thought i'd better introduce myself... feel free to tell me your story!!!

Hello and welcome ?

I'm an old married now but still staying around. Lovely story about the 2 of you. You were obviously meant to be.

Hi Sarah and welcome to Hitched.

I'm Vicki and we are getting married in August 2010. We met last year after years of rubbish relationships, and from the moment we met knew we were meant to be together, and thats about it really.

Welcome to hitched.......lovely story and quite right! Go for it!......happy planning

H x

Hi there, welcome to the mad house!

i'm a july bride too

TYVM everyone ?

i cant wait to get started on the planning!

Awww obviously meant to be!! Hi!!

I'm Kelly been with my fella for nearly 6 years, got engaged 2 years ago.

Having a small civil do next Valentines day.?

Evenin!! I guess I'm classed as an old married now too, although I've only been married 24 hours!!

Hello to U

Hope all goes well you sound like you have gone through everything really, it shows that it is meant to be

We are Simonne and Wayne or Shorty and Gulliver!!!

Enjoy the chats

I have found em usefull so far

keep in touch

shorty xx

Hi , what a lovely story.

I'm also married now so don't post as much but i'm a bit of a lurker.

We had been together 10 years on the day we married & have an 8 year old son.

? Im an old married now too but still come on! Welcome!

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Nice story! Hello! I'm Ali and I'm marrying Iain on 7th Nov 09. Just over a year to go - can't wait!

Sounds like the two of you are just meant to be! I look forward to reading lots more of your posts!

Ali x

Hi! That's a lovely story the two of you have.

I'm Claire and we're getting married 13 June 2009. I can't wait! We've got 4 kids between us - James 19 (mine), Ryan 17 (mine), Chloe v nearly 10 (his) and Libby 2 and a bit (ours).

C x

Hi! what a great story, sounds like ur meant to be together! I'm moomin and i'm getting married on Nov 7th 2009, can't wait!

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? everyone thanks for all the responses so far, its great to hear how others got together.

we really do feel we're meant to be together after everything we've been through and just cant wait for our big day now, the kids are also so excited as I want them to be involved in it as nuch as they can so we've got fashion designers, cake makers, florists n alsorts in the making lol

Although Ive been through this before I really dont have a clue where to start as we have such a tight budget (to be honest we havent set a budget we're just going with the flow but dont have much to go with ?)

we just keep picturing that advert off years ago ....

'we wanna be together'

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Sarah x

Me and OH are in a kind of similar position to you PB. We've been together almost 5 years now and engaged for 3. We originally booked a date for 2012, to give us plenty of time to save for the full big wedding but after loads of setbacks (including the church going up in smoke and the reception venue going bust!) we've thought sod it now and we've set a date for July next year too. We came to the conclusion that we'll end up married no matter what so why bother putting it off for even longer to end up with the sort of wedding neither of us want.

We're on a very tight budget and are only having a small wedding with just close family and friends. We've only got the venue sorted so far so I really do need to start getting things sorted now.

Kirsty

We're having between 20/30 close family and friends at the ceremony which is late in the day and then having an evening do for around 150, which is going to be in the local club so it keeps the costs down, i dont think it's the fancy things that make the day special its the atmosphere!!

Welcome ?

I am Fiona and h2b is Dave, we are getting married in August next year met online May/June 05 and got engaged in August this year. No kids yet just a 16 week old chocolate lab called Holly

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Hiya!

i'm Annie and my h2b is David. we've been together for 6 yrs (had a 6 month break 3 yrs ago) we got engaged 2nd sept 2008 and planning to get married april 2010. going to book my venue's next week. cant wait!!

Snap, though we're getting married at 2pm and having a wedding breakfast for the guests at the ceremony, then the party afterwards at our local cricket club. We're also getting married on a Friday which has brought the costs down by loads.

Hello!! my name is Clare, and I am marrying Mark 7th March next year. We originally got together at school when I was 15 and he was 16!! We were together until I was 18, I went to uni but it didn't last very long (on his part lol) and I was heartbroken. I pinned for him nearly my whole first year of uni, then after the summer I realised enough was enough and went on to have 3 more fabulous and fun loving (!!) years at uni. We kind of got back in touch somewhere in my 4th year, sort of seeing each other but other people kind of thing. Then one day we kind of realised that one of us was more serious about the whole thing than the other (him this time lol) and we had a chat and 'got serious' again. I still lived down there though, and we planned it to stay that way for another year. But then I got a job offer which bought me back up to Reading, and it made sense for me to move in with him (and his housemate lol) but a whole year earlier than we'd originally talked about. So we did that, moved to London for a while, then bought a house back in the outskirts of Reading. Just over a year later we had our son (who will be 6 in Jan) and then 2 years later we had our daughter ( who will be 4 in Feb) and 16 years after we first got together we are finally getting married next year ?

phew that was a long story! Don't think I have told it on here before!!

