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rhosynbach

LadyshoppIr 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.

Well done you, love a nice home made soup i think cooking is far easier than people make out, its just having a bit of confidence in yourself, told the girls at work they will all be cooking cakes and soups and some of the simple dishes by the summer, think they should all learn espeacily the ones with kids

TrulyMadly

rhosynbach wrote: »

Well done you, love a nice home made soup i think cooking is far easier than people make out, its just having a bit of confidence in yourself, told the girls at work they will all be cooking cakes and soups and some of the simple dishes by the summer, think they should all learn espeacily the ones with kids

Well done lady shopper and rhos too teaching the girls at work. Priceless:T

Enterprise_1701C

bubbs wrote: »

Hope you had some nice cuddles:D

My granddaughter is not one for cuddles, but she was climbing up on my lap and cuddling up, it was lovely :D

Snap-ant

TrulyMadly wrote: »

surely the most boring gift was boxed fancy handkerchiefs

:(:( I agree - I owned 2 boxes - unused

rose28454

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

Dd got married in August so here are my tips:-
Set up a Pinterest board as we picked up some great ideas from there

Enlist as much help as you can few days before wedding to help set up

Decide what sort of reception decorations you want look them up online and then search eBay for cheaper alternatives

Look out for wine offers in the lead up and then get pre printed personalised wine labels so it doesn't matter if the wine is not all the same

Look on Facebook for cake makers

I'll post some more when I think of them

TrulyMadly

Snap-ant wrote: »

:(:( I agree - I owned 2 boxes - unused

Mine had days of the week on:o

izzy65

Good evening, congratulations mhoc, hope you stay sane during the organising, snap you can still get 4711 I bought some in boots last January sale, was one of my mums favourites, I still have it in my present stash:o so nice getting special cuddles enterprise,truly priceless

Snap-ant

:rotfl:

And the Spanish lady cards

Snap-ant

National Costume dolls ...

sarahskint

I HAVE BEEN LOL AT THE LAST 10 PAGES, JUST CAUGHT UP!!


When me and the husband got married we couldn't afford a lot but we did it all for under £2000, we hired suits, my dress from ebay £100 all in, 2 girls bridesmaid outfits, exact colours and sizes from another ebayer boys were only 1 and a half and 10 months, so got little tops and trousers from next in sale. cake was fantastic - we got 3 tiers from m&s top 2 fruit bottom one sponge and an extra sponge one as a lot of kids. I got a ribbon and a couple of spare flowers from the bouquet and it looked fab!! local caterer local dj lovely day we had. Just a shame all the photos were ruined by boots - but that's another story!!