Wedding February 2009

**lisa.** · February 26th, 2008, 08:23 PM

Is there anyone one here getting marry in February 2009

? I would love to chat to you all. My wedding day on 14 february 2009.

Lisa

**Mel A** · February 29th, 2008, 12:24 PM

Hi Lisa, I was married in March 2005 (It is my third annaversry on Wednesday.

) but please don't let that put you off, I'm addicted to weddings, and would love to hear and chat about everything.
Mel

**Kazbah** · February 29th, 2008, 12:30 PM

Valentines day! How gorgeous!

Where is it?

**lisa.** · March 11th, 2008, 10:01 PM

Hi Mel A and Kazbah i have been so lazy with reply,
We are married in Hervey bay, so far i got plan Reception booked, Ceremony on the beach, Celebrant, videographer,
I got 3 BM'S and 1 FG, I still wait for H2B to get his BM and GM'S
I not sure what else to do i got 11 Months to go.
How did you plan your wedding Mel A?

Lisa

**feeb** · March 11th, 2008, 10:15 PM

Ohh i love weddings!!!
I got married 20th of may 2006 and it was the best day i loved planning it all!!

Good luck

**lisa.** · March 11th, 2008, 10:20 PM

Hi feeb how was your wedding day like?
I got no one help me plan for the wedding but sometime my FH dose something
Did you have trouble with your guy when you plan your wedding
I stuck on what else do i do now, any idea?

Lisa

**lisa.** · March 15th, 2008, 04:13 PM

I have some great tips about saving money, If your interested.
I made a list of what I wouldn't compremise on. Dress (no budget) Photographer (no budget) Everything else budget budget budget.

Hi Mel A, yes please I interested, please tell, I need some tips on saying money. Thank you Mel A.

one thing i would suggest - make sure you have a contingency plan just in case it rains - the last thing you want is to be looking fantastic in your wedding gown, hair and makeup - and find it's all been destroyed by the weather! hopefully you won't need it - but it's always better to be safe than sorry. we decided that, if it rained, we'd head to our reception venue early, but sometimes that's not possible...!
i think the other suggestions have been fantastic. make yourself a budget and stick to it. we did everything ourselves, from the invites (which i've since been employed to do another 3 weddings, so they must have been ok!), guest gifts, place cards, through to the centrepieces we had on the tables... we did almost everything on a budget - though dress and photographer were open slather!
definitely decide on your theme and colors before picking your flowers - and look at LOTS of options. i'm a tall person, so had a sheath rather than a tear drop - worked so much better for me - and i wasn't feeling like i had to hold it in a particular way - it was simply cradled in my arms. my bridesmaids also had a sheath - i'd been in a couple of weddings and always felt uncomfy trying to work out how to hold the flowers so they were in the right place and comfortable! also decide in advance if you're going to keep the flowers and have them dried out at home or preserved (freeze dried) professionally - if so, you'll need to arrange someone to get them to the appropriate people as soon after the wedding as possible. it's also something you'll need to get a price on so that you can budget for it - i figured, seeing flowers CAN be a big expense, i wanted to be able to keep them!
decide in advance if you're going to hire or buy your centrepieces we gave each couple a home made CD of music from the wedding as their gift - again, we made them ourselves. think it cost about $50 in total including discs, stickers to label them, cases and the paper for the covers. we included one of the readings for our wedding on the front cover, and a message thanking everyone for attending on the inner cover (got our thank you's out of the way in advance!)

Hi briggsy's girl
Where we going to have our reception we got it all day up to midnight, I said to my FH if it rain we have it there, where we are having our Ceremony on the beach it 5 min away from the reception. I making my own invite and place card , I don?t know where to start , I cant make anything I have to learn any idea , I not sure what we are having for centerpieces any ideas? the theme we are having is We are having a beach theme, The colours are going to be Pink, Blue, White and purple.
Bride in white
Bride Maids are in Pink
Flower Girl in white or pink
Groom in Black suit with pink tie
Best man and grooms are in black with pink tie
Ring Boy our dog in a suit and one of my bride maid boy
Invited are in pink and white
Place card are in blue and purple.

