THINGS STILL TO SORT - 1WEEK 2DAYS TO GO

Groom:
Cufflinks

Bride:
Bolero
Spray Tan
Jewellry
Shoes (the kitten heels hurt so may be getting flats)
'something old, borrowed and blue'
waist cincher, maybe

Son:
Trousers (or suit)
Formal shoes

Reception:
Get price for champagne for all adult guests for toasting
Buffet - roughly 15adults and 10children to feed, shopping night before for food!
Favours? Not sure about these, nothing's traditional so might not get them and just send cards
Cake, getting a plain white sponge one from a store next week

Hotel:
Book a room for the day and night (the bride and women going to the hotel on the day, the grrom is staying home with the men).  As a family of 4 we will all stay in a family room the wedding of the night, we think!

Transport:
Going to ring round next week, a couple of days before the wedding, see if we can get a deal

Photographer:
Have a few interested in this, but nothing is confirmed yet, need to get this sorted by the end of the week

August 8th - 2weeks 4days TO GO!!!

It's Monday, August the 8th 2011, and we get married in ....

2 weeks 4 days !!!

CANNOT believe how quickly time is flying now, we are practically ready, but it is starting to get a bit stressy you know, I am concerned about the details but I am sure we're getting them all ironed out before the day haha!

The things left to do list, so we know where we are on Monday May16th...3months 10days to go woop woop!!

*Bride Dress Alterations (can't do this until about 6weeks before, no idea of cost as yet)

*Bride Tiara (being made by a friend, not sure of cost yet)

*Groom Suit/shirt/waistcoat & Cravat (he has seen something he likes in M&S (£100), it's whether or not they can sort out I's in a child's matching set!)

*I's Suit/shirt/waistcoat/Shoes & Cravat

*Dad Shirt/waistcoat & Tie

*Best Man Shirt/Waistcoat & Tie [[We've decided that best man and my Dad are now just getting black trousers, shirt, waistcoat and tie (ditching the jackets and cravats idea lol)]]

*O's Shoes

*Flowers - bouquet (button holes?) Buying from local flower shop on day, just whatever I fancy, nothing expensive, £10 max, not sure if having button holes, will see on day.

*Wedding Ceremony Invitations (making myself, only need to make 8 I think!!) need to source the paper to paint/write on.

*Reception DJ (£100)

*Reception - Buffet (by H on the day at cost, no figure in mind as yet)

*Reception - Wedding Cake (Tesco £13.50) *Cake Topper (being made by a friend, no idea of cost as yet)

*Reception - Favours & One-use Cameras (making cake's in jars!! hehe)

Song for our First Dance

OK so I am going to make a list of the candidates for this as I am sure as we move through the months, different songs will become favourites and it might help a decision on the day noting them all!!  So far we have two, they are;

Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
Adele - One and Only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78mlPQEmbOA

Marriage Preperation Course

So in the morning we have a 'Marriage Preperation Course' to go to, which is part of what happens when you marry in our church, so we now know hehe  It's 5hrs long, you get coffee and lunch for the very matromonial price of £20 which is compulsory eeek!  Anyway, there will be other couples there and we kind of have no idea what the day entails, but I am looking forward to it, we get 5hrs children free adult time which will be nice as that rarely happens!!  I'll be back to give details soon x

The paperwork

OK so it's £67 from the registry office to be 'allowed' to marry.  We don't have passports yet (biG pain in the bum) and so we need FULL birth certificates and driving licenses to prove who we are and our nationality.  I didn't have a full birth certificate, so I had to go buy one of those from the registry office of my town of birth, that cost £9, which isn't much at all I know, but VERY annoying considering I'll have a passport in just over a month!!  (ONLY A PASSPORT or FULL BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS PROOF OF NATIONALITY APPARENTLY) But my little moan about the whole thing, is that when I went and got my birth certificate, I didn't have to give proof of ID, I just filled out a basic form of who's birth certificate I wanted (mine-obviously) and then they printed one off and charged me £9 for the privilege, sone there and then in about 5mins.

It just seems ironic that they need to validate something but obtaining validation is so easy and I know I have to show my driving license too but if someone had a fake license, they could easily obtain a matching birth certificate without any problem whatsoever.  Ah well, moan over LOL

The Reception

So we are getting married because we wish to be married and the day is about us, a couple, celebrating our love for each other, but, we do want a little knee's up as it were afterwards and so we have decided to hire the tap room at a local pub!  This means all the people invited, 90% of whom live locally and do not drive, can get there and get home without too much trouble or exepnse as a few of them have young children anyway.

The room itself is a £50 deposit which is now paid, and we get that back if there are no damages so the venue if free LOL  They have said we can bring our own food in and so my best friend H is doing the buffet (we will pay her for the food stuffs but her time is free lol)  Not priced this up yet as not sure on how many are attending but will do once we know.

In the other room at our venue there is a live band the same night and so that will be extra entertainment for if some people want to move around or have a change, though we are thinking of hiring a DJ, the pub can get us one for £100 which is the cheapest I've heard and so that's the cost of that if we get a DJ.  We may even get some champers so all the adults have 1 free drink to toast the happy couple heehee 

The room isn't HUGE so I'm a little conscious of my wedding dress skirt size, I am hoping it will be fine, I may take up the whole of the tiny dance floor with it LOL

The rings are ordered!!!

Ordered the rings today!!
We are getting plain platinum bands, mine is 4mm and C's is 6mm, we tried the size out in an H.Samuel store but certainly weren't paying their prices!! LOL
They should be here tuesday or wednesday it is so exciting, the rings for me are THE most important expense as we will wear them for life and they will be blessed on the day by our priest, I am so amazingly happy we have our beautiful WEDDING RINGS on the way and they are just so wonderfully special and timeless x

The Honeymoon?

We have 2 young children, who will be 3 and 4 when we are married and so our honeymoon will be disguised as a family holiday heehee  We don't have passports (as we lost them when we moved house 2yrs ago, and have never found them grrrr!!) so we have to buy passports for all 4 of us, about £250.00 and then we're going to wait until August and book a late deal, hopefully so somewhere nice and hot like Spain or Greece, we've never been abroad and so it would be extra special if we did this after getting married.

Music

I know that I will be walking down the aisle to one of the following;

Johann Pachelbel Canon in D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugkMiFwiAMs

Pie Jesu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLf_oIgSLW4

We both love them both, I just hope I can hold it together and not cry whilst hearing that as I walk down the aisle to become C's wife!!!