Calling all Newbies and Lurkers...introduce yourself now...Regular Hitchers, OM's & HIBS welcome too!

Name - Ina

Age - 32

Location - Wee vilage in West Lothian, Scotland

Occupation - Customer Service

Children - None

Pets - 2 cypriot cats...Jinx and Sheba

Wedding Date - 28-08-10

Colour Scheme - dont really have one yet, it changes on a weekly basis lol

How did you meet your OH? - In Cyprus in a Karaoke bar, I was living there, he was stationed there

Something interesting or different about your wedding - Nothing yet, besides a good mix of Germans (my fam and friends) and Scots (his fam and friends)....should be interesting conversations lol

Wow your brave!!

Name - Stacey

Age - 22

Location - Dartford, Kent

Occupation - Marketing & corporate events

Children - None

Pets - None of our own, but we both have family dogs back at our parents' houses that we still consider ours too!

Wedding Date - 25th July 2010

Colour Scheme - champagne and ivory with touches of soft peach

How did you meet your OH? - His friend was chatting up mine in a bar and he offered to buy me a drink - already off to a good start! ?

Something interesting or different about your wedding - Ermmm...I'm doing a speech if that counts? My dad and I will be travelling up to the venue in a white London cab (although not sure how different that is?!). Can't actually think of anything else, it's all quite ordinary!

C'mon lurkers! say hello!

Name - Lucy

Age - 29

Location - nr Bluewater

Occupation - nhs manager

Children - 0, but have lots of little people in ours lives so don't feel the need to hurry for them.

Pets - 0, but am still trying to persuade h2b we need a cat.

Wedding Date - 1st aug 09.

Colour Scheme - has chnaged a number of times since we got engaged. at the moment, it's mostly navy, dusky pink with bits of silver and claret.

How did you meet your OH? - in paris while we were working as language assistants.

Something interesting or different about your wedding - not much. it's pretty traditional - we won't do different, just for doing different's sake. i will be turning up in my dad's gordini though.

Ooh la la, we're sitting at 3 of 10 tables, will hopefully stop by the other 7 on our way between tables.

Name - Leslie

Age - 26

Location - Dundee

Occupation - Shipping Co-Ordinator

Children - 2yr old son & 10 month old little girl

Pets - 1 german shepard - Lennox

Wedding Date - 28th Aug 2010

Colour Scheme - Dark Green for BM's then sage green/ivory or white

How did you meet your OH? - In a dodgy dundee nightclub

Something interesting or different about your wedding - My son is walking me down the aisle along with my dad - does that count??

Name- Summer Sparkles (obviously not my real name, wasn't raised by hippies)

Age-24

Location- Cambridge during the week, Norfolk during the weekends.

Occupation- NHS Research, got an interview tomorrow so will hopefully be on the clinical side soon.

Children- Not at the moment, H2B says he wants "one of each and a spare"

Pets- None

Wedding date- 29th August 2009

Colour scheme- Scarlet and Gold with a bit of ivory.

How did you meet your OH- When we became housemates, very short walk of shame!

Something interesting or different about your wedding- All our table names are named after vintage editions of the mini car, our disco is going to be made up of all our guests' favourite songs no matter how obscure, CBM is making a speech as Best Man can't be relied upon.

Name - Claire

Age - 25

Location - West Midlands

Occupation - Teacher

Children - None

Pets - Skylar, our black and white cat!

Wedding Date - 6th August 2010

Colour Scheme - Blue, with hints of other summer colours we think, not entirely sure yet!

How did you meet your OH? - At university.

Something interesting or different about your wedding - We will be getting married in the chapel of our university college.

Name: Keeley

Age: 25

Location: West Yorkshire

Occupation: Sales Co-Ordinator

Children: 2 Year old son

Pets: None

Wedding Date: 17th July 2010

Colour Scheme: Black & White

How did you meet you OH: I Used to work with his best friend

Something interesting or different about your wedding: Errrrrm.................. nothing as yet .

How did you manage to miss out on the Cambridge meet? If you are free on the 20th there is a Norwich one being arranged.

How did you manage to miss out on the Cambridge meet? If you are free on the 20th there is a Norwich one being arranged.

Name - Jo

Age - 29 and 3 days

Location - Cambridgeshire

Occupation - Retail and preschool

Children - 1 daughter (13) & 1 son (5)

Pets - 2 boxers, Bailey and Baxter and lots of koi

Wedding Date - 8th August 2009

Colour Scheme - Pink and Ivory (chosen by CBM picking a pink dress)

How did you meet your OH? - Outside a pub in our village in 1997

Something interesting or different about your wedding - There is nothing interesting........it's all very normal.

God I'm dull!!!

1. I'm shy ?

2. I'm only in Cambridge Mon-Thurs, actually live in a tiny village with no public transport and don't drive so am stuck there til H2B picks me up on Fri Night.

3. I was all lined up for the Norwich one but I'm in London for fathers' day and getting my Mum's outfit that weekend.

I'm doooooooooooomed never to get to a hitched meet!

Name - Count Duckula

Age - 31 ?

Location - Surrey

Occupation - Work for an investment company

Children - None

Pets - None

Wedding Date - 22 August 2009

Colour Scheme - Brown and pink

How did you meet your OH? - Internet

Something interesting or different about your wedding - Nothing. I don't like people trying to make wedding different for the sake of it as invariably it's all been done before and isn't actually different at all. Ours is quite traditional and normal.

Oh go on then....

