***The official thread for 2011 Brides***

[MissingBubs]

Ooh, can ou add me too?!

We get married 23rd July 2011 (same day as Katie and bump and also our 4th anniversary!)
I'm so so excited, especially after going to a wedding on Saturday and receiving another invite today!

So far we have-

*Church booked
*Reception booked
*Photographer booked
*Cars booked
*Flowers booked
*Invites started (making ourselves)
*My dress bought (and hanging in my wardrobe!)
*Waiting on bridesmaid to organise meeting her aunt to do our cake

And as of today-
*My wedding ring and sparkley new engagement ring have been ordered (Yes, I'm having 2 engagement rings...spoilt or what?!)

 

[diamond301]

congratulations to all fellow 2011 b2b

i'm another getting married on the 23rd July 2011, 2 days before my 30th birthday.

So far we've booked venue, catering and chosen bridesmaids. Have briefly started thinking about colour schemes and looking at bmaids dresses, photographers and flowers but nothing major.

Hoping to start looking at honeymoons from tomorrow when 2011 holidays go on sale

 

[sweetcheeks85]

Gosh there are a few of us getting married 23rd July 2011!!

Busy moving house atm so wedding planning has been on hold but will get back to it soon

 

[Secret]

I have just booked an appointment at a bridal shop to try on some dresses and have a play! Exciting and scary at the same time! Eeeeeeek!

 

[faille]

08 Sept 2011 for us
So far.... we've got the wedding colours picked, venue booked (ceremony, meal and reception all in one place) and I think I've found my dress - been trying to choose between 2 but I'm swaying more towards one, just wanna try it on again!

Making my Save the Date cards this weekend (hopefully!) and getting them sent out as. Early yeah but our wedding is on a Thursday so we wanna give people plenty of notice!

Not even thought about much else tbh. Hope I don't leave things too late

 

[bethyb]

Hey girlies, well im getting married on May 28th Been together 6 years in May and we have two beautiful children, Scarlett and Zac so we wont be having a huge do but saying that im very excited to be marrying my gorgeous welshman!
Have my bridesmaid dresses sorted and diet and gym mission started too! Going to see a lady next week in regards to booking our venue.
My cousin is a wedding photographer so thats done LOL and my mum is fab with flowers so shes doing my flowers.
Im gonna send out save the save cards next week i think as Ive made our wedding list.
Ive picked out my hymns too.
Im not really one for buying wedding mags and dreaming of a £2000 dress but be lovely to get some ideas and some prods off u girlies?
Congrats to everyone xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

[topsy]

Hi Everyone,

Could I be added to the list to please?

I`m getting married on 21/5/2011 my 30th birthday

So far we have:
*Booked a church, but they already had 2 weddings booked, so had to go for an morning wedding, and we have lots of children coming worried this maybe a to long a day, so going to get in contact with another church and see what times they have available.
*Booked reception
*Car (My boyfriends step dad, we are trying to save money where we can)
*Chose colours and themes.
*Chose Bridesmaids and best man.
*Bought bits for table decoration (Need more) and children's goodies bags (again need more)
*Bought bits for Invites, order of service, table plan and place cards -we are doing our own(but again need some more)

Photographer is next on my list of things to do.

Take care and hope everyones plans are going ok. x

 

[bethyb]

Hey girlies
Topsy noticed u have brought some of ur table decorations, was gonna ask where u got urs from? Not to sure where are the best place to source these?
Also those of you that are making your own invites where are you getting your inspirations from?
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[faille]

Hey girlies
Topsy noticed u have brought some of ur table decorations, was gonna ask where u got urs from? Not to sure where are the best place to source these?
Also those of you that are making your own invites where are you getting your inspirations from?
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Google images

I've always loved designing stuff so making my own is right up my street. For inspiration on how to actually lay things out, I just looked at a few websites which sell them and found out what I did / didn't like about them and went from there

 

[topsy]

Hey girlies
Topsy noticed u have brought some of ur table decorations, was gonna ask where u got urs from? Not to sure where are the best place to source these?
Also those of you that are making your own invites where are you getting your inspirations from?
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Hi bethyb

Hey are dates are within a week of each other

We are having butterfly themed wedding with cadbury's purple (or as near as we can get), silver and cream for our colours. Whats your theme and colours?

Table decoration are little light changing butterfly, they are clear, but at night it`s my 2 little bridesmaids job to turn them on, we got lots from the range they were 99p each, but I will buy a load on new batteries off ebay to put in them as not sure how they will be for next year!!

Also they had silver butterfly mirrors that we bought a few off and may place these on the tables too, with some crystal things on top.

Also from ebay bought the ladies little wine glass charms silver butterflies, there were 10 for about £3.50 each and I am so pleased with them.

