5 months to go flashes!

It all looks very beautiful, your dress is stunning :-)

A simple and classic wedding it's all lovely.

It all looks gorgeous, I love your bridesmaid dress ❤️

Do you mind me asking where your BM dresses are from? that's almost the exact colour I want, and I've had trouble finding dresses in the right shade.

I had the same trouble finding the colour...

they're from debenhams..only size 14 left in my one though

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_008010818819_-1

they have these ones though

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_008010211419_-1

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_008010311619_-1

It all looks lovely!

love the cake especially, and your dress

Its all so beautiful

thank you!

Beautiful! Especially love the flowers and cake. The venue looks really familiar to me - do you mind me asking where it is? It looks a lot like Nutfield Priory from the pics. It's a stunning venue.

Thank you...yes it is Nutfield Priory ?

It flies by!

Your dress is beautiful.

I showed my partner your pics and he was convinced the venue is Nutfield Priory! It's absolutely lovely, some friends of ours got married there and it was a wonderful day. Hope you've got the same honeymoon suite they had, it's incredible! you'll have an amazing day. We must be quite local to each other, can i ask where you went dress shopping? I start my search in August ... quite nervous tbh!

It all looks beautiful - very exciting!!

Happyredcars...glad to hear it was a lovely day...havent spoken to anyone who's been to a wedding there.

Yes we are just outside of crawley...went dress shopping in crawley at white dresses and tiaras, proposals, the bride store and jasmines gowns in horley.

Where are you planning on visiting? I was really nervous but loved it...was excited to find my dress but disappointed that i couldn't try on anymore

My partner and I would have looked there for our wedding if our friends hadn't held theirs there (and we found another place we truly love) I really like the feel of it, plus they have a spa for any pre or post wedding treatments (i've used the spa before, a few years ago it and was lovely back then).

I have one appointment booked at the end of August at White Dresses and Tiaras - it looks lovely there, we kind of know the owner via my partner's sister. I've also spoken with someone at Yasemins Gowns and plan to book an appointment with them soon. I hope I have as good an experience as you! Your dress is gorgeous.

I've tried to PM you but it won't work ?

Which venue did you go for in the end? There's so many lovely places it took us ages to choose!

I loved white dresses and tiaras, my dress in the end was from proposals...they're so helpful in there.

Ooh i'm a bit new to this forum so not quite sure how the PM works!!

We chose Hartsfield Manor - it's exactly what we were looking for, we love the manor house kind of feel. Plus we wanted a venue where we could get married and have the reception in the same place, this fits the bill perfectly. I know what you mean though - there are a lot of lovely places to choose from! You definitely just get a feeling when searching, kind of like when house hunting.

Ah, maybe i'll try Proposals as well, I honestly have no idea what i'm looking for in a dress. So many people have told me they bought something entirely different to what they thought they'd get, i'm trying to stay completely open minded.

Hartsfield Manor is beautiful..we didn't view it as it was too far from the church for us. I remember seeing it online though.

Yes be open minded...i wanted and tried on big princess dresses and was torn between 2...literally could not decide...went to another shop and she made me try on a lace fishtail and I loved it...went back to all of the shops and tried on all of their lace fishtails and found my dress! Just enjoy every minute!

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I found it via Hitched - the venue search facility on here is really good. Funny how you can live fairly close to a place and not even know it existed!!

I look at some designs and wonder how they will look on me - i'd love to try and incorporate lace somewhere, a favourite idea is lace sleeves. I'm hoping with their experience, the peeps at the bridal boutiques will be more clued up than i am and offer ideas. I'm naturally indecisive so it might be a long search! Honestly, i'm surprised anything has been booked at all!! ? I love the detailing on your dress, Maggie Sottero designs are fab.

They're all really helpful!

Yeah I loved the lace pattern, its quite a heavy lace too so will be perfect for winter. Was scary though as tried it on in blush so didn't know what the ivory looked like until it arrived in!

That's good to know! Very reassuring ?

I bet it looks lovely in ivory! I stopped by the jewellery section in Debenhams over the weekend to check out their wedding jewellery - they have some bits that go perfectly with lace dresses.

I will have to go and have a look.. haven't got all my jewellery yet! thanks!