April 2012 Hitchers

Im may 2012 so near enough!! we have:

Venue

Registra and given notice

TOG

DJ

Flowers

My Dress

BM dresses

FG Dress

Booked Chair Covers

Not really much we can do now til later in the year!!id suggest looking at flowers asap as spring is really popular!

Im March 2012 and so far we have:

Venue

Registrar

Tog & Vog

Florist

Chair covers & centerpieces

Bridemaid & flower girl dresses

My dress, veil and side tiara

Sent out save the dates

Hi,

I'm April 7th, which date in April are you?

We've booked venues, paid deposit on cars, chosen suits and I've chosen my dress but not ordered it yet.

I'm BM for my friend next month so focusing on her wedding for now and will hopefully focus a bit more on ours after lol

?

xxxx

Definitely close enough Flow, I'm at the end of April anyway, so what's a few days here and there then!

Honeymoon and florist were next on my list! I'll get on the case a bit more now then. Plan to go dress viewing within the next month or so, going to get it made, but want to lose weight before I give my measurements!

Oh forgot that I'd provisionally booked the registrars as well, giving notice next Friday too. Phew, don't feel quite so behind then, sort of... ? lol

Are you having purple flowers Charliebird? I ask because of your avatar?

Hi Paulsprincess, my date's 20th April ? When's your friend's wedding?

I've done loads of researching and know more or less what I want for everything, just need to get it booked but I kinda feel like it's too early...

Where are you all getting married, feel free to ignore me, I'm just being nosey ?

Yes, I am having purple flowers but not the one in my avatar (I just havn't changed the photo yet!) Were having purple tulips an white roses.

You've just reminded me that i've booked my honeymoon too, how could I forget that!?! I even had a dream about it last night! Lol!

Were getting married here:

What about you?

Hi Paulsprincess, my date's 20th April ? When's your friend's wedding?

Hiya hannioli, I don't know about you but time seems to be running away with itself ATM. Her wedding is on 16th July so 4 weeks tomorrow so she's getting all stressed out, bless her ?

Been getting quotes for chair covers and florists too! May also go ring shopping this weekend with OH if we have time

We're getting married at OH's family church in Nottingham and our reception is at Bestwood Lodge in Nottingham... https://www.bestwoodlodge.co.uk We love it and the staff have been fab so far!

Where abouts are you getting marrid?

xxxx

I love purple, yours sound lovely Charliebird 🙂

Ooh, where are you going on honeymoon to? h2b and I can't seem to decide where we're going, so I think a trip to a travel agents this weekend might in order. I completely forgot, I have a florist appointment tomorrow!

How did you ladies choose your florists?

☹️ I can't see your pics on my work laptop, just little white boxes with squares!

Paulsprincess - your venue looks loooooovely! And yes, time does seem to be flying by, we booked the venue mid April and it feels like it was just the other week. It hasn't really helped though that work has been crazy and we're buying our first house at the same time as wedding planning though!

You've done more than me, so I wouldn't worry, partly because that means that I need to worry, but we're still about 10 months off! 😉

We're getting married at Crondon Park in Essex! I love the venue, but a little annoyed in that they state that we can only use one chair cover company, that are not cheap, and that we would have to cover the reception room chairs AND the ceremony room chairs, quote is coming back from that company at around £600 >_<

The reception room 🙂

How could i forget, ive booked the honeymoon tooooooooooo!!

heres where we get married, tis thew only pic i have!!

Hannioli If you feel behind then I am screwed.lol. We got engaged begining of June this year and are looking at mid Apr 12 for our wedding!! My mate organised her entire wedding in 3 months. And she got some really good deals for booking later. Just want a venue sorted because once that and the registrar is done then everything else falls into place(hopefully). Is anyone else going for a spring theme?

Where have you booked Flow? Your venue looks beautiful ?

Hi Kelly, oops didn't mean to make anyone feel bad ? I agree with you, we had to postpone our wedding, but when we decided when we were going to have it I didn't feel like I could do anything until the venue was booked!

Have you looked at any venues yet? I just wanted ours booked as soon as poss as where we are there aren't many barn venues and they're soooo popular, and we'd set our hearts on one, so if we didn't book when we did, we wouldn't have had the month we wanted!

