Hello everyone!

Hi,

yes like you my partner and I are not yet officially engaged but are buying stuff for and planning our wedding. Others may find this strange but it works for us. We're both in our 40's and I can't face the endless questions and comments that I feel will come if we announce our engagement. My brother and his wife live abroad and will be visiting either summer 2014 or 2015. Our plan is to tie in with their visit. We will announce our engagement at the same time as inviting people to the wedding.

Can't help with London venues as I live in Nottingham. Good luck though, I used to work in London and know how expensive it is.

Hello and welcome to hitched ?

Hello and welcome.

Enjoy your planning. Lots of lovely ladies and gents on here to help you with advise and recommendations.

Jen x

Hello and welcome to Hitched! Central London- depends what you'd consider reasonably priced, I'd look into hotels perhaps, I've shot at the doubletree opposite libertys and with all the fairy lights outside it was pretty beautiful. A lot of the cheaper venues are gastro pubs/village halls etc. so there's many avenues (see what I did there?!) that you can go down!

Welcome and congrats on your pseudo-engagement!

I think is very sweet you are using your grandma;s diamond, is a lovely thought and I also believe the luck passes down ?

Unfortunaly I can't related to the whirlwind romance, we here were together for almost 4 years before he proposed (out of the blue!) and only then we started planning.

But I also considered London for weddings, and have done my share of research into it.

Would you like ceremony and reception at the same space? How "central" are we talking about - close to which area?

The ceremony will be in a church opposite St James's Park so we'd like the reception to be fairly close by - basically Westminster / Victoria area. Admittedly, it'll be easier to actually plan once we've set a date. And I expect we'll find many places may already be booked up for summer 2014. Whatever will be, will be. I'm fairly chilled out; the actual ceremony is the important bit - we've already had a couple of informal chats with the priest about that!

The fact you are having a ceremony at the church, opens a whole range of options!

Have a look at hotels, pubs, bars and blank canvas spaces. There is a lot!

Did you look for the venues listed here at Hitched?

https://www.hitched.co.uk/wedding-venues/

Good luck!

Welcome to hitched!!

Welcome to hitched! If you want something a little quirky you should also look into art spaces or small theatres, some hire out at reasonable prices and are very different to your standard wedding venues. Look into the London Sketch Club, The Arts Club, and The Nave. : )

Hi welcome to Hitched! I can relate to the whirlwind romance, myself and H2b met last october and like you knew within weeks we wanted to get married and he popped the question on valentines day this year. we get married next oct xx

Hello and welcome to hitched.

Lovely sentiment behind your engagement ring. I cant give you any advice about central London weddings but you may find summer 2014 quite difficult to secure, my venue only had three dates (all Fridays) left between the end of April and September, but fingers crossed for you and keep us updated!!

x

? Welcome

I love London weddings there are not nearly enough London brides/grooms on here!

Have got an idea of guest numbers?

Hello IGB2B, welcome to Hitched

I love that your using part of your nan's ring to make yours .. I hope the diamond does give you lots of luck.
I grew up in London (still not any help with venues though!).

I thought this may help if you plan to go down the Gastro pub route: http://www.etmgroup.co.uk/weddings/

Some lovely venues there!

Ps. Happy Planning

Hi & welcome!

Your ring sounds like it will be lovely-love the sentiment.

There are a few London hitchers about, Funky as above, Clarehj and flowersinherhair and Sasasi I think. Might be worth you starting a new thread for London folks to share info in?

Yes lots of London hitchers/otters but not many actually are/got married in London.

Sasasi got hitched before I was a regular, Clares is the only one (other than my own) that I remember following all the way from planning through to report!

Is Flowers getting married in London? How did I not know this? (I know her engagement shoot was in London)

I may have just assumed this due to the engagement pictures.... sorry!

Ahhh another London bride! as Funky said there aren't enough of us and thanks Kjay

I got marrried in your exact area - One Great George street which in between St James Park and Parliament Square. We had a choice of either walking left to St James Park or right to Parliament Square for our photos but decided to be a bit different and walked through gthe crowded streets of London. Usually my idea of hell but an amazing feeling.

I can't say my venue was cheap, but was on par with basically any swanky SE England venue.

The gastropub might be a good idea and I'm not much help with venues, apart from my own, but I just want to say how amazing your photos will be.

There are a few of mine (I'm a serial flasher)

Hurrah! I call your name and you appear and it is such hardship to loom at your pictures (again)....

Ha thanks Kjay - I can't help it I flash at anyone

I want my pics to be ready so I can join the London flash fun too ☹️

what's the wait time? tell him/her/them to hurry up, there are impatient otters unsure if you definitely got married....

Welcome to Hitched!

And Clarehj I haven't seem your photos before. They're fantastic! Totally unique to your day.

Tart! I thought I was special!

Wow! Thank you for all the lovely welcome messages and suggestions.

Clare, I absolutely adore your wedding photos!!! One Great George Street is a five minute walk from the church... tempting!

I'm a total wedding-photo-sharing-slut

here's my link from my fb to more, particularly if interested in seeing more of one great george street.

https://www.facebook.com/clare.marion/media_set?set=a.10151791345445693.863332.575805692&type=3

They are late ☹️ (supposed to be within 4<6 weeks) *should* have them next week which will be nearly 9 weeks post wedding.

Sorry OP for derailing your thread!

Hello & welcome ?
Lovely that you're having your grandmothers diamond in the ER!
Hope you enjoy hitched, loads of good tips & advice on here

Hello and welcome to Hitched ?