Anyone having a 2014 wedding?

Sazzarella

We got engaged on May 31st. So far we have:

Insurance - Debenhams
Venue - The Rowantree, Edinburgh
Bridesmaid dresses - BHS
My Shoes - Vivienne Westwood Lady Dragon
H2b shoes - bought
Sgian Dubh/Kilt Pin/dirk - bought
Invitations - bought paper/envelopes/stamps and will print ourselves
Photographer - A friend of ours is doing it
Favours/place names - Lego men standing on a white brick with the names on
Bridesmaid gifts - 'Spoon' bracelets from Etsy
Registrar - Booked
Hair and Makeup - Booked
Misc - Have bought disposable cameras and have made my own 'photo booth' type props
Music - A friend of ours is a professional singer and is gonna kick the night off by performing for an hour
Rings - Bought (1 platinum band with diamonds, 1 tungsten carbide band)

Still to do:

Cake
Dress
H2b - Shirt/jacket (already has his kilt)
Evening DJ
Center pieces
Guest book
Best men gifts
Post box for cards
Table plan


Can't believe I've got so much done in a month. Still got over a year till the big day

lettice

Sazzarella wrote: »

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You are amazing!

We've been engaged since 15 June and not managed to do anything like what you've done! Wow!

When's the big day?

Sazzarella

lettice wrote: »

You are amazing!

We've been engaged since 15 June and not managed to do anything like what you've done! Wow!

When's the big day?

Haha I guess when I get an idea in my head I just run with it. The things I've got left to do I have no idea on what they will look like yet like the cake and centrepieces and the dress will be next year probably which gives me time to lose some weight. The big day is August 30th 2014

Bluegreen143

Hi everyone!! Sorry I've not posted for a wee while, didn't really do anything 'wedding-y' in June so didn't have much to talk about.

You all sound so organised and I loved just reading through everyone's plans - especially Lettice's budget which was very helpful as it's not dissimilar to my budget (£8K). What I've found is everything is sooooo much more expensive than I've thought so we'll see if I can stick to it...

But here's a recap of the plans (wedding date 01/03.14):

Officiant £400- plus giving notice, new birth cert (lost it), marriage certs are extra £100 or so - humanist celebrant, booked and deposit paid
Venue £750 - Renfrew Town Hall, booked and deposit paid, saving money here as it's cheap and no corkage or anything for providing own alcohol
Dress - £150 for alterations - bought and paid for (by lovely grandparents). It's a sample so needed some work/dry-cleaning, which grandparents also paid for. Will need to get length/bodice altered myself closer to the time.
Band £1,100 - booked and deposit paid - went to see them and they are fab and really friendly they're a rock/funk covers band with a very diverse repertoire and will also do an hour of ceilidh at the start - but they aren't too cheap.
Catering £2,600 - 80 during day, 120 at night - booked and deposit paid. Absolutely love the company, very reasonably priced, so accommodating and especially with regards to us doing the bar ourselves (even though they're obviously losing money through this). Having a few canapes straight after ceremony, carvery buffet (no dessert, just cheeseboards and our own cake) and evening buffet.
Photography £100 incidentals - not booked photographers, instead we have some talented friends who are doing a bit each. Thought long and hard about this but basically have no money left in budget so no choice really.
Cake £0 - my lovely and talented sister is making this as our wedding gift
Cars £0 - not hiring, instead my mum is taking me in her Audi TT and my papa is taking my bridesmaids in his massive merc
Rings £750 - went to try on wedding rings for the first time yesterday (with sister) - was fun but I will have to increase budget here . My engagement ring is platinum and quite a high-set, not too thin band, so the wedding ring needs to be a little chunky to match (i.e. more expensive) and it's a bit... er... big and got loads of diamonds in the band, so a plain band doesn't look good with it as it overwhelms it, so need diamonds in the band to match. OH looked a bit skeptical when I said this but he picked the engagement ring so it's his fault!! (not complaining as I love it).
Bridesmaid dresses £500- have four bridesmaids and we went for first shopping trip yesterday, holy crap are these expensive, not sure what we're going to do (why oh why did I decide to have four bridesmaids lol )
Wedding website £25 - I paid £25 to use weddingwoo.com, I know you can get free ones but I felt in love with the design and love love love it
Alcohol £300 - grandparents are stocking up on champagne. We're getting the booze ourselves but running a cash bar - all profits (once our costs are covered) are going as a donation to my work, which is a charity, so we hopefully won't be too out of pocket here, will obviously put some free drinks on the table right enough.
Entertainment £200- randomly enough we have booked a magician, don't need to pay a deposit but he will cost at the time. I've used him for work stuff and he's lovely and good, it;s to entertain people while we get our pics taken and wasn'#t too expensive so don't mind!

