Just engaged!!

Hello & congratulations!!

First of all enjoy this time, you do have a lot of decisions to make however if you decide on each thing a step at a time it becomes much more manageable. It took me and my OH 8 months to choose our perfect wedding venue and were so happy to get a Saturday in June next year however not all venues have availability at such short notice. If you have somewhere in mind then go and have a look and let them talk through available dates with you then if you and your OH feel it's right then you can decide on a date. I would say venue is most important as most places are booked up far in advance but then once that's booked it's a big weight off your mind and everything else comes into place. If you don't have anywhere in mind go and look at lots of places - you will know when you've found "the venue".

Enjoy it and many congratulations again!

Congratulations and Welcome to the wonderful world of Hitched!

First thing you really need to do is tell us how you got engaged (because we're all really nosey that way!)

Then, just take some time, enjoy being engaged and start collecting ideas of what you and your OH's idea of your day should be! me and OH were engaged for a good couple of years before we agreed a date and started planning! - but then, i was still a student at university and didn't have a full time job to help save for our big day!

Budgets are something that you should at least have an idea of because they tend to give you a good indication of when and where you can get married.

First piece of advice i'd give anyone is to book your venue and Photographer as soon as you are ready because they can be booked up several years in advance!

Hello and welcome to Hitched ? I would say the first thing to do is to set a budget and then work around that. Things like venues and photographers get snapped up quickly during the busier months so that would be my next step. I would then think about wedding dresses, some of them can take up to 6 months to be made ?

First things first, take time to celebrate your engagement and have a look around here for inspiration - there is loads of information on here to get you started!

Congratulations!!

Hiya

Welcome to the wonderfully addictive world of Hitched.

Congratulations on your engagement. You must tell us about your proposal ?

The first thing to do is enjoy being engaged. Take your time and sit down with your H2B to discuss how you would like your day.

Then budget. I would do some research and make sure you have a budget ready as these things can easily spiral out of control.

The next thing is to look at venues and get a better idea of what you want and what you can get within your budget. This may dictate your wedding date slightly due to their availability.

Once you have your venue sorted and your date then the fun can begin (not saying that venue hunting isn't fun either ?

Look at photographers as these get booked up quickly.

Just take your time and enjoy planning. It all falls into place at the nd usually ?

Nat

Congratulations! It seems all the wonderful hitchers have already given you the key early advice!

Figure out what you want to spend, figure out where you'll have it, then one step at a time get everything else in place.

All the best!

Hello,

Firstly congratulations to you both, and welcome to the world of hitched ?

You will gets lots of planning advise and support on here.

Have you got a wedding date in mind yet, or are you just enjoying this exciting time of being engaged?

Welcome... and breathe

First thing you really need to do is sit down with your partner and decide what sort of day you want - formal or fun, church service or hotel 'civil ceremony', sit down three course meal or barbecue and ice cream van, disco or live music etc.

Secondly, you need to figure out a date or at least an idea of the sort of time of year - of course the exact date may be dependent on availability of your chosen venue(s).

Next, look at a budget. By the time you want to get married, realistically what can you save or what money is available to you. They say the average wedding can cost £25,000 but many manage for a fraction of that, £5000-£10000 is more realistic.

Next, stat to put a vague guest list together. Your friends, his friends, family members, work colleagues, cousins, aunts etc. This will factor into your venue - obviously if you have a guest list of 200 you don't want to look at venues that hold 50, and vice versa.

You may want to get married where one of you live - or somewhere completely different in the country, or even overseas.

Then once you've got an idea of date and size, you can start looking at venues. Look at loads before shortlisting and deciding. Price, decor, friendliness, flexibility etc are all part of the discussion.

Once you have a venue, get a provisional date. You then need to book either a church or registrar - and of course you may want to do that to get an idea of availability before you look at booking a venue.

After that, most people book up a photographer next as they're often booked up well in advance.

You may have an idea of colours in mind - your venue may or may not lend itself to the colours or theme you might want to have, so you'll possibly have to adjust one.

THen it's just a case of deciding on everything else you want to include.

Hitched has a good free wedding planner on your profile page - or feel free to poke round people's wedding reports (mine is listed in my signature below) and see what other people have done. Google is your friend too - if you want 'lime green and orange weddings' you'll find loads of image inspiration too.

Finally, don't be afraid to ask questions, that's what we are here for. The only stupid questions are those you don't ask!

Hello, , , Congratulations and welcome to Hitched, , ,

HAPPY PLANNING

xx

Congratulations!

Welcome to Hitched?

You will find so much help and advice here. Enjoy your planning

Congratulations!!! Hope you have a mushy story behind your engagement! Love to hear them.

First point of call for most people planning a wedding is agreeing on a budget. You don't have to break the bank to have a beautiful wedding but also make it realistic!

My second thing I did was booking the church, I had my heart set on my parish church ( as I am a practising Christian) and its so beautiful so hugely popular and I wanted to get my date in there before anyone else.

Then I booked my reception venue, decided I didn't like it so booked another reception venue which I love!!! Then I pried the overall cost out of them so I could incorporate it into my budget. A lot of wedding reception venues don't like to talk about the details till closer to the big day but if you explain you need to know now they should help you.

After that I booked my cars as I know what time everything is going to be, then I booked my table decorator / chair cover hire and then flowers and photography.

As long as you get the dates you need all the nitty gritty can be sorted out easily. Good photographers and decoraters are always booked well in a advance so good to get them ASAP with a little deposit ( Most places asked for around £50 however my reception venue was a £700 desposit)

Trust me everything will fall into place SO quickly. I am almost finished with mine apart from getting the mens suits sorted and actually ordering my dress.

Enjoy every single second of doing it and don't let anyone else drag you down!!! It's your big day and it should be exactly how you want it

Keep us updated!

Welcome to Hitched

Its a mad house, but you will enjoy it

Happy planning

Congratulations and welcome to hitched!

Hey Thanks for all the reply's they have been very helpful

Well u asked about the engagement it was the most amazing weekend of my life and a complete suprise, my H2B took me to a 5* hotel in london with a spa we had the most amazing time in london having a meal and drinks on the river which was beautiful! We spend all night giggling and having fun being lee and kayleigh rather than mummy and daddy which made a nice change! this was followed by drinks at the hotel then on the saturday we went to the theatre and had freinds come down to leister square to celebrate our engagement! I felt like a princess Im such a lucky lady!!

we have started looking at venues and trying to set a budget. even the venues are hard enough as there is so much to go though just cant wait to start spending on the best bits!!

Congratulations. Welcome to Hitched.

Aww that is much more romantic than mine! Although I kinda messed mine up!! My poor OH

We went out for a drive one night because I couldn't sleep and we pulled up at the beach and he wanted to take me down to the seafront and propose but I wouldn't get out of the car because it was dark! Lol

So he proposed in his car on the cliff top ?

Congrats and welcome! I'm not about to mirror what everyone else has said already, but have fun and good luck with your wedding planning!!

Congratulations. Enjoy the buzz of being newly engaged and then sit down and work out how soon or far you want to wait to get married. Set your date then start to think about dress styles, colour themes etc and all the rest will fall into place around that. If you want to chat just holla and i'l help where i can. Enjoy x