Additional luxury items

Our luxury extras will be..

vintage ice cream Van with unlimited new forest ice ccream

Bouncy Castle (not just for the kids)

sweetie Buffet (although everyone has these now!)

starlit marquee lining

live Band

considering a pizza van in the evening

:-)

The only luxury is that I am having a hair stylist and MUA. I can do my own hair and make up but sometimes it goes wrong or takes me hours to do something like an eyeliner flick so I just don't want that stress on the day! Plus it'll be nice to look my absolute best and feel beautiful for a day!

We had a few things I would consider luxuries - string quartet, malt whiskey room and a ridiculous flowers/decor budget. Those things really weren't necessary but for me they made a big difference.

Then there were a few things that we chose to spend money on that also weren't necessary but we thought were a nice thing to do for our guests. These would be organising coaches to take everyone to their hotels after the reception and a open bar (Beer and wine only). The vast moajority of our guests travelled from quite far away so we wanted to help make it not so expensive for them.

We are having a wedding singer (a bit cheesy but its a treat) xx

We had G&D's ice cream cart! It was awesome, they even created a special new flavour for us (Cambridge Blue, to go alongside their Oxford Blue one). I think they were only just starting out with it, so maybe we got a bit of a bargain, plus we got married in Oxford so minimal transport costs.

Genuinely can't think of any luxuries? Everything we had I see as nessecary? Not sure if that makes me sad (quite possibly) or spoilt?

Mini - if you're anything like me and what I would like, in my H2Bs eyes, its defined as a spoilt brat I think he'd be more than happy in dixy chicken........!

this post has actually made me want an ice cream cart now - how much are they if you dont mind me asking?

To me. the "party" bit of the wedding is all about the food and the drink. So for me, the luxury part was choosing a venue with fab food and decent wines. Really important to mine and boy's culture, with plenty of decent food. We want people to be full, on good food.

By no means am I claiming my wedding food was AMAZING, but it was very good for wedding food. That was really important to us.

Oooh, I like this thread and I'n going to add in my venue, which I think was pretty luxurious, and also my cake-toppers - really expensive but sit of my window sill in my bedroom and make me smile whenever I catch a glance of them (and because I got the mini-me made wiht a really small waist)

Ha! I genuinely can't think of anything I wouldn't have had and still made the day what it was if that makes sense? Everything was bargainous really too so I can't even say much of it was a luxury.

I think this is true for me also. We didn't have a budget limit, we just kept buying/organising until we had what we wanted. At no point did we think 'ooh, let's have that little extra as a treat'. So things like a paid bar were just, well, part of the wedding and, for me, difficult to separate out from the big picture.

And if you work backwards with that logic - anything you spent that didn't need spending is a luxury - you end up at AC's position, where everything apart from your vows and your signature is a luxury.

Oooh, I had a photobooth (novelty seems to be wearing off with them, but still loved mine) with a wind machine.

I felt the wind machine symbolised the love my hubby and I had for each other, and the "air" represented the oxygen in our relationship.

Ha, only joking - I just felt a little bit like Beyonce when i was in front of it (although it was so cold it hurt my tooth)

Oh golly, my heart sank halfway through that post

and it would mean there would be no dessert wine or macaron tower!

It was the same for us - we had half the guests coming from france, and so important to make sure they were fed and watered all night!

I was about to report your account for being hacked! haha!

ha - it took me ages to think of what wind could represent! I was worried somebody would just quote the second line and call me a kn*b

I had macarons! Not in a tower but pairs of gold and pink ones, twisted into beautiful cherub-patterned tissue paper and left in bowls on our cake table.

Ha, I have a luxury!

Macarons are perfect, tower or no tower. Do they have them up North then FTLOMB, or did you have to get them shipped up from London? ;o)

They were shipped up along with the fabric napkins. Oh, the guests could barely believe their eyes and my wedding was the talk of the town. People trekked for miles, coal dust still streaking their faces, to catch a glimpse of cutlery made of precious metal

So when they looked at you, wide-eyed in amazement, and asked where these strangely chewy, meringuey, soft but crunchy biscuits-type things were from, you just whispered the word "London...." and they looked at you even more amazed....

*snort*

wine/screen interface genuinley happened right there.

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I've never had a macaron, ever every time I go to buy one I think HOW MUCH!! Hangs head in shame at tight fistedness? So I class them as a luxury!! Does that count..

You OMs are hilarious ?

A hushed silence fell and one hundred saucer-like eyes turned to me as I wove exotic tales of a far-off land, a magical place where dinner is eaten at night and toilets are inside.

and you can buy a Heat magazine...

Those who are having/had a free bar, how does it work? Do you settle the bill after or do you pay up front? If the latter, how did you work out the amount to pay?

We gave them £1k, then settled the excess the morning after. We had limits on our drinks though - nobody was to have bottles of champagne or 30 year old whiskey on the tab! The venue used their discretion and I can't fault them for how it worked.

I didn't tell them that. It would have blown their heads off.

In answer to the start of the thread, our added luxuries would be:

-renting out medley court for the week leading up to the wedding

-having a fully covered account bar for the evening

-9 holes of golf for any guests staying in the castle for the day after the wedding

-a massive dessert bar in the evening

-a personalised evening buffet of poutine (which can hardly be called luxury, but it's something we didn't need and had to request specially from the venue)

Fucking hilarious