Update

So we have been overloaded with work and this website has not been updated in a long time. Many things have happened since the last post so I’ll just try to summarise it here.
- Bouquets: We bought and received mine and the bridesmaids bouquets. They are silk with the colour scheme I chose (red and [...]

Shoes and centre pieces

Finally after much searching I found my wedding shoes. It was quite difficult as most at pointy or open at the front. But finally got them and cheaper than expected
My advice?
Look in all the shops that sell any kind of shoes. All of them, even places like Next and John Lewis. You may [...]

The Register Office

In the UK as well as many other places (all but Las Vegas) it is necessary to register the upcoming marriage at the Register Office. Cat booked an appointment a few weeks back and we went yesterday.
After ensuring we were who we said we were, we had to individually answer a series of questions without [...]

Budget

With all the depression news and after becoming more aware of how much wedding stuff costs, budgeting became an important part of our lives. I was the main budgeter but after a few arguments on how much money we really have I decided to pass the burden to Russ. IT geek as he is, [...]

The Date!

Mark it in your calendars!

Finally, after the contract was perfect, signed and sent, we provisionally booked the date at the Derby registrar and we booked an appointment to give notice of our wedding at the Milton Keynes registrar.
The cheque for the venue was also sent and the wedding insurance was bought.
It’s all on the way [...]

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 [...]

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 the [...]

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 [...]

Traditions and others

I started reading books and magazines about weddings to have an idea of what needs to be done. Oh dear! There is so much more than I thought! And this is just to arrange the venue and a date, not to mention paperwork. We have to think about food, cutlery, chairs, decoration, licenses, money, guests, [...]