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kimbodia0

i am getting married in April and have just found out that my bridesmaid will be 8 months pregnant on the day!!! anyone have any ideas for a budget maternity bridemaid dress?

shelley100_2

Hi, I don't live in gretna but I am going through to look at some places on wednesday as I am visiting my parents who live in Dumfries and Galloway. I did get a great wee booklet from the registry with some contacts;
HAIR AND MAKE-UP - Fiona and June (have a web page with prices); Completebride mobile hair and beauty , HYPE Hair and beauty, The Salon Gretna.

FLORISTS - Dont have much info on florists yet I have looked at Blooms florist (Dumfries) on web and have a number for Garden wise florists in Annan 01461 204561, gretna wedding flowers on web,

PIPER - not having one myself but there are a couple of numbers in the book ,
Gretna green piper 01461 201204, Alan Marshal 01228 402941,

I hope this is some help but I have not yet used any of these services. May be of more help after wednesday when I will be going to a few florists and hopefully booking my hairdresser.

When is your wedding?

shelley100_2

Forgot to say I ordered my dress today not very MSE as it is the most expensive one I have tried but it is the one! and mum is paying (so moneysaving for me not so much for her!) although I did offer to pay half as it is a tad more expensive than we were expecting.

We also went to look at bridesmaid dresses today and found a style that everyone liked so deposit has been put down on them :j thats the dresses sorted just 101 other things to get organised now!!!

bigzippy

Well done Shelley100 -I'm freaking out about the dress, personally. The bridesmaid dresses are for next week.

kimbodia0 wrote: »

i am getting married in April and have just found out that my bridesmaid will be 8 months pregnant on the day!!! anyone have any ideas for a budget maternity bridemaid dress?

kimbodia0 - the only thing I could suggest for your mother-to-be bridesmaid is to try out a dressmaker and see how much they'd make a dress for. Or get some kindly relative/friend to make one to a pattern? Or just search the maternity sections (particularly around Christmas) for a party/evening dress in the right colour for your scheme? Good luck!

maccaandclare - this may sound horrendous on here, but how do I find promo codes for places?

maccaandclaire

bigzippy wrote: »

Well done Shelley100 -I'm freaking out about the dress, personally. The bridesmaid dresses are for next week.


kimbodia0 - the only thing I could suggest for your mother-to-be bridesmaid is to try out a dressmaker and see how much they'd make a dress for. Or get some kindly relative/friend to make one to a pattern? Or just search the maternity sections (particularly around Christmas) for a party/evening dress in the right colour for your scheme? Good luck!

maccaandclare - this may sound horrendous on here, but how do I find promo codes for places?

hi there is a section on this website on the forums but just do what i do, type into google what your looking for ie simply yours promotional codes and just click on some of the links. Some codes dont work but for example, i was ordering something over £70 and spent ages trying all the codes and the last one worked and saved £30! so its def worth trying!
Good luck let us know if you get a bargin!

bettyboo76

shelley100 wrote: »

Hi, I don't live in gretna but I am going through to look at some places on wednesday as I am visiting my parents who live in Dumfries and Galloway. I did get a great wee booklet from the registry with some contacts;
HAIR AND MAKE-UP - Fiona and June (have a web page with prices); Completebride mobile hair and beauty , HYPE Hair and beauty, The Salon Gretna
FLORISTS - Dont have much info on florists yet I have looked at Blooms florist (Dumfries) on web and have a number for Garden wise florists in Annan 01461 204561, gretna wedding flowers on web,

PIPER - not having one myself but there are a couple of numbers in the book ,
Gretna green piper 01461 201204, Alan Marshal 01228 402941,

I hope this is some help but I have not yet used any of these services. May be of more help after wednesday when I will be going to a few florists and hopefully booking my hairdresser.

When is your wedding?

I am getting married on the 16 September 2009

scouserwench

For Our big day (Feb, 02, 2008) We shopped around,Only went to one wedding fare and found our photographer... we paid around £349 which was a 24 photoalbum, with a red bentley thrown in the package which I let me Inlaws have, and we also hired a HUGE limo off him which cost around £160 which fitted 8 of us in..which consisted to and from the wedding... Me,Hubby(Hubby tavelled in the Limo at the same time we went to the wedding...Broke tradition)Best man, Best man's missus, Maid of honour,My bro, & my parents. The photo package included ceremony photo's and Photo's @ the park (we had a dusting of snow that day-So beautiful!) and cutting of the cake...

Catering was £7.50 per head and still there was loadsa food left over! we had afternoon reception and night reception.. and the food we saved other half for the night.

