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VickyA_2

Have a wonderful day! It doesn't matter where you get married or what you do, just so long as you're marrying the person you love - which it sounds like you are doing - and have a good time.

I'm getting married next year and I've just bought my shoes from ebay for £6.50 including postage. However, it sounds like you've got your day sorted. If you've got a friend with a camera, just ask them for prints or to act as "official photographer" if you want photos. Otherwise, give your 2 children disposable cameras for them to capture the occasion.

Have a wonderful day!

jenpoptab

I decided to get married in las Vegas with just 6 of us attending. This way we managed to have the wedding , reception and 17 days in USA for under £3000. I highly recommend to anyone and it wasn't tacky despite what lots of people thought.

We hired our local town hall, did food ourselves and had a great party once we got back to uk. This to came to only £500ish, bargain and I really enjoyed it despite having worked so hard to get everything done and being newly pregnant with Our honeymoon baby.

grownup1

I agree - you've got all the important stuff sorted and I'm sure you will not be distracted from your vows and your happiness by the complicated arrangements most people have. I send you hearty good wishes for your special day.

We got married for less than £100 (registrar fees), gatecrashed the party of some sweet friends of friends and cut their spare wedding cake - and then my husband found me a gold wedding ring in a flower pot in a skip. To me it's much more magical and romantic than a tense, expensive production (though I do still owe my friends and family a knees up).

meerustar

Thanks so much for the good wishes.

I forgot about the pics (d'oh) but have a digital camera with biggish memory so that will do for photos (not letting the kids near it though, lol)

And a nice outfit from Grattan will do seeing as though I have a code for 15% off ...(lol)

...I'm dead excited already !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jay-Jay_4

I've asked people to take photos instead of buying us wedding
pressies. We've got 4 disposable cameras and both our dads and siblings have digital cameras so we should have a good selection.

Maybe you could get someone to burn a CD of your favourite songs for the ceremony (that's what we're doing) and if anyone plays a musical instrument, ask them to play for your entrance. (OH's brother is playing the guitar for us)

I think that a small wedding can be extra lovely as everyone's included rather than 150 people all clamouring for your attention all day.

Keep us updated with how things are going x x x

Savvy_Sue

make sure they know at the holiday camp that you're doing this - if you're too embarrassed to do it yourself I'm sure someone in your family is shameless enough to do it so you get a riotous round of applause one night during the entertainment - if nothing else!

Now, 8 family members on your honeymoon. Hmm. I did know someone who got married in Las Vegas, and I think there were four of them (two couples) in the suite on the wedding night, although memories seemed hazy!

skylight

Really cheap - Don't get married!!!!!!!

But really,
You do need a good photgrapher - don't settle on Uncle Bob taking them cos' his snaps of Ibiza came out well. I promise you that it is the ONLY thing you will truly regret in years to come if the photos are bad.

Mine guy for my cheapy wedding took about 40 pics mixed between colour and b/w and both at the register office and the reception. For £180 he only gave me 25 pics though, but I bought the rest over the following months when I had the money.

Have a really good search for a photographer - yell.com and thomson local and stuff. For what you need, as there will be so few people and your at Haven afterwards, you may find this not as expensive as you thought.

If you get stuck this way, perhaps asking the local college photography departments if they have a pupil who is reliable and could help out on this occasion for a small fee? They get experience you get a cheap photographer.

Talking of local colleges, ours has a hair and beauty department that does (hair and beauty!!) and all sorts really cheaply. They have to meet a certain standard before they are allowed to practise on people, but you can get your hair done, legs waxed and nails manicured for next to nothing.

But, at the end of it all, HAVE A REALLY GREAT DAY xxxxxxx

2005CLAIRE

I bet you will have a lovely time-with beautiful memories of a beautiful day.

When I got married I booked a taxi to take me to registry office-driver wouldn't take a penny when he knew it was my wedding day. Reception in a lovely pub, the owners let us bring cheap fizzy wine in for the toast to save money. We went home for a couple of hours before the evening 'doo' and we went back there on the bus (I still have my bus ticket).
We are still together and it was a wonderful day.

Good luck :O)

2005CLAIRE

p.s My best pics were ones my relatives took with cheap cameras, not posed, with big, natural grins all over our faces.

beadysam

I got wed at 8 months preggy,in a registry office, no family (our choice), witnesses we chose, guests were allowed to wear jeans or comfy clothes - whatever they wanted, we got samosas at a petrol station on the way to the pub and a packet of boasters to share between me and hubby for our `wedding breakfast', got to the pub and ate a few chips and had a Black Russian cocktail and got drunk (the only drink of my pregnancy), had a lovely mellow relaxed evening, went home and slept like a log!
My only regret is we forgot all about photos and only have 2 very dark piccys a friend took...
Good luck and have fun...
SAM xxx
PS: We are still together after 14 years.....