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bubbs

Anyone remember fine fayre and shoppers paradise?

Nannylala

Gonna have an early night ..all this eating drinking and late nights is taking its toll so night night all enjoy your evening :A as nothing is ever quite the same as sleeping in your own bed:T

bubbs

Night Nanny x

Tinyshoes

bubbs wrote: »

Anyone remember fine fayre and shoppers paradise?

I'm sure our Fine Fayre became a Tesco. And I do vaguely remember the name shoppers paradise, what did they sell?

Tinyshoes

Nannylala wrote: »

Gonna have an early night ..all this eating drinking and late nights is taking its toll so night night all enjoy your evening :A as nothing is ever quite the same as sleeping in your own bed:T

Goodnight Nanny, sleep well. :A

Ladyshopper

mhoc wrote: »

An announcement

My eldest and her BF got engaged yesterday - he proposed on the steps of the minster :j
They had their graduation ceremony there just over 5 years ago so it has great significance for them - un officially they have been together for 6 years including the extra year at uni.

So she rang us this afternoon and they want to get married sooner rather than later - not in the next 2 weeks obviously

Her initial figure is around £5 k - they don't want a wildly extravagant gypsy style wedding

She has organised numerous conferences and work based events both up north and in London so organising and negotiating a wedding will be an extension of the skills she has already learned but without the no holds barred budget

So to save her stress I just transferred the money across and then we rang her back.

OH asked her when we rang back if BF had had the conversation with his parents - don't think so.
But eldest child spoke to his mum and she said they had not talked about it yet - no idea why not because it was inevitable they would get engaged at some stage - but she said they would probably go with a 1/3 1/3 1/3 split :eek:

Bear in mind BFs dad is earning over £100 k a year and eldest child said he had saved 100k so far for his retirement -

(Yes I know in the dark ages brides parents paid for everything but its 2016 in less than a week and mostly kids mostly pay for their own weddings now)

Any hints and tips for budget weddings which still look spectacular would be appreciated

Congratulations mhoc, what lovely news. I look forward to all your posts about the planning, which will undoubtedly be described in your own unique mhoc way! :rotfl:

Think I've mentioned before that I'm not much of a cook really. Made carrot and coriander soup this evening for tea, it was lush. So simple as well. I really need to get out of panic mode where cooking is concerned and try to do it more.

bubbs

Tinyshoes wrote: »

I'm sure our Fine Fayre became a Tesco. And I do vaguely remember the name shoppers paradise, what did they sell?

Dunno about ff and tesco, shoppers paradise sold groceries they were really cheap

bubbs

Ladyshopper wrote: »

Congratulations mhoc, what lovely news. I look forward to all your posts about the planning, which will undoubtedly be described in your own unique mhoc way! :rotfl:

Think I've mentioned before that I'm not much of a cook really. Made carrot and coriander soup this evening for tea, it was lush. So simple as well. I really need to get out of panic mode where cooking is concerned and try to do it more.

:T:T:T well done, if you try and dont turn out like you was expecting try again tweaking different things

Serendipitious

Snap-ant wrote: »

Novelty soap from Avon every Christmas

And soap-on-a-rope, the most boring gift ever, closely followed by bathcubes that never dissolved properly and notelets with horses and foals on the front...

Or a whole writing set with notepaper and envelopes, and games compendiums where you had to press out the cardboard pieces to be able to play.

Yesterday in Halfords I saw a Pendleton bike, very like the one I had in my early teens. Lasted years and I flew around everywhere on that. Loved that bike. Freedom with a capital F.

HILLBERN

mhoc wrote: »

An announcement

My eldest and her BF got engaged yesterday - he proposed on the steps of the minster :j
They had their graduation ceremony there just over 5 years ago so it has great significance for them - un officially they have been together for 6 years including the extra year at uni.

So she rang us this afternoon and they want to get married sooner rather than later - not in the next 2 weeks obviously

Her initial figure is around £5 k - they don't want a wildly extravagant gypsy style wedding

She has organised numerous conferences and work based events both up north and in London so organising and negotiating a wedding will be an extension of the skills she has already learned but without the no holds barred budget

So to save her stress I just transferred the money across and then we rang her back.

OH asked her when we rang back if BF had had the conversation with his parents - don't think so.
But eldest child spoke to his mum and she said they had not talked about it yet - no idea why not because it was inevitable they would get engaged at some stage - but she said they would probably go with a 1/3 1/3 1/3 split :eek:

Bear in mind BFs dad is earning over £100 k a year and eldest child said he had saved 100k so far for his retirement -

(Yes I know in the dark ages brides parents paid for everything but its 2016 in less than a week and mostly kids mostly pay for their own weddings now)

Any hints and tips for budget weddings which still look spectacular would be appreciated

My Ds and his wife married in the Philippians it was lovely and at a fraction of the price it would have been here----but DIL is Philippine and lots of her family still live there which is why we not only had a fantastic wedding but super holiday (not with them). there fore is getting married abroad an option?