6 Months to Go! *fer-LASH*

Wow! That all looks amazing!

Where are you going on your honeymoon?

It's called Cayo Levantado in the Dom Rep. It's had the most amazing reviews on TripAdvisor; I keep checking it every now and then (I rarely go on holiday, so I want this one to be amazing)! I am SO looking forward to it- can't remember the last time I went away! ?

(I'm possibly even looking forward to that a little bit more than the wedding. I know OH is. Is that blasphemy....?! ?)

Love everything, looks amazing!

Omg this looks so amazing!! Cute favour bags!!!

It all looks amazing, I too love your dress! And super jealous of your honeymoon, no wonder you're excited! ?

It all looks fab! Love the blue and yellow and your dress is beautiful!

I love the dress, the hair, the shoes! its all very yummy!

I love the place names what an amazing and different idea

Very cool. Is that a paper Lantern?

If so, it/they will look very cool in the pictures (bright discs), especially if the photographer uses a shallow focus.

Some form of fairly type lights would work well to, as they look cool as little 'bokeh balls'.

All looks amazing!

which wedding dress shop is that? I am fairly local and it looks gorgeous! Xx

All looks amazing, I love your cake!

I got engaged at Cayo!! I can honestly say its an amazing hotel and everything is spot on!!

? date twin!

Wow your dress is stunning, its all looks fantastic i bet your very excited now

What a beautiful dress!

It looks bloody amazing! I love your dress and the yellow and blue seaside theme.

Where are you getting married? I know you are somewhere near me but cant work out where.

Wow love it all, love the use of chip forks too, brilliant !!! xx

Yep- they're paper beach ball lanterns; we've got yellow and blue ones- they're lit inside with a tiny (but powerful) led so no nasty naked flames!

Marianne (from this forum) is going to be our tog- i'll pass on your advice! ?

Thanks! It was a flash of inspiration; was looking for something cheap and a bit seaside kitsch- you can get boxes of hundreds of 'em for about £5! we'll have a tonne of surplus if anyone needs them! I did a couple of tester ones last weekend- we went for a walk along the seafront and I 'borrowed' a couple from a chip shop at the fair!

Just gonna write the names on with a Sharpie (fortunately I have been blessed with beautiful cursive handwriting- one of my limited talents!).

Pompey. We're having the ceremony at the reg office, then off to Rosie's Vineyard in Elm Grove for the reception. There's only going to be about 45 of us, so didn't want owt too grand- plus the grub there is pretty amaze (and the booze)! I like its 'shabby chic' vibe too.

The dress is from Anya Bridal. Did you go there? It is a B-E-A-Utiful shop. And I love the dress; totally not what I wanted, but my mate basically said she wouldn't let me leave the shop without it. When I tried it on, I tried to run out of the door because I didn't want to take it off! ?

Whereabouts you based, fellow South-Coast belle? ?

Fanks! I'm especially proud of the hair. Because I have to do VIRTUALLY NOTHING to it, and that suits me just fine!

(btw I've seen your flashy stuff- LOVE LOVE your theme!)

We were so going to have that! Our three choices were the Newtown house, Reg office+Rosies and then the Alverbank which won in the end

. I love Rosies, the food is amazing and the little courtyard is so pretty.

My dress came from Brighton, but I know a friend who has bought her dress from Anya, I diddnt get on too well with dress shopping unfortunalty and I couldn't find a nice dress in any of the stores in and around Portsmouth.

I am a Portsmouth girlie, Southsea born and bred.

We gave both pictures (and then some!) to our cake maker. Obviously she's done some rough sketches, but we won't know what it will actually be like until the day. It's going to be three tiers with the bottom being the sea (with the waves), the middle will be the waves crashing onto the sand and the top tier will be the beach. We are having crab cake toppers!

They're making a load of little details too, like sugar lobster pots and deckchairs. I can't wait to eat see it! ?

Oh, thank God! Last time I mentioned it on here, someone said it wasn't that brilliant- which, in fairness, contradicted all the reviews I'd read- so I'm SOOO glad you said that! I'm EVEN MORE excited now, I might explode a little bit.

*pop*

My profile pic is of the public beach at Cayo

Everything looks amazing, I love your dress and I love the idea of the kids favours, very good!

Now looking at the honeymoon online as I need ideas.....ahhhh I'm excited and I don't even know you haha! Have you got anything else to do? x

Erm.....they're not kids favours...there are no kids coming! ?

I just have very childish friends / family.

Thanks for the kind words! I have LOADS to do still; got more decorations to buy, make flags and an elaborately adapted cutlery tray to decorate for the ceremony (to hold the ice-cream bubbles), still no idea what i'm doing with my make up...need to book a hair trial....got to sort gifts for wedding party...no flowers actually sorted yet (though I know what I want), buy sweets for the sweet buffet...um...hang on... this is LESS than I actually thought i had left to do! Feeling quite organised now! *smugface*

Thing is, I've FOUND everything I want online (which is the stuff on my Pinterest), but as we're paying as we go by saving each month and buying things as and when, I can't buy everything at the moment! I've got most of the decs and stuff though now.

Oh, and I have to sort out evening invites. And send them out. We've got the day ones, they're just not sent yet.

I am also trying to source some blue/yellow polka-dot windmills like these. Not as easy as you'd think! Can't seem to find them anywhere in the UK.

Omg that has made me wet myself laughing - sorry I read kits and kids but LOVE that they're for the adults haha!

Sounds like you have it all under control, even though you don't have flowers booked at least you know exactly what you want, bet you can't wait to see it all together. The theme has been done really well. I am struggling for themes, I am quite traditional big white wedding....hmmm

.....still laughing, about the kids favours ?