Anyone having a 2014 wedding?

CompBunny

jostenning wrote: »

Hello

Spent all of Saturday looking at dresses - had sort of decided on one, it was £650 on the tag but she said she could do it for £550, so I put it away. It was really a bit more than we anticipated, we were budgeting for around £300, but then reality hit as we went into various bridal shops, where it became apparent that we were looking more around £900+, even the sale items were around £450.

Anyway, I remembered one more bridal shop at around 4.30 on Saturday called there and she was just about to close, but said I was welcome to have a look. Most of the gowns were strapless - as with all the other shops, but I noticed on the back wall I saw a dress with shoulder straps. I just said can I have a look at that and it just happened to be a size 12.

Anyway, I tried it on, it was gorgeous - the beading on it was beautiful. It has a train on it and a sheer panel on the shoulders. So she said if I wanted to take it away, she could do it for £150!! I thought I'd misheard - it is the quality of some of the £800-£900 dressed I'd seen. So, I thought it looks great and really for that price I just had to snap it up. I also got the veil (which is embroidered with teardrop shaped sequins) and a head dress and the protective cotton bag for the dress all for a total of £300!

Of course, the only downside was I've got to store it in my mums. She told me not to try it on again until say a years time, to take it in for a fitting. Obviously it will need shortening, which she will charge £60 for and she will press it on the week of the wedding.

Felt really pleased with my bargain find!

WOW!!! Congrats! Thats fantastic, I'm so pleased for you!!!:D It will be difficult to not try it on for a year though hehe, well done on getting such a good bargain. Ok now I really want to go dress shopping!

Poppy, don't worry we have been engaged for less than a month and have just been to a wedding fayre, a venue open day, looked around a church and a village hall unofficially. We have also bought some tulle rolls in ivory and a couple of wedding magazines for our first wedding purchase and also to make some tulle bows to decorate our stairs with to get us in a wedding mood! We have also decided on the song for our first dance and a place name idea but they are usually done a few months before the wedding! But really, we havent needed to do any of that, most of it is just for fun! We haven't booked a single thing! Right now you can enjoy being newly engaged and start getting ideas and deciding when and what your budget is!

toby_puppy

after spending £4.99 on a bridal magazine, I won't be doing that again in a hurry - I don't know if I'm a cheapskate, but reading about people's £60k wedding budgets made our £4000 for everything seem a bit insignificant. :eek:

I thought it would inspire me but everything in the mag was so expensive, so I will just continue to read the forums instead get my ideas here.

Stephb1986_2

If any of you want some wedding magazines I have enough to sink a battle ship if your local to me (wigan) you can pick them up or you could just pay the postage for them

I've got all different ones, brides, wedding ideas, perfect wedding etc etc

Just give me a shout

Steph xx

CompBunny

Thats so very kind of you Steph, I'm sure someone local to you would be over the moon to have them!!!! I love MSE

I agree with you Jo about the grand weddings in the magazines making you feel a bit insignificant sometimes but I bought a couple (and picked some up free at the wedding fair) and am just using them for inspiration to DIY or make more MSE. I saw one call a 10k wedding a really tight budget! Pfft!

Stephb1986_2

Comp bunny if you want some you can have some just for the postage if your not local to me

Sometimes your best looking in the expensive weddings for ideas but finding it on the cheap so looks like i've got a mega wedding for a small budget

I have 3 years worth so plenty for everyone

Steph xx

toby_puppy

thank you, some great comments here.:)

have been thinking about music for the wedding -it's a civil ceremony at a hotel.

we are thinking of :

I Can't Help Falling In Love With You - UB40 - to walk in.
We both love UB40 and the lyrics are quite poignant. We actually met online by pure chance in 2009 and everyone kept saying to be careful and don't rush into anything, we appreciated their concern but have proved them wrong. We lived 185 miles apart and my future hubby moved to where I live in 2010 - leaving his job and friends behind to be with me. He promised to find a job where I live and he did within 4 weeks of moving down and is still in that job. He rented a flat for a while before moving in with me in 2011, we knew we wanted to be together.

The lyrics start "Wise men sing, only fools rush in", so I think it's very appropriate.

To walk out after the ceremony - "Top of the World" by the Carpenters. The very first text my future hubby sent to me after our first phone conversation was the lyrics to Top of the World, so it has a special meaning to us.

We aren't sure if we will bother with a third song for signing the register.

For our first dance - it will be another UB40 - Kingston Town.
When we used to miss each other when we were living 185 miles away, he used to sing it to me on the phone but change the word Kingston to my hometown and I knew I'd always wait for him!

CompBunny

Thankyou Steph! I won't be taking advantage of your kind offer as we have enough magazines for inspiration now but its sooo nice of you to offer them on here!

Jo, UB40 fans eh? I've listened to your song choices on youtube all together and think they fit really nicely, very romantic and all very happy love songs Looove "Top of the world". Marriages that began with meeting online are like fate meant you to be together!

We're going slightly more somberly romantic with The Book of Love, the Peter Gabriel version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnDXRJ7btE for our first dance, we've had some loving moments dancing slowly together to this at home before our engagement so why not on our wedding day! Not sure about other songs yet. If we decide on a church wedding definately Lord of the Dance though as a hymn!

toby_puppy

thank you compbunny, what fab lyrics on the Book of Love song, the wedding rings bit is very apt.
:T
postman has just been with the 1964 sixpence keyring (for the "something old" bit) and ALSO with a 1971 halfpenny keyring (that's my year if birth), so he doesn't feel that I'm making out that it's just him that's the oldie, lol.

I intend to have them hanging from the ribbon on my bouquet x

Stephb1986_2

Have any of you girls checked out Pinterest? it's a great site has given me so many ideas here's a link if any of you want a look at it http://pinterest.com/all/?category=weddings

Steph xx

toby_puppy

Thanks steph, will have a mooch tonight