Clare xxx

Great minds think alike lol! its a friday we've booked aswell, but we're getting wed at 3.30pm, Pauls dad suggested that we go out for a meal the night before just with our parents and the kids so think we're going to go for that then we've got a couple of hours to chill between the ceremony and the night do. we're still having the speeches and stuff just doing them on the night.

As we're just setting off with the plans we didnt even give it a thought about it being cheaper on a friday, thanks for that ?

Awww thats sweet hun, I think no matter what you go through in life you definately know when you meet your soulmate and as you get older you definately get wiser, good luck to you both ?

Ooh, there's not many other brides getting married on a Friday, we're the 17th. I've realised how much cheaper Friday weddings are as we'd previously started arranging a Saturday wedding. We're having a photographer who we'd previously had a quote off for a Saturday and it's almost £300 cheaper. Our venue also told us the price would be more expensive for a Saturday.

We've still got loads of things to sort out, next thing to sort is my dress so I'm going looking tomorrow. Eek!

We're the 31st as its the date we got back in touch last year ?

Im determined to lose alot of weight before then so Im not sorting my dress till aftet the new year, we're focusing on the bridesmaid dresses and colour and working around that, possibly making the dresses as me and the mother in law are handy with a machine!

If this story isn't fate then I don't know what it is. Congratulations to you both. Like you guys we are also getting married on a friday to hopefully (fingers crossed) keep the costs down a bit. My way of thinking about it is that the cost of the wedding is about the same price of a new car so we just keep telling ourselves its a nice pressie

As for me, I'm sarah and my partner is Shaun and we are planning to get married in july 2010. we have been together for 6 years and he finally proposed to me in the summer after I had graduated from Uni. We met when I was 17 and we have lasted when many said it wouldn't. I just love the fact that there are soooo many lovely stories and people to help on this forum, you really can ask anything I think ?

Tyvm ?

congrats to you both aswell!!!

Hey

I'm Becky, and have been with StupidBoy for nearly 7 years - we met at uni. He proposed in July in St George's A+E (he had planned something speciall, but I got taken ill a week before so he proposed early to cheer me up!) We are getting married 25th July 2009 in Cardiff.

Anyway hitched is totally addictive - be warned - and be sure to post lots of photos, everyone loves seeing dresses, venues etc

SG45 x

Hello welcome to hitched pablosbabe (and all the newbies!) ?

i am bluewater, engaged to my lovely scottish mr bluewater since end of may, but have been together for 6 and a half years. met in paris while we were teaching english. getting married 1st aug 09 in a hotel in kent.

Hello and welcome to hitched ?

I'm another old married now!

Stephen & I got married on September 6th. We met back in 2000, I was 15 and he had just turned 16 (there's an 8 month age gap between us). We met on holiday in Salou, Spain, we were staying at the same apartment complex and our families got to talking.

He's Northern Irish and I'm Scottish. When we got to talking we realised we had millions in common along with some very strange family coincidences and actually had stayed at the same hotel in Disneyland Paris the year earlier at the same time on school trips, so we were obviously destined to be together.

We got engaged after 2 and a half years, just a few weeks before my 18th! We did the long distance thing for 4 years and moved in together in 2004 over to London as I'd got a job as an air hostess. After a few months I transferred to Belfast and we've been here since.

In 2006 we had a son, Kyle, who was our page boy. We then eventually decided to set a date in January 2007, which was honestly something I thought we'd never get round to!

A few weeks before the wedding I discovered I was pregnant with our second child, who is due at the end of March!

Luv Victoria

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awww thast so sweet ?

its amazing how many people get brought together by fate!

these stories are great thanks everyone for making me feel so welcome ??

Hiya - what a lovely story.

Im getting married in April 2010 - just under 18 monrhs away. July next year will be here before you know it!! How far have you got with your planning so far? it is possible to have everything you want on a very small budget - we have certainly managed it. Have you got a venue, and the photographer etc booked? July next year will get booked up very very soon x

How de do, Im ellie, engaged for only a couple of months not getting married for a couple of years. Still waiting for my damn engagement ring lol. Congrats, hope you enjoy planning ?