October 2011 Brides Where Are You At? x

Sorry to barge in on your thread Dilly, am on reception and thought I would type a post more as mental note for myself than anything and to see if I should have got more sorted by now ?.

I ordered my sixpence and garter yesterday so hoping they will turn up this week x

ahh yes the TOG. She has emailed me confirming our booking and said she will call when she is back from location ?

Hopefully I wont get any questions wrong about O/H and all will go smoothly x

Hey,

I am getting married on 29.10.2011 too! So far I have:

• Booked venue and registrar (ceremony, reception etc all in one place) – deposits paid
• Sent out save the dates (designed myself, made on vistaprint)
• Decided on and ordered invitations – deposit paid
• Booked Harpist to play music in ceremony and drinks reception – deposit paid
• Booked photographer – deposit paid
• Booked in for a menu/drinks tasting at the venue on 20th June (very exciting)
• Booked chair coveres – deposits paid
• Booked florist and had first appointment with her to discuss options – now waiting for a rough quote and no doubt will change my mind lots with this
• Decided on favours (sparklers and mini toffee apples) – delegated the job of pricing this up, finding materials etc to my mum.
• Booked accommodation for the evening before and night of the wedding for us and parents.
• Found, ordered and fully paid for wedding dress
• Found, ordered and fully paid for bridesmaid dresses
• Looked at / thought about wedding rings we want
• Cake sorted – sister in laws sister has a cupcake business

In the process of doing / still to do:

• Book the evening entertainment (I think we have now decided on this)
• Order mens suit hire (we know pretty much what we want but OH needs to go and try on and see whether he likes it in the flesh)
• Decide on table names / menu so that we can get these cards made by same person as we have for invitations . Also order a guestbook from the same
• Decide on readings / how we want our ceremony to go, choose people to do readings – send this off to the registrars
• Make photo booth props and figure out how to do a photo guest book (technology wise – e.g. Polaroid camera?)
• Buy my other bits – shoes, veil, undies, jewellery etc
• Buy gifts for people
• Sort out wedding hair / make up for
• Look into hiring a speakers etc for IPOD disco
• Collect together photos for the photo placecards we are doing – see where we have gaps and figure out what to do about it. Once I have the photos I then need to get them printed through MOO.com
• Book a date to see Harpist to choose music (will do this the same weekend as Menu tasting)
• Book a date to see photographers for our pre wedding shoot
• Go to the jewellery quarter in Bham to pick OH ring and get mine made (will do this the same weekend as Menu tasting)
• Find a cake topper
• Do playlist for IPOD reception thing (and ask guests for suggestions in their invites)

So still lots to do, but I feel like the big stuff is out of the way and the rest of it is the more fun stuff. Apart from the hair/make up thing. I can see me having issues with finding someone for that in a price I can afford.

Wow Wonkey you seam ever so organised :-)

All my friends / Family keep telling me I am but I really don't feel it and if i'm honest i'm starting to panic a little now as the ticker keeps going down day by day. I'm also worried that nothing will co-ordinate as I have a colour scheme of ivory / oyster but no theme ?

Hello, I'm 29th October too!

I feel in control at the moment but there still seems like so much to do!! So far I have;

• Booked venue
• Ordered dress
• Got shoes
• Sorted bridesmaid dresses and shoes
• Ordered groomsmen suits
• Booked honeymoon!!!!!
• Booked florist
• Booked TOG and VOG
• Booked cars
• Invites ready to be picked up!
• Favours
• Sorted entertainment and DJ
• Designed cake and paid deposit
• Booked teeth whitening!!!
• Got guestbook and few decoration type things
• Bridesmaid presents

Still need to do:

• Rings
• Sort hair and makeup trial (not too worried as using same people my sister had last year who were great)
• Get card box
• Present for H2B
• Presents for ushers and BM
• Decide what I'm having in my hair (this seems to be stressing me out the most ATM!! Know exactly how I want my hair but can't decide side tiara or comb)
• Set up honeymoon gift list
• Pick hymms and readings
• Pick menu (got the tasting booked for a few weeks time yum!)
• About a million and one other things that I can;t really do until nearer the time like table plans!

Stressful!

We don't have a 'theme' either. We have aubergine/gold/ivory as colours. We have a nod towards the season through our favours, but other than that we are just doing what we want. E.g. our table names will be our favourite authors with a quote from one of their books. Our place cards will actually be a photo of the guest (preferably with one of us in it too) which will act as a nice memory / conversation starter with others on the tables. We are having a photo guestbook where guests can use our home made photo booth (with props etc), stick in the book and then write something. But this is because I don't like traditional guest books. We are having the open fires lit, candles on the table. Overall our 'theme' is 'cosy, relaxed and personal'

Just go with what you like, think about how you want your day to feel and everything will be fine ?

