October 2015 brides....

Shoes are from Dune they really are so soft and comfy!

LittleMissPanda - Sorry to here about your grandad and niece, sending hugs xx

Little Miss Panda - Sorry to hear about your Grandad and Niece, I hope you and your family are all OK?

Hen do plans are coming along OK thanks, we've booked to go to Newcastle for the weekend. I've never been but always wanted to go!

My invites are also with a printing company at the moment so they should be ready soon to send out!

A friend has also recommended her hairdresser to me and she will do my hair for £15!

Getting very excited now!!!

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend so far

Hey all!

It's been great seeing how you are all getting on.

Sorry to hear about your family matters Little Miss Panda! I do hope everyone gets better very soon!

Lui, I have had rubbish car issues too recently - £650 was the most recent one but am still waiting for other stuff to be done, costing £150 and then there is the fixing of a car door that some idiot reversed into without leaving details...as you can imagine I said no to a quote of £1100 to get that fixed! As much as I want to get rid of the car, I have a loan to pay for it and can't clear it as excess money is going to wedding funds and my car is in negative equity....grr!!

Anywho, onto nicer things!

We are making invites tomorrow...very exciting! We have bought the invitations but are doing all the inside stuff ourselves. Does anyone have any advice on to get them looking great and not amateur?

In other news, we recently paid off our honeymoon and first night hotel which is fab.

We now need to get on with sorting flowers and hair and make up. Most other things are under way or are booked in for certain dates but it all still feels like there is loads to do.

Just out of interest, how many people have started deciding on their table decorations? I'm wondering how much of the nitty-gritty stuff to start planning now!

Lots of love to you all!!

Cat

Morning brides! Wide awake after a 13 hr nightshift, not good!

My flowers:

Morning everyone
Thank you for all the hugs and nice words, I do appreciate it xx
I'm pleased to say my Grandad has sailed through his first 2 weeks of treatment, so fingers crossed he can keep up the positive attitude. And as for my niece, she is completely back to 'normal' and spent all day Saturday terrorising my OH and chasing him round my mum's garden ?
Wedding related news - I've finally done my invitations!! Hooray!! They've all been written, had inserts added and sealed ready for posting ... AT LAST!!
I have some pictures of my bunting, invites, veil that I might flash later...

rach046 - I think I might have to have a look at Dune's website now. I have a lovely pair of shoes for the day but I know I won't last all day in them...

LeighB3 - Ooh your hen do sounds fun, I've heard Newcastle is great for hen parties When are you having yours? My hens won't tell me anything about mine, not going to lie I am concerned!
That's great you have a hairdresser for £15

Cat D - Sorry to hear your having car troubles as well, aren't they a gigantic pain in the butt!
how are you getting on with your invites? I had a work colleague make me a template for my RSVP's and menu inserts, I just pasted that into Word and added my own text. Once they were printed and cut out with a guillotine they looked lovely (if I do say so myself).
With regards to nitty gritty ... I have decided on my centrepieces and the majority of my hall decorations, I'm currently trying to locate tablecloths and find a way of hiding a particularly hideous wall at my evening venue!

firsttimebride83 - Your flowers look lovely

Lui - I have finally taken photos of the back of my dress for you, I can either flash them here or pm them to you

Love and hugs to everyone

xxx

I live near Newcastle, it's fab for a night out x

Hi all,

Sorry I’ve been away for some time, been sorting out car stuff. Sorted myself a new car and should be picking it up on Friday if everything goes to plan, still not getting too excited due to the bad luck I’ve had recently. Anyways back to it ?

Firsttimebride – Love your flowers. Are you going to use real flowers or going to use fake? I think either will look stunning.

Cat D – I’ve started my invites and I’m worried they would look amateurish. Ohhhh where are you off to for your honeymoon? I’ve already started my centrepieces, only because I have to make hundreds of origami flowers which does take some time.

Leighb3 – Great news on your hairdresser!! Such a bargain there for you. I’ve heard Newcastle is great for a night out. Did anyone watch the program about bouncers that was on a few years ago, that was in Newcastle wasn’t it? They looked after a lot of the bars and the places looked really nice.

