Newly engaged and no idea where to start!!

Congratulations and welcome to the lovely world of Hitched!

Generally the legal part is not a problem - in our district the venues deal with the registrars on your behalf , so once you book the venue they send off a date request to the registrar. Our district we were also really lucky in that you can do this more than a year in advance.

I would say start considering what venues you're interested in, get that booked in and the rest will come together. Once you have all this booked, focus on finding a caterer. photographer, videographer and sorting transport if you are planning to have or need to have these elements as they do get booked up very quickly! (Also, these will be amongst your biggest expenditures so it helps to know how much money you will need to pay!)

Good luck - if you have any questions we're always here with friendly advice and masses of experience ? xx

Congratulations on your engagement.

I was worrying about this too. I'm getting married 26th May 2012, but found out that we can't send Notice of marriage to Registrar until a year before. However, we found our venue and provisionally booked it, we then phoned the Registrar and they sent us a form to book the date. All we had to do was sign a confirmation form and send a £50.00 holding fee. We still have to send Notice one year before the date, but at least the date is in their diary.

May be worth phoning your council to see if they operate in the same way.

Good luck and let me know how you get on

Welcome and congratulations on getting engaged. Sorry can't help on the registrar side as we're having a Church wedding, but just wanted to say hi ?

Welcome to hitched! x x