Easter 2012 brides???

Hello ladies!! 13 and a half weeks for me!

Sorting the invites out now which are being designed for us by a friend - It works out at a whole 69p each for the card which i got from a company, envelopes and card - i`m chuffed to bits! Really looking forward to doing those which should go out in the next two week.

Ordered the dessy bridesmaids dresses!! whoohhoo! and my other half has chosen his suit although I wont know anything about it until the day!!

Flower person picked too! cake appointment with Aunty sorted, rings to be bought on the weekend - we`re going away to get them and making a weekend of it! Feeling we`re finially getting there after me being way too chilled then having a 'crikey' moment when i realised what was left!

Videographer in Bristol area - not far from us! We found so many are so cheesy. We have booked Iconic Images based in Cheltenham https://www.iconic-image.com/ at £550 which I thought was brilliant!! its made like a film which is what we wanted but perhaps not everyones cuppa!

Found myself having a cry home every night this week i`m so excited! xx

Sarah are there any sites on the net that have the prices of dessy dresses or do you have to order them from a shop? x

Ah Creme eggs are such a weakness for me! But getting married on the 6th and go on honeymoon on the 9th so can pig out between put on 4 pounds over Xmas [:'(] dress still not here yet eeeeeek getting major panics bout that, but if guys aren't having fittings till feb should be ok.... As long as it comes in soon!

I'm another easter bride, getting married on maundy thursday- 5th April.

I've just started getting stuck in with the planning... its all so daunting, etiquette for everything!

In between buying my dress and now we postponed our wedding and had a baby in the middle, whilst I still love my dress I'm majorly panicking as it doesnt fit- the zip wont do up even a teensy bit!

WoooHooo another one of us!!

I think I speak for everyone when I say - Flash us your dress!! We love a good flash! What kind of back is it - lace or zip as they can do wonders with dresses! xx

Its zip unfortunately otherwise I'd be fine!

I dont like it as much in this picture, it just doesnt look the same.

i bought it as a uk size 8/10 but am still a 10/12 with 13ish weeks to go.

Oooo that dress is lovely

Ok youve twisted my arm - here is mine

That is absolutely gorgeous! I love seeing other peoples dresses!

As we postponed after the dress was ordered mines now at home with me, so I can regularly try it on to see if I can get in it yet. I have made good progress however seeing as when I first collected it I couldnt get it over my bum. So I am getting there slowly, i just need to get there quicker now the day is approaching! Nothing like having it here for incentive though!

I'm having a little bit of an easter theme- nothing major but I want easter eggs as part of my centerpiece, anyone know where I can get a few buckets of them cheaply? (I dont care if the chocolate is naff, I cant imagine many will really get eaten), the other thing is, I want them in shades of blue or complimentary colours to match my blue colour scheme!

When me and our florist were orginally discussing ideas we were going to fill the vases full of foiled eggs and have a sponge thing on top and the flowers coming from the sponge - I decided against it in the end due to cost but she had planned to get them from Aldi.

Hope that helps!

Here is mine - Love her. Just cant decide how I want it to hang at the moment - guess I wont know until we have had it fitted as it is 2 sizes too big!

Love your dress Choc - such a beaut, having a goal like a wedding dress sure does help!

Shells - I have said this before but that dress is amazeballs!

EEEEEEEEEEPPP just had a call from my mum - She's received her invite!! (yes I know, I sent my own Mum an invite! haha!!) Our invites are popping through peoples letterboxes as we speak! Self indulgent - but soooo exciting!! x

Lovely dress :-)

I've not even got my invites yet! I'm so disorganised! I was planning to order them this week and get them sent out by end of January with RSVPs to be back by end of February... is that too late!?

We have to have our numbers bu around the 25th Feb so we have put the 10th as the RSVP date expecting a few stragglers.. Just wanted to get them out as soon as I could - one less thing to worry about! x

Love your dress Shells. I'm a sucker for lace...

