October 2015 Weddings

skintbuthappy81

Our venue also doesn't have accommodation but the local hotel have reserved us 20 rooms at a reduced rate including breakfast and will extend this if they sell them all, so it might be worth dropping them an email.

ruby_eskimo

Can't believe we're in November now! Started the process for ordering our invitations last night. Just waiting for them to get back to me with proofs and we're all set!

ruby_eskimo

ruby_eskimo wrote: »

Can't believe we're in November now! Started the process for ordering our invitations last night. Just waiting for them to get back to me with proofs and we're all set!

Proofs are here and they look really good. Need to change some of the wording but other than that we're really pleased.

skintbuthappy81

ruby_eskimo wrote: »

Proofs are here and they look really good. Need to change some of the wording but other than that we're really pleased.

Excellent news... what company have you used and if you don't mind me asking how much have you paid?

tatabubbly

Ladies, for those looking for a budget friendly dress I would definitely look at Kitty and Dulcie dresses.. Mine is a full length that I got for under £500 and I know they have some for sale at the moment

PRINCESSX87

Hi ladies.

The invites sounds good ruby, Luckily I have a family friend making ours. Its her “thing” so getting it at a good price. Our cake is also getting made by a friend of a friend. So again a cost cutting measure for us.

We’re meeting with the photographer today and I am nervous. For me its one of the most important things along with the ceremony so hoping it goes well. We have had to cut back a lot to secure this persons prices but their work is 100% amazing and I would rather marry in a black bin bag than have terrible pictures.

What have you ladies actually booked / placed a deposit on? I am starting to think that I am falling behind or missing something.

So far we have:-

Booked the church
Booked and placed a deposit on the reception venue
Meeting with photographer & hopefully placing deposit
Arranged cars
Arranged invites
Arranged cake
Meeting with DJ

Fuzzy_Duck

I've got the following sorted:

Booked the ceremony
Booked and paid deposit for the reception venue
Booked and paid deposit for the photographer
Booked and paid deposit for the DJ
Booked hotel rooms

I need to get the catering sorted asap but FFIL is looking into that currently. I've also found someone for our cake and I will be paying the deposit for that next week provided I can book that early.

skintbuthappy81

PRINCESSX87 wrote: »

Hi ladies.

The invites sounds good ruby, Luckily I have a family friend making ours. Its her “thing” so getting it at a good price. Our cake is also getting made by a friend of a friend. So again a cost cutting measure for us.

We’re meeting with the photographer today and I am nervous. For me its one of the most important things along with the ceremony so hoping it goes well. We have had to cut back a lot to secure this persons prices but their work is 100% amazing and I would rather marry in a black bin bag than have terrible pictures.

What have you ladies actually booked / placed a deposit on? I am starting to think that I am falling behind or missing something.

So far we have:-

Booked the church
Booked and placed a deposit on the reception venue
Meeting with photographer & hopefully placing deposit
Arranged cars
Arranged invites
Arranged cake
Meeting with DJ

So far we have booked and paid the deposit for venue (both ceremony and reception)
Booked and paid deposit for registrar
Booked and paid deposit for the photographer
Booked and paid deposit for our vw campervan
Booked and paid deposit for bagpipes (to be played at ceremony)
Booked and paid deposit for the band
Booked and paid deposit for catering
Booked the night in hotel after the wedding along with reserving room for guests.
Booked and paid deposit for honeymoon
Sister in law to be friend does hair and make up so have booked her.
We have got our appointment for the cake tasting on 2nd December.

Arghhh still so much to do :eek:

ruby_eskimo

skintbuthappy81 wrote: »

Excellent news... what company have you used and if you don't mind me asking how much have you paid?

We're using a designer on Etsy; paying them £50 to mock up the invitation, save the date, evening invitation and accommodation / directions card. Then we're going to print them at home. There are lots and lots of people on there that are doing similar things; it was probably the one thing we've struggled the most with making a decision on!

ruby_eskimo

So far we've:

Booked and paid deposit for registrar
Booked and made first two payments for venue
Booked and paid deposit for photographer
Booked and paid deposit for band
Booked and paid deposit for Disney part of honeymoon
Bought my dress
Bought my shoes
Bought invitations
Decided on OH's suit

I've got a friend of OH's doing my hair and makeup and we're going to set up a trial for April and another friend is making our cake and we're meeting with her in the new year.

The only big things we still need to sort are:

- Flowers
- Bridesmaid dress
- New York part of honeymoon
- Deciding on food with the venue
- Wedding night accommodation

I think we're pretty much on top of everything but then again we have been engaged for almost 4 years so we've had a bit of time to sort out what we like and don't like!