Hurray!
Our save the date cards arrived today and they look awesome!!!
My boyf did the design on his mac book air, it is based on an iconic classic book cover and just gives guests the basic details. He spent a couple of evenings getting the design, font and wording right and then we uploaded and ordered them from Moo.com
They are such a great company, really quick delivery, good quality and best of all we had 80 printed, each individually personalised with guests names for £49.50. A bargain, I think.
I've ordered envelopes from ebay, 100 for £3.85 but cannot see how to save money on buying stamps, I may just have to bite the bullet.....the slow second class bullet of course :-)
(yes, I know we could have emailed the save the dates and not spent any money, but I really like receiving proper post and its nice that people can stick them on the fridge / use them as bookmarks or just have a reminder that doesnt get swamped by an inbox!)
Tuesday 8 January 2013
Sunday 6 January 2013
Argh!!!!
I keep waking up at night panicing that we have booked venues that hold 70-80 people, but our double edited guest list still comes to 115..........why did I let my heart rule my head and book somewhere that clearly isnt big enough.
Am I going to save money this way or are all the little extras I have to sort out (tables, chairs etc) going to mean I end up spending just as much as a 'package' wedding?
Gah!
Am I going to save money this way or are all the little extras I have to sort out (tables, chairs etc) going to mean I end up spending just as much as a 'package' wedding?
Gah!
Friday 4 January 2013
Venues sorted....phew!
After much research and a fair bit of wasted time visiting unsuitable venues (I'll let you know where we looked in another post), we can now officially get married.
We have given our marriage notices (who knew you had to do that!), booked the ceremony venue and hired the reception hall.
Firstly, we decided on the gorgeous Tin Tabernacle ( www.tintabernacle.com ) for our reception. It actually goes against everything i thought I wanted!
When we got engaged we each wrote a list of 5 things that were really important to us for our big day. Top of both lists was just to have all of our loved ones and friends in one place....tick, hopefully. Second on mine was to have the ceremony and reception in one place (I thought this would be less hassle and as we have a young son I don't really have the time or inclination to let this wedding take over my life). Third was an aisle I could walk down with my dad (we aren't religious so have never considered a church ceremony, but I am quite traditional so I wanted the moment of pride I'll have walking on my dads arm in front of everyone). I wanted a bar in situ so people could buy their own drinks in the evening.
The Tin Tabernacle ticks none of these boxes. It is, however a gorgeous and quirky space that we can make our own. Plus it is under £500 to hire for the weekend. A lovely lady named Hope showed us round and has been in regular email contact.
With this sorted we needed a place to actually get married. I have never really fancied a registry office and we wanted Brighton to feature in our day somehow so we have booked the bandstand on the seafront, again at a cost of around £500, ( keep everything crossed for decent weather!) If it rains we have to move the ceremony indoors downstiars, which meant we had to pay for two marriage notices (one for each venue).
So, at the moment my total spend is:
Ceremony venue £500
Reception venue £453.75
Marriage notices £140
Total £1093.75
It adds up so quickly!!
We have given our marriage notices (who knew you had to do that!), booked the ceremony venue and hired the reception hall.
Firstly, we decided on the gorgeous Tin Tabernacle ( www.tintabernacle.com ) for our reception. It actually goes against everything i thought I wanted!
When we got engaged we each wrote a list of 5 things that were really important to us for our big day. Top of both lists was just to have all of our loved ones and friends in one place....tick, hopefully. Second on mine was to have the ceremony and reception in one place (I thought this would be less hassle and as we have a young son I don't really have the time or inclination to let this wedding take over my life). Third was an aisle I could walk down with my dad (we aren't religious so have never considered a church ceremony, but I am quite traditional so I wanted the moment of pride I'll have walking on my dads arm in front of everyone). I wanted a bar in situ so people could buy their own drinks in the evening.
The Tin Tabernacle ticks none of these boxes. It is, however a gorgeous and quirky space that we can make our own. Plus it is under £500 to hire for the weekend. A lovely lady named Hope showed us round and has been in regular email contact.
With this sorted we needed a place to actually get married. I have never really fancied a registry office and we wanted Brighton to feature in our day somehow so we have booked the bandstand on the seafront, again at a cost of around £500, ( keep everything crossed for decent weather!) If it rains we have to move the ceremony indoors downstiars, which meant we had to pay for two marriage notices (one for each venue).
So, at the moment my total spend is:
Ceremony venue £500
Reception venue £453.75
Marriage notices £140
Total £1093.75
It adds up so quickly!!
Friday 28 December 2012
Is it possible to organise a bespoke wedding under £10,000?
This is the question I have been pondering for a while now.
After 10 years together my boyfriend and I have decided to tie the knot. My dad has very kindly given us a wedding fund (probably saved since my birth, he's kind of traditional that way!). I think it's a lot of money........until I started to try and plan the wedding.
Jeez, how can everything be soooo expensive? seriously. We're one of the last of our friends to get married so we've been to a lot of 'do's, some formal, some more ad-hoc but I never realised quite what really went into them.
One of the main things about my day has always been, that I want all the people I care about in one space for the day, it doesnt happen often, if ever to be honest, so a big guest list is an important factor. We are in the preliminary stages but it looks like 100 guests in the day and 150-ish fo rthe evening.
So, my mission is to organise our big day, for 100 at least, for under £10,000, surely its possible.......isn't it?
This is the question I have been pondering for a while now.
After 10 years together my boyfriend and I have decided to tie the knot. My dad has very kindly given us a wedding fund (probably saved since my birth, he's kind of traditional that way!). I think it's a lot of money........until I started to try and plan the wedding.
Jeez, how can everything be soooo expensive? seriously. We're one of the last of our friends to get married so we've been to a lot of 'do's, some formal, some more ad-hoc but I never realised quite what really went into them.
One of the main things about my day has always been, that I want all the people I care about in one space for the day, it doesnt happen often, if ever to be honest, so a big guest list is an important factor. We are in the preliminary stages but it looks like 100 guests in the day and 150-ish fo rthe evening.
So, my mission is to organise our big day, for 100 at least, for under £10,000, surely its possible.......isn't it?
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