What are the important/unimportant aspects of your wedding?

Ours were -

Venue, catering & togs. Also good music and lots of drink available.

We don't care about things like rings - want as cheap as possible haha.

Aside from our ceremony our most important bits are/were

* Finding somewhere dog friendly. No dogs allowed, no bookie.

* Photography and film. Most aspects of our wedding have been planned with this in mind and we've considered what will be the "ideal" for photos/video.

* Music- band had to be good and play a mix of what we like but what guests would be familiar with

* Having food that us and our junk loving families would enjoy. Burgers all round!

Things that haven't been a priority/are of no interest

* Rings- we're not having rings.

* Favours

* How either of us get there/transport

* A wedding cake

* Wine. Neither of us like it, but we've caved and got some anyway. All tastes the same to me.

All I really care about is marrying the right man this time! (which I am!). I want to spend a bit more on things like the photographer and rings i.e things we will keep afterwards.

I don't care about centrepieces, decorations, the cake, no one will remember them a week later! Don't care about alcohol either as I don't drink (OH will disagree though!).

Important: ceremony, rings, guests, party (hence venue, entertainment etc).

Not important: clothes, flowers, cake, favours, colour scheme,

Don't get me wrong: we will wear clothes and there will be cake, but they aren't important to us. My dress, for example will be about 1% of the wedding budget, flowers will be 0.05%, whereas entertainment is coming in at nearer 20%.

I think for me:-

* photography

* catering/food

* the entertainment at night

* speeches (no cost!)

And atmosphere, I'll be so gutted with a lack fo atmosphere. Saying that our engagement party was off the scale, everyone commented on the atmosphere, laughter, enjoyment, and general all round "good feeling"

Least important:-

* expensive dress (i want THE dress but not willing to pay more than £500 tops! and thats pushing!!)

* cars (i can drive myself! the blokes ware happy to get taxi's from the city)

* evertthing matching - i have a theme (rustic style garden party) but it doesnt have to be perfectly matched

Flowers somewher between. i obviously want and need flowers for my theme (and i love flowers!) but refuse to pay extortionate amounts florists seem to charge.

Taking the end result of us being married as a given - the most important thing is for all our family to be there. What's not important is the weather. I can't do owt about it so I aint worrying about it. I don't care what we all end up wearing. I don't care if we just end up with a bar meal in the pub next door. I do care that everyone has a nice time. I will however be devastated if my dress doesn't fit or something catastrophic happen of courses, but I hope I'll be able to laugh about it yeah right. What also matters is the Prosecco makes it in one piece and I have two flutes.

Ooh, fun.

Priorities- venue, food, TOG, no fights or unhappy tears.

Not boshed- cars, rings, favours.

Priorities: venue, photographers, dress and food.

Not so important: Alcohol, favours and canapés.

Important- outside ceremony, outfits, photography,flowers.....oh disagrees on this one

Not important - invites...tho I did get a bit bridezilla over them in the end, cake..oh insists on having one,first dance...oh insisted on this too

Not happening- cars, speeches,favours,video

Ours are:

Venue (it had to be disabled friendly as we have several disabled guests, some in wheelchairs)

Dress

Photographer

Invitations

Not so important are:

DJ

Cake (although it will be awesome as FSIL is making it)

Actually, now I think about it, I kind of am a bit bridezilla about getting things right! Even the cake is a high priority!

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Important: food, booze, music, pictures, people

Not important: everything else

The most important thing to me us was that we had an outside ceremony. I hate the idea of saying vows inside a building for some reason. Luckily we found somewhere fairly early on in the search!

Aside from that, we just want it to be a very relaxed and informal day.

I couldn't give two hoots about how I get to the venue, or where we stay that night.

I also couldn't care less about what my guests wear, I really struggle to understand people who advise on dress codes for their guests!

Saying this, we do still have about 16 months until our wedding, so plenty of time for me to become crazily obsessed with the small details!

Most important (after the groom of course!) - Venue, People, Dress, Entertainment

Reasonably important - Videographer & Photographer

Less important - Cars, Flowers, Centre Pieces

Most important: Small, cosy venue, the right people, good food, good entertainment and good pics to help our memories. OH's requirements were food, booze, awesome honeymoon.

Things we didn't care about: Pretty much everything else, not overly fussed about fancy clothes, fancy cars etc.

Most important - the rings, our vows, the guests and OBVIOUSLY my outfit. I want my one day to shine.

Less important - the venue, the flowers, the cake and the supply of free booze.

no go's - wedding cars, cheesy wedding hymns and readings, the organ *shudder* ...All the things OH wants hahahahaha.