June 2015 Brides

Even better!!

My dress was the first one that the lady in the dress pulled, just to get an idea of shape. Needless to say we weren't looking at the price, as it was only to get an initial idea of what would suit.

Needless to say, I fell in love with it, and ended up going back for it a week later. Tentatively had a look at the price tag....and it was £1 under my budget!!

It was meant to be!!

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Fingers crossed for the church though! Nowadays it seems to come down to personal preference of the clergy involved, which doesn't seem fair to me. If a couple wants to get married in church for the "right" reasons, then they should be allowed to do so!

At least we now have other choices in terms of lovely venues......it is only a few years ago that us divorcees would have been shunted off to the registry office wearing a grey suit.....?

I couldn't either, but by clicking on the username instead, you can go back and find other posts and access it that way! I've bumped it up now so it is easy to find on page one of this forum.

Oh sorry, not sure what i did wrong with the link! But thank you for bumping it up!

I can see it now! It all looks amazing, your dress is gorgeous! ?

What time of the day are you all getting married? I went through this with h2b the other day, I proposed 2pm and he said 12:30 so I went with that lol. Haven't quite worked out if that's a good time or not

We are getting married at 3pm, the boys are all playing golf in the morning before the wedding. I just need to find something for me and the girls to do before i start getting ready.

2pm for us....not sure why...it just seemed right!!

I thought 2pm was a good time too but my other half wanted half 12 and seeing as it's his wedding too I agreed lol

Kimiu - you're putting me to shame with how organised you are date twin!!

Im going to get on with list making today and write down everything that needs to be done. I work as a nanny so the summer has been very busy as the kids were on school holidays and I feel like I haven't really been doing anything much in the wedding world - apart from getting a daily fix of hitched of course!

Now that life is back to normal I'm going to get organised.

On a previous post I'd written down things I'd done and asked if I'd forgotten anything obvious - which it seemed I had! Rings...

I'm in a bit of a pickle about what to do though but I know I need to make a decision soon. My mum passed away when I was little and my dad gave me her engagement & wedding rings when I turned 25. Both of these are yellow gold which I don't wear but I've always loved having them.

As OH and I don't have (and won't be having) children of our own, I'd always thought I'd pass my mothers engagement ring on to my nephew so that he could propose with it, or use the stones to have a ring made, or whatever he decided to do with it. Kind of nice to have a family heirloom type of thing.

BUT, recently I've been thinking I might like to use the diamonds from it myself and have them put in my wedding ring. My mums ring is like a (very) small version of Princess Di's (and now Kate Middletons) ring - a sapphire surrounded with diamonds.

I think my problem is I think it's selfish of me to have changed my mind about what to do with the ring. I've never discussed it with my nephew or my brother, or my Dad for that matter so it's not as though there are expectations but I can't make it sit right in my head.... Maybe because for all these years they've just sat in a box being looked at occasionally and now I want to do something with it.

Ramble, ramble!! Anyone have any thoughts, or opinions about it? I know I need to decide soon.

Pipsybus - i think it would be lovely to take the diamonds and sapphire and put them into your wedding ring, and in a way you will be creating a 'new' family heirloom starting from something that your mum had.

I was given my great grandmothers engagement ring, its soo tiny and over 100 yrs old. I am tempted to have the diamonds and stones removed to make something that i would wear.

Ok...here is my take on it.

What if you give it to your nephew to propose with. And he doesn't like it, or his new fiance doesn't like it, and it simply gets put away in a drawer again. Or if he likes the idea of ring shopping for a new ring for his new life. What if he feels "obliged" to use it, because it is "family" when really he would love to be able to do something completely different! All those things would be so sad, and not what the original giver or recipient of the ring would have wanted.

Whereas a ring (or two rings) that have been given new life and are worn every day with genuine love and appreciation, well, that is something special that there can be no price on, no value to.

For me, it would be a no brainer. I lost my dad, and so know how you feel to a certain extent, although his jewelry only amounted to a wedding ring, cufflinks and a pocket watch. If I were having yellow gold, I would have used the wedding ring, I am sure, but I've got 18k white rather than his 9k yellow. But his cufflinks will be worn by my son when he gives me away and his pocketwatch will be worn by H2B on the day.

Whatever you do, you will make the right decision - for you, for your mum, for your dad, and for anyone else.

x

Wow you lot are a lot more organised then me! We are getting married 27th of June.

So far we have sorted church and reception venue.

Have registrar meeting on Tuesday for paperwork

TOG is booked - OH friend

Caterer booked but tasting in December and deposit handed over then

Florist mostly sorted - MIL friend doing it meeting on Sunday

Centre pieces nearly sorted

Dress/BM dresses/Rings getting sorted in April - going to Vietnam to get these

Cars - seeing another one tomorrow deciding between two and booking on saturday

Crockery nearly sorted - 100 need 130

Musicians are sorted - friends playing at chruch and reception

Hotel is booked

Need to sort -

transport for guests

band - got quotes but difficult getting others back!

Honeymoon

Favours - glass etching but need to source more glasses

Alcohol

Bunting

Games

Photo booth - DIY

Suits

Loads more I can't even list!

Scottish_Sarah - you are well in the throes of planning, so no need to think you are not organised! I am sure you are as organised as anyone else, judging by that list!

