welcome to all the newbies - shall we do another introductions thread?

name: Stacy Harrington

age: 27 and 3 months

location: Mansfield

wedding date: 28th March 2009

job: Credit Controller

how i met h / h2b: We worked together at our old places of work

random fact about me: I can touch my nose with my tongue

best wedding planning tip: Shop about and haggle

name: Nic

age: 28

location: East Lothian

wedding date: 7th March 2009

job: Childminder

how i met h / h2b: He is the brother of a friend

random fact about me: I have 3 rats, 2 rabbits, 2 guinea pigs, 2 cats and h2b is getting me a border collie pup as a wedding pressie

best wedding planning tip: Make as much as you can yourself

name: Stacey (another one here!)

age: 22

location: Dartford, Kent

wedding date: 25th July 2010

job: I'm in marketing for the conference division of a business media company

how i met h / h2b: In a bar, his friend was chatting up mine!

random fact about me: ermmm...mind's gone blank!! ermm I have an English degree...?

best wedding planning tip: Try to enjoy it as much as possible and not get stressed with things that are perhaps of minor importance!

As a HIB do i count??? il add anyway sorry if im intruding! x

name: Foreternity aka Sara

age: 22

location: Lancashire

wedding date: not engaged yet :-(

job: I have jsut opened a Bridal Boutique!!! formally a journalist

how i met h / h2b: At work in debenhams such a sweetie

random fact about me: I own a horse she takes more of my atention then any child would but makes me get up in the morning and saves on gym fees!

best wedding planning tip: Find someone on the know and make very good friends with them!!! recomendations are priceless!!! x

name: Victoria

age: 26

location: Dartford, kent

wedding date: 26th September 09

job: Administrator

how i met h / h2b: Through my friend - he was her then boyfriends cousin.

random fact about me: can't think of anything right now LOL

best wedding planning tip: Hmm..... not so good at this am i??? ?

name: Louise

age: 40

location: Staffordshire

wedding date: 17th September 2009

job: Finance Manager

how i met h / h2b: Friend of a friend

random fact about me: I hate spiders!

best wedding planning tip: Remember it's YOUR wedding. Try not to let others run away with your day!!

name: Pablosbabe or Sarah

age: 31

location: Sunderland

wedding date: 31st July 2009

job: Own a cleaning business

how i met h / h2b: In a nightclub 13 years ago - had 11 years apart, then got back together last year through emailing

random fact about me: we have 5 kids in total who I love with all my heart (3 girls and 2 boys aged 7,9,10,12,13)but we cant have any together due to an early hysterectomy

best wedding planning tip: Try and be creative to make it more personal x

name: Sarah

age: 27

location: Bristol

wedding date: 19th September 2009

job: Hairdresser

how i met h / h2b: Online. He made the first move on ICQ

random fact about me: have to come back to that one.

best wedding planning tip: Do/make as much as you can yourself and ebay, ebay, ebay!!!

name: Becky

age: 27

location: London

wedding date: 25th July 2009

job: Office Manager

how i met h / h2b: At Uni - he was my tutor

random fact about me: I'm deaf

best wedding planning tip: have a scrapbook to focus ideas in and remember it's only one day out of your whole married life together, so relax and remember the vows are the most important bit.

Hiya! Nice to meet all of you! As one of the newbies I thought I'd better introduce myself!

name: Jen

age: 22

location: Glasgow

wedding date: Not definite yet but hopefully April 2011

job: Social Work student

how i met h / h2b: School, on a Duke of Edinburgh hike (yes, we hadn't washed for 3 days and looked minging, lol)

random fact about me: I can fit my whole fist in my mouth ?

best wedding planning tip: Don't have any tips yet, I'm still looking for tips myself!

This may be a silly question but what does HIB stand for?

Hi Jen - welcome!

HIB = Hitcher in Business

There is a link somewhere with all the acronyms on it, just a few others are:

BM - Bridesmaid, OH = Other Half, HM = Honeymoon, ER = Engagement Ring, MIL = Mother in Law ummmmmm that's all I think of for now!

x

I've posted replies to a couple of topics so you may have come accross me before, but I never introduced myself - how rude, sorry!

name: poosie-dee aka Susie

age: 30 and nearly 2 weeks!!!

location: Bucks

wedding date: 30 Oct 2009

how i met h / h2b: In the High Street in Marlow on a night out with the girls (ages ago now......)

random fact about me: Originally from Bolton

best wedding planning tip: find family and friends you would trust with your life and delegate, delegate, delegate. Now I've turned 30 I don't want to give myself any uneccessary worries and add to the wrinkles

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Susie x.

name: Claire

age: 38

location: Hampshire

wedding date: 13 June 2009

job: Commercial Manager

how i met h / h2b: in a night club - and a tacky/scuzzy one at that!!

random fact about me: My eldest and youngest children share the same birthday - there is 17 years between them!! But we had a fab party for his 18th and her 1st birthdays - and the sun shone.

best wedding planning tip: Shop around, get crafty and do it yourself and make sure it's what you want, not what others want or you think they expect!

Beccy- I used to ask twins that! Took me a while to realise why they would laugh at me! ?

you rebel! ?

