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Name: Beckyv83

Location: Hampshire

Met H2B: At college through friends in 2002.

Got engaged: November 3rd 2009 after almost 8 years!!! However he did work abroad for three of those years so i will let him off!

Getting Wed: 04/09/2010

Venue: Elmers Court in the New Forest

Colour Scheme / Theme: Hot Pink/Fushia i think! Still in dilemmas about this one!

Honeymoon - Mexico hopefully all inclusive

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Wearing a big white dress!!!

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Looking at dresses and lots of pink stuff!

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Also realising you cannot keep everyone happy abd getting stressed about trying to!

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Name: RaeF

Location: Essex

Met H2B: At school. Kind of...

Got engaged: Valentine's Day 2009

Getting Wed: 08/08/10

Colour Scheme / Theme: Black and White

Honeymoon: Am at the mercy of h2b with this one!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Just to see it all come together I think

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: All of it!

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Can honestly say there's nothing I haven't enjoyed. Probably paying for it though! ?

Great idea Amethyst

Name: Zippy27

Location: Cambridgeshire

Met H2B: About 2/3 weeks before 9th August 2007 on facebook through a friend. August 9th is when we met properly and went on our first date.

Got engaged: March 19th 2008 on a snowboarding holiday in Tignes, France.

Getting Wed: 07/08/10

Venue: Church and local restaurant

Colour Scheme / Theme: Sage green and Ivory

Honeymoon - 5 nights in New York and 5 nights in Miami

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Loads!! Wearing my gorgeous dress, seeing my h2b standing at the end of the aisle, travelling to the church in our camper van and of course the honeymoon

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Having an excuse to go shopping whilst saving - it's ok if it's only wedding stuff!

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Saving! Not being able to buy new clothes, and hardly going out anywhere is doing my head in!

Name: Mrs Spink to be!!! (I know.. could i be anymore twee!)

Location: Cambridge

Met H2B: August 2006 on a girly holiday in Turkey. He was their with his friend. My friend and his liked each other so we were stuck together! Friends never went any further, they'll be meeting again at our wedding as bridesmaid and bestman! That's gonna be awkward!

Got engaged: 27th September 2008, in our fave Italian and i didn't have a clue, i even shouted at the poor waiter for bringing over champagne when we hadn't ordered it, 30 secs later he proposed!

Getting Wed: 08/09/10

Venue: Blue Lagoon, Olu Deniz, Turkey

Colour Scheme / Theme: Aqua, white and silver.

Honeymoon - tbc! Every week we have another great idea! We're not sure when to have it either as we're away for the wedding, and i'm hoping to be doing my PGCE, so prob will be 10 months later in the school holidays!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Everything, my dress, seeing how everyone looks together in our pretty outfits, oh... and the bit where i get a husband!

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: As cheesy as this sounds, joining hitched. Everything else has just happened, shopping and a wedding planner doesn't leave much for me to do.

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: The waiting!

Name: MrsTonner2010

Location: Runcorn

Met H2B: When I was in year 9 and he was year 10, through mutual friend he walked me home and we've been together ever since! Only ever been with each other too . 16/06/04

Got engaged: 14/10/04 on my 15th birthday and then again properly 2 years later!.

Getting Wed: 18/06/10

Venue: Church and a club attached to a hotel

Colour Scheme / Theme: Red, black and purple

Honeymoon - Up to H2B!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Finally being Mrs Tonner after doodling it in school books for years, walking down the aisle and seeing him waiting for me, first dance, and our BBQ reception!

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Having an excuse to write endless lists, make endless moodboards and buy pretty things "for the wedding"

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Probably having no money because I'm saving it all, BUT saying that i do feel very proud to have saved so much!

Location: Reading (getting married in Bristol)

Met H2B: Through work. Actually met when I came down South for the office Christmas party in December 2001.

Got engaged: 25th August 2009

Getting Wed: 22nd May 2010

Venue: SS Great Britain, Bristol ?

