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It's only 2 years away now, and I know there are a few of us around, so I thought I'd start a 2017 brides thread. Drop a reply with your wedding date and I'll add you to the list! January 5th - melidy...

MadamRed, I can't believe I'm writing one of these for you!! The time has just flown by, hasn't it? I hope your day is just wonderful - be sure to come back with loads of photos for us!!...

So I have 12 weeks left until my wedding. But I just cannot sleep. All I keep thinking about is this wedding. I have work in the evenings and I'm drained and then when I want to sleep I can't. I am...

Hi, I'm currently making catering decisions and I'm stuck. Is sausage and mash an acceptable main meal at a wedding? My partner and I think it's OK and it's in our budget but some people I've spoken...

I was originally going to try and think of famous literary couples for our table names but I've since decided to go with romantic book quotes instead. So, for example, "After all this time?" "Always"....

Hello everyone Hope you've all had a great Valentines Day Quick question - when volume buying alcohol, is it as cheap these days to get from the supermarket or is Europe still the best option? We're...

Hi everyone ? Wedding music is giving me the biggest headache! It's the only thing I've found stressful so far! The thing that's giving me the headache is what to walk down the aisle to. I LOVE Ellie...

This post is probably a little bit pointless but I really feel the need to vent my frustration! I placed an order with a lady for all of our artificial flowers for our Wedding. It was a large order,...

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me. We are wanting to give macarons as favours at our wedding. Problem is, when looking, I can only find frozen macarons - I always thought they were just boxed like...

We get married at 12pm and our guests will be seated for the wedding breakfast at 2pm. I can't decide if we need to provide food in this gap for guests. I keep thinking that if I was a guest I'd be...

Hello, I'm struggling to decide on what to serve for our post ceremony drinks. We want to have a local beer as one option and a non alcoholic fizzy drink as another, but unsure what to have for our...

Has anybody had bacon rolls for their evening food? That's our plan at the moment, but I'm worrying that they won't be enough to fill up the evening guests. The day guests will have just had a big...

What do people think about putting gift information into evening invitations? Yay or nay? I hadn't even thought about it until last week when someone at work said they thought it was too 'grabby' to...

Hi, Is it ok to have prosecco instead of champagne for the toasts and speeches? I don't really like champagne and prosecco is much cheaper. Just wondered if anyone else had done this? Thanks, Nic ...

I'm sure there are lots of posts about this but the search function won't work for me. I start dress shopping this Saturday. Any tips? Dos and Donts? In my true indecisive fashion I have no clue what...

Hi I just dont know what to do about the wedding cake! Never really thought it was a biggy in terms of other things for the wedding. I would like chocolate sponge as hate fruit cake but H2B says if...

Hi all, wedding planning is coming along nicely for November 2017 ? Next task is asking my bridesmaids to be part of the day, I just have a bit of a dilemma... I have three definite bridesmaids (if...

Hello I am getting married in September 2017, we are having our wedding at the local church and local village hall to keep costs down as I am more of a thrifty bride. BUT there are no grounds to have...

Our reception venue is no more than 25 minutes from the church, you do have to cross counties though from Devon to Cornwall Costs £1.50 to do so! Would you provide a mini-bus for anyone who wants on...

Okay so Shakespeare quote aside, I get married in 11 weeks and still cannot decide what to do about my name - I am torn between taking h2b surname and double barreling maiden name and new surname. H2b...

When we first decided the guest list we thought we'd go down to first cousins on each side, with a couple of very good friends each. That fitted in nicely with the size of the registry office, but...

So with only 9 days to go to the wedding, I've started to have some bloody weird dreams, but last nights I had to share!! Firstly we were at the wedding, having a great time, drinking in the gardens,...

Well today's my last day in work before the wedding on Friday, and seeing as I do most of my hitching when I'm in the office, I don't suppose I'll get a chance to come on here over the next few days....

Thanks for everyone's replies! After a stressful night of worrying we decided to ring the registry office. We spoke to a lovely lady who totally understood our concerns. We made it very clear that we...

A bit of advice/thoughts/ideas/opinions needed. Im hoping you might be able to give me a bit of help and inspiration for my colour scheme. My H2B and I have set our wedding date and chosen our...

After much debating with myself and an unexpected change of heart, i've decided to change my name after getting married. This seems like an incredibly stupid question but I really don't know the...

Hello So we have planned our day with the vicar for 5.5.2018 and confirmed it with our venue, however after getting home we quickly realised that this fell on a bank holiday (Saturday). Initially we...