Laurens Getting Married - 15th June 2013

[Lauren25]

ok, so what ages and numbers of bridesmaids?

I have 4 bridesmaids, they will be 30, 19, 17 and 15
Then I have 2 flower girls who will be 2 1/2 and 18 months!

 

[Lauren25]

Well I have seriously neglected my journal and recently I've had no motivation to do anything (I think it's being pregnant) but yesterday I went and got some wedding magazines and that's got me back in the mood!!

Venue

We have booked, payed deposit and just signed the contract for our venue, we went with The Manor!

Date

15th June 2013

Save the Dates

Our save the dates arrived when we were on holiday so since we've been back we've been sending them out, there's still a few we need to deliver but most of them are out!

Photobooth

We have payed the deposit for our photobooth which I am so excited about

 

[Lauren25]

I have just emailed a dress shop to go and try some dresses on as i am showing already so need to hurry and get it sorted before I get any bigger! We can only go on a Saturday so I'm hoping there's not a big waiting list!

I will keep you up to date with the date I'm given ​

EDIT!!

I'm going wedding dress shopping 2moro and I'm soooo scared!!
Most people look forward to it but I'm so nervous! I think it's because I'm pregnant and won't be when we get married, I've lost ALOT of weight while being pregnant so I'm not a "normal" weight and also I have no clue what I want or what even suits me so I'm a bit worried!

Im sure I'll love it once I'm there and I've tryed the first one on!!

Edit again

So I went dress shopping last Saturday with my Mum and Cousin (maid of honour) and had a great time. I tried on sooooo many dresses in all different styles and found out that princess style dresses suited me better!! I found two I loved and cant decide between, hard bit is they are in different shops so hard to compare!! Im going back on Wednesday just to try on them two dresses and hopefully make my mind up. I've put pictures of the dresses below so let me know what you think!!

First dress

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Second dress

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Edit
Well i went to try on the dresses again with my Mum, MOH, SiL and Auntie, I went to the shop I went to second first this time and then the other shop and just tired on them two dresses! I decided to go with the first dress and I am so so happy! I didn't think it would do this but it has made it all feel so real now and I am so so excited to get married!!

 

[Lauren25]

We have decided on some of our music, so far we have decided....

First Dance
Michael Buble - Everything

Walking down the aisle
Beyonce - Ave Maria

Singing the register
Ed Sheeran - Kiss Me

We need to decide on one more to sign the register and one to walk out too but we don't know yet.

We are going to ask my cousin to sing the signing the register songs!
I really want someone to sing Ave Maria aswel but it will depend as I'm very fussy

 

[Lauren25]

2moro I'm going with my Mum round some florists to hopefully pick one and get a kind of idea of how much it's going to cost!

We need.....

Men's button holes x 8
Little one for Bobby
Women's button holes x 2

Brides bouquet
Bridesmaids bouquets x 4

Top table flowers
Table Centrepiece x 10 ?

I love peonies so I want lots of them, the button holes will be peonies!

https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/sky_blue_princess/a7e5627d.jpg

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[Lauren25]

How I want my hair, i am I love with it!

https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/sky_blue_princess/7a153be9.jpg​

 

[Lauren25]

I've decided on these bridesmaid dresses but in pastel pink!!

https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/sky_blue_princess/94c772a0.jpg

We all decided on together that they are going to have cream shoes and I've set them to work to try and find some, so hopefully they find some nice ones as it saves me a job

I'm going to get them all some jewellery as a thank you present, just not sure what yet as we wont have much to spend!!

Edit
I went to a shop in Birmingham the other day to see some of the dresses that they sell on eBay from China, so like the dress above but sadly they don't do the colour pink I want.
Then when I was at the bridal shop I fell in love with one from there, bad thing is they are £185 each, she said they'd give me one for free as im getting my dress from there! MIL and OHs Auntie have said they are paying for SILs and OHs 2 cousins so I'll have to break it to them about the price and then I'm going to see if they can order it in in my colour so I can see what it looks like in the dress!!

It's the one on the left
https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/sky_blue_princess/a86458a3.jpg

 

[Jemma_x]

There lovely dresses

 

[Lauren25]

The more I was thinking about it the more I was dreading the price it was going to cost me for table flowers so my cousin was telling me some ideas from weddings she'd been to! She said she went to a wedding and their theme was Cadburys and on each table they had big vases full of Cadburys chocolate, so a dairy milk table etc and I thought it would be a great idea to do with sweet so instead of flowers on the tables were going to get big vases and fill them with sweets, hopefully sticking with the pastel colours so we could do a flying saucers table, marshmellow table etc!!​

 

[Lauren25]

Hotel booked and deposit payed
Photobooth booked and deposit payed
Photographer booked and deposit payed
Save the dates received and sent out
Wedding dress ordered and deposit payed
Got 'money for honeymoon' cards for invites
Got bubbles for tables
Got cards for favours to go in

DJ found in he middle of booking and paying deposit
Bridesmaid dresses found (need to see in colour)
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[laura&faith]

Hi found you !!! Your plans Are amazing you have defo thought of everything I love the idea of the toms I had a little laugh lol will defo be stalking x

 

[Lauren25]

Yesterday I went with my bridesmaids to the shop where I got my dress from and we ended up ordering the dresses I posted in the other post (the red one) in a pastel pink colour! They all loved them which was great and the ladies gave me 4 for the price of 3 so it worked out at £540 for them!