Forgot to say too, in terms of how much I have got done / how organised I am. I tend to maybe have one weekend a month where I go crazy and sort out lots of stuff. Then I sit on my bum for three weeks. It works for me. So for example, the weekend we are menu tasting we will also find wedding rings, meet up with harpist and hopefully have decided in readings etc for the ceremony to run them by the people we want to do them.

We find allocating set times to do wedding things means we are really productive in that weekend.

I'm 1st October. I'm pretty much good to go!

Everything is ordered / booked apart from DJ and rings - DJ im booking today funny enough and we have an appt for rings on 4th May.

I've actually hit a wall and feeling a bit depressed about it as i have nothing to plan anymore!

Invites will be here next month so that will give me something to do i guess....

Trying to arrange a hen do which is stressing me out too.

I'm on a bit of a downer tbh!

Hi,

Wedding is the 15th Oct and this is where we stand so far - i think...

booked Church
booked Cars
Florist - date booked in
Dress - ordered
Shoes - got mine
One ring almost sorted
Other ring appointment almost sorted
Invites collected and being written this week
Small chocs for evening guests sorted
Centrepieces all sorted - almost
Candles for church
Candle holders for routside venue recieved
Church ladies asked about flowers
Strawberry tower ordered
Cake ordered

outstanding:
Evening timings
suits - being sorted by OH
invite lady got table names and numbers all sorted + table plan + order of service
Bridesmaid coming up to Midlands this week
Know where we can get favors from so no worries there

Way more organised than I thought actually - BUT what have I missed????

TOG? x

Completely frogot her! Yep all booked and signed for! Great deal as well for a lovely lady.

Only little things like deciding on the buffet etc.

Saying that my dress should be coming in this or next month so that means fittings coming up....and i will be ordering my veil soon so i get to see that...

hmmm....maybe i can get the old wedding mojo back!!

I've got Smooch coming Friday for wedding rings, organising the car, waiting for an appointment to discuss my favours and I'm about to order my shoes. I think I've got the wording for my invites sorted, just need to look around for cards for info to put inside the invites. I'll have a look during my leave as this pc won't let you view auction websites!

Hi all!

We are 1st October and so far we have done mostly everything. Just a few little things to do still.

• Booked church
• Booked Venue and paid deposit
• Booked florist and paid deposit
• Booked wedding singer and DJ and paid deposit
• Booked wedding cars and deposit paid
• Booked suits and deposit paid
• Bridesmaids dressed ordered and half paid for
• My dress ordered and paid in full
• Veil already bought and has been delivered- hanging in my Nana's house
• Favours bought- and the sweets to go in them
• Invitations bought and have been sent (we didn't send STD's)
• Wedding website set up
• Hair and make-up booked and deposits paid
• Photographer booked and deposit paid
• Chair covers booked and deposit paid
• My shoes bought, and all accessories
• Bridesmaids jewellery and hair accessories bought
• Appointment to give notice booked for 14th May

OK, we have -

venue - booked & menu decided

Car - booked

tog - organised

cake - sorted

giving notice - appointment booked

OH's outfit - kilt sorted, need shirt & jacket

My outfit - Appointment booked for dressmaker

BM's outfits - dressmaker on hold (kids won't stop growing!)

Rings - ordered

Accessories - mostly organised, just need to make fascinators

Bouquets - need putting together nearer the time

Centrepieces - all stuff bought, need putting together nearer the time

Entertainment - booked

Favours - ordered

Honeymoon - booked

I think we're getting there - next job is send out invitations - envelope stuffing is the major job over the Easter weekend!

Do I need anything else?

We're the 1st October and stuff we've done so far:
Booked venue (ceremony & reception all in one place)
Booked Registrar
Gave Notice
Sent out save the dates
Sent out invitations
Booked Harpist
Booked photographer
Booked videographer
Had our menu taster session
Booked florist
Booked favours (being made by a local company)
Booked accommodation for the evening before and night of the wedding for bridal party
Ordered my wedding dress
Bought our rings
Sorted the cake
Booked the DJ for the evening
Ordered the men's suits
Decided on Table Names and have taken photographs.
Bought my jewellery for the day
Bought my tiara, veil and shoes

In the process of doing / still to do:
Decide on how we want our ceremony to go, choosing people to do readings and take to the registrars
Hair / Make-up
Buy gifts for wedding party
Bridesmaids Dresses (seen what I want, just need my BMs to tell me what dress size they are)
Buy Presents for H2B (have already started getting bits & bobs together)
Centrepieces (we know what we want, we just have to buy and make them)