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 [...]

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, we [...]

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 [...]