While I was there I seen a beautiful pair of shoes and asked how much they were, she said she thought they were about £55! They were Rainbow Club shoes so when I got home I had a look online and they a £79 a pair after a bit of looking I found them on offer for just £24 each I couldn't believe it, but after showing them to my bridesmaids and 3 of them loving them, my maid of honour said they were too high for her, now I don't know what to do! I can't find any other shoes I like and these are a bargain but I don't want my maid of honour not to match! Any ideas of what to do? These are the shoes btw

https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/sky_blue_princess/16F0E10B-3116-47E4-A93D-6EF4DF92BD54-589-000000C9C93EB17F.jpg

I Ordered in the week to headbands for my bridesmaids, New Look £3.99 each and they were buy one get one free!

https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/sky_blue_princess/70090C5D-7214-437E-A6F5-1104062C69BA-589-000000C9C9CE31C5.jpg​

 

[Lauren25]

Two more hairstyles I like for me!

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[Lauren25]

I'm Inbetween trying to decide to have someone do my make up on the day or getting my mum to do it (she's quite good) and investing in some really good make up/products! So I go my mum to have a go with her make up and here's some pictures, ignore the hair, the massive eyebrows and the colour of the make up is not my colour! Also I have no mascara on and I don't like the eye colour but it was a quick start!

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[Lauren25]

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I found these today in wilkensons which is exactly what I want for our centrepieces to fill with sweets! They are £10 each and I think we'll need about 10 so quite expensive but a lot cheaper than the £40/50 I was quoted for table flowers! Also we can sell them after!​

 

[Lauren25]

Bridesmaid Shoes!

The bridesmaid shoe situation has be solved! I've decided that they can all pick their own shoes but they have to be Ivory and they have to be a peep toe shoe! I think it's what's going to be easiest as they will never agree on shoes

Bridal Hair!
I spoke to my hair dresser the other day and she said she will sort someone there to do my hair which is great! I asked her when to book and she said not til about 10 weeks before which I thought was a bit late seen as though it's a summer wedding! I trust my hairdresser though to sort me out!

Card Post Box!
I've ordered our wedding card post box of eBay for £5 off eBay and I've also ordered a gorgeous sign to go on the front of it, I'm so excited for it to be delivered!

https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/sky_blue_princess/C3B6C63C-EA49-4DC4-8DA8-D3BCF283F750-957-00000199C5C08C8B.jpg

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Guest Book!
I am so excited for our guest book to be delivered! First of all I wanted to do something a bit different for our guest book but when I seen this on eBay i fell in love and it's saved me lots of time trying to be different haha.

https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/sky_blue_princess/3AD29120-2141-4A9F-A9FB-114159A41719-957-00000199CDAE9FE4.jpg

Table Decorations!
We've decided to keep it quite basic with having the big vases with sweets in we just wanted some table confetti and gems on the tables and some bubbles dotted about! This is what I've ordered off eBay too (yes eBay is my best wedding friend )

https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/sky_blue_princess/CA828C1E-5D9D-4CF8-B0EC-4A5ACB731628-957-00000199CA41720A.jpg

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Favours!

I cant remember if I've mentioned already that we have decided to have scratch cards for our wedding favours! I have got little cards for them to sit in which are lovely and you guessed it from eBay aswel! Im stuck with who should get them, we have lots of children coming which I will do something different for but we have a few that are 13, 14, 15 which I don't know what to do!!

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[aly888]

Good plan on the bridesmaids shoes. I've had to tell mine to choose their own dresses too!! Lol

We are doing scratchcards too. The only teenager will be my sister though, but I don't think we'll be giving her a scratchcard. I dunno. It's an awkward age. Haha

Love your hair ideas too. I'm stuck for hair :/

 

[Lauren25]

Good plan on the bridesmaids shoes. I've had to tell mine to choose their own dresses too!! Lol

We are doing scratchcards too. The only teenager will be my sister though, but I don't think we'll be giving her a scratchcard. I dunno. It's an awkward age. Haha

Love your hair ideas too. I'm stuck for hair :/

I know I don't think we should then I don't want to patronise them by giving them the same as 2 year olds

I've found some more hair ideas I'll pop the pictures up in a sec!!

 

[Lauren25]

I feel like I'm stuck in a rut now, I really don't know what to do next!
Rings I don't want to sort til after the baby incase my fingers get fat
Invites I'm going to order once we've been to our 6 month thing at the venue so we get the details.
Table plan and place cards cant be done until invites are out and back!
Table centrepieces I don't want to get the glass vases incase they smash and sweets not til nearer the time.
Hair is not til nearer the time.
Make up my mum is doing - I guess I need to go and have a look and get some make up trials in debenhams, boots etc.
Children's favours im thinking chocolate heart lollies which i wont get til nearer.
My underwear I'll have to wait til just before because I don't know what sizes I'll be after baby!


Things I can do....
Bridesmaid bracelets and earrings.
Bridesmaid shoes.
My jewellery and something for my hair.
Ohh my bag

Men's suits were going to formally yours to see what there like and pick out some combos, hopefully that will be in the next month, OH works a lot and he wants to go with his best man and one of his ushers to see sizes, styles etc! Of course ill be there saying what I want

I can't even think what else there is to do?!

 

[Lauren25]

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