Colour Scheme / Theme: Pink

Honeymoon: Booked by D. I will find out when I get to the airport and he tells me the flight number for me to look up on the board (to find out where to check-in!) ? He's also booking the wedding night hotel and the night after as a surprise too!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Becoming Mrs T!!

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Everything!!

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Nothing!

Name: Shell

Location: Hampshire

Met H2B: 4th July 2006

Got engaged: 27th October 2008 in Chinese Restaurant. He got down on one knee

Getting Wed: 02/07/10

Venue: Careys Manor, Brockenhurst

Colour Scheme / Theme: Chocolate and gold

Honeymoon - Don't know yet

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Probably the honeymoon, just too nervous about the big day to be excited.

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Wedding dress shopping

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Budgeting

Name: Bethan

Location: Hertfordshire

Met H2B: Through our exes! Met end 1999 when both with our ex partners, started dating 23rd October 2004 (by which point we were both very single by the way!).

Got engaged: In our kitchen on Christmas Eve 2008.

Getting Wed: 28th May 2010

Venue: Jacobean hotel in Hertfordshire.

Colour Scheme / Theme: Dusky pink and Ivory. No real theme although the tables will be named after Spurs players.

Honeymoon - Undecided. It's gone from The Maldives to Hawaii/Vegas to Miami/Vegas to Thailand (this is the current choice).

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Watching H2B as i walk down the aisle.

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Going for dress fittings, picking suits, looking for bridesmaid dresses. The actual bits that involve my mum and the wedding party.

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: The family politics that generally comes with it all.

Name: Keely

Location: Essex!

Met H2B: He moved into the house share my ex (boyf at the time ? lived in!!!) a few years ago

Got engaged: On holiday in Cornwall in summer 09. Sooo gorgeous, it was sunset on the beach at Godrevy

Getting Wed: 23/12/10. Proper christmas wedding!!

Venue: Restaurant in Benfleet.

Colour Scheme / Theme: Overall theme will be pink & white with roses and snowflakes. Sparkles, sparkles and more sparkles!!!

Honeymoon - Not sure yet, if we have the money we're hoping to go to New York for new year.

Part of wedding you are most excited about: My h2b arriving at the venue in the camper van im hiring for him as a surprise!!! And seeing him waiting for me at the aisle, and the big knees up afterwards!!!

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Spending hours and hours googling the word 'wedding' lol!!! and bossing everyone else around

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Realising you can't keep everyone happy with the decisions you make,dieting, and having so many gorgeous things to choose from and a limited budget to spend on it all!!!!

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Hello all newbies and welcome?

Name: drifter

Location: gloucestershire/Cotswolds

Met H2B: When I was 5 years old on our first day of school!

Got engaged: on the 1st of OCt 2008

Getting Wed: 01/10/10

Venue: Local country church and then a beautiful converted barn for our reception.

Colour Scheme / Theme: umm undecided but current favourite Green and wheat/hojney colours with hints of dusky pink in the flowers (maybe but will change tomorrow)

Honeymoon - Undecided yet but talking of a cruise to chase the northern lights

Part of wedding you are most excited about:ooo tought question but offically becoming Mrs W and seeing all our friends and family

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: ummm I think venue shopping and when OH made our save the dates and surprisingly dress shopping.

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Organising and coming up with a colour theme (still don't have one) waiting to see my dress as it is being made and I'm scared I won't like it.

Name: Sarah

Location: Manchester

Met H2B: Crikey erm Feb 27th 2002 I think! We'd chatted online first as my schoolfriend was dating his cousin so knew eachother pretty well. Twas love at first sight! I was 16, he was 18. We did the long distance thing (he lived in Belfast) for aaaages, split up a couple of times then he moved over in Manchester in 2004/2005

Got engaged: October 2009

Getting Married: 3rd September 2011

Venue: Belfast Castle, Belfast, NI

Colour scheme: This will change! But currently vintagey dusky pink with accent colour of sagey green and or pale gold/champagne.