LMP – Great news on your granddad and niece looks like it’s finally picking up for you and I’m so happy for you! I dot mind either lovely, here or PM is fine by me!!

I finally started doing a lot more wedding stuff, Saturday me and the girls made bout 30-40 flowers aided by biscuits and processco! Then yesterday I finally started gluing my invites together. I got half way through the day people then gave up as I was tired. Gluing the pocket folds together and then gluing the insides takes a lot of time which I didn’t realised, hahahaha! Still have to wax stamp them yet! Lol!

Finally went through the wedding finances and realised I had over worked my finances and I was saving another £500 more than required. Hopefully taking that down will make me stress less.

Hello lovely
Glad to hear you've sorted yourself out a new car now, fingers crossed it all goes well from now on for you. That's good that you were over saving rather than under saving, hopefully that'll take a bit of pressure off you now.

I'll pop the pictures on here then ... get ready everyone, I went a bit mad haha...

So here's my dress with the train down

Here's the loop...

All done up...

Button & loop hidden away...




Ta-dah!
(it looks a bit odd as it's bunched up on the hanger, it hangs much nicer when its on)




Hope this helps hun
xx

Thanks lovely! ?

Still love your dress so much!!

Thats so clever!! That gives me so much more to work on now.

Going to speak to them when I pick mine up on Saturday!! Woo!!?

Also maybe you should flash the inserts you friend made.....? just being nosey now lol

Aw thanks hun, I love it too ?
I'm so impatient for my OH to see it though, I'm getting scared he won't like it
I thought it was a clever way of bunching up the train as well, glad I could help
Looking forward to seeing a flash of your dress soon ... :p

Oh ok ... since you asked so nicely ... hehe

My blinged up invites

And here are the inserts...
(I forgot to take a photo until one came back!)

What do you think?

I know what you mean! Im scared mine wont like mine but then I think..... he always seems to like what I wear so I should be ok. ?

Love the inserts!! You wouldn’t even know that they were done separately from the invites. ?

It’s going to be a rush job as I have go from the shop to my mums and then drop off the dress, take a flash and then come home and pick up H2B and then head to Bicester to meet his dad! Just can’t wait to have it now though, although scared about the alterations cost. ?

Beautiful flowers firsttimebride. It reminds me I really need to sort mine out!

Your invites look great LMP. Did you design them yourself? I'm sure you've already said, but I have the memory of a goldfish ?

i haven't really done much but I did my flower girls their dresses. They're going to steal the show for sure!

Aw I'm sure your OH will love your dress
It's just odd as its my OH's opinion that I rely on the most, and I can't ask him what he thinks!! Hopefully he won't think I look like a giant puff ball

Thank you ? it's good to hear that they look nice, weeks of panicking are now over woohoo!

Ah there's always time for a flash :p
Ooh don't talk to me about alterations, I have no idea what mine will cost. Have the shop given you a rough idea of what you'll be looking at?

^^^ Oh this I totally agree with! It's so weird as I share/discuss everything with OH and it totally feels weird not being able to ask him on something so important. I could I suppose, but that would ruin the surprise! I hope he likes it.

Oh I'm so glad its not just me that's having this problem! I couldn't even ask him if I should get a veil, I had to guess =/
The only thing I managed to get his opinion was my jewellery and that was purely because I threatened a meltdown if he didn't help me...
Lucky for you lovely ladies have been very complimentary and that has helped

AnnaMolly I bought my invites from Hitched but I added the little blue stones myself (only 4 per invite as I got SO annoyed with it all!!) and my work friend made me a template so I could create my own RSVP's & menus

How are you getting on?

AnnaMolly – I think these flower girl dresses need a flash!!

LMP – I’ve always winged my own style since i was like 13 (looking back on some I probably shouldn’t have haha) so I’m more scared that it won’t be what he normally sees me in. I’ll wear some shorts so I can just slip it over them without worrying and just a jumper and vest top. I’ll try my best, just need to make sure mum doesn’t see it too hehe!

