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Well although I am not engaged yet oh and I have decided to try and pretty much decide what we'd like sooner rather than later so we can get ideas of prices etc.
So any ideas/ hints/ tips/ advice you may have..... please put below:
Shouldn't be too hard, who doesn;t like talking about their wedding, I can't stop thinking about it and oh's still saving for my ring!! lmao!
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This might sound actually I dont know how it will sound. But as oh and I really want to be together and we know we cant really afford the wedding we have always dreamed of, we've decided that for us it makes more sense to have a regestry office wedding and save to have the wedding we want later on.
I did think to have my wedding on th estate that my ohs family lived on with a marque theres heaps of room for everything but oh doesnt want to have that even though it would be lovely and saves us alot of money. best way is to shop around try the websit hitched.co.uk they have venues budgets eveything you need really.
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Well I know the average is 15-20k we want to spend 10K @ most if we can, which I know is perfectly possible :D x x x
hey hunni
i think the best advice is to shop around and haggle!! i did!! a friend of mine got married last year, invited 150 people, don't get me wrong it was a lovely day, but she spent 25k!!!!! i nearly fell over when she told me!! anyway, suphise to say, me and oh are getting married in 9 and a half weeks (!) weve invited 150 people, are getting married in our dream location, ive got 6 bridesmaids, and were having a sit down three course meal and its not costing us any where near 25k!! so it can be done!!
as anal as this sounds, ive kept a spread sheet on my laptop of the budget, quotes and final price quoted, deposits weve paid and whats left to pay for-it works, and keeps you grounded cos you can see where u could maybe cut back a bit uf moneys getting tight.
weve just booked our honeymoon too, which did cost rather a lot, but im glad weve gone for it cos after all u only get one honeymoon!!
hope it all goes well!!
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My advice is to make yourself a wedding scrap book. When Shane proposed to me, he bought me a really lovely book to stick all the ideas i had in. So while i plan our wedding, i go through wedding magazines, and cut out the ideas that i like. So i have pictures of dresses, flowers, table settings, clolour schemes favour ideas... and you'll soon feel your creative juices flowing!!
I found it pretty easy to be honest. Someone told me, to work out what elements of your wedding are most important to you both and spend the money there, economise on the other stuff.... so if a kick ass dress and venue is what is the most important thing to you (like it is for me!!) thats where to allocate the most of your money, we are then making a flowers and table settings simple, and saving money.
Also use your families talents... my brother is a graphic designer so is making our invites, my step mum has her friend making the cake, and shane has designed the table name cards....
Am full of wedding ideas (bursting at the seams!!) so message me honey and I'll share my hard earned pearls of wisedom!!! xxxxx
Lol Kat
I don't have a scrapbook (think I'll be asking Jamie for a present) but do have loads of ideas and very clear ideas of what I want. I said this to Jamie too, said there are some things I won't scrimp on (for me this is the venue, entertainment and photographer) and others where we can save (favours, flowers, orders of service, place cards, invites etc).
My dress I won't skimp on but will because my Nan will make it (does that make sense)
I'm so excited!! :D
Ooh and I will def have a spreadsheet, I'm so organised about things it's ridiculous! lol
We;re also hoping to save money by having our honeymoon as our wedding present. As we already live together we have pretty much everything we need so we'd like to choose our honeymoon and then if people would like to give us a present then they can pay as little or as much of our honeymoon as they want.
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good idea cheeky-weve done that, weve lived together for 5 years so have everything we need! so i put a little slip in everyones invites saying we don't want any presesnts but if any one particularly felt they wanted to give us something, a contribution towards the honeymoon would be greatly appreciated (although i don't think small contributions would cover it....oops)!!
yeh all my friends, family and my oh say im like monica from friends-soooo organised!! but im not stressed about it at all, two of my friends got married last year and left everything quite last minute and i remember us all running around like headless chickens running up to the wedding!!
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I could NOT leave it til last minute, I'd be going mad!! lol x x x
Has anyone ever seen that programme on wedding tv (i love that channel even tho im not engaged or anything) and two couples enter and plan the opposite couples wedding as a surpise???? in a way i would love to do that cos it would be so much fun but imagine if you didnt like what they had organised for you! xxxxx
Lol that would be my worst nightmare!!! :D x x
I could NOT leave it til last minute, I'd be going mad!! lol x x x
I would like to say that I'm not leaving it to the last minute but unfortunatly i am as we are getting married pretty much as soon as oh comes home from tour.
I'd tell you what I'd love to do (if i had the money) would be to organise a suprise wedding for when he comes home, the wedding that we have both wanted, and have everyone in it, and have it about 3 weeks after he has come home, so he can get his suit and everything and then have his mates take him on his stag night and just suprise him that his wedding is in so many days say around 3... maybe thats just a bit harsh but i'd just want to make him happy and stress free... i think he would like that though. Just my little thought and my big unlikely dream lol
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i'd love my oh to plan my wedding haha. would be so much easier for me, but i know he'd forget everything. ive done it all. i wouldnt mind getting married anywhere, just aslong as i marry the man i love and have the important people there. i wanted to go away for the wedding and get married abroad but we wanted our families there and some wouldnt have afforded it and we couldnt pay for them all but i'm still gonna get a dream wedding :D (on a budget though). our has come to about 10k, thats without the honeymoon but we're having it later on in the year, possibly summer leave xxx
If we time it right which I think we have. Oh has tour next year so 2011 is pretty much free, he has REN leave that he can take (leave he can basically take when he wants and they cannot refuse it or cancel it unless its for operational services) so has said he'll use that for honeymoon I think xx
There is a show on that wedding channel where they do that Emzy! They get the OH's to do the planning, Shane and I sometimes watch it. I wouldn't want to do it that way, its such a girlie time planning your wedding. I'm loving spending time with my girlfriends and my mum planning the big day! Its all part of the fun!!
And Cheeky, definitely get Jamie to buy you a scrap book, it been a godsend, i took it with me to the florists, the dressmaker, and have used it to show the lady who is making our cake what i wanted... plus its a keepsake for you to keep for ever!
My lovely sister in law bought my a huge folder called the ultimate wedding planner, as a gift for asking her to be a bridesmaid. Its keep us very organised!!
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Well its been 4 years since I got married but we did it for £6k, and didnt go without anything I wanted. We had a lovely church wedding, followed by sit down meal for 100 people and buffet at night for 150 people. I thing is to shop around lots, and look out for hiden costs. Some prices you see on dresses are just for the dress fitting is extra etc.
We was really lucky as getting married up north where I come from is cheaper.
Ah im so jealous! Lol we have been engaged for a year and a bit now and I'd love to go ahead and start planning, but we are saving up so that we get things the way we dream them to be :) Am dying to start planning mine lol!
Wow Andrea you did well for budget considering you got everything you wanted :) xxx
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