The venue contract

Picking our venue was only half the battle. Once we’d decided where to hold our wedding, the next step was to let them know, so they could send us out a contract. We got in touch, and after lots of questions, emails bounced forwards and backwards, we got a copy of the contract in the [...]

Venue hunting

Last weekend Cat and I travelled up to Derby to try and find a venue to host our wedding. We plan to have the ceremony, breakfast and evening reception all under one roof, but there are a limited number of places registered to hold marriages. So armed with a list of a dozen or so, [...]

The Bridesmaids

So on an English wedding, the bride is supposed to have bridesmaids to help her with everything necessary. So instead of a godmother and godfather as in Portugal, I could choose several bridesmaids. Unlike Russ, who set up a romantic scene to ask Johnno to be his best man, I just informed them selected few:’By [...]

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Hunt for dresses

So yesterday Jemma and I went hunting for wedding dresses. She had booked appointments in two shops, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The one in the morning was a very posh shop so we decided to dress up to it including high heels (big mistake). The afternoon one was a normal [...]

The Best Man

One of my duties is to find someone who knows me well enough, and is responsible enough to act as my best man on the big day – taking care of me, and making sure I turn up. I could think of several candidates that would fit the bill, but one name stood out from [...]

Tradition, but…

We want to have the wedding according to the English tradition with a few influences of the Portuguese one We will try to get both together a much as possible, however, the last thing I want is to be retrained by tradition. So what we will do is personalise tradition. We will write about these [...]

Guests and venues

So my initial idea of wedding was something very simple and small, registrar’s office, and job done. Russ however was quick to say that he wanted a big thing with all his family. Not having a close family I didn’t quite understand why he wanted all of them (there are dozens), but after meeting them [...]

The One Ring…

In all the excitement of getting the blog looking and working great, it’s easy to forget the real reason we made this page! So getting back on track, I wanted to show Cat’s engagement ring, and how we got it. After buying our commitment rings in Lisbon last year, we decided to buy an engagement [...]

Fun with scripting

As the “technical editor” of this blog, I get to do all the fun behind the scenes things to make the magic happen. The theme we are using requires several images to be made for all the various locations they might appear, and each needs to be put in a specific folder. This would be [...]