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Getting married is soooooo expensive, what is the best way to save money on everything?????? Is there a online directory to help?? All suggestions please, i will need to win the lottery if not ! ...

Me and my fiancée have been engaged since February and have only just started to think about planning our wedding, we are deciding on 2 venues and possible dates, i have chosen bridesmaids dresses and...

Hello! Its my first post so please be gentle :-) I have booked my wedding for Halloween 2015, me and my partner absolutely love Halloween and autumn hence booking our wedding around that time! We want...

Hi! I desperately need advice on things at the moment. My head is about to explode & my lovely HTB doesn't quite understand or get it & I really need a sounding board. e got engaged in Feb...

I work part time and still live with my mother and son and my partner still lives at home paying lodge. We can just about get by on our money at the moment but we are getting married a year today...

So OH and I are considering having a black tie dress code for our wedding. We are having a hollywood glamour theme so the black tie will really complete this. Our parents and bridal party are all...

Sorry if this has been done before - I'm sure it has - but I haven't seen a similar topic since I've been a member, so I thought I would get a light hearted discussion going! What things do you REALLY...

After a debate at work yesterday about mayonnaise, l was wondering what things you hate which everyone else seems to like? I am going with: Mayonnaise Beer Crocs Facial hair on men Strictly Come...

Okay, I don't really do TV... I used to Sky Plus stuff and watch specific comedy or drama or current affairs etc. Never really channel-surfed. But I became just too busy, with new fiancé, moving...

I'm looking for some very different/unusual/alternative presents for our best men and bridesmaids. we've got the back up of alternative cufflinks for the guys and personalised bracelets for the girls...

I have been thinking about this for a while...but I don't think we are going to have favours. Initially I thought that I would make mini jars of homemade jam as favours but when pricing these up, it...

Hey ladies, I'm just curious as to what month y'all got engaged in. There's myths about trends for when people get proposed to, Valentines day is an obvious one, but I wondered how true this actually...

Article in the daily mail today about a couple who gifted a hamper basket and a bride who then contacted them to demand a refund stating it was 'cheap and embarrassing' and that weddings are meant to...

I just wanted to post because I recently got engaged but my boyfriend promised that once I had my operation done it would happen but it took nearly a year for it actually happen! So I was a lurker for...

My Fiancé has an eight year old daughter that we see every other weekend. It is now three times since we got engaged that we have seen her. The first time I took my ring off because I wanted to enjoy...

Ok, posting on behalf of a friend who has recently gotten engaged and looking at venues. How do you all feel about the following set up: Ballroom (where the band is) - seating for 72, plus perhaps one...

...and STILL our parents haven't met! Sorry- hogging the forums a bit today. OH and I have been together for 11 years and our parents / families have never met each other. Not once. Not even in...

Hey all I'm on a tight budget and so for my favours I was going to get little scrolls made up and pop them in an organza bag with a few sweets. Can anyone point me to where I can find a funny poem to...

Https://news.sky.com/story/1096255/woolwich-help-for-heroes-rejects-edl-cash Long story short: EDL leader plans a sponsored walk to site of death of Lee Rigby, with funds going to the charity Help For...

I'm starting to get a bit fed up with my OH. We've been together since secondary school (15/16), so 10 years this April just gone. We've been engaged for 5 years this April just gone too. But we are...

I just read all three books this weekend, and while I enjoyed them, I was disappointed with the ending. I never felt that she should end up with Peeta, I much preferred Gale. Peeta was far too fake,...

I was doing WeightWatchers, but I think I'm at my limit with it. I've found ways to get round it, IYKWIM. I keep cheating. So I've decided to give MFP a go again and just watch what I eat. Well, I've...

You have received an enquiry from a couple and you're free on their date. They are interested in possibly taking that enquiry further with a view to making a booking. What happens next? Do you offer...

Have you considered jacket potatoes?

Hey all..This sounds really petty but I just discovered this morning that one of my bridesmaids has 'unfriended' me on Facebook. I know my brother (chief bridesman) sent a message around to all of...

Hi everyone. Trying to get to know people in OT as you all seem pretty nice and friendly, am fairly new to it all, everyone has a band they love so who is yours?

Our honeymoon provider offer a website 'gift list' option where we can itemise bits of our honeymoon (essentially the money donated goes in to a pot and is deducted from the cost of our honeymoon when...

Apropos of Skeptic's needlessly worried post.... If you were a guest attending a wedding, what would be "new" to you? You have to forget what you've seen here, on blogs or in mags....what are the...

Hello, I'm Jessica and I'm 21 and I'm getting married... And both me and my future hubby love rock music! We do festivals, see hundreds of rock bands together and he even sings in a heavy metal band....

I have been having the conversation with everyone and it's a very divided opinion so I thought I would put it to you ladies.. On your big day all your friends / family will be snapping away with the...

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...