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Alleycat

VictoriaElaura wrote: »

I cant recommend this enough, I went to the London one and the lady was lovely. She had more dresses than the wedding shops i had been to.
They were all beautiful and some were well under £100.

Mine is designer and worth nearly £8000 we got it for £600. (Mums a queen haggler:T )


I'm sure there are lovely dresses to suit ANY budget.:p

Was that the Essex one as I can't see any in Central London.

VictoriaElaura

Alleycat wrote: »

Was that the Essex one as I can't see any in Central London.

This is the one I went to:

Address: 101 George Lane, South Woodford, Essex, E18 1AN
Tel: 0208 989 9125
Opening times: 9am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday
Appointments preferable
Manager: Tracy Purcell

Tracy is so helpful!!!

brownbabygirl

VictoriaElaura wrote: »

I cant recommend this enough, I went to the London one and the lady was lovely. She had more dresses than the wedding shops i had been to.
They were all beautiful and some were well under £100.

Mine is designer and worth nearly £8000 we got it for £600. (Mums a queen haggler:T )


I'm sure there are lovely dresses to suit ANY budget.:p

where is the london one? I cannot see the london addres on the website

VictoriaElaura

Looking at the address I don’t think it was Central London. I have added the address above.

Jonono

Hi all
I have been registered on here for some time and have just browsed, but am drawn to this thread as I am now getting married too yay! My fiance and myself are both late thirties and (mortgages aside) debt free but still feel it is silly to have a ridiculously large and extravagant wedding. Having said that we still want to provide our friends and family to a day to remember, that is important to us. Having attended many weddings in the past I know that I have found extravagant weddings and in my view ridiculously greedy gift lists (from people who between them have 2 fully furnished homes) rather offputting and neither of us subscribe to doing that. We live in Glasgow area and some folk will be travelling to stay. My priorities are not a big dress etc but that we have a nice setting for friends and family (people approaching 80 in some cases and 2 years old at the youngest) to enjoy some decent fare. It doesn't even have to be a tradiitional 3 course meal, but food of good quality and well made is important, some good music and for everyone to feel welcome and 'at home' I will be working my way through this long and helpful thread but will also appreciate any advice. Date for wedding is not yet set, probably we are looking at 2009 springtime (that would be nice). I look forward to reading your advice and getting lots of hints and tips in the year to come!

Not-in-kansas-anymore

Hi all I posted on here some time ago and it is now the year for my wedding (29th Aug!!!).
We went to the hotel the other day to sort out somethings while we were there H2B asked about VAT cuts and did it effect us only to be told "Oh we will add the VAT to the final bill" "Oh no you wont I replied as when I arranged this reception you told me that £3920 would be the max to pay" She eventually backed down, but I wondered if others had this come up on there reception final bill? (We are having a buffet only with ballroom hire, drinks package and room for the night)

bigzippy

Not-in-kansas-anymore wrote: »

Hi all I posted on here some time ago and it is now the year for my wedding (29th Aug!!!).
We went to the hotel the other day to sort out somethings while we were there H2B asked about VAT cuts and did it effect us only to be told "Oh we will add the VAT to the final bill" "Oh no you wont I replied as when I arranged this reception you told me that £3920 would be the max to pay" She eventually backed down, but I wondered if others had this come up on there reception final bill? (We are having a buffet only with ballroom hire, drinks package and room for the night)

I've not got this as I'm hiring from a nearby council and asked about it at the time but apparently it is a common trap - if you've watched the Don't Tell The Bride series on bbc3 one of the couples "came a cropper" with it on there and it freaked me out sufficiently to ask! :eek:

It's the year of my wedding now too!! WOOOOOOOO!!!! :beer:

rvd_08

Hey!

I'm getting married in October 2010 hopefully. We are looking at venues now and just beginning really. Its taken me about a week to get to page 15 of this thread so I thought I better post now or my wedding will have been and gone by the time I get through it. I love the tip of dresses from Banardos...theres a wedding one by me luckily. I'm collecting together a scrap book of ideas as we speak.

One I love is getting a really big photo frame and filling it with plain card with a a5ish size picture of the couple in the middle and letting everyone leave their messages around the picture. I'm gonna get a A frame and put it in the reception room and hopefully have something we can hang up in our flat to remember the big day.

Anyone know of any funky favour ideas? So far thinking lottery tickets.

Good luck to everyone else getting married...It seems so far away. xxx

davidegee

Hi all,

I'm currently in the process of planning the big day also.

What i would really like but have been unable to find as of yet is an excel file listing all the items that need to be budgeted for.

Does anyone here have such a file that they have created for their wedding, i.e. a list of everything that they bought or had to plan and consider? I'm not asking for a list of what people spent on each item, but more a template that we can use.

Any help much appreciated!

Dave

debs2327

hi ya dont know if this is what your after but found this template you maybe could use think its worded in american tho but still useable ,

http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/wedding-budget.html