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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]