Have budgeted in for minimal decorations (not using fresh flowers and friend is making origami swans to decorate tables), just a bouquet for me (no idea what bridesmaids will hold) and cheap hired kitls for OH/best men x2 (OH knows someone who owns a kilt shop and will give discount), plus a small amount for stationery/postage (emailing all younger people instead of posting, and making own invites etc. OH want's do our own photobooth by buying stuff off eBay, so have allocated £50 for that. Seems like I'm not having a lot of traditional stuff yet it's still costing a fortune, I'm in awe of people who do it for £3-4k!!

Most excitingly, I have booked my honeymoon flights (in married name so need a new passport) and we are going to Japan two days after the wedding (for two weeks)!!! This is obviously not included in £8K budget. My grandparents are giving us a very generous wedding gift of cash to pay for this and we're asking guests for money rather than gifts to help fund it.

Hope everyone else is doing well

misscutiepie1984

I am getting married 3rd may. I was getting worried about not finding my wedding dress in time as nothing was quite right. Thankfully my friend took me to a warehouse in Ascot one afternoon and I found it

ellesbellesxxx

Hi y'all!
Wowzers, some of you have done LOADS - well done!!!!!

We are getting married Nov 1st 2014, so 15 months still to go!!!!

We have:
- Booked venue (great deal, includes catering...we just have to add on extra people for evening/day) Looking at about 4500 for everything.
- Bought Insurance (Debenhams, went via £co!!!)
- Booked registrar
- Car sorted - friend of fiance's dad has a Bentley!
- Cake sorted - lovely Mum
- Ordered a wedding dress from Monsoon down from 299 to 95! Got to be tried, should arrive tomorrow...!
- Wedding hair - friend's mum can do this
- 20 free save the dates via Thecardgallery! They look so beautiful!
-My wedding ring we can get from Goldsmiths for FREE! We saved up tesco vouchers and we have enough to buy my ring

Next step: More save the dates

ellesbellesxxx

@Bluegreen - really impressed at your grocery challenge stats in signature - looks like I need to get me over there!

my_definition

I need to buy wedding insurance i keep forgetting and im scared to buy it without asking my gran exactly whats wrong with her (not a conversation im looking forward to - gran can i have a list of your illnesses please. Somone shout at me if i havent done it by my next post on here

Went dress shopping yesterday. Did not enjoy it - anyone else had the i dont want a straples dress conversation? I know they can add on straps but thats not the style i want!!!!

Making my oh try on rings tomorrow, more dress trying on on wednesday, cake tasting on wednesday to. 2nd Florist on sat but we will prob go with the one we saw last week as she does the top table for our venue and it would be good to co ordinate flowers. Busy busy but feel like i need to start reducing the enormous to do list

Stephb1986_2

my_definition wrote: »

I need to buy wedding insurance i keep forgetting and im scared to buy it without asking my gran exactly whats wrong with her (not a conversation im looking forward to - gran can i have a list of your illnesses please. Somone shout at me if i havent done it by my next post on here

Went dress shopping yesterday. Did not enjoy it - anyone else had the i dont want a straples dress conversation? I know they can add on straps but thats not the style i want!!!!

Making my oh try on rings tomorrow, more dress trying on on wednesday, cake tasting on wednesday to. 2nd Florist on sat but we will prob go with the one we saw last week as she does the top table for our venue and it would be good to co ordinate flowers. Busy busy but feel like i need to start reducing the enormous to do list

You do know that if you book anything before you have your wedding insurance it won't be covered if something went wrong?

lettice

my_definition wrote: »

I need to buy wedding insurance i keep forgetting and im scared to buy it without asking my gran exactly whats wrong with her (not a conversation im looking forward to - gran can i have a list of your illnesses please. Somone shout at me if i havent done it by my next post on here

I am confused by why you need to do this. As far as I recall, all I needed to do was agree to a statement that no one on whom my wedding plans depend is attending my wedding against medical advice or is terminally ill...