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Becles

Thanks for the kind wishes. We also contemplated getting married abroad, but I know my Gran won't travel abroad and she would have felt really left out.

Good luck to all the other MSE 2006 brides :beer:

Oddly enough we're working at a massive wedding tomorrow night too! Got to keep about 150 entertained between 7pm-1am, so I'm more nervous about that than my own wedding

Spendless

VickyA wrote:

My mum thinks that favours are unnecessary and are just a modern invention (ie she didn't have them at her wedding back in '73!).

i'm with your mum. They weren't at my sisters wedding in 97 (I married abroad ) and if they'd been the 'in' thing she'd have had them . I have heard of it done with sugared almonds. The only time I have come across them is at a friends scottish wedding early 90s when she had a miniture bride and groom (in a kilt) like a peg doll. they were for the top table only but she had a spare so gave me it as I'd travelled a long way.

andycarmi

Becles wrote:

Thanks for the kind wishes. We also contemplated getting married abroad, but I know my Gran won't travel abroad and she would have felt really left out.

Some friends or ours got married in Oz. For family and friends who couldn't go they showed it on an internet link!!!! :j

Becles

My Gran thinks teletext is too complicated to use. I don't think she could handle an internet link :rotfl:

One of the venues in Gretna (Alvin Hall?) had a live webcast service, but we didn't like the venue itself as much as the one we picked.

jockettuk

arnt almonds part of the nut family?.. a lot of people now avoiding nuts!

vicky give them some of the items from restore lol

ely

Enjoy the day. Forget favours...cost too much. Spend the money on yourselves...honeymoon...sexy undies etc....

Have a great day !

alanalea

We got married last october and in a grande total we spent:

£97 for the suite plus the registrar, clerk and usher
£30 for my made to measure wedding dress via Singapore (see wedding tips)
£30 Hubbys suit
£400 for made to order solid gold and white gold rings
£80 for meals for 4 adults (well 2 adults n 2 teenagers)

Everyone bought their own food at the meal afterwoods. The restaurant didn't charge us a booking fee even though we took up 75% of the restaurant and we pre-booked 45 peoples 3 course meal.

After the meal we had a party back at our house, everyone contributed a bottle or crate.

We didn't have a honeymoon because step son was in school and our Tabitha was only 14 weeks old.

All in all our wedding cost us £650 ish and a lost sunday due to a serious hangover

And it was a perfect day.... considering i wanted to elope

Lea x

pavlovs_dog

i notice lakeland are doing heart and rose shaped silicon cake tins.

perhaps you could make mini sponge/fairy cakes?

if you didnt fancy shelling out for the posh cake tins, you could always try icing a fairy cake/biscuit with the name of the guest - this way they could double up as place settings?

or a small bag of biscuits - they do a set of cutters in the shape of hearts, angels etc.

Rachie_B

thats a nice idea

ive seen gingerbread cookies in shape of heart or star etc with the guests name iced on it and some ribbon tied through in a wedding mag

looks really effective and cheap if you do it yourself as opposed to getting someone to do it for you

gravitytolls

Favours. This is new to me. It's your wedding, surely the favour is in choosing to share your nuptials with your guests?