Honeymoon - Italy we think - it could change!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Honeymoon - will be first proper holiday in like 6 years!! Also having all our friends + family in same room.

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: I have to admit I love the planning!

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Having the pressure of finding the 'perfect dress' and the inevitable dieting.

Name: Moya

Location: West Sussex

Met H2B: While i was working as a club rep in Tenerife and he was on holiday there with my brother

Got engaged: October 2008

Getting Married: 25th June 2010

Venue: St Peters Church and then Highley Manor. West Sussex

Colour scheme: Pink

Honeymoon - Dominican Republic

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Arriving at the church and walking down the aisle with dad

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Being creative and making things

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Working every hour god sends

Name: Jen

Location: Glasgow

Met H2B: At school, started going out when I was 16 and he was 17. ?

Got engaged: November 2008

Getting Married: 3rd September 2010

Venue: St Andrews

Colour scheme: Purple, silver, and diamond white/cream

Honeymoon - Ischia, Italy

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Everything! Saying our vows, wearing my gorgeous dress, seeing my lovely H2B at the front in his kilt, having our lovely meal, dancing the night away, the wedding night (), the honeymoon.

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Again, everything! I have loved how involved H2B has wanted to be and just been so thrilled to be planning with him!

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: I'll agree with Mrs Spink to be on this one- the waiting!

Name: Stazzle / Stacey

Location: Kent

Met H2B: in a bar locally, his friend was chatting up mine so we started chatting...unfortunately not a very exciting story, but we had a great night ?

Got engaged: 8th April 2006

Getting Wed: 25th July 2010

Colour Scheme / Theme: Champagne, ivory with splashes of orange shades (peaches, apricots and more vibrant oranges etc) to get that hint of summer...hopefully!

Honeymoon: 2 weeks in Kenya with a 4 day safari trip in the middle!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Wearing my dress, walking up the aisle looking at OH, the speeches, the honeymoon!

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Choosing the venue, and finding the dress

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Agreeing with Zippy here - the saving! Think it has hit home how expensive these things are recently ?. Oh and also, the wedding cake and wedding favours. Just can't get excited about things like that!

Name: Keelz

Location: West Yorkshire

Met H2B: Through his best friend who I used to work with.

Got Engaged: 25th December 2006

Getting Married: 17th July 2010

Venue: Wentbridge House Hotel

Colour Scheme: Lime Green & Black

Honeymoon: We are having a mini moon in Dublin (just me & H2B for 4 days) then a week in Malta with our little boy.

Part of the Wedding your most excited about: All of it but especially, wearing my dress, walking down the aisle with my dad, seeing my OH waiting @ the end for me, saying our vows...... oh just all of it really. ?

Favourite part of Wedding planning: Booking the photographer, buying my dress.

Least favourtie part of Wedding planning: Sorting out the favours, which has been a major pain in the bum!!

Name: Jelly Bean

Location: Leicestershire

Met H2B: October 2006 at work....we then didn"t see each other for a year until he came back to cover some holiday in the store I was working in October 2007, got chatting on facebook and the rest is history

Got engaged: Christmas Eve 2009. He hid the ring in one of those DIY crackers!

Getting Wed: We have two provisional dates at two different venues and we can't make our minds up! Either 26th August 2011 or 3rd September 2011.

Venue: Hothorpe Hall or Quorn Country Hotel

Colour Scheme/ Theme: Not decided yet,but probably some shades of purple or lilac with maybe ivory and a hint of silver

Honeymoon: Hopefully the Maldives, with maybe a couple of days in Dubai as a stopover

Part of wedding you are most excited about: The honeymoon! And the pretty dress of course Oh, and I suppose the actual becoming husband and wife will be quite nice!

Favourite part of wedding planning: Googling pictures of dresses and colour schemes

Least favourite part of wedding planning: I'm horrendously indecisive and seeing as how much trouble I'm having making the first decisions (the venue) I can just see this getting worse as there becomes more and more decisions to make!

