Amy and Graham's Wedding

I think I am may become the queen of bargain hunting (or soon will anyway…).
I’ve made progress on wedding cake ideas. Most places charge hideous prices for custom flavoured layers and custom design weddings cakes that cost 300-1000 quid. Well that seems extreme for a cake lol. Recently Graham’s sister Karen gave us advice to spend money on the things we will remember most, and a magazine I also read included a quote from someone saying ‘think about the cost per minute’. In other words think about how much things cost in relation to how much time will be spent on the thing that day. A cake is good for photographs and (hopefully!) is very yummy when eaten, but generally will not gather a lot of the days attention. I found M&S do some gorgeous cakes which we then can add decorations to, but I’ve also checked out waitrose’s food service too. Graham and I have so far come to the conclusion that Waitrose offers us the sort of thing we are after and at a more stomachable (excuse the pun!) cost, which will let us spend more money on the important things…like ensuring everybody there has a cracking good day and things like the photography is fabulous.

One thing I am doing is I’m making a scrap book for the wedding magazine ideas that I really like and want to look into implementing. Magazines have some really good ideas that I’d like to centrally put somewhere so I remember them in future, so I’ve bought a large thick notebook and I’m going to turn it into a scrapbook of magazine cut outs. Should do the trick.

So – all the parents got together last weekend at Cardiff and all went well, other people you read about who are planning their own weddings say about parents not getting on and all that, and all those comments made me stress but I shouldn’t have stressed out about it really!!
Had look at the Royal Horticultural Society flower show which was really nice – I got some herbs…anyway back on topic I was looking to see if I could find inspiration for wedding flowers but I didn’t spot much. I wonder if this is because of my rather big lack of imagination on the flower arranging side of things. I’ve got no clue what I really like and what I don’t. I look at magazines and think, that’s alright, that’s alright, but don’t really have ANY strong feelings about flowers. Is there something wrong with me lol? I think the magazines will have to help me on that front.
Whilst away at the weekend, my dad had a fantastic idea about doing some fancy thorntons-like chocs, bought in bulk for the favours (which would be then contained in a paper wrapper with the box) rather than just regular chocs in fancy foil (which, after checking prices seem to be priced at the same sort of cost in bulk). Say the word ‘wedding’ and even the cheapest thing becomes ‘fancy’ and about 3 times the price, which is what happens with a lot of these websites selling regular chocolate hearts in foil wraps. What a con.