Flowers I would like them in pink and white, lilies I would like the best, not sure
I like your idea about the CD, I talk to my FH that I would like to give our guest a cd with our wedding song and give them the word to the song of our wedding song, he like the idea, we maybe do that for our guest. Thanks for your great advise briggsy's girl.

You all have help me with planning my wedding.
Thank you Mel A, briggsy's girl, feeb, amysarah85,

I think I leave it now, I will come back later I got lot more to tell you all.

Lisa

**briggsy's girl** · March 15th, 2008, 07:58 PM

lisa - invites can be really simple or really complex. it all depends on what you want from it! i did two very different invitations for two weddings as they were at the same place almost exactly 12 months apart - ours was the second wedding (we met at the first), so wanted it to be completely different (and it had to outshine the first one - it was OUR wedding!)

so, for the first one, the couple had two kids, had been living together for 8 years or something, so they needed nothing. they had a Wishing Well (i created a unique wishing well poem for them). Carboard in deep purple (upright), wishing well poem printed on silver paper (cut using a fancy cutting edge on a guillotine) and then the formal invite on pink paper, cut slightly smaller and with a fancier edge, attached only at the top in a thin strip so that it folded up. the invite was very informal, and was worded as such. these were folded in three, sealed with a sticker and addressed directly onto the cardboard with silver pen. the place cards for the guests were made with the same carboard base, and silver paper with the name printed on them. fairly simple.

for ours, we were having a still fairly casual outdoors wedding, but we wanted it to be a little more "professional" - and i guess we wanted our wedding to be very different so that there weren't comparisons (iykwim?) had deep blue cardboard base, sideways, folded in three. on the left hand side, there was a pocket, made with the same blue card - in that pocket, we had our own version of the wishing well poem on white vellum with gold hearts - we fit 6 per page in printing! we also had in there a small RSVP card with a request for them to be sent back so we'd know who was coming!!

our invites were on the middle section - half the invites had a gold base with silver page over it (with the invite there) - the other half were opposite. i was being all fancy so attached everything with push pins and things! these were then attached onto the cardboard base with double sided tape so the back of the pins was invisible. it was then all folded into thirds and placed in an envelope for posting.

our place cards were much the same as the invites - each one was on a blue base, with either gold or silver intermediate, then the opposite with the name on it. for the bridal party, we had the two colors as intermediates, then the vellum with names on it - just to make them different...

i'm pretty sure i can put my hand on both invitations without too much issue - if i can, i'll take some photo's and put them on my website (once i've edited out names and addy's!) and let you know

if you need any help with invites, let me know! i loved doing my invites!

with your ceremony - make it what you and your DP want - your celebrant should be really open to doing it your way. we had three readings - one from the celebrant, and two friends we wanted involved in the wedding. we also exchanged roses as part of our ceremony - it had significant meaning for us. but even with that, our ceremony only went for 20 minutes or so (thankfully - it was HOT!!) - there are so many ways to make your ceremony your own - this is a huge day for you - you need to make it special!

**lisa.** · March 17th, 2008, 05:48 PM

What do you about this invitation wording
The honour of your presence is requested at
the marriage of Lisa to Daniel at
urangan beach on Saturday 14 February 2009
2:00 pm
with a reception to follow at hall

RSVP: 1 January 2009
Dose that sound ok or dose anyone else got idea?

Today i booked
Limousine booked Cost $600
includes 3 hours of car use. Full Ribbon and Tule in your choice of colour. Full Red Carpet Service. 2 x Bottles of Champagne 2 x BOTTLES OF Soft Drink and 2 x Bottles of Water

Maybe Hotel for the first 2 night for as husband and wife
We maybe going to have the rooftop of the hotel cost for for 2 adults for the 2 nights $440
it includes heated Spa on the roof and barbecue and furnished with table, chairs and sun lounges and air conditioning

I very happy how it all going together. I not happy about having trouble find some one who can do flowers for the wedding, some wont do it because it on V day.