Wedding stuff - opinions please?

he he, Well, chances are that we are keeping it as it is due to the venue thing but it has given us a bit of a kick in the right direction and getting planning organised so that we can pay as we go and have it all pre-paid by the time we need it.

This end of year should be cheaper as PAris will be at school which means that mike's xmas break will cover her time off, and by then ayja will be subsidised for the 20 free hours and we can cut her hours down over xmas. so shouldn't be too pricey.

YAY for planning though. Am still going ahead with meetings and fittings and getting my bum into gear.

Red wrote: A Sunday would be good cos if you are having a lunch thing then people aren't going to be drinking and dancing to the early hours.

Good point Red although the same works on a Saturday. We had a late morning wedding and lunch (finger food) with bubbly afterwards. We'd bought 4 cases of bubbly but actually only used 3 and we left the reception at 5pm to go back to our hotel then had a nice quiet dinner together at the hotel restaurant. It was perfect for us.

MissAngel that sounds great. We paid for our own wedding too and did it on a budget I can't remember now how much each thing cost but in total our wedding cost less than $4,000 (including hotel for wedding night and mini honeymoon afterwards).

Here's what we did.

* Flowers: got the florist from New World to do them all including posy for on top of cake. Was very specific with her and she did a brilliant job at a supermarket price (I think she was actually delighted to get the chance to do a wedding).
* Bridesmaids: I made their outfits as my gift to them. They did their own hair and makeup.
* Wedding dress etc: I designed my dress and my mum made it with the help of my grandma who sewed tiny little beads along the 3 metres of hem (total cost was approx $200). I got my lingerie from the bendon factory shop and borrowed white shoes from a friend. I wore a family heirloom lace veil.
* My hair & makeup: I did my own makeup and my mum did my hair.
* Groom & Groomsmen: We hired their suits and bought their shirts
* Alcohol: as mentioned earlier we bought 4 cases of bubbly (nothing else) and the wine glasses were loaned to us for free by the liqour store.
* Food: We self catered. I bought everything and friends and family helped prepare it all.
* Waiting staff: we hired students through student job search and asked one of my mums friends to be their boss.
* Cake: This was a wedding gift from my sil
* Photographer: used student job search for this too and got a student photographer who was finished her art degree. She was very cheap and we got to keep all the film afterwards and she got to use our pics in her portfolio.
* Venue: Hired a hall and decorated it ourselves the morning of the wedding

My one extravagence was $400 on a classic Jaguar as the wedding car. I loved it and it looks great in the pics.

We had a wonderful wedding day and the only thing I would change if I could go back is that I would organise a casual BBQ or something similar for the day after the wedding so I could spend more time with my family and friends that had travelled to be there.



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ooooh, I would LOVE to go to a lunch type wedding on a sunday! I reckon that would be a great day to have it.

Oh, check out your new ticker mum2paris. Exciting!!