it's all official - saying "I do" on 20th July 2013 ** venue pics page 59 **

[EmmyReece]

I've brought some more stuff for the wedding today

I got the blue stripe and yellow stripe paper bags that I want as favours £9 for 100 of them.

I really need to get myself a wedding storage box, things will start arriving and I won't have anywhere to put them

 

[Tiff]

Yay for storage boxes! I started out with one of those, and now our guest room has become the "Wedding Paraphernalia" room. Too much stuff!!!

 

[EmmyReece]

I can see that happening with us too

If it's a good price then Chris says I should go for things as and when they pop up and it's already making it a lot easier by spreading the cost.

I can't wait to set a date next month and get myself a wedding ticker, though I am tempted to do myself a wedding month ticker

 

[Tiff]

He's right! I ended up buying my invites 8 months before our wedding as I got a coupon code from the site to get $75 off. I've seen getting percentages off but not a dollar amount! So we ordered early.

It does help to do a bit at a time, and we've been trying to pay off as we go as well so there isn't too much that we have to do at the end of it all!

 

[EmmyReece]

I couldn't resist putting wedding tickers on my siggy ...

 

[lovie]

love the tickers

 

[EmmyReece]

I've ordered some return address labels to go inside the invites

I ordered them from vistaprint under a free offer, so rather than being £4.99 they were free. And because I upgraded them to include a piccy, they gave me half price off the upgrade and then I had to pay postage on top.

So £4.80 for 280 labels, I got some that would be addressed to mum's and some addressed to ours I know I won't send out that many invites, but because the second lot were completely free (no postage or upload charge or anything) it means I've got my back completely covered just in case we did move house.

Sorry I'm babbling, I'm just excited

 

[Tiff]

LOVE the free!!!! That's awesome!!!

And love the tickers too. I love looking at mine. I should really change it though, I made that when I was wigging out trying to find a venue. It so far hasn't been stressful since!

 

[EmmyReece]

We're going to arrange a visit with the venue for the beginning of June, but, we already have the deposit money available

I can't wait to get the ball rolling properly

 

[EmmyReece]

I keep dreaming about wedding stuff

I've dreamt about the invitations, the ceremony, the dress, the honeymoon. I even dreamt I was marrying someone other than Chris last night

I don't know what's up with me, you'd think I was obsessed or something

 

[Tarkwa]

That is soooooo exciting. Glad you are doing it together. I went to the venue without DH (but with my family) and booked it without him having seen it! I was however on the phone checking with him he was happy and he said as long as it was the venue I wanted then he wanted it too (I think I shed a little tear!). It was beautiful and I wouldn't have changed it for the world - here's a link.
Fantastic that you have got the deposit sorted!
xxx

 

[EmmyReece]

omg that venue looks amazing

I'm trying to get him as involved as I possibly can, but until we've got the venue booked he seems really apprehensive. Am just glad he agreed to come with me to look at it

 

[EmmyReece]

All booked in to go and visit the venue on the 20th June at 11am

Really hope it's a nice sunny day so I can have a nosey around the gardens too. Eeeekkk it's all seeming a lot more real

 

[Tarkwa]

Because it is real - YOU ARE GETTING MARRIED!!! You will keep pinching yourself but in no time at all you will be Mrs Wright!
xxx

 

[EmmyReece]

It's all taking so much getting used to. I really did think we'd be one those couples that were engaged but never got married.

It's all about invitations today, I spotted some amazing ones the other day but can't find them anywhere at all now

 

[EmmyReece]

Well, I found some piccies I want to use, and come up with this so far for the invites. I know it's not much, but I still want to scatter some daisies and maybe sunflowers around it and need to add some text too.

Just hope the resolution is ok and I'll be able to print them

 

[EmmyReece]

And because of the resolution of those pics, any online company I try and use, they say the image isn't good enough quality

But, I have been looking at alternatives and came across these

1) https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/30-Me-You-Ta...Celebrations_Occasions_ET&hash=item41572e74bb

2) https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/36-X-WHITE-T...Celebrations_Occasions_ET&hash=item53e66dd724

3) https://www.specialdayinvitations.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2585_3287_2586

4) https://www.celebrationsplus.com/product.php?xProd=613&xSec=85

But, if money were no object, I'd buy one of these sets

*) https://www.perfectweddingstore.co.uk/catalog/product/225/628/584i.html

*) https://www.perfectweddingstore.co.uk/catalog/product/30/66/m531i.html

*) https://www.perfectweddingstore.co.uk/catalog/product/214/552/571i.html

 

[Lisa84]

Awwww Emmy i bet you are soooo excited about going to see the venue.

I'm welling up here coz it takes me back to when we booked ours and just the rush of excitment but also the feeling of shit this is really happening that you get. You keep doing this with all your recent new experiences (moving house) lol

I can't believe how organised you seem to be already. It's great that you have the deposit for the venue. Which venue are you going to see? When you see it you will just know!! As soon as i saw mine (www.holdsworthhouse.co.uk) i just knew that there was no other venue i wanted. David's mum tried to convince me that another venue (cheaper) was a better idea but i was having none of it lol
If the venue has wedding fares i suggest going to them because alot will set it out like they would on the day so you get a good picture of how it will be

Eek i'm so excited for you xxx

 

[EmmyReece]

This is where we're going to look at

https://www.plasdolguog.co.uk/

We've missed the wedding fayre at the venue for this year, but they do have a pdf with contact information for all of the suppliers that were there

I have to say I think this venue is going to be ideal for us, disabled access (which is a major factor for us, we'd have to travel another 50 miles to get to the next closest with such good facilities), downstairs bedrooms and we can have a later ceremony We've both said that we can make the day as magical as we want to, even if the venue isn't 100% perfect, we're just happy that we'll be able to have our family around us sharing the day with us

 

[EmmyReece]

I love, love, love this hairstyle

Nikki is going to try and help me to recreate it, just hope I can pull it off