who is getting married this august , what date

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dotty74 wrote: »

Hi everyone

I'm new here and just wanted to say how helpful I find this forum.

I'm getting married on 30th August 2008 - please can I be added to the list?

Hi Dotty, welcome and congratulations.

You get married the day after I get back from my honeymoon sob sob

mirrorimage0

welcome and big congrats, hows the planning going

dotty74

Thanks!

We're only having a small 'do', so we have most things sorted. I still need to find shoes and flowers - I'm thinking of sarahsflowers after reading some recommendations on here. I also need to work out what to do with my hair, as I will probably be trying to do it myself.
We then just have to work out how we're going to pay for everything! :eek:

paddingtondoo

Don't mention hair .

My friend is doing mine and was talking about having it curly and putting it up. I had it cut to chin length so she can't :rotfl:.

I have my tiara just need to decide how to sit it.

dotty74

I know what you mean - my hair is quite long and wavy and I'm tempted to just leave it down, but everyone keeps going on about up-dos and tiaras and fascinators and aaargh! I'm quite tempted by the feather fascinators, but the bodice of my dress is covered in swarovski crystals and I'm worried it might look a bit OTT. Although I suppose that's the point in a way

mirrorimage0

thats definatlet the point lol im so dressing up (for me that is) so really its still not over the top, lucky for me though my sister in law is a hairdresser and shei s doing all my bridesmaids maids and me as a wedding present

paddingtondoo

Yay!
have had confirmation from car company - need to post it back in the morning.
finally decided on music so have sealed the form in the envelope so I can't change my mind again! :eek:

Have finally booked mum her hotel rooms - just waiting for her to say step dad isn't coming now

Still waiting for rings (due this week) and bridesmaids dresses due in 3 weeks

7 weeks and it will all be over DD will be at her dad's and I'll be doing my usual frantic check of suitcases convinced something I put in an hour before has jumped out :rotfl:

Krystaltips

7 weeks? Where's the time going?! Just over double that and it will be our turn.... Still haven't figured out how we're going to pay for it either lol.

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Krystaltips wrote: »

7 weeks? Where's the time going?! Just over double that and it will be our turn.... Still haven't figured out how we're going to pay for it either lol.

I was happily swanning along thinking it was ages and then cottoned on that 11th June to 11 August is 2 months which id roughly 8 weeks and now another week has disappeared :eek:.

Just had confirmation from photographer that all is fine - now need to sort out if there are any particular pics we want taken - must make sure I get the right grandchild split for the appropriate grandparents - lol

I've managed to come in quite a bit under the original budget. My mother's donation should arrive tomorrow so once that gets here its all covered - just part of the honeymoon to pay off but OH has some bonus due.

Will be so nice to get finances back to normal and not have a list of things that need to be juggled to pay for

pinkpig08

AARGHH!! Up to now everything has been running smoothly. However last week the caterer told me the price :eek: £30 per head for 2 courses because we had all chosen different things, and she would understand if I wanted to get a different caterer. I was straight on the phone/email asking a few guests if they would mind changing their choices. Everyone was OK about it and caterer said £16 per head. I got an email the other day saying the price was now £20 per head because of staffing (don't know why, she always knew the numbers) and the cost of food going up. She said she also forgot to include the price of the kitchens, gas/elec etc. Now I know I've already paid for the use of the kitchen in with the cost of the room. I sent her an email telling her this. Later on I decided to ring round a couple of other companies just to get some other prices. One I rang said they could do 3 courses and coffee for £15 a head! And she provided linen (the original caterer said I would have to hire them from her) So I've cancelled the £20 a head one and booked the £15 a head one. I tried to ring the original caterer 3 times yesterday, I left 2 messages for her to get back to me and she didn't, so I've emailed her telling her what I'm doing. Do you think that's OK?