Almost all hitchers must be ridiculously organised to have done so much already!

thanks, i love it!! its called Belstead Brook Manor in Ipswich, its actually only 3mins or so from my house!!

Its still 10 months away!....and 3 days! Plenty of time! Saying that, alot of our things are booked, only because good photographers/florists etc seem to be in short supply around here! So far we have:

Booked venue

Booked cars

Got dress, veil, shoes

Bridesmaid dresses made

DJ

Honeymoon

Florist

Photographer

Make up lady

Sent out save the dates

Still got lots of bits to sort such as suits, rings (very excited about this!!!!), presents, lots of diy bits!

We're going to the Maldives for a week (self indulgent flash coming up!)

I chose our florist mainly on the fact that she had done a lot of weddings at our venue and when I met her and talked everything through she was really helpful and managed to help me in putting my flowers together.

Gorgeous venue btw. x

Ooh, hi Splangford, date twin ? You're so much further ahead than I am! Like you said though, 10 months, so plenty of time left still!

Thank you Charliebird ? Eeeeee I have honeymoon envy! I love those water villas. Really want one, but they seem to mainly be in the Maldives and we decided that the Maldives would probably be too quiet for us, so we're thinking about the Caribbean now.

OOOh everyones venues look lovely. I'd love a barn wedding but alas the budget will most definitely not stretch that far. Looking at Headly Park Hotel(Can't Flash-not allowed yet) Just having trouble getting OH to agree as he wants a Church wedding and I really don't. Did anyone else OHs have really strong ideas on what they wanted that conflicted with your own????

P.S. I'm ooober jealous of the Maldives?

I'm 12th May and have booked and paid deposits on:

venue

caterers

cake

cars

dress

venue decoration (chair covers, etc)

table plan

registrar

TOG & VOG

DJ

String Trio

Wedding Rings

Flowers

Hair & Make Up

have bought outright: wedding insurance, my tiara, and my shoes

still need to arrange:

Bridemaid Dress

Flowergirl Dress

Groom & Best Man

Veil

Invitations

Guests Book

Hotel Room

Favours

My Underwear

HTH, x

Hi, April 27th 2012 here sooooooooooo excited and I know its said alot but time is flying fast wasnt so long ago that it was well over a year.

We so far have done:

My dress - ?

Tiara

Venue booked, deposit paid (and more) for wedding and reception

DJ included

Registry appointment to give notice booked for 7th July

BM x2 and MOH dresses

FG's dresses + Tiaras

Page boy full suit (son)

2 out of 3 other Page Boys waistcoats

3 tails suits -OH,BM and my brothers who is giving me away.

Favour boxes

Mirrored plates

Kids Favor boxes

Cake boxes

Bubbles for the tables

Invites

Table number cards

Few things still to get, most important one at the mo is TOG but waiting on a friend of a friend who is a TOG.

Katrina x x

Were getting married on 21st April 2012

I am so not as organised as most of you.

Weve booked the hotel for ceremony and reception.

Booked the registra

Been dress shopping , found MOH dress and my dress , just need to order them now.

Met with a photographer. (need to book her)

so still lots more to do.

31st March 2012 so technically it will go into 1st April! ?

I have booked the following:

Church

Venue

Cars - Beauford for me/dad/H2B and a Regent for bridesmaids and mum

Cake (from Eccles Cakery who on here!)

TOG

Dress (which i have now gone off and am trying to sell but not having much luck ☹️ )

Table Centrepeices

Chair covers

bridesmaid dresses

DJ

save the dates

flowers

All i really need to do now is find a band, wedding rings, NEW dress (if i can sell mine), accesories, mens suits and little things like favours etc.

Hooray Zebra! You've done about the same as me ?, we must be ok then lol

Everyone else is just far too organised ?

I keep remembering things that I have done now, this is not good, losing my memory at 24... 0_o not good! So, I've actually done:

- Booked venue (ceremony & reception), paid deposit and a bit more

- Booked Photographers and paid deposit

- Chosen rings, our lovely ringmaker friend is going to make them ? he's going to make mock ups in brass for us so that we can be sure that what we've chosen is what we want! YAY!