Hello my fellow Easter Lovelies......just had to post 'cause it's 3 months exactly today for me and other Easter Sunday Girls! Yey! We're finally getting a shifty on with plans, sorted flowers last week, seeing cake lady tomorrow, suits next Saturday and make up trial next Sunday-il do you all a cheeky flash of the makeup If it looks good! Spent all day with my mum shopping for her outfit yesterday, bless she told anyone who'd listen that she is mother of the bride My hen do is 4 weeks away, when is everyone having theirs? And loved the dress flashes, some stunners A x

My hen do is on the 24th march cant wait! although slightly nervous dont know anything about it! rang my dress shop again to nag them about when my dress is coming in and they said they would ring me 2mro with an exact date (have heard this so many times!) really getting frustrated now need to book in fittings!! flowers, cars, make up, suits is all on my list of jobs for next week ordered the rings on friday and been getting a slow stream of rsvps back hopefully more this week!! I have less than 3 months getting married 6th april!

Yep 3 months today date twins! We have everything sorted, apart from bridesmaid attire! I dreamt last night that we got married, but there was lots of things id forgotten to do, so hoping i dont!

We have got all our RSVP for the day do back now...we sent them out early with it being Easter, and asked for everything back by today...and we have had all of them back, and all of the ones we sent out have accepted!

Scary stuff now!

Back to Bridesmaids...My 2 nieces have see ivory dresses...our colour theme is silver and pink, could i get away with those if i accessorise with pink or silver things?????

Jules, - super sorry for the later response.. i`m sure you understand it`s been super hectic!

The dessy dresses are from a shop in Gloucester. I went on the main dessy website and found the nearest stockest. I`ve gone for three different dress styles, all the same colour.

This week i`ve sorted calling of the banns, invites which are due to go out late this week early next (a little later than thought but these things happen), rings ordered and paid for - went to Birmingham on Friday and found them, and had a meeting with OH aunty who is doing the cake. It isnt the lacey design I initially wanted but it`ll have four tiers of cake and two tiers of dainty white flowers. Hopefully i`ll be able to get a flash or two on here soon. I`m sooooooooo happy with the invites i`ll do that when it`s all done.

Really stressed about shoes. i need platform 10 cm, white with ankle strap! Not asking a lot! lol!

Happy 3 months to go! xxx

Went to my mums last night, invites are done.

Can hand give most of them out going to stick the ones I need to in the post tomorrow when I'm back at work - then I suppose sit and wait to see who comes! *nervous*

Is anyone else nervous that people won't turn up and the evening will be dull and lifeless?

Shells you are sooo not on your own on that thought - I looked at the invites before I sent them off and thought "is that it?" only for mt OH to remind me that 99% are couples or familys.. Sooo scary now!

Had a few texts here and there to say that people have theirs which is nice, as long as they RSVP (bridezilla attacks!)

I know I am forgetting things - I need to write a to do list ASAP! xx

Thank god I'm not the only one

I'm also having second thoughts about them as I'm not sure if they are weddingly invitey enough ARGGHHHH

You've done the hard work, they've gone! You, like me, probably have plenty of other things to be stressing about! ? Smile!

I've only had one RSVP out of about 20, which is making me a bit concerned. I sent them out before Christmas and they have 13 days to go until the RSVP deadline, but still I thought I'd get a few yays or nays. Doing the reception ones over the next few days hopefully and will send those out.

Also on my to do list for this week is:

- meet the florist and discuss flowers

- give notice at the register office

- talk to the caterer about food options

Meanwhile I'm going to post about my current train connundrum under a new thread (because my train is that important! not...), so I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. Also, a bit of a dress flash going on there. As well as the aforementioned back fat :-)

We got most of our invites out last week and the rest this week - loved making them but very glad they're gone as was huge job! Got a few RSVPs back but mostly from the people we knew were coming anyway like the best man! Got till mid Feb for the venue yet so trying not to panic! And working on the theory that if people haven't replied I don't have to worry about the table plan which I am dreading!

