April 2014 Brides

We've done quite a few things now, I have booked a hair and make up artist, we've booked the chair covers, venues booked and photographer.

I've finalised the designs for our invites, just need to make them all now.

The things I am struggling with most at the moment are deciding on menus for the wedding and finding a dress I like that is not REALLY expensive. All the ones i like are! ?

I've bought my dress finally so feeling a little more organised. It was expensive though, luckily for me my Mum randomly offered to pay for it in the shop, which was a lovely surprise.

Now need to sort flowers, book honeymoon and then onto the loads of little bits and bobs.

That is a lovely surprise! I knew in advance that my Mum wanted to pay for my dress which is why i feel like I don't want to pick a really expensive dress.

I need to sort flowers too, thanks for reminding me ?

I know. I was very surprised, especially as she is already giving us some money for the wedding too, so I wasn't expecting it. I'm paying for everything else though, veils, accessories and alterations. Have booked a band with the savings which was something I always wanted but didn't think we could afford

Hello, first post here.

I'm an April 5th bride getting married in a distillery.

So far we have -

Venue

Photographer

Celebrant

Rings

Pre-Wedding meal

Band

Catering

Dress

Jewellery

Hair

Flowers

Reception Lighting

Minimoon

All readings picked

Music mostly decided upon

And a surprise lined up for the groom!

Struggling to find the perfect shoes, I want wedges but they can't be high as my OH is the same height as me.

Super excited!!

K

Wow you are so organised cearstaidh! That all sounds amazing, very exciting

Love that engagement shoot picture!!

Since I last commented on this thread I have ordered and received both our day and evening invites which were through the sale here on hitched, I love love love them so much and got them half price which was an amazing bonus! I went for my first wedding dress app and might have found 'the one', going back to try on again etc

Most of the big things are sorted, just smaller things like guest book, sweet cart and suits etc left to sort. Can't believe it's only 7 months away on Thursday!!

? Hi all x

I'm getting married on April 5th and have organsised the following:

Church

Reception Venue, Menu, Accomodation

Centrepieces

Photographer

DJ & evening photographer

Car

Rings

Wedding dress, veil & shoes

Honeymoon + Cat into cattery

Hen do / Stag do hotel & travel

Flowergirl dress

Bridesmaids jewelery

Suits

Cake

Chair covers

Lots of decor - table numbers, table planner, rose garlands, teacups, mr & mrs sign

Designed invites & order of service

So.. not much left to go haha. Bridemaid dresses, Flowers, Sweet Buffet, Post Box, Wedding gifts, Hair/Makeup, Tiara & Jewelery. I love buying little bits though so keep adding little touches too xx

Oh & first dance is not yet sorted but I have made my seating plan already, as I think I know who will definiately go xx

I bought my dress yesterday. So excited now. I was finding wedding dress shopping a bit stressful but now I have fallen in love with this one and I can't wait to wear it on the day!

So how is everyone getting on? I've been pretty laid back recently thinking it's ages away and we're almost at the 6 month mark! This week has been quite productive as a results of the shock, we booked our band which OH is so excited about it's cute, ordered our wedding rings (I got far too excited about this), and I've started the painful task of putting our invitations together (slowly). Hopefully the only big things left to do are decide on the menu, centrepieces if we have them, order suits, transport and hair/makeup trial. Oh, and decide if I really am patient enough to make an origami bouquet and start on that or arrange a florist.

I've also had the same panic lately thinking argh! only 6 months to go and I'm sure we have loads to do! Although I'm sure it can all be done in plenty of time. I'm going to order my bridemaid's dress on Saturday and we still need to sort suits for the men. We have our food tasting in a few weeks and an appointment to sort the legal stuff at the registry office. Still need to sort out rings, we have an appointment with a jeweller soon, and flowers. I also need to start the slow process of making invitiations and I think I may make my own bunting to decorate the marquee to save money. I'm also thinking of making my own cake toppers but that may be a bit adventurous!! April is going to come around sooooo quickly!

Hello

I'm also getting married in April, although at the beginning of the month - so about 5 and half months to go! Venue is booked - although we still need to go food tasting - we figured we'd leave it until nearer the time in case the chef changes. I have my dress and shoes and mini moon booked and that's it....oh and some stickers are currently being made for the favours.

I've started on the invites - as in, the front is designed, rough draft of wording for the inside and we're going to get PDA Craft to print them, awaiting a quote

We have a meeting with a photographer this weekend.

So still need to get flowers (think I know who we're using), photographer, (we're down to two) favours (just need to order), place names, bridesmaid dresses (ahhh nightmare!!), thank you gifts (think I know what I'm getting BM's), make up, hair (I'll be using my hairdresser, will book him in asap), transport, centerpieces (I need to get off pinterest - too many ideas!), garden games, entertainment things for the kids to have at the table)...i'm sure I've forgotten things. Groom is sorting suits - although me being the control freak I want to go and oversee ha!

Oh and should reserve a bunch of hotel rooms.

So not much AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *MANIC LAUGHTER*!!