Like faille said I just googled butterfly invitations and kind Mixed my ideas with others! For our Invites we are having cream card, also from the range, think they were either £4/5.99 for 50 cards and envelopes. We have Silver stickers with "wedding invitation" writing at the top of the card.Purple card, cut into squares in the middle, and I bought a butterfly punch of ebay from china that we are putting a silver butterfly (also using as table confetti) on top of the purple, then a dark purple gem in the middle!! We a re going to use the same thing for order of service, place cards too. Bit of a technophobia or would try to put a photo, but have no idea how!!!!

Take care xxxx

 

[bethyb]

wow sounds so lovely, uve put a lot of thought in to it!!
I want brown creams and gold as my colours. My bridesmaid sresses are brown and my flowergirls are cream but thinking on having gold balloons at the tables with hearts as a theme I think? Ill have to have a look on e bay and try and get some ideas? I guess im waiting to see what the hotel we have im mind offer and then just add to that?
Im a bit scared of the wedding invites ha im not crafty like that but I want a homely wedding and id rather make my own than have them printed so I guess id better get started once we have the venue booked,
Im hoping in shifting some weight - im a 12/14 now and im back at the gym so once ive got into a 12 again ill try and sort my dress out, i just dont want a 14, i need the insintive to push me to lose the weight
Some lovely ideas though girls!
How big/small are your weddings? xxxx

 

[faille]

What better incentive than a wedding dress to lose weight

Our wedding is small, aprox 34 daytime guests and then aprox 120 for the evening. But we didn't want a big do, no point having people at the ceremony that we don't really talk to or haven't seen in years!


My dad is giving me some money towards my dress this Saturday coming. Eeek! So exciting, I think I've chosen between the 2 I love now (Still wanna try it on again and make sure I still like it second time round lol!)

 

[topsy]

Hi Girls,

Bethyb Oh Your creams, gold and browns will look lovely together. Yep ebay is fab to get ideas.
I`m also hoping to loose some weight too before I start looking for my dress in early sep. I would also like to be a size 12, but I`m a size 16 at the mo, so have got a way to go! But have lost 8lbs in the last 3 weeks, so going in the right direction. You said about the gym, you are so good I can`t face that. We have an exercise bike and I use that.

What better incentive than a wedding dress to lose weight
I have to agree with you thats my motivation. Bet you can`t wait to try on the 2 dresses again

We are having 70 ish people to the wedding and meal and then about 120 ish (but it seems to keep growing) to the evening reception.

Take care x

 

[topsy]

Sorry girls haven't got this quote thingy worked out and don`t know how to edit posts yet! x

 

[Secret]

We'll be having roughyl 50-60 guests at the ceremony and around 100 for the evening. Our rings have arrived now so that's another thing crossed off the list

 

[katieandbump]

Hey secret our wedding is same as yours 50-60 for wedding and breakfast and about 100 for evening. Could you add me to the list for friday 22nd july please thankyooou.

 

[bethyb]

When are u ladies gonna send ur invites out? Im not sure how much in advance to do it, although I thought about sending out save the date cards at the end of the month?
We are thinking about 70 for the wedding and about 80-90 for the evening do?
Yeah Im going to pop into town on the weekend and price up a heart balloon piece to put behind the head table and to have gold/brown/cream ribbons on the place settings etc?
All a bit scary making it a reality in a way but very exciting too!
Ive decided on my ring but I dont think we will get them until we have some of the bigger stuff out the way.
Topsy im a 14 so want to be a slim 12 Just have to up my game! I wanna feel great on the day, having had 2 babies im afraid to say im past my best LOL
hahah
Yep gonna have a e bay trawl later xxxxxxxxxxx

 

[katieandbump]

Hey bethyb our wedding is 22nd july so we're sending save the dates out soon a year before the wedding so people don't book holidays and such as july is peak time for holidays. Our numbers are about 60 for the day and upto 100 for the evening.
I love ebay we're getting out save the date cards and most of our stationery from them such good value and looks really nice.
Is anyone putting a little slip note into their save the date cards asking to give an informal acceptance if they'd like to come because with us we have to have minimum 50 ppl for the day so if numbers drop alot don't know what we'd do invite randomers lol.

Are you going for a gold or silver ring hun, i've got a white gold engagement ring so probably go for a silver ring although is it more traditional to have gold?

I've got some serious baby muffin top i need to work on apparently bicycle crunches are the best for bellies but geeeez effort! Going on holiday in 2 months and i WILL fit into my bikini Lol. I'm the same as you hun scared and excited!! xxxx

 

[Frankie]

Can I be added to the 21st May 2011 -whoop whoop less than a year now

 

[topsy]

Hi girls,

bethyb, how they gym sessions going? I slipped up over the weekend had Chinese for my birthday, and cake, but back on track today!

We are sending our invites out with Christmas cards, but we have lots of family, some in Zealand, Finland and Spain so they need time to organize flights, even though they know they dates!! I didn`t send out save the dates card, but only cause we got engaged and booked everything within a week! So when I told people about our engagement, I told they about the dates then! Plus it`s my birthday, and most people remember, as there were a lot of 364 days to go at the bottom of my cards a few days ago!!!
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