Any news on the dress misstd? My hen do is that weekend and know nothing about it either - mostly excited though as two of my bridesmaids are getting married at the end of this year so they know not to stitch me up!!!!

Jobs for this week are honeymoon (got to get cracking on this - not going till July but still!) book dress fittings and suit measuring and sort out jewellery and tiara etc with a friend who's making them!

First major batch of invites are going today ( I know people will be getting them because I'll be delivering them - so nervous

Wooooo! Got the phonecall today to say that our wedding rings are in the shop! Were going to York this weekend to pick them up! Cant wait!

Dress fitting tomorrow evening....gulp!

Sorted and ordered the suits last weekend, and got the Chief bridesmaids outfit yesterday!

Its all coming together now! Ordered the cake boxes from the bay of e, and favours from thorntons for the ladies!

Cant think of anything left now to do....other than sort hair out!

Oh, and may need new shoes! I bought 2 pairs for sizes.....the size 6 are too small and the 6.5 flops off!

Hows everyone else getting on?

Hey peps

I come baring good news....well some good some bad..

Was browsing facebook yesterday and my friend had posted a photo of a receipt from Tesco - 6 bags of mini eggs for 3p...... they were scanned in at 1p a bag, then on BOGOF offer :o :o :o

Bad news is, on the way home from work I went to two Tesco Express ( both didnt have minieggs) and the big Tesco near me - although the mini eggs were full price they had a stonking deal on creameggs! box of 12 for £2.70!! As we are giving these as favours I had budgeted 60p each with the idea of buying box online which worked out 43p an egg!

So I was VERY happy with this - so happy infact I bought 10 boxes WOOP!

Hi Easter Brides!!!

Sorry I haven't been on here much, the laptop with all the wedding ideas, spreadsheets etc has decided to die on us so have lost everything and don't have access to the internet at home! Whoops not good!

Looks like everyones plans are coming along nicely, some gorgeous dresses and venues.

Jules'n'Mark, I have got light silver bridesmaid dresses and light ivory flower girl dresses and I was worried they wouldn't go, but I put them together and my mum and chief bridesmaid agreed they looked nice together.

Is anyone else getting more nervy and stressed by the day? I don't even have anything major to do but I can't stop stressing and feeling sick that nothing is going to come together and I am going to lose control of everything. I know I am being totally irrational and stupid but I am the most unorganised person and never had to arrange something on this scale before. I keep telling myself I have a Fiance, registrar, venue and rings so even if everything else goes wrong the important things are sorted but my stupid palpitation and stress won't shift! Am I the only nut job in here haha?

xx

That's brilliant! I know a lot of people who like cream eggs. Shame I don't, but for that price it might be worth it!

I'm quite calm about things so far, BUT the last three nights I have had wedding disaster dreams. Night 1 - i wake up half an hour before the wedding and none of the hairdressers/make-up artists have turned up, the venue hasn't been decorated and nobody cares. Night 2 - OH buys the wedding rings and they are hideous! Night 3 - can't remember, but equally stressy.

I keep having wedding nightmares too! maybe Im getting just a tad too stressed now! Went for wedding dress fitting tonight, and as i am, and as it is...it needs no altering at all. I need to go back 2 weeks before the wedding as Im still losing weight! It looked lovely...apart from the back fat! Think I might need a bolero or something. The dress maker said that even size 6 brides have that, as the dress needs to be so tight to hold it up!

Getting there with table stationary too...almost finished them! Just need to do a table plan now!

Still no news on my dress [:'(] just a voice mail message from the lady (after i had spent all week trying to get through to her ringing the shop) saying her supplier couldnt confirm when next delivery was or if my dress was on it but it might be??! getting seriously annoyed now!!! how does it take 9 months to make a dress, should have been here in october!!