- Got wedding insurance

oh...hmm...that's all I've really done, oops! Buuut...I know more or less what I want for almost everything else, just need to get it really. Oh and save up the ridiculous amount of money for it all, booooo! On the plus side, I think h2b and I have finally narrowed down our honeymoon destination ? though I might throw a spanner in the works when he gets back in a minute... ?

For those of you that have decided/bought/paid deposit on things, fancy flashing?

Here is the dress that I have now decided I don't like!! ☹️

We are getting married on 21st april 2012 and we have so far:

Venue booked and deposit paid (this is for both ceremony and reception its all in same place)

Registra booked and deposit paid

Dress bought and at moh house plus accersories to customise.

Hair accesories bought

Invites made and away

Evening invites in process of been completed

Photographer booked and deposit paid

My shoes bought.

No idea on bm dresses yet or fg dresses, Got idea on pageboy outfit

H2b arranging suits for the men so no idea on that.

Gift list is gonna be just holiday vouchers to pay for a honeymoon away in the june july hopefully.

cake ordered as fg mum is making us it as a gift

Oh no, why?

Hmm...my post has either disappeared or I forgot to actually post...lol

MrsLeightobe, your venue looks amazing, massive wow factor! And your dress is stunning, why don't you like it any more?

Hi NatJay ? That's so good that you've got useful friends! Every little helps

Just wondering how you April ladies (and any men out there too) are getting on?

I've made a little bit of progress now that I've moved in to our house, yay!

Oooh im 28th April 2012 and I have so far got….

Theme and colour scheme

My dress

BMs dresses

Venue and church booked

Caterer

Table centre pieces

IM behind I think???...got my girls round on Saturday for a coffee morning and wedmin meeting!!

Im sure I will have many lists after that.

Right now im loving this site and all the ideas from you wonderful hitchers.. J

Oo bexybexy - your day will be fab ( its my birthday )

I am an April bride ( 7th) and I felt as though I was doing ok until I read how much the rest of you have done and now I've gone into a slight sweat lol

So far we have booked:

Venue

Registrar

Tog

Flowers

My dress

Band

Mens suits

Best man pressies have come today!

We've bought the egg cups for the favours

Got the frames to make a table plan with

Sent out save the dates

Got the Ikea double frames on Tuesday night for the table number + menu

And I've literally just given the details to hair and make-up artist

PHEW

Seems like a lot, but the list of "To do's" is so much bigger!

Hannioli, I have done literally nothing! Bought bridesmaids shoes that is it! Hit a bit of a brick wall with planning as theres not a huge amount to do atm. Once Christmas is out the way I'm sure there will be alot more to do!

How are you getting on?

Just thought i would top my list up.

I have now bought my gift card post box, table runners.

I have just written out my invitations so now cant wait to post them out.

We know what rings we want hopefully going to get them soon

We are giving notice of mariage next week and hopefully going to the venue for a tasting session soon.

all bm'd now have an idea on which dresses they are having just need to buy. My pageboy suit i'm just going to buy from bhs and flower girl too.

ooooohhhhhhhh I can not wait now it getting under 7 months

More for my own benefit, to see it in black and white...

Booked/bought

Venue

Registrar

Photographer

Cake

Florist

My Dress and shoes

Bridemsaids dress, shoes and jewellery

Makeup and hair artist booked

Flower Girl dress

Favours

Invitations

Still to do

Grooms and BM suits

Rings

Give notice

My jewellery

Centrepieces

Send invitations

?honeymoon

Loads of other bits and bobs that I remember last thing at night and forget by the morning

Miss T

Wow, some of you ladies are so organised! Sounds really good so far!

Less than 7 months to go now and I've finally started my wedding diet (properly lol) now! Need to shift some of these unwanted pounds ☹️

Ahh Splangford, I'm in much the same boat as you!

I've managed to order my dress, but still haven't gotten around to asking future SIL to be a BM, so can't do anything on that side yet! We also booked our honeymoon...was all perfect, until BA cancelled their direct flight...so now having an argument with the travel agents over what we want to do... >_< Also decided on cake, going down the M&S route as suppliers were pi$$ing me off! Umm...but that's it...

I'm thinking about cracking on between now and Christmas to get more done though, invites, bm dresses, shoes, tiara, jewellery, suits, dj, chair covers, entertainment (got a litle surprise for my guests), ooh and hen do!