April 2013 weddings

daisiegg

Oh meant to add...I also like this one as it lets you use your own caterers if you want to and we would really love our favourite restaurant to cater for our wedding, so it's good news on that front.

sk00bie1

Well another very weddingy weekend done and dusted.

Went to the National Wedding Show at Olympia on Friday. It was fab, a complete wedding overload :rotfl: My mum even had a good time, in fact I think she had more fun than me!

Saw so many things, took away lots of ideas AND I ordered my wedding shoes!! I'd seen them a while ago (on this site infact) and once I saw them in real life I knew they were the ones. SO exciting, feels like I've made progress lol

Got a fancy cake topper too from Mum, we're going to use it in Vegas and back here as for the reception.

We then went to another local show here on Sunday, the venue wasn't that great but met more suppliers to add to the growing list. A friend I ran into on Saturday mentioned a barn nearby that we could hire, so that's even more places to chose from! We'd need to sort caterers/dance floor or decorations/a bar etc, it would be so convenient location wise I don't think I'd mind. The next thing is to pick a date for the reception then we can approach various places and get quotes.

I want to order our save the dates today, I'm just waiting to hear back from the lady re lead times etc.

scrumpy78

Congrats! I'm hoping to go to a big show at manchester in a couple of weeks. I got my dress this weekend. A Mark Lesley one off eBay for £122!! So absolutely thrilled with it. It's a size too small buy we won't worry about that just yet lol!

sk00bie1

Oh wow scrumpy that's a bargain! Do we get to see a pic?

One dress size isn't so bad, we've still got over a year to go. I'm sure you can do it!

I want to lose some more weight before I start trying on dresses but I'm not sure how much longer I'll hold out! I didn't fancy trying any on at the show though, not in front of all those people!!

Gem123_2

We went to The Westcountry wedding show yesterday. We managed to book our chair covers and we got a fantastic price as she has only just started her buisness! I have an appointment at a Bridal shop next weekend with my Mum, saw a dress in their brochure that I love.

Marrying my best friend on 5th April 2013

daisiegg

Gem123 wrote: »

We went to The Westcountry wedding show yesterday. We managed to book our chair covers and we got a fantastic price as she has only just started her buisness! I have an appointment at a Bridal shop next weekend with my Mum, saw a dress in their brochure that I love.

Marrying my best friend on 5th April 2013

Just out of interest, what is a fantastic price? I've started looking at chair covers and I have no idea what is a good price and what isn't!

daisiegg

I'm jealous of you all going to wedding fairs, but it sounds like you're having lots of fun

Well we have the church booked for 6th April 2013...just hoping when we go to see the potential venue on 10th March, it will all be fine and we can get that booked and then our date will be definitely confirmed! yay!

When are you all sending out Save The Dates?

Ooh, in other exciting news, my possible engagement ring has come into the shop. Got engaged two weeks ago today and still no ring! We went looking on Saturday and found one I really love except that OH thought the diamond wasn't big enough (I think I was the envy of every woman in the shop lol) so they had to order in the same ring with a slightly bigger diamond. But now OH is away on business until early next week, so even if I go in and look at it and decide yes it is perfect, I can't HAVE it until he's back to pay for it! grrr People keep asking to see the ring and I don't feel properly engaged without one!

Gem123_2

We are paying £2.80 for a chair cover and a sash. We looked at a number of other places and the prices were between £3.50 and £4.50 per chair. I wasn't going to bother having chair covers at those prices but after finding someone so cheap we couldn't say no.

:love: Marrying my best friend on 5th April 2013

sk00bie1

How was the visit with the venue daisie? Hope it went well

My beautiful shoes arrived last week, love them!

I've also ordered the save the dates and info flyers. Will send them when they arrive so it's about a year before. Maybe a bit early but as we're getting married abroad we want everyone to have as much notice as possible!

Next thing to sort is the venue for the do back in the UK, looking at the first May bank holiday Sunday if places will do a late close for us.

daisiegg

Well, we went to view our cheaper option (http://www.manorofgroves.com/weddings) and our expensive option (http://www.downhall.co.uk/weddings/) on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

We really liked the first one on Saturday, with our only reservations being that the dance floor is TINY so probably not suitable for the ceilidh that I have my heart set on

After viewing this one I begged OH to let me just cancel the other viewing on Sunday - I KNEW I'd fall in love with it and it would blow the first one out of the water - but he insisted we went. I wasn't wrong.... we came away from the venue on Saturday both really enthusiastic about it and saying that we would have been happy to have our wedding there. Then, after seeing the expensive venue, we both absolutely loved it ...it's just so beautiful, the room is much more suited to a ceilidh and everything....

So we don't know what to do. Both venues are holding our date for us for 14 days so we have a couple of weeks to decide. We could technically afford the expensive one - the money is there - we would not have to get into debt for it, and we could still pay the mortgage and the bills and buy food etc and generally live our day to day lives much as we do now - the only thing it would mean would be maybe putting off a new kitchen for another year or so, and only having one summer holiday instead of the usual two. OH keeps saying "it's the only wedding day we'll ever have, it's worth splurging on" and my mum keeps saying "it's only one day, it's not worth splurging on" lol! I waver between the two. Technically it's OH's money anyway so it's up to him if he spends it or not. It's just SUCH a lot of money, it feels almost criminal to spend that on one day...