October 2015 brides....

Yeah I was thinking of having it as an eternity ring in a few years. I've told my oh he has to wear a ring so that women know he's taken! ? He want's his engraved inside with the Swahili for I love you.

Hitched has been doing it to me all week, thought it was just the slow computer at work though!

Great minds bliss, great minds!! Hehe!

Aww thats so sweet and yes I am all over that with the ring thing! If I’m wearing a ring he is too haha!

Nope just the site playing up!!

I found some table numbers which I may buy form eBay. Only like £1.80 and we would only need 5 which I think is a bargain. OH thinks we don’t need them as people can just find their seats. What do you ladies think? I’m thinking that it’ll just be people wondering around for ages waiting to settle.

Also work gave me an extra days holiday so I’m using it on the 29th October so I don’t just have one day before the wedding to get things sorted.

Afternoon everyone

Hitched has been really glitchy for me all week, keeps saying my posts haven't been posted when they have. Silly Hitched!

Lui - Your OH sounds really unusual, will you flash when it arrives?
I think if the table numbers are that cheap, maybe it's better to buy them and possibly not need them? I do see where your OH is coming from though as we're not actually having a seating plan, there'll only be roughly 30 people for the meal and everyone will be that room for 45-60 minutes having a drink etc whilst OH & I have photos done so there's plenty of time for them to find their seats.
Sounds like you'll be doing more than enough walking today, I think that deserves another curly wurly :p
I have the exact same problem with my jeans it's always my thighs that cause a problem. I end up wearing a bigger size which then look like clown jeans as their baggy everywhere else ... not a good look ...
Why can't we love food and not gain weight like our skinny MOH's?! NOT FAIR!!
Definitely guilty of stress and boredom eating

bliss balloons - Glad it's not just me that's yo-yoing at the moment. I have weeks where I am so good it's unreal, and then I totally lose the plot and eat everything in sight. Perhaps we need to start a support group!
That's great that your venue have knocked £500 off the price for you, definitely wouldn't argue with them about that.
Ooh where did you find your OH's ring in the end? That ring you flashed is gorgeous btw!
Yay for another job being ticked off the list, I found music to be one of the more fun things to sort

Lui - I think it depends on the number of guest you're having but it might be a bit confusing without them. THat's great news about the extra day off, I'm working until the Thursday then have Friday and Saturday, weddings Sunday. Doesn't feel like a lot of time but i've got two weeks off after to make up for it.

LMP - Yeah music was fun, was up too late last night listening to songs and drinking wine (which does not help the diet)! I also have a skinny moh, I only need to lose around 10 pounds to get to my goal but that seems like a lot at the moment. Support group is a good plan! Will need to maintain after the wedding as well because I'm a bridesmaid in March. OH'S ring is from h samual, is silver plain band, will flash when it arrives. ?

Its at home at the moment. I’ll flash when I get home after IKEA and shopping! J It lives in the safe next to mine, actually I wonder if he has one on his instragram, let me snoop on him.

I shall purchase the table numbers and your right if I use them its not a major loss, plus i could see if my MOH wants them for her wedding or anyone else I know who gets married after me! Least that way they get some use! Good plan LMP!

I hope so! I managed to eat a pack of crisps. I need to sort myself out hahaha! I just need to get into the mindset thats all! I think the nicer weather now will help as I wont want large dinners and running in heat will make me lose more so yeaaaaaaaa! Hehe!

Thats why I go with skinnys all the time, least that way they are tight as much as they can bne! Booo to big thighs!

There are 60 people in total including us, and OH nan is in a wheel chair so i think it may be best to have table numbers as it saves her and others trying to work their way around tables to find out where they are. It’ll cost no more than like £5 so it’s not a major loss.

Mines a Saturday so I had only the Friday before which thinking about it now is so silly as i need to do more stuff and get things sorted and one day to sort myself, the venue and get to my parents ready for the next day is too much.

I cant wait until afterwards as i have the whole of November off. Only 4 more months until time off, I can do this hahaha!

LMP - this is OH ring:

I think its highly unfair that the 3 of us have been plagued with skinny MOH's ... maybe we should fatten them up rather than diet ourselves ?
Support group is definitely a good idea I reckon, I have to try and keep loosing weight after the wedding as we're going to Florida for our one year anniversary (big family holiday) and I really want to be able to wear a bikini for the first time ever.
But I always fall into the wine trap! I wine ?