Name: Marie

Location: Dunfermline, getting married in Teesside

Met H2B: At a work xmas party - he used to work at the same place as me but left before I started - he was invited to xmas party at last minute as there was a ticket spare

Got engaged: 22 Jan 2007

Getting Wed: 28 Aug 2010

Venue: Crathorne Church then the Wainstones Hotel

Colour Scheme/ Theme: Black & white (and pink)

Honeymoon: Villa in south of france - then save up to go somewhere exotic!!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: The ceremony

Favourite part of wedding planning: Googling pictures and onine shopping!

Least favourite part of wedding planning: As we are living in Scotland, having to squeeze everything in to the weekends is pretty rubbish.

Name: Alia

Location: Bristol

Met H2B: First person I saw at Bristol Uni, over 5 years ago. got chatting in the JCR, were friends for a few weeks and that was that!

Got engaged: October 2009

Getting Wed: 17 July 2010

Venue: Kew Gardens, Richmond!

Colour Scheme/ Theme: whites, creams and ivory shades with silver and champagne

Honeymoon: 4 days in Bangkok followed by 10 nights in the Maldives! a water villa with our very own pool! so so exicted

Part of wedding you are most excited about: definitely the honeymoon!

Favourite part of wedding planning: booking the honeymoon haha. and researching fun things like flowers and cakes.

Least favourite part of wedding planning: having to make final choices about whether to book a supplier - always second guessing myself and doing excessive research to make sure I have the right person/price!

Name: Lindsay

Location: Shropshire

Met H2B: 24th November 2004. We both went to a fundraiser that a mutual friend was holding and ended up sitting next to each other. We've hardly been apart since!

Got engaged: The day after my birthday in 2008, we were walking on the beach in the evening and he got down on one knee in the sand and everything!

Getting Wed: 15/05/10

Venue: Local church that was actually my grandads family church then Hadley Park House in Telford

Colour Scheme / Theme: Red/White/Silver

Honeymoon - A fortnight all inclusive at one of the Couples Resorts in Jamaica

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Actually marrying OH (and wearing my dress and taking a limo to the airport and the HM)

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Watching OH get more excited and cuddly as it gets closer ?

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Almost constant arguments with my mum about everything...

Name: Michelle

Location: Essex

Met H2B: 5th August, in a club through mutual friend. Friend was leaving country and having going away party. Found out a couple of years later myself and OH actually didn't want to go, but both got dragged by friends. Am very thankful we did, otherwise we may never have met!!

Got engaged: On Christmas day last year. Myself, OH and his two children spent xmas with my family, and after all the presents had been done, he made a wonderful speech, made me cry (and the rest oof family) and got down on one knee. Only my Mum knew, who had the champagne waiting on ice. I was in total shock and still can't quite believe it.

Getting Wed: 05th May 2012

Venue: Manor House Hotel in Essex

Colour Scheme / Theme: Looking to have all pastel colours, pale blue, pale pink, lilac, pale green and yellow. Based around my favourite sweets/mashmallows

Honeymoon - 2 weeks in our favourite resort in Cancun, Mexico. Moon Palace Golf Resort & Spa... Can't wait!!!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Saying "I do!" and having a huge party with all my family and friends.

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: haven't done much yet, but I love reading all the magazines and surfing the internet for ideas. Can't wait to find my dress

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Knowing how much it costs !

Name: Laura

Location: Kent

Met H2B: First time round at karate, properly met and became friends a couple of years later at a Weatherspoons, through a mutual friend

Got engaged: 3rd October 2009

Getting Wed: 20th August 2011

Colour Scheme / Theme: Purple and pink/sweets, if we don't change our minds between now and then!

Honeymoon: Somewhere hot! I don't know the actual destination as H2B is booking it

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Seeing his face when he first sees me in my dress, and being announced as husband and wife!

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: I love it all so far....

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: It seeming like the day is agggges away, so having to stall myself from getting everything organised straight away!

Name: ooh la la

Location: Leicester (originally from Suffolk)

Met H2B: At school, in 2002.

