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My mom is by far my best friend ! Is it acceptable to have myom as matron of honour ? for our wedding the day guests are just going to me purely family my fiancé is having his dad as his best man but...

I was hoping to get some advice. I'm getting married this November (2014). We sent out save the dates a few weeks back, because everyone was telling us we should. I said that I wanted to specify...

Hello all... I'm new to this.. Got engaged to my other half at Christmas and we're not getting married till next June 2015. I'm so happy and excited but my mum is putting me down So here we go..........

Sorry guys - need to vent!! I've got 7 bridesmaids, so getting them altogether is a massive organisational operation - especially as one of them lives out in Abu Dhabi (let's call her "P"). Backgound:...

Hi all, Looking for some serious advice with this one as it's the most awkward fiasco I've faced to date. Long story short, I know my fiancé through an old job. At that time, my brother was going to a...

I had a Mirena coil fitted on Wednesday and I have been having some pretty horrible side effects ever since. On Thursday I started suffering with waves of really crippling stomach cramps. They were so...

Before you got engaged, did your partner ask your father / family for pemission to marry you?

Hi, Just curiosity really, I have chosen my dress and it is a strapless annasul-y dress from the new collection. Not seen or heard anyone mention this designer before on here or much on the web, has...

We sent out our wedding invitations this week and numbers are a bit tight so we are very limited on how many kids we can invite. We pre-warned the parents of all of the kids we cannot invite before...

Its been ages since we did one of these and we have lots of lovely new shiny Hitchers to join in! So the question is what don't you like at weddings? Chair Covers? Horse Drawn Carriages? Men in top...

Hi everyone, I need a bit of help here. I love my Dad very much but he is terrible at public speaking. He thinks he is very funny and I haven't got the heart to tell him that he isn't! A good example...

We're trying to do things on a budget, and one of the favours we'd managed to wangle was a free (beautiful buttercup yellow) VW camper to transport us around for the day, for free, from a friend of my...

Do any of you wax or remove your moustache?! I am quite dark haired and have a lush moustache so I started waxing it myself with Veet wax strips, the results are amazing font know why I didn't do it...

Hi All, Me My OH & All other soon the be married couples have been invited to the church this weekend for a wedding preparation day. just a quick question, what should we wear?

I don't know what to do and I am to scared to speak to anyone yet as it will mean its really happened. My other half has been away for work for the past few days and is due bakc later tonight. i woke...

As cocktail lovers we would like to use the popular cocktails as table names (sex on the beach, cosmopolitan etc) and I have been thinking of making mini cocktails as wedding favours which would...

Just wanted hello to everybody and introduce ourselves. We are Amanda & Sara from Not Just For Hire. We have just launched our website and hitched was our first port of call for advertising....

Hi, I'm recently engaged & planning on getting married in May 2014. I have been talking with FI and he has suggested trying to DIY as much of the wedding as possible to keep costs down. ( We are...

Good morning ! We have 20 kids coming to the day do ! Think I may need to keep them quiet lol what are your plans ? thanks in advance :-)

Hi girls, I'm getting married in August, out in my new home of Chamonix. I'm very excited about having all my friends and family out here for the wedding, but in the past couple of days I've started...

Can anybody recommend a reasonably priced bridal hairdresser and/or make up artist in the Gloucestershire area? Feeling very overwhelmed by just how many options come up when googling and would very...

My MIL to be called last night to tell me she'd got her outfit for my wedding. It's a cream, lace shift dress with a black bow. Cream hat, shoes and bag. My dress is Ivory lace. (Maggie sottero Lorie)...

HHowe sent our invites out the end of June for RSVP by the end of February as we need to give the venue nos st the beginning of march. My other half and I are surprised at the response we are getting...

I dont have a set date of our wedding at the minute, but I am toying with the idea of using Tipi's as a venue. Biggest reason is that the Church I want to get married in is in the village I grew up in...

Hi All, In deciding my bridemaids and MOH it was not much of a problem as only 2 wanted to be MOH. I knew who I MOH to be as we av been friend since I moved to the UK at 11, went to the same Secondary...

This isn't meant to be a maudlin post - I thought it might help some brides to be to see what us OMs wish they'd done a bit differently. Mine would be that I wish I'd provided a flip flop basket. I...

Any one attempted to make their own one...

Yeh, so I was discussing my wedding plans with my manager today, and when I mentioned that we are having it on a Wednesday, she asked why, so I explained it is OH and I's 10 year anniversary on that...