need help planning a wedding in two months!!!

Congratulations on your engagement! It seems as though you have most of the logistics sorted! Things that pop to mind are;

- wedding rings

- flowers

- food / drink - is this all being handled by the venue?

- Favours / table centrepieces / decorations

- Guest book? Some fab ideas on pinterest - fingerprint tree, polaroid guestbooks etc

Once you have your dress obv you will need to find shoes to suit and accessories / undies too!

Good luck with all the planning!! ? x

Congratulations, not too far away at all!!

I noticed you mentioned you have 2 separate locations for ceremony and reception, have you thought about transport?

In all honesty this isn't one of my priorities personally, but some people prefer a nice car to get to the ceremony and then from ceremony to reception venue.

Also how will your guests get from one location to the other? Some people lay transport on e.g. coaches, and or others expect you to sort yourself out. So I guess this is something you might want to clarify with your guests, maybe as an insert in the invites?

Hi - thanks for the replies!

@emjjarvy:

Oh yeah, the rings, forgot about that! We're going to get this in December, can't wait!

I'm going to get the shoes and accessories after I get the dress, I'm not sure what I'm going for except for knowing the shoes will be flat! I'm not very good in heels (not a shoe person!).

The food will be provided by a caterer at the reception but not sure about drinks yet.

We're going to have a Wedding Post Box so people can post their wedding cards in and I was thinking of getting everyone to have a picture taken as they come in to the reception, a bit like when you're at a prom night, so we have a picture of everyone who turned up, what do you think?

@Miss2MrsinMay:

Yeah, our ceremony is held at a Town Hall but then the reception is happening at a function room not that far away. I hadn't considered transport between venues to be honest, might have to look into it

Thanks, Jo

Congratulation.... and breath, it is a short time span but its still completely do-able (they manage on dont tell the bride in 3 weeks)

buying a ready made dress will be quicker and probably cheaper (as shops can often offer discounts for sample dresses)

are you ordering flowers or making them? there is some great youtube tutorial on flowers

when you shop for your dress you can see what accessories fit (jewelry, veil, shoes, underwear etc...) so that can be done all together

rings need to be bought but shouldn't be too hard

if your venues booked then the biggest part is sorted, the rest is just personalizing it to your perfect day

good luck

Congratulations! It's great to see that not everyone has a super-long engagement and that it's possible to plan a nice wedding in a short time. Reassuring!

I'm sure hiring formal wear in January won't be a problem at all and you may be able to ask for extra discounts as it's not a particularly busy season for formal wear.

As far as a dress goes, they seem to do fine on Don't Tell The Bride! Do you know a good seamstress who might be able to do any extra work on it to make an off-the-peg dress super-fitted?

Everything else has been mentioned, but most of these are little details. Flowers, general/table decorations, favours etc.

I hope you have a brilliant wedding x

Hi

I've got an aunty in the family who's pretty good with a needle, I reckon she might be up for altering a dress if necessary

I was thinking of getting artificial flowers - I'm not a big fan of flowers (I seem to have the death touch with live ones!) and my OH has sneezing fits near anything like that so we're probably going to go down the route of artificial ones - just need to find a good florist who will do these on a budget!

Didn't think about getting a discount because of the time of year for formal wear, that's quite a good point for us to consider

Ta!

Hello ?

I haven't got anything to add that hasn't already been said but welcome to hitched ;-)

You should give us some flashes of the things you've already got sorted!

Check out High Street stores for your dress, or check out local bridal shops in case they have one in your size in the sale.

Is food and drink being sorted by the venue? Centerpieces or venue decoration? Thankyou presents for parents, attendants?

Sounds like you've got it mostly under control! when in Jan do you get married? I'm a January bride too!

Hi Jo

Planning a wedding in 8 weeks saves you having to sit back and twiddle your thumbs when you have everything in place lol!

The ladies have mentioned most things that you may want.

Theres also the venue decor to think of, do you want chair covers/table linen/table runners etc as not sure whats provided with your function room?

You also mentioned artificial flowers; It depends on your budget but i create true to life artificial flowers which you can keep for years to come(i am northern and a bit frugal so i like something to have a double usage lol. Find a gorgeous vase to place the flowers in and you have a great display and a fab talking point when people come to your house!)

If you need any ideas for room dressing etc, please feel free to pick my tiny brain! :-)

Our wedding on 25th January - nothing special about the date but both our birthdays are in January (the OH is 11 days older than me!) and we have friends' birthdays in January so we thought that sounds like a great month to get married in

The reception venue owners are providing nice table cloths for us and we are looking in to chair covers.

I've just noticed that @Flawless-Weddings have chair covers AND flowers, all in one place, my kind of thing really I'm gonna take a look at your website and discuss with the OH (or my mum, she'll probably listen and take an interest haha!)

there are lots of lovely options for bouquets that aren't real flowers, have you seen broach bouquets and paper bouquets?

Hi Jo,

We do gorgeous chair covers but it does depend on the location of the wedding as we dont cover the whole of the UK :-(.

Our silk bridal flowers can be delivered by courier if its out of our delivery area.

Our website at the moment just has fresh flowers as the silk website is still under construction(cant wait!) but we have some pics of artificial on Hitched and facebook(we also have a few more designs/pics to be added) We can create anything and most flowers are available in silk( i dont like working with artificial gerberas so much as they can look a bit cheapy)

I hope we can help ?

Has anyone had a Register Office wedding?

That's what ours is and I was just wondering what the programme of the day was? I've contacted our council to ask advice but they've said we have to go in to talk to someone (fair enough) but we have to pay £35 too!

I'm not sure I fancy paying someone to tell me what happens on the day when it should in fact be free information or at least sent out in some sort of agenda letter...

Hi,

All systems go then!! Exciting..

If you or mums or guests need fascinators my site may be helpful, so maybe take a look

www.weddingfascinator.co.uk

Hope that helps

lynne