I'm having the afternoon off on the Wednesday & Thursday, then have the Friday off ready for the wedding on Saturday. Have a week off afterwards to recover from it all!
Jealous that SOME people have a month off though!

Now you have a better excuse to buy them Lui if you can pass them onto your MOH afterwards
Ooh your OH's wedding ring is really nice, very unusual.

In the time it took me to type this I just ate a doughnut ☹️
Why does the world hate me so ?

Love the ring Lui! I'm sure calories don't count at the weekend and friday is the start of the weekend so doughnuts must be allowed. I can't wait to get home from work to have some mexican chicken and a nice big glass of pimms. ?

This is why I love talking to you guys, we're so on the same page! Mexican chicken and pimms sounds amazing ... room for one more??

Bliss – I love your thinking about weekend calories! Hahaha! I may start thinking like that. Ohhhhhhhhh Mexican chicken! Sounds good! No clue what I’m having, OH may eat as he’s out, so not sure if he’s eating out yet! ?

Thanks guys I’ll pass on your comments to him, im sure he will be happy about people like it!

Hahah Hey hey hey LMP? i may have a whole month off but apart from that Ive only had my birthday (half a day) and the Friday and Monday around my hen do off, apart from that no holiday! It hurts so bad knowing my next day off isn’t until august haha! ??Especially when OH has holiday and is sitting at home some days and I’m at work! hahah!??

Right we need that support group on the go!! Maybe from next week we can find stuff for each other that is only little adjustments to help us. Like taking stairs and walking places and quick 10 min tone up exercises! What do you ladies think? If we spur each other one it may help!??

OK, now hitched isnt letting me put emojis in

Donuts always find me! They find me and sit on my hips! ????????

Mexican, pimms party at mine it is then! ?

I can't wait to have time off, think I'm looking forward to that more than the wedding! haha

Yep Monday is a good time to start. I really need to go for a walk on my lunch instead of sitting at my dest looking on ebay!

This is exactly what I do! EEP! ?

Ok lunch time walks, more running and no more buying unhealthy food! All the fruit and veg! ?

Oh no Lui, boo to the fruit and veg! Still it's only another 4 and a bit months then you can indulge in all the donuts you want!

I really like that ring, it's the kind of thing my OH would go for I think. He was looking for something a bit different. Do you know if you can engrave it? (Apologies if you've already answered this, I'm skim reading between doing work!)

I'm not sure if you can AnnaMolly as its wood. I can find the guy OH ordered from if you want so you can ask him? You can pick and choose your metal and your wood so each ring is unique!!

i can't wait! I've already said I'm going to have a party with all the take aways so that I can eat everything!

I'm not sure if you can AnnaMolly as its wood. I can find the guy OH ordered from if you want so you can ask him? You can pick and choose your metal and your wood so each ring is unique!!

i can't wait! I've already said I'm going to have a party with all the take aways so that I can eat everything!

So I'm at work on a lovely Saturday morning again ?
Why do I volunteer to do this?!

I love the idea of getting a support group on the go, let's keep each other motivated! So from Monday I will take the stairs and find some tone up exercises that won't upset my dodgy back...
No more doughnuts shall find me ... until 4th October at least ?

bliss I know what you mean about time off, I'm looking forward to the week off OH and I will have after the wedding. Will be so nice to relax and not be constantly worrying about stuff.
We do have our little holiday on Monday 15th to look forward to, apart from that I have no time off until 30th September ☹️

Nooooo why oh why LMP!

Thats the same for me. No donuts, no more curly wurlys, portioning out some magic stars (I have a sweet tooth so always need something) and running more, about 3 times a week and some toning afterwards. I just have to get to October 31st and it'll be all the take away time!

Oh if you want stuff for a bad back I'll let you know some stuff on Monday as I suffer from one too!

i can't wait to just be chilling out and not doing anything!

My confetti arrived yesterday, I'm going to start putting it together! Once I've put it together I'll flash! I love getting wedding related post ?

I need the overtime Lui otherwise believe me I wouldn't be here! My OH has had his wages dropped since he switched from night shifts to be a van driver (for the same company) so I'm trying to make up the difference.

Right then ladies we can do this. No more doughnuts, curly wurlys or yummy coffees with full fat milk & sugar (my guilty treat). Good trick for portioning out chocolate that I discovered is to put some in a small bowl (I use my nieces as I keep cutlery etc at my house for when she visits), and put the rest in the fridge for another day. Works for me as I'm too lazy to get up and refill the bowl ?