6 months to go for me today!! Am starting to panic slightly, got lots to do but how exciting for us all, not too long now!!

It was my 6 month marker yesterday, it's just bizarre because I still don't feel like it's real even though I spend way too much of every day thinking about it! We went to see my FMIL yesterday who has offered me the use of her pearls which is really nice. Finally had a long chat with my BM who has a lot on her plate at the moment so I've been avoiding overloading her with wedding stuff, she's going to try on and hopefully buy a dress we both like next week (I was intending to pay for it but she told me to eff off, haha). Our wedding rings have arrived but are stuck in the post room downstairs until we can sign for them on Monday - really frustrating because I want to see them!!

Oh and just to make sure I'm suitable stressed in the run up to the wedding I accepted a new job last week which I should start around new year and probably spend the first 3 months being a complete nervous wreck. At least I'll be ready for the honeymoon ?.

Hello,

I've recently become an April-14 bride as we had to move our wedding forward from July 2015 (mum's unwell)... so a week ago I had more or less nothing done and wedding is on the 4th of April. In the last week we've managed to sort out:

- Venue (just moved our previous booking forward)

- Registrar

- Catering

- My dress

- Shoes

- Cake (best that waitrose can offer!)

- Invites (as its a Friday we need to get these out as quickly as possible) in progress and should go out this week

Still to do:

Absolutely everything else

So stressed at the moment!!!

Hi Pbn,

Sorry to hear that your mum isn't well.

Great date to get married - same as ours You're in exactly the same shape as me, although we have no cake - opting for cheese wheels to also cater as evening buffet...

We have 158 days to go - lets not stress ! I think once we get the invites out everything else will come together.

Do you have a shortlist for photographers/florists etc?

x

It will definitely be a freakishly lovely day for April And by far the best wedding date... even my OH can remember 4/4/14!

158 days sounds much better than 5 months!

When are you sending your invites out? My MIL2B thinks we're crazy doing it this early but I thinks its only polite if people have to take the day off to let them know as far in advance.

I have a list of photographers and florists but haven't heard back from many of them yet. Also, went through a fit of panic last week and overspent on dress/catering so now trying to keep the costs down on everything else..... Ah, i'm sure it will all be fine in the end

Haha indeed! No excuse to forget the anniversary!!

I've just started designing ours now, i'm getting PDA Craft to print them, I hope to have them out next month, if not we'll wait until after Christmas...i'm not sure when we're going to ask for rsvp's by though - what about you? I know it seems early but one of my bridesmaids has been on at me for ages to send them out as we didn't bother with save the dates...least it'll be something to tick off the list.

Bound to go over budget on some things You'll be able to make savings elsewhere I'm sure. Every time we try and meet up with potential photographers they cancel as they get last minute jobs - so frustrating!

Where abouts are you getting married?

That's a pain! They must shoot more than just weddings if they are getting called away like that. Not nice for you if you've made plans!

At Lillibrooke Manor in Berkshire. Its a lovely old barn but we're a bit worried it will be freezing cold in April and all our guests will remember it as the day they had to wear duffle coats to dinner. How about you?

I have the same thing with photographers... try and meet up at the weekend and suddenly they have a wedding on. I need to find someone super local to me who's willing to meet up in the evening

Gorgeous venue pbn

I'm shocked at this. Weddings are booked months in advance so it would already be in the diary. Trying to think of anyone I know local to you. Are you based in Berkshire or traveling for your venue?

Don't stress, you're doing amazing if you've managed to sort all that out in a week!

Yep! Incredibly so! We live in London and the wedding is in Essex so the meetings have to happen at weekends as we're trying to use a local photographer. You'd be surprised at the amount of people that have tried to fob me off we a phone meeting rather than face to face. I'm sure we'll get there in the end x

We're in West London so not a million miles from Berkshire really. I think since last night we might have found 2 who've committed to meeting us over the next few weekends... yay! *fingers crossed*

Thanks I think we just tried to cram so much into last week that it all got a bit overwhelming... going to take things a tiny bit slower from here on in I think!(but not too slowly or we'll run out of time.. .argh)

Going for a planning meeting at the venue today eek! I got so panicked at the six month mark I've sorted out first dress fitting, hair and make up trials, ordered sample BM dress and ordered rest of invitation stuff. Also downloaded guides for brides app to make sure I'm not missing out anything!

Ooooh, just looked online - stunning venue!!! It's so pretty!! Do you have to decorate it yourself? We're getting married at the Roslin Beach Hotel. I really wanted to get married in my home town and there isn't many venues with a wedding license (we're not religious) and we can have the whole day there so seems perfect!

Good luck today flowersinherhair, let us know how you get on! Where did you get your BM dress from, I 'm struggling in that department!

Thank you!

I am getting them from InOne clothing, they are twist and wrap dresses, but I am waiting for a sample dress first.

Will do.

As for you -flash flash flash flash!!

Hi all, can't believe where the time is going, not been very good with the diet the last few weeks, need to re-focus!! Ordered the invites last week, can't wait to see them, hair trial next week, other than having it up, no idea what to have, what's everyone going for?