Got engaged: 30th May 2009

Getting Wed: 04th August 2012 (hopefully)

Colour Scheme / Theme: A relaxed country affair. Pale mustard, duckegg blue, pale pink and grey.

Honeymoon: Ideally a working ranch holiday in Canada.

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Seeing OH waiting at the bottom of the aisle, knowing our friends and family love us and of course all that yummy food!

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Not done any yet, but I should imagine it will be collecting all the decorative bits.

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: So far......my Mum ☹️

Name: Emj85

Location: Sale

Met H2B: Online and turns out we knew the same people.

Got engaged: 8th October 2009 at the place we had our first date

Getting Wed: 04/02/2012

Venue: Wythenshawe Hall (I hope)

Colour Scheme / Theme: So far only thought of Lilac because its my favourite colour

Honeymoon - Hoping to go New York but if not 2 weeks in beautiful Cornwall

Part of wedding you are most excited about: All of it but Im enjoying having my fam (most of them) and friends around me and of course getting my man at the end.

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Going wedding dress shopping (need to lose weight first)

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Family members sticking their ore in and my diet which is dragging at the moment.

Name: vicky

Location: hertfordshire orginally kent

Met H2B: At uni in sept 2002, had some lectures together, we were friends for a year before getting together end fo sept 2003.

Got engaged: 14th March 2009

Getting Wed: 30th july 2010 at three lakes restuarant, westmill farm

Colour Scheme / Theme: royal blue, silver, white and other shades of blue int he flowers.

Honeymoon: 2 weeks all inclusive in turkey, cant wait!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: wearing my dress!! and getting married , everyone celebrating, its the first wedding in our family for a few years now.

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: dress shopping, tiara buying, getting to make decisions and not have to worry about anyone elses thoughts except OH on things like invites etc.

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: explaining to my family we were having a small ceremony and wouldnt be inviting a lot of family friends or their friends we hadnt seen in a while (but its ok now cos they are thorwing another party in kent for those and i get to wear my dress again!) and saving. cant believe im spending so much on one day and then am going to have to save all over again afterwards so we can buy a house!

Hi All!!

Name: MrsLowndes2b / Claire

Location: Stoke-on-Trent orginally Worcestershire

Met H2B: At the students union bar - he was my boss!!! He is the manager and I was working at the bar

Got engaged: 8th June 2009

Getting Wed: 17th July 2010 in Worcestershire

Colour Scheme / Theme: Deep Purple

Honeymoon: not 100% sure where we are going!

Part of wedding you are most excited about: the actual cermony and the dress lol

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: seeing it all start to come together!!

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: The diet!!! lost 2 stone so far and want to loose another 2.5/3 stone!!

Hello

Name: Nicola

Location: Originally from Warrington, Cheshire, live in Annan, Dumfires & Galloway

Met H2B: Online, July 2001

Got engaged: November 2001

Getting Wed: May 2011, no confirmed date yet as yet to book.

Colour Scheme / Theme: Aqua

Honeymoon: Getting married in Mexico so bit of an all in one :-)

Part of wedding you are most excited about: Finally saying "i do" to my gorgeous man

Favourite part of Wedding Planning: Finding the resort we both love

Least favourite part of Wedding Planning: Not being able to book yet as prices for May 2011 arent available yet!!!! :-(

Nic x

Name: Mel

Location: Leeds

Met H2B: Introduced by my big sister

Got engaged: On a mediterranean cruise on our balcony under the stars. August 19th 2008

Getting wed: August 2010

Colur scheme: Deep Purple, Ivory and splashes of yellow.

Honeymoon: Cruise summer 2011

PArt of wedding most excited about: Saying my vows.

Favourite part of WP: Finding my dress in the first shop on the first shopping trip and finding Benjamin Adams 'carmen' shoes for a bargain price!

Least favourite part of WP: Trying to type up the invitations and OOS in the correct format. (Not a damn clue!)

Melx