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  • twinklie
    twinklie Posts: 5,184 Forumite
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    Don't forget to look on here for ideas of how to have a MSE wedding. I had a lavish one for a VERY small amount....thanks to advice I got off people on this site (and being very lucky with the venue). Make sure you keep us posted with your progress...it's exciting stuff. Wish I was going to be MF by the time I'm 30...unforunately as I have less than a year to go it's not going to happen...ah well.
    Reduction in daily mortgage interest since October 23 (new mortgage) - £2.36 July 25
    % of house owned/% of mortgage paid off. July 25 - 38.82%/31.66%
    MFiT-T7 #21
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    MF Date: Oct 37 Feb 37
  • FlowerPower
    FlowerPower Posts: 190 Forumite
    Ooooh, congratulations on reducing your mortgage by such a huge amount and even more so on the engagement!!!! :beer: Hope you have a great time planning the big day :D
  • setmefree2
    setmefree2 Posts: 9,072 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Engagement_card_001.jpg

    CONGRATULATIONS
  • SmlSave
    SmlSave Posts: 4,911 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Ohhhhhhhhhhh Congrats hun!!!!!!!!! :dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:

    Yay to reducing the term on your mortgage!
    Currently studying for a Diploma - wish me luck :)

    Phase 1 - Emergency Fund - Complete :j
    Phase 2 - £20,000 Mortgage Fund - Underway
  • :oAfternoon peeps, happy Friday to you all :beer:
    Life continues a-pace here, we are still saving frantically for the wedding and hope the hit the £4k mark in the next week. I suspect that our plans to save £10k by the end of the year may be a little ambitious and it may end up being more like £7.5k, but TBH that is still pretty flippin good :).

    In essence, we are saving on the basis that we are paying for the whole wedding and honeymoon (we are asking for spending money for a wedding pressie so don't need to think about that). The budget for the wedding is £10k, and the honeymoon is :o£3k :o (please don't shout at me). OH's parents have suggested they will donate circa £3k to the wedding pot, but I really don't want to rely on this and then it not happen IYSWIM, so if they do contribute it will be a lovely surprise and bonus.

    Mortgage is still coming down nicely thanks to our new arrangement :T and we are living as MSE as possible (most of the time :cool:) so all is good here.

    Any tips to save money on a wedding are greatly appreciated - I have been on the wedding forum but everyone there is super organised and it freaks me out a bit :o. My main concern is the hire of suits and buying bridesmaid dresses - we are paying for 8 suits in total due to step parents on both side and step-brothers who are ushers, I dread to think how much that will cost :eek: Plus I heard that the average spend on a bridesmaids dress is £180 :eek:! I have 3 plus a flower girl - Eeeek!

    Anyway, I am ranting now and realise this isnt really MFW related, so I'll toddle off before my thread is shifted to the wedding forum :o;):D xxx
    MFW :)
    [STRIKE]Mortgage 8.2.15 - [/STRIKE][STRIKE]£171,064.64[/STRIKE] Mortgage 1.5.2018 - £99,980.45
    Aiming to be MF 1.10.2020
  • twinklie wrote: »
    Don't forget to look on here for ideas of how to have a MSE wedding. I had a lavish one for a VERY small amount....thanks to advice I got off people on this site (and being very lucky with the venue). Make sure you keep us posted with your progress...it's exciting stuff. Wish I was going to be MF by the time I'm 30...unforunately as I have less than a year to go it's not going to happen...ah well.

    Thanks Twinklie hun. The hotel we are getting married at is pretty much a set package so not much wiggle room on cost I don't think :-( . Any tips gratefully received! x
    MFW :)
    [STRIKE]Mortgage 8.2.15 - [/STRIKE][STRIKE]£171,064.64[/STRIKE] Mortgage 1.5.2018 - £99,980.45
    Aiming to be MF 1.10.2020
  • Well done to you both - those who are hostile don't understand that you are buying freedom as well as a house. They must like that feeling of being trapped, possibly because they can't imagine life without the routine. Keep squirrelling!
    x
    Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
    Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
  • Thank you Squirrel.

    I am feeling really positive today, let's hope it stays that way. Wedding savings have been put on hold for this month - we had to pay quite a lot of deposits for things via credit card, and the bill has arrived :eek:

    My interest free period on it has ended, so I have cleared that in full (£1700:eek:) and will resume wedding savings next month. I had a chat with my maid of honour and my mum at the weekend, and they have both suggested that I ask the bridesmaids and ushers/best man to contribute 50% towards their respective outfits. I am not sure what to do - is it okay to ask someone to be part of your wedding but then ask them to contribute to the cost of their outfits? I am really not sure what to do :o

    xx
    MFW :)
    [STRIKE]Mortgage 8.2.15 - [/STRIKE][STRIKE]£171,064.64[/STRIKE] Mortgage 1.5.2018 - £99,980.45
    Aiming to be MF 1.10.2020
  • I'm new here and it maybe a stupid question but what does MFW stand for?

    Thanks
  • Froggy-G
    Froggy-G Posts: 2,145 Forumite
    Steve1972 wrote: »
    I'm new here and it maybe a stupid question but what does MFW stand for?

    Thanks

    Hi Steve

    MFW stands for Mortgage Free Wannabe

    Cheers
    Froggy G :rotfl:
    Froggy's New Lillypad Fund
    Total so far: £ 10,009.77
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