Name - Tina T/ Mel

Age - 26

Location - Newcastle upon Tyne

Occupation - Museum education officer

Children - None

Pets - 1 cat, Patch, and 2 rabbits, Bert and Ernie.

Wedding Date - 22 May 2011

Colour Scheme - No idea, need inspiration! Plenty of time yet though.

How did you meet your OH? - We met at uni, he was a friend of a friend and lived in the same halls in the first year. Then he randomly emailed me in the summer between first and second year. Took us another few months to go out on a date and then that was that!

Something interesting or different about your wedding - Erm. Oh, we have a load of giant garden games here in the office at work (snakes and ladders, a HUGE target with velcro beanbags, etc) and I'm determined to scatter them all over the posh lawns of our venue.

Name - tracy

age - 31

location - west lothian scotland

occupation - sales assistant

children - 3

pets - 1 dog

wedding date - 4th june 2010

colour scheme - blue and ivory

how did you meet your OH - in a nightclub

something interesting/different about your wedding - no-one but me seems tobe interested in it ☹️

more of a lurker than a poster, hope you dont mind me joining in?

Of course not. thats what this thread is all about - to get all you lurkers joining in. We will show loads of interest in your wedding. THere is a 2010 list thread about somewhere, you may have a date twin ?

I noticed someone else from my neck of the woods so that is a good start

thank you for making me feel welcome

Hello everyone, been lurking and viewing for a while (got engaged in January) but first time poster!

Name - Hazel

Age - 34

Location - Newbury

Occupation - Marketing Manager (but currently job hunting)

Children - None

Pets - None

Wedding Date - 5 June 2010

Colour Scheme - H2B will be in a kilt so thinking of matching the bridesmaids to either the green or blue in the tartan

How did you meet your OH? - Internet dating

Something interesting or different about your wedding - Not sure yet, but will keep you posted!

Welcome to Hitched Hazel. As I said to Tracey, there is a 2010 list somewhere if you want to be added.

Awesome - we have got some newbies!

Name - Gillsy / Gillian

Age - 30

Location - Ayrshire, Scotland

Occupation - currently IT development and testing (yawn) for the Police

Children - None

Pets - None

Wedding Date - 9 April 2010

Colour Scheme - Victorian Lilac and Silver

How did you meet your OH? - We met through a boxing class that was run in two different towns by the same person. The instructor arranged for both classes to run a 10k race and then we all went for some drinks afterwards

Something interesting or different about your wedding - not sure if its interesting or different but cos we are having an easter wedding we'll be giving Creme Eggs to the guests

Name - Kate

Age - 19 (20 on 7th of August) (eek am i the youngest one?)

Location - Mansfield

Occupation - Currently looking for a veterinary clinic to take me on a student nurse

Children - None yet

Pets - A zoo ? 1 cat (Twix), 3 hamsters (Kate, Kirk, Harold), 3 mice (Lyra, Scruffy, Noodles), 4 leopard Geckos (Elmo, Cookie, Mac, Storm), 5 bearded dragons (Boo, Marley, Bruno, Sun, Bert), 1 Rankin dragon (Ernie), 1 Californian king snake (Spook), 1 Bosc (Flower)

Wedding Date - 16th July 2011

Colour Scheme - Ivory, light purple and a dark purple, silver

How did you meet your OH? - Through his sister on a night out

Something interesting or different about your wedding - Nothing so far, not planned much. I did meet my OH 2 weeks before knee surgery though and he looked whilst i was in cast, pushing me around in the wheelchair and getting everything for me and taking me to hospital in the middle of the night when my cast cut of the blood supply to me foot

You named the hamsters after yourselves? you're nuttier than i thought.

Name - Cat26/Cat

Age - 34

Location - Brighton

Occupation - Marketing Manager

Children - Lets wait for the wedding day first

Pets - none although would love a bow wow

Wedding Date - 13th June 2009 ?

Colour scheme - Ivory & Purple

How did you meet your OH? - Its very nerdy, we both worked at Woolworths Head Office and I was acting fire marshall and he was one of the fire stewards, its was a smouldering fire (see what I did there!)

Something interesting or different about your wedding - we didn't want a posh car, so have hired a friends midnight blue london cab, an ode to our love of london. we are also giving away the centrepieces as favours - they are lavendar plants

Name - Fi

Age - 22

Location - Kent

Occupation - Student Nurse

Children - Not yet

Pets - None, although my mum and dad have two little cocker spaniels, my babies

Wedding Date - 29th July 2011 although not booked yet

Colour scheme - Teal/dark turquoise, silver and white

How did you meet your OH? - At work in Sainsbury's, we don't work there anymore!

Something interesting or different about your wedding - My mum is making my dress. Not that interesting but it's the best I could do!

lol, it's cos we couldn't remember the names we gave them and one was for kirk and one for me so they were called kirk's hamster and kate's hamster then they just got called kate and kirk

I hope you never forget your childrens names then. it'd be a nightmare working out who the post is for!

Hello everyone,

Name - Nicola

Age - 29

Location - Annan

Occupation - Banking

Children - 0

Pets - A tank of tropical fish

Wedding Date - 7th May 2011 or there abouts (Hopefully)

Colour Scheme - Not sure yet???

How did you meet your OH? - Online

Something interesting or different about your wedding - Were planning on getting wed in Jamaica.

? x

Hey Bec.. a fellow warringtonian..... I am from warrington, moved to annan just over a year ago.... :-) x

lmao!!! no it's ok, we already have their names picked out and they're not the same =P and i wont forget them. tbf i have so many pets i was gona forget some at some point