summer 2010 brides

well i have got my dress, my flower girl's dress, booked my venue, booked my flowers, booked my cars, book my cake, booked my hair and make up ladies, booked my photographer. I think thats it for now need to do my invites and save the date things tho.

Im at that point now too!! really want to be doing something but there doesnt seem to be anything to do, We have sorted the: Venue (including ceremony food etc) flowers, cake, my dress, BM dresses, mens outfits although not ordered or measured up yet, just finished making the invites, had one hair trial (that was only because i was going to a ball) car decs for venue/tables, band, music walking in/out (bagpipes) signing the register and first dance, witnesses, my shoes (got an idea of what i want the little bm's to wear but as they are young we cant order them yet) tiaras and other hair bits, gift for CBM (iam giving her one of my favourite rings an 18ct white gold diamond ring its gorgeous but is now too big for me) Hen weekend is sorted too just got to pay for it (by April) and photographer

Still to do; jewellery, underwear, make-up, gifts for other attendants and parents and something for my man ? there is probably a multitude of other things but i cant for the life of me think of what they are right now!! lol x

Hi terri, whereabouts in essex r ya?

Booked/ogranised

venue

dress

photographer

band

flowers

cars

honeymoon

make up

suits

colours

appointment to give notice in December

Save the dates sent

stationary is an ongoing process

first dance

To do

BM dresses

shoes

chair covers

cake

favours

table decorations (although i know what i want)

presents for BMs/parents/each other etc

hair

in/out music

Phew i think thats everything.......

I'm getting married early Sept so not sure if I can be classed as a summer bride but

I have organised/booked

Ceremony, Venue, gave notice, dress, photographer, florist, singer, dj, magician, I have just booked chair covers today. I have had my invitation proofs and have sent them back to be amended.

I am hoping to order BM dresses on tues, just have to get my second BM measured and hand over some more money. Then I will have successfully completed my must do before christmas list. I am then going to have a break and start again in the new year but I do feel pretty organsied. x

Im getting married in early September too and have done almost nothing. We've got the church, venue, tog, and cars booked . . . and thats it!

I don't think anthing else weddingy will be happening until after christmas either, OH goes back to work tomorrow after having a weeks hol. We were supposed to sort a few more things out while he's been off but i've been ill all week so haven't been able to.

I feel like I should be panicking a bit more now, especially after seeing how much progress everyone else has made.

I'm getting married in Sept too. the 26th and have done absolutely nothing so far except pick my colour scheme, flower girls dresses although they've not been bought, Sorted a tog, but thats about it!! I'm sooooo unorganized!! is that bad?!?! I'm kind of worried now!!!! x

So far I have

Booked/organised/bought:

Ordered Stationery, just waiting to confirm proofs

Church

Hymns and one of 2 readings

Venue

My Dress

BM Dresses

BM Shoes

BM presents

FG Dress

Photographer

Mens Suits (sorted yesterday!!)

Gifts for BM and ushers

Videographer

DJ

Flowers

Cake

Cars

Honeymoon

Hair

Decided on First Dance Song

Favours and favour boxes

Post box

Still To do

My shoes (I already have some but want a pair with a higher heel during the day)

Other church music

Make up

Design a menu and confirm prices with the venue (Oh and have a tasting!!)

Confirm details with all our suppliers (none of whom wanted us to make any decisions about anything until Feb/March!!)

Pay all final monies ☹️

Organise my fittings

Nothing really to worry about until the eng of Jan ?

Hi,

i'm just out side braintree.

where are you?

Gosh, you're all terrifyingly organised.

I've got venue

registrar

catering

my dress

dj

appointment to give notice

cake

videographer

sorted

Before Xmas want to get

florist

photographer

sorted out.

This is what we have organised so far:

Venue

Caatering

DJ

My dress & shoes

Registrar (gave notice in August)

Cake

Flowers

Photographer

BM Dresses

Centre Pieces

Chair Covers

Will be sorting the invitations & men's suits out after Crimbo.

We have only just set the date of 18th June, so we know we're getting married then. We've booked:

- Church

- Reception Venue

- Accomodation for our familes

- Hair and Make up

Checked photographer is free but not booked him

- Going dress shopping on 5th Dec!! Can't wait!

Updated with correct countdown thing I hope

Ok so now we have paid the deposit on wedding venue

next week our notifcation of marrage again.

I'm getting married on 24th August in Cyprus and am sooo far behind [:'(]

Mrsclarke - i'm your date twin! 17 july 2010! though everyone seems to have done a lot more than me! (jem - your list is making me very stressed lol)

i've done:

venue
florist
booked registrar
honeymoon
ordered my dress

in progress:

meeting two photogs later this week
trying to sort out a good quote with my chosen caterer
researching invitation designs and wording
have chosen my cake design but trying to get a good quote, meeting someone this week

to do:

everything else! especially worried now about getting a decent videographer, and booking a DJ for the evening and violinist for ceremony...

ugh it's so soon - exactly 8 months now!