I'm a bit excited because I think I may have just been able to source my perfect table numbers.....I've sent an enquiry off, and have my fingers firmly crossed! Oh, and my confetti arrived today too. All these things make me smile :-)

Where did you get your confetti from, i ordered some and when it arrived i was disspointed with it.

Hello date twin!! :-) You're far more organised that me, you're doing well !

An ebay seller - martinlc81

Can't fault the service, or the price! I think I posted a picture of it earlier on the thread, and it looks lovely in real life! Ordered it on Tuesday, and it arrived today.

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I think because I live in Scotland but organising a wedding in Cambridgeshire I don't feel very organised - we are down for a week so been sorting quite a bit.

Just been for a meeting with our venue I still love it and they are so good got a big long list and many things now seem more sorted but also added to the list of to do stuff - mainly getting tables and chairs - originally we were having the barn tables and bales for seating but they will be too low so had to change it.

OK so here's whats going on now;

our colour scheme is still peach & coral, I have changed my mind on the table centres but haven't bought anything yet except little heart shaped chalk boards for place settings. I have 6 bridesmaids instead of 5 now. I sent out or save the dates the other day!

I went to my best friends wedding in August and she had an A line gown with veil, tiara and her hair down and wavy! Basically she looked exactly how I imagined I would look on my day when I first got engaged! LUCKILY all my ideas changed months ago when I started trying on dresses and I've just bought a beautiful lace and organza fishtail gown. Not sure if I will have a tiara as my veil is so beautiful and I plan to have my hair in either a side ponytail or side bun! I bought my shoes too!

we decided we did want a car after all and decided to go for a vintage ivory Jaguar!

We've booked our honeymoon to Zakynthos, Greece where we got engaged!

I've got the bridesmaids outfits, invites & flowers which left to organise now! Need to think about music for the church as well. My mums doing our favours and my bms are helping to decorate the venue. Still got 9.5 months to go though so no rush!

The dresses i bought for my 2 MOH arrived today, i just want to get home from work and see them now!!!

Will do a cheeky flash later on.

Ooh, MrsHDouglas.....its all coming together!

nammy - I bet you are counting the minutes down to home time so you can see your dresses!!

My exciting news today is that my bridal party gift bags arrived from ebay, so I can start finding bits and bobs to go in them. I "bought" some soap and glory stuff minatures from Boots using accumulated boots points today, that I can pop into some of the bags. I'm also going to go for the traditional gifts of a bit of jewelry for the girls (Pandora beads probably) and a hip flask or similar for the men, but also things like minatures of their fave tipples, and a few funny bits. I was away at the weekend and snaffled a couple of sachets of Nutella at the hotel breakfast as my daughter is addicted to the stuff, for example haha!

Little things keep me happy.......

I'm home from work and the dresses are beautiful!!! :-D

Lovely dresses, where are they from?

We are getting married on 20 June. Ive got my dress, i know which flowers we are having, booked the church and the reception venue and evening venue. We need to decide what car we are having if any. Need to arrange the suits and my shoes in the next month or so. One of my two bridesmaids is prgnant so we arent looking at their dresses until shes popped!

They are from a shop called the dainty yard on etsy

Hi ladies, thursday 11th june for us at the zoo

theme: dusty pink and ivory

bridesmaids: 1

users:0

day guests: 24

additional evening guests: 40

so far...

Booked and deposit paid for venue

Legal ceremony booked and deposit paid

bands read

Photographer booked

Food – roughly chosen

My dress & shoes bought

B’maids dress chosen - need to purchase

DJ booked

Cake ordered

Hair and Make Up – Hair i'll do myself and bridesmaid will do makeup

Flowers – meeting the florist this Saturday

Website done

invites out

Hotel accommodation for evening booked

Thank you gifts chosen

favours chosen

rings chosen

table decs bought/Chosen

honeymoon booked

to do:

suits

hen and stag

Book wedding car to take dad and i to zoo

buy favour boxes

buy cupcake cases

The car is the hardesr part for me as its 1 journey for 14 miles and its like £400!!

Progress thread: https://www.hitched.co.uk/chat/forums/t/459967.aspx?PageIndex=1

x

Blimey Foxxy you are very organised!! Ouch to the cost of the car, though - I hope you can find one that is reasonably priced!

Finally decided on a colour for the bridesmaid dresses.........navy! It will suit both of them so no more stressing over that. That now means I can crack on and choose invitations, reception decor etc, feeling better now ?

I think navy is such an elegant colour, and you can match pretty much anything to it, so you have made a good choice!

H2B and I are giving notice at lunchtime.....exciting stuff!!!

I think I'll go for a summery bright colour in contrast for the flowers, think h2b wants light grey suits, his choice, I'm letting him choose the suits himself, I'm not involved in that!

exciting stuff for you too! :-)

My H2B chose his own suit too - I work on the basis that I was choosing MY dress, and I wouldn't expect him to tell me what to wear - so if he wanted to choose something himself, suitwise, then he should! Thankfully he has very good taste (he is marrying me, after all) and so I knew I could trust him at the Tailors!

He has opted for a navy 3 piece suit, with peach/coral tie and pocket square......I did have to refrain myself from jumping on him when he tried it on at his first fitting.....it looks lovely on him!!!