The gaint puff ball is my worry, after seeing all the slinky dresses people are buying and posting, im worried i’ll look like a toilet roll cover hahah!

I haven’t even dared to ask yet. I have a price list of alterations but don’t even want to know the cost. So far all i know is £10 to add a bussle or a button to the bottom to hold the dress up!

P.s. is anyone else not getting the email notifications?

I never get email notifications Lui, am I supposed to?

The dresses are at my mums but this is them from the M&S website:

I had seen some gorgeous ones in John Lewis but these were half the price!

AnnaMolly - your flower girl dresses are gorgeous
I bought my nieces outfit a few weeks ago but I probably shouldn't have...

Lui - I know what you mean, my OH is used to seeing me in jeans and trainers I hardly ever look "girly" so it'll be a bit of shock to him! Are you not showing your mum the dress?
Well once you've flashed the dress I'll be the first to tell you it doesn't look like a toilet roll cover :p
I couldn't pull off any of these slinky dress people are posting ... it's a wee bit upsetting ... ah well *reaches for more chocolate* ?
The cost of adding a bustle or button isn't bad, hopefully the rest of the alterations will be ok as well!

Maybe it’s my setting, I have it set up to get notifications when people post on this board, mainly because we ladies love to natter on this one and when I go out running/house work/ work/ general life I fear I miss too much haahah.

Those are beautiful!! They will steal the show.

I also saw your other post and I honestly think your having wobbles because your dress is beautiful and I have no doubts you will look stunning in it.

Ah. Nope never had those which is probably why I miss so much!

Thanks Lui. I'm hoping with all my hair and make up done and my veil on I'll feel better about it. It's so hard to imagine what it's all going to look like together.

I had to turn the email notifications off, they were clogging up my work email

AnnaMolly, I know what you mean about trying to imagine it all together. I had a few wobbles with my dress but I tried it on after I had my make-up trial with my jewellery and fell in love with it all over again! Can you try yours on after you've had a hair/make-up trial, it might you help picture it all on the day...

Ooh ... does anyone mind if I flash my veil ... ??

Maybe it was just hitched playing up.

LMP – doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo it!!

I hope when I get it in June I'll just fall in love with it again. Fingers crossed!

Definitely a veil flash please!

Hehe ok
Here it is...

I'd highly recommend The Wedding Veil Shop to everyone, I absolutely LOVE my veil =D

Your veil is beautiful!! It's so delicate!!

im having wobbles about my hair, not sure if how I want it is how I want it any more and nothing else I see, I like x

Thanks hun
What sort of hairstyle were you going for? Maybe you can vary it a bit, or add some accessories? Have you had a look on Pinterest... x

I have just not feeling anything, I think it doesn’t help that my hair needs a cut as my fringe is completely grown out almost.

Just want my hair up and out the way with some plaits in as its the type that as soon as theirs a little bit of moisture it frizzes lol!

Problems of being a woman hahaha!

I love the veil! What length is it? I can't decide on floor length or chapel length for mine.

Aw Lui I know where your coming from, I hate my hair atm as I have to grow it for the hairstyle I want and it's at the awkward in between stage!
This is how I'm hoping to have my hair...

Because my hair always has a centre parting the idea is to have two plaits either side going into the bun, and have it a bit 'tidier'. I can't stand having wisps of hair falling in my face!
AnnaMolly my veil is hip length (36 inches) and its 54 inches wide, I used the custom option to make it exactly what I wanted

xx

Hi All,

On the ssubject of veils. I am going all out for a very long one. It is as long as the train of my dress. Fiance's grandma said I looked very prettyin it. Like a virgin! Lol

Wow Happy Polly, I'll bet that's an impressive looking veil
What does it look like?
There's no way I could cope with a veil that long, I'm scared I'll fall over my dress as it is!

Got to love grandparents honesty!

Thats veil is beautiful, love a little bit of sparkle!

Am I the only 1 not having a veil? I don't want to cover up the back of my dress as that's my favourite part. Xx