Bluewater - perhaps I should be called BadGirl45.... nah he was only my Hall of Residence tutor, not academic, plus, technically I met him through my ex.....

Name : Sharon

Age: 27 years 11 months three weeks and one day.

Location: Nottinghamshire

Wedding date: July 26th 09

Job: Mental health Nurse

How I met h2b: Both out with our own friends on Valentines day 04 and met just as I had to leave for bus home at around 2am. Exchanged numbers and the rest is history.

Random fact about me: I have a phobia about being late for things and would not eat a mushroom for a million pounds.

Best wedding planning tip: Just enjoy it!

I have posted a few times but just realised that I haven't introduced myself properly ?

Name: Sarah

Age: 23

Location: Warrington and Wigan (I live at home and with H2B, it works at the mo 6 days at his, 1 at mine)

Wedding Date: 23/30th July 2010

Job: Trainee teacher (I get paid £900 bursary so don't need to work at the mo)

How I met H2B: On my first night out in St Helen's, on the dance floor in Nexus.

Random Fact about me: I can dislocate me left thumb, it's disgusting but people seem to squirm !!

Best Wedding planning tip: With Venues, visit loads and try to make sure you get a good deal by playing them off against each other and also getting married on a week day (does this count as planning) ?

Hi everyone

Name: Scorpio (aka Lori)

Age: 27

Location: Hamilton, Scotland

Weddind Date: 16 May 2009

Job: PA in Medical Research

How I met H2B: Playing rounders with my old job

Random Fact about me: Very accident prone!

Best Wedding planning tip: Enjoy the planning and start early

Good idea Bluewater

name: Vicki/Zippy27

age: 28 and 6 months

location: Cambridgeshire

wedding date: 7th August 2010

job: I make appointments for sales reps selling veils, tiaras and other bridal accessories....which means I regularly get to try all these things on

how i met h / h2b: facebook/through a friend

random fact about me: I am allergic to tomatoes!!

best wedding planning tip: Can't think of any right now that haven't a;ready been said.

Name: Aussie Angelxxx/ Kate

age: 21 and 5 years lol

location: Devon - Paignton

wedding date: 11th of June 2009!!!

job: Work in a bank

how i met h / h2b: Pen Pals for almost a year talking constantly via Skype, MSN, phone and texting so cost a fortune between UK and Oz....Then he drove all the way to Edinburgh when I came over (was already planning on Travelling to Scotland when we became penpals) and fell madly in love in one weekend....then when he got home he told me he was going to move from Devon to Edinmburgh so we could be together and he did!! So technically we moved in together after our first date lol

random fact about me: I am qualified in Beauty Therapy yet I work in a bank....lol Plus I am crap at maths and they actually gave me a job!!

best wedding planning tip: It is all about what the two of you want...who cares what others think....but always remember to care about what your H2B wants and thinks!!

name: blurpimpala (Helen)

age: 27 and 10 months

location: Hampshire/West Midlands

wedding date: 30 August 09

job: Actuary (in pensions, since no-one ever knows what an actuary is)

how i met h / h2b: blind date, at school

random fact about me: I did a GCSE in ancient greek

best wedding planning tip: make your own stationary, it's easier than you think to design / print off your computer / assemble with double sided sticky tape and you save loads!

name: Bec

age: 24

location: Warrington

wedding date: 11 Sept 09

job: Risk Coach

how i met h / h2b: Used to work together when I was a christmas temp many years ago. Only 3 months after I left, (and not seeing him in all this time) and after several suggestive text messages he got the hint!!

random fact about me: I once Sang at the Royal Albert Hall (On the stage before we get any sarcastic comments coming in!!)

best wedding planning tip: Don't stress about the little things....Its the wedding itself thats most important x

Name: Katy Baker

Age: 26

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

Wedding date: 03rd October 2009

Job: Senior Business travel consultant

How I met h/h2b: One of my friends was going out with one of his friends, we met in 1997!! But didn't officially get together until April 1998!!

Random fact about me: I have 2 cats?!!!

Best wedding panning tip: Shop around for bargains!! I have just got my dress in a clearance sale a Maggie Sottero reduced from 800 to 499!!

name: cat26 aka cat

age: 34

location: birmingham but getting married in kent

wedding date: 15th June 2009

job: Marketing Manager for IT software company

how i met h / h2b: met while we worked at Woolworths HQ (god bless Woolies)

random fact about me: The actor John Simm asked me out, when I worked in a London bar (before he was in Life of Mars) - I said no!

best wedding planning tip: dont stress with the small stuff and don't compare your wedding to others, you don't have to spend loads of money

Hi, im also a newbie so thought i'd introduce myself and say "hello" to you all :0)

name: VK7 / Vanessa

age: 28 (just!)

location: Hampshire

wedding date: summer 2010?? (but poss thinking of winter09 now!)

job: Self employed spray tanning therapist

how i met h / h2b: He's my friend's brother......met him at her house in 2003 ?

random fact about me: Im obsessed with anti-bacterial hand gel!

best wedding planning tip: Shop around. And ive been told to try and enjoy all the planning as it goes so quickly! ?

I'll probably have quite a few questions to follow as I've not been engaged long and have just started viewing venues x