Help! Planning a wedding for January (essex)

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Help!

I was just wondering if anyone could offer any advice re planning a wedding now for the end of January. Back story is that i have recently found out that I am pregnant - me and my partner had already talked about marriage previously and the plan was to save next year for 2015 but it's important to him that we are at least married before the baby arrives and I am happy with that and want to get married before i am too big We are happy to have a small/intimate ceremony now and the hope is that we will renew our vows later on down the line.

We are planning on having a local church wedding - so the venue is sorted (though i did try to convince him to maybe contact a few local wedding venues and see if they have any cancellations/late deals for wedding packages - but he wants a church wedding).

I am after ideas ref what we could do for a wedding reception (max 20 people) and also ideas ref dresses.... places i have looked at online mostly want at least 3 months to sort the dress from date of order (also would need around a size UK18)

Also wondering if anyone knows of any jewellers that are quite reasonable on ring prices / anywhere that sells second hand rings online- or any offers going on... i was thinking of possibly having some gold melted down and a ring made - would this be cheaper? my partners mum has kindly said i am welcome to have her and her mums rings made into a new one if that would be cheaper....

Just trying to get organised and wanted to see if anyone could offer any advice.

Thanks in advance.