Ooh if you do discover any exercises that won't aggregate my back I'd be grateful
I have a wonky pelvis as a result of a car accident so constantly have a bad back, dodgy shoulder and sore neck ... my chiropractor earns lots of money thanks to me being so accident prone!

Looking forward to seeing a confetti flash

That sucks about your OH job. It a shame that he couldn’t keep his wages the same. Will he change back after the wedding? Or did you guys decide it was nicer to have you both on day shifts?

You’ll be impressed, I walked past donuts the other say when in tescos. I went by myself another time and walked straight past them. Those donuts will not get me. I did have profiteroles two days running but this was because mum brought them for when we were having dinner and my friend brought them for when we were cooking. So not of my choice. I’m paying for it now as I know i have to go out and run later.?

I saw a few, depends on what you can and how much things aggravate it. When i was having treatment for mine, they made me to planks and cross training and some wierd ball work (hahaha).

I found this: /live-well/exercise/10-minute-legs-bums-tums-home-workout/

Is it any good for you?

So I have a few things to flash as we made and got a few things this weekend. ?

So we had some custom buttons made to go on the girls dresses, they arrived on Saturday:

Heres the mirror for the seating plan in all its glory! Excuse the photo of the washing, but it was either that or me in a towel and no one needs to see that haha!

Heres the confetti and some of the made up cones (smells amazing!)

Finally I have started painting the skulls with a friend of mine. Mines the first one with the dot work, hers is alot better as you can see (shes an awesome artist) so I’m asking her to do 2 more and I’ll do 2 more dot work ones and it’ll even out ?

Also we had 3, yes count them 3 RSPV’s this weekend J Wooop!! Slowly but surely!?

Lui your wedding is going to be amazing! I love that mirror, very dramatic. Those skulls are awesome, I wish I had even a little finger worth of creativity to do something like that.

Thanks lovely!

I hope so, however I can’t see it yet, yknow! I’m worried it’ll look like a mish mash, and not like a wedding should be. I think this is like one of my worst fears at the moment haha! I’m sure I’ll get over it.

Thanks lovely! Its IKEA, I’ve wanted the mirror for ages but couldn’t justify it until now!

My friend puts my one to shame! Such a shame haha! She’s so good! I’m with you wishing I could do something like that.

Morning ladies

Lui, my OH is now a permanent van driver so he'll always be working day shifts. He did nights for close to 8 years and it was really getting to him, so I am glad he managed to get another position ... just a pain that he lost his shift allowance!

Well done on walking past the doughnuts, have a gold star! As for the profiteroles you had to eat them, it would've been rude not to so it's ok

With regards to my back and exercise, there's pretty much nothing I'm allowed to do =/
I can't even do sit ups! I can do Dead Bugs, and sit on a balance ball and that's about it. I'll take a look at that link though thank you, there might be something on there I can do

Loving all the flashes, everything looks awesome!

Yay for RSVPS ?

Good on your OH for sticking it out for 8 years. I couldn’t do that, fair play to changing and finally being on a shift he’s happy with. It is a shame about the allowance but the fact hes happier makes it up for him ?

Thanks, the first time OH had to steer me past and the second time I just walked past without looking at them. Why thank you for my gold star!! I shall treasure it while I’m not thinking about donuts. ?

That’s what I think, i had to. I’m tempted to buy some hot chocolate and low fat cream so that when I need a chocolate fix I can have an options and cream. Do they do soya cream? Starting to become a fan on Soya in things (although not by itself).

Hopefully there’s something in there you can do! Can you swim? Is that allowed? Swimming is awesome, I love it, just always end up swallowing loads of water as im a spoon who doesn’t breathe through her nose haha! ?

Thanks lovely! Slowly getting stressed thinking that it won’t be completed in time as all our weekends people are coming to visit us or we are visiting people. When really I should be painting things and putting finishing touches to things. I’m about to go through my diary and block out some weekends so I can get it done. ?

I’m so happy some RSPV’s are coming back.

How was your weekend in the end lovely?

Yeah I don't know how he did it to be fair, he always says that if he didn't move in with me he'd probably still be doing it! But he's much happier now and the routine we have is much better than what we were dealing with. Money isn't everything after all ?

Would you prefer a doughnut shaped sticker ?

Hot chocolate is really good for when you want a sweet treat, as you can get some that's only 40 calories. I quite often have one instead of a pudding when we go out.
I wouldn't know about soya cream I'm afraid, but I bet Google knows!