Hey everyone, Im trying to remember everything I have done so far!

I have sorted out Wedding & Reception venues, My Dress, Adult bridesmaid dresses, Suits, Photographer, Dj, Cars, Chair Covers, Cake ( just having plain M&s ones) Table Centerpieces

I am going to crack on with everything else after christmas now I think!

Ive done, dress, reception venue, reg office, car, dj, chair covers, invities, favours, photography, notices f marriage and bridesmaid pressie and still got soooo much to do! ahhhhhhhhh!

Time seems to be flying past at the moment, I think im fairly organised...

Church booked, venue booked, centrepeices chosen, band booked, photographer booked, honeymoon booked, dress ordered, bought shoes, hair and makeup pretty much sorted

Need to - finish invites, evening invites, order of service, book cars, book florist, buy centrepeices, BM dresses, mens suits

Have I left much out!? I do have a super duper wedding checklist - but its on my home laptop so cant check off against that!

x

I'm 4th Sept so I suppose I'm not really a summer bride but I'm going to crash anyway ?

I've got church and venue booked, photographer, DJ, dress, STD's have gone out, I have made about 15 out of 100 invites (but at least I have finally decided on the design!!), I'm halfway through covering my second shoe with diamantes (sp?), I have a hairdresser and I have my lovely huge cocktal vases. Erm.... don't think I've done much else. Can you please remind me if I've missed something really important off this list!!!

Left to do: I have the rest of my invites to do, suits, BM dresses (being made by a freind's mum) but most importantly.... I have to find X amount of thousands of pounds from somewhere but I just can't stop spending!! I've spent over £150 on clothes this month, I just can't stop myself ?

Ditto that! Although Ive been saving not spending and there is still nothing in the wedding pot! lol!

As soon as I got paid last month I put £700 in my savings account thinking that was fair contribution and if I do that every month we'll have no problem... I now have only £350 left in there as I've spent the other half ? I suppose it's better than nothing though. And in the meantime there's always the hope that I can win the lottery

Booked/Ordered/Sorted - Church, reception, dress, florist, photographer, mens suits, shoes, fabric for bridesmaid dresses, my veil, tiara, petticoat, jewellery, all stuff for stationery, honeymoon, post box, guest book, cake.

Still to book/order - Bridesmaid accessories, confetti, sweets for favour boxes

Ongoing - Stationery is all being made by us and an ongoing project. CBM needs to make bridesmaid dresses, and cravats. Wedding transport is going in for restoration after Christmas.

Think thats covered everythng, please shout if I missed anything out.

Oh dear!!

Everyone is so organised here. I'm pretty new and my wedding isn't until 4 September.

All my girlfriends are teasing me cos they think I'm ahead of the game but you lot put me to shame!!! I've only got a venue, dress, and half my wedding parties outfits.

Working on stationery now as I'm making it but it's very time consuming.

Also can't seem to get myself to commit and book anything.. scared I'll see something I like more later on and regret my choices!

? Hi LucyGayle you're my first twinnie I think!

Cool!!

Where are you getting hitched??

Are you far ahead of me in the planning too?

I'm from Birmingham so it's out local-ish church and then a place called the Lakeside Centre (don't have nay pics at the mo, and it's no where near as lush as everyone else's on the venue flash thread).

I really struggled finding a nice venue for the reception, they were all too far away. And my biggest issue was CARPETS. I think I was obsessed with them. they had to match my colour scheme, we would walk into a venue and if the carpet was to patterny (sp?) or clashed with my colours it was a no no straight away. Everyone else thought I was loopy. Our venue has a lovely blue carpet so I'm happy.

How long have you been engaged for? I'm sure you'll catch up soon

Me too!!

Hi ladies

We're 25th July and to be honest I haven't really found planning stressful or anything at all yet! Not sure whether to be happy or concerned about that, maybe all the stress will come next year?

Things we have done are:

Booked venue

Booked photographer

Booked videographer

Booked florist

Had invitations made (by family friend - not bothering with Save the Dates)

Ordered my dress

Booked our honeymoon

Gave notice

And we need to do pretty much everything else! I'm letting Tom suit the mens suits out, will just give him a few colour options for ties etc once we've sorted the bridesmaid dresses. When I'm going to do that is another matter though, that's the main thing I'm seeing as going to be a bit of a chore to be honest, my ideal bridesmaid outfit shopping would be: pick a dress out, they all like it, they have all their sizes and don't need any alterations - sorted ? But then I suppose everyone else feels exactly the same as that!

2010 brides that are stressing - chill out, you will be fine! You have loads of time (unless you're in January obviously ?)

Don't worry, you're not loopy.. I had a massive bugbear about them too. I ditched at least three lovely venues becuase of their terrible patterned carpets.

Can't understand why they do that!!

Have now got my invites and save the date bits ready to get the save the dates out with xmas cards.

how is everyone eles doing??

Well got the suits all sorted, and our wedding rings arrived yesterday.

Bridesmaids dresses are also being sorted.

Only little bits to now get.