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 [...]

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, [...]

Timing

So we are getting married. It’s a big thing!
One of the conditions for me was that we would have to get married within a year or close to that. I don’t want to not have a goal and then postpone it for this and that and be engaged forever. June would be ideal to keep [...]