I indeed swim ... badly. I also end up drinking most of the pool & I tend to just sink to be honest!
I really love ice skating but none of my friends will go with me, and last time I went I broke my wrist so probably not a good idea 4 months before the wedding ?

Aw sweetie don't stress, I promise you it will all be fine. I had exactly the same panic 2 weeks ago but know I've realised I'm much further ahead than I thought, and I've also decided to ditch a few things because quite frankly I can't be bothered ?

My weekend was lovely thank you, spent most of it just chilling out with OH and running round after my niece! That girl can run!!
How was yours?

Yes please, I’ll take the donut shaped sticker and drool all over it! Haha!

I have decided to go down the hot chocolate route, so purchased some caramel hot chocolate and some light squirty cream. You can get soya but not from normal shops like sainsburys, tescos ect. So just went with the really light cream.

Haha i like how we swim the same. I haven’t been ice skating for ages! Oh no, how did you break your wrist? It wouldn’t be great but imagine the drawings that you could have on it. Hahah although don’t go breaking your arm. You keep yourself wrapped up in cotton wool or bubble wraps you!

I’ve given myself 2 weekends where i have told OH where i am not having any visitors, we are not visiting anyone and we are not making any plans so I can focus on this. However this is in July and September so leaving it all a bit late and all at once. I like that people are wanting to see it, but it’s a bit much weekend after weekend. Being short on wages because of the wedding also doesn’t help because it’s just making the months tighter. I really shouldn’t moan, but I dont wanna moan to OH as it’s his family and friends that are coming up and i don’t want him to think i don’t want them there. I do but when am i meant to do anything else. AHHH *that was a proper drama queen moment hahaha!* ?

Sounds like you had a lovely weekend!! Kids are surprisingly fast the cute little beans haha!

I had a good one thank you, went for a bike ride and walk around town on Saturday, then had dinner with my parents in the evening.

Sunday I had my friend over and had a roast and did some skull painting.

Just had to let you all know that my OH family have booked their flights from South Africa for the wedding! I'm sooooooooo excited!!!!!!!! xxx

Awww yey Leigh!! Thats fantastic!!

When are they due to arrive in October?

They'll be here from 30th September to 13th October, the wedding is on the 10th! This has made it feel a bit more real now! I still cant believe I'm getting married lol....

Aww they are here for a nice time as well which will be nice for you.

Eep you need to let it sink in as its 4 months on Wednesday.

Hows everything coming along?

I know, it's crazy! I think it's because me and OH have been together so long! I know that doesn't make sense lol!

I'm pretty much on track, just need to sort out decorations etc for the venue. My dress will be altered in August and I've got hair and make up trials booked for then too! I just can't wait now

I love all your flashes Lui!

Hi there all!

I mentioned a while ago I am also getting married in October and have to say how organised you all are! I've been pretty silent on here the last couple of weeks as you've spurred me on to get a lot more stuff organised - I hadn't even made the invites yet let along sent them out. And as for being healthy, I've just demolished 2 Krispy kreme doughnuts However from tomorrow onwards I will try to eat a bit more healthy and increase my exercise.

I was wondering if any of you could recommend what shop is best for gift lists? We weren't going to do one but my OHs family have said they would prefer to have one and my gran was very upset at the idea of the poem we were going to use, which very politely asked for money towards honeymoon (anyone elses family keep sticking their oar in or is it just me?). We've lived together a long time and have a son so don't need much .

Any feedback gratefully received - looked at John Lewis, Frasers and Debenhams and they all have lots of lovely reasonably priced stuff we would like. Have any of you registered to do a list?

X

Leigh – Thank you lovely!

Glad you’re on track lovely! Have you got things to decorate the venue? It’s crazy how close it is now!!

Vicky2015 – Welcome to the group lovely! You may have noticed we are a chatty bunch but all the ladies here are so lovely.

What date are you getting married? You still have good time to get the invites out and get RSPV, maybe have a short RSPV date.

Oh don’t bring donuts up. We are all trying to move away from those delicious little things! ? I’m with you having to start a healthy way again. Getting my arse out tonight for a run as much as I can’t be bothered I really need to do it. ?

I’m not sure if the other ladies are but I’m not having a guest list, like you, OH and I have lived together for a long time and really don’t need anything. Maybe Debenhams, John Lewis, all the ones you have mentioned. I think you need to pop in store and speak to the bridal department to book an appointment. I’m not 100% sure though.