I think we paid around £170 for the Decorations.. But I had to somehow Get around me mom without her finding out that Hubby & I had ordered 2 boquets for our folks lol Sent me mom to sort the cake out lolm, Wedding Cake worked out around £260 http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y287/scouserwench/wedding%20plannng/cake.jpg -> We had a red theme for this and The lady managed to paint the bride's dress in red for us and the grooms tie. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y287/scouserwench/DSCF0239.jpg

I boought the groomsmens ties from Ebay in a Joblot, the Bestman's gear from Ebay,Buttonholes got from hobbycraft as they worked out at 89p each...

Favours.... I got the little bags (100 gold ones) for about a few quid, bought some red ones (Hobbycraft) in the sale and white ones in a value pack from there for around £3.99

The sweets and Favours: I bought little party whistles and party poppers from Poundland and asda... Sweets I bought in packs from Hootys and Normal shops and filled em up that way.. Like Werthers Originals etc etc...tictacs.. I also made little thank you scrolls which I got the template from online on this website..
Bought a joblot of wooden roses and attatched little fancy tags which got from ebay.. basically It was all colour co-ordinated and handmade.. Even made me Own Guest books and Table names.. And Own Order of Services...

maccaandclaire

Just had an email from Littlewoods Direct offering me £10 off when I spend £100 or £5 off when you spend £50 this weekend only.

Just thought I would post it on here as there is gorgeous wedding dresses on there and you could save a bit.

Not sure if it is exclusivly for me but its worth a try!

Might only work once as well. Let me know!

Code is ZQ018 for £10 off when you spend £100
Code is ZQ386 for £5 off when you spend £50

Good luck :-)

cristinakaren

Hi,
I've just picked up my wedding ring online in a sale from http://www.weddingrings-direct.com

Before deciding to buy I was able to get an exact replica of the ring sent to me for £9.

Highly recommended....
Karen

Miss_Curly-Whirly

Monstaswifey wrote: »

I got married in September last year and saved a packet by researching and doing lots of stuff myself and utilising cashback sites and ebay - so here's some top tips which I hope help:-

1. Buy your wedding rings from America - the exchnage rate is fantastic and they are half price compared with here. Ebay seller artebarca( 3502) is fab and ours were perfect and £150 for 2!

2. Wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses - I visited all the high street shops and boutiques, chose what I wanted (combination of 3 dresses) and had a place in the Far East make to our actual measurements! Scarey but I saved £1750 and only had to spend £100 for a local dressmaker to do a few amends over the 4 dresses and they were stunning - email me if you want contacts and pics.

3. Invites - get someone on ebay to do them but get samples and negotiate them to do everything - place cards, thank you cards, invites, husband card for the day etc etc - mine were beautiful and all under £100. Again email me if you want details.

Cake - I cannot cook to save my life so made individual wedding cakes for everyone and bought little boxes off ebay and personalised ribbon (ebay again). Bought cake from M&S, small round cake cutter and iced with black icing (homemade via ebay) and piped on white letters and white ribbon. They looked stunning and taked yum!

Favours and treats - got personalised lollies from ebay for the kids, lovehearts from their shop online (personalised) and individual personalised port - worked really well and gave everyone something to take home as a momento.

Made my decs myself - ordered silk flowers and leaves from ebay wholesaler along with black candles and table sprinkles - all ebay again !!!!

Photographs - big tip - contact your local university to see if they do a photography course - if so email them asking if any 2nd or 3rd year students want to do a wedding case study. Offer a cash incentive and payment of costs - we got everything done including 600 professional photo's for less than £250. The other bonus is you can negotiate to own your copyright so can do what you like with the prints and keep them forever and get re-prints at cost! Saved £100's

I've got loads more ideas if anyone's interested and lots of contacts.

I have a wire bouquet which was stunning with matching tiara she made specially so email me if you want any contact or further info or photo's!!!

I hope it helps and good luck to all you brides - don't get stressed out - enjoy and relish every second because its all over far too soon and your life has a huge void!!!

Hi Monstaswifey,

I was really interested in reading your posting and would be very appreciative if you could share your contact details/photos for the dresses you had made in the far east- what a clever idea..!!!

I am hoping to get married next July (currently trying to find venue) and am planning on having 3 bridesmaids and would like to save costs where possible but not at the expense of quality, so I would be pleased in checking out your contacts...

Thanks

This is my first posting on the forum and would like to wish you all lots of love, happiness and good luck in your forthcoming nuptials...!! And to all those who are now married, may all your dreams come true...