH and I should elope abroad as he thinks he might punch my mum's partner in the face if he has to see him... obviously I'm very upset about this and now I'm wondering if I've been naive thinking that 2 sets of divorced parents could spend half a day in the same room.

OH and I have talked about it before and we'd already decided that we wouldn't have parents on the top table (just bridesmaids and best man) and would be as sensitive to the situation as possible, but given that both sets of parents have been split up for over 5 years, we thought they could tolerate being in the same room for 1 day.

Is anyone else in a similar situation with divorced parents? how are you dealing with it?

This seems like an opportune moment for me to join the thread. Getting married to my wonderful OH in January 2013 and literally cannot wait! We tried for Jan/Feb 2012 and basically got told that we had no chance at our chosen venue!

Anyways, my folks are divorced and basically they're having to deal with it! Dad has remarried (but not the bag he left mum for!) but Mum hasn't, nor does she have a partner, but...if two grown ups cannot get along or stay out of each others way for the duration of their daughters' wedding then they quite simply would not be welcome.

It's your day and they owe it to you to behave; I would be having a word with your Dad and explain how upset you would be if he did start some trouble; if necessarily exaggerate it so he gets the message.

abi-em-mum83

Think its unfair of your dad to say that to you, its only going to cause you to stress! If he cant behave himself for his daughters special day, for what 9 hours, then he shouldnt be there! Not having parents at top table is a good idea, a friend of mine had each set of parents and their partners "host" their own tables so they still feel they are on important tables but without the atmosphere for you!
Congrats on getting your dress thats amazing! I seem to be in a planning funk at the minute, lost all motivation for it. Booked the important things,venue, minister etc but its too early to get anything else. Cant get the dresses because Im trying to lose weight, I dont know how big my flowergirls will be and my maid of honour is currently trying to get pregnant! Im going to give myself a complete break till the new year, sure knowing I will only have a year to go will give me a kick up the bum then!!

sunshine2223

Thanks elliebobs and abi-em-mum83. I do think he was exaggerating a bit but it still upset me. He has a tendency to speak his mind without considering the feelings of others. Even when I told him that we'd considered marrying abroad but we both wanted our families involved in our special day he said that he thinks we're "bloody mad"!

Anyway, I will say to him that if he doesn't think that he can behave himself then he'll just have to stay at home. It's my day and I'll do what I want!

abi-em-mum83 - I understand the planning funk! I've actually done very little planning - we don't even have a venue yet! But that's because the venue that we wanted is being sold and we can't agree on another option! My OH has also been away a lot lately so we've not been able to discuss things. I'm sure we'll both get back into planning mode soon enough though!