October 22, 2009 @ 6:10 pm
I spotted ages ago in one of my very early wedding magazines the exact flowers I wanted, and never cut out the picture and have never found the picture since. Anyway, after attending the Southampton Civic Centre wedding fair, we met a florist there who had some example flowers with her that I loved. I looked at her website and she makes lovely stuff. So I think we will be visiting her soon to get her booked. I’m really pleased we found a florist we connected with, who does the styles I like. I had been looking at websites for local florists and just couldn’t find anything I liked and gave up looking for a time because I was quite dis-heartened by it all. I’m useless with flowers so I was checking out websites for inspiration and just couldn’t find anything, until we met this florist at the wedding fair. Hoorah for us!
A tip for any other bride: you see flower pictures anywhere that you like – take a picture (if you can) or cut it out. Even if it 2 weeks after you got engaged (that’s what happened to me). If like me, you’re useless at describing flowers then this is VERY useful.
October 22, 2009 @ 6:05 pm
Choosing a photographer is REALLY hard. The hardest thing so far! We have a list of various ones we’ve found, with a really good idea of what we want out of it, but when we choose one, even with all the examples on websites, it still feels like it’s going to be a gamble as to whether we will get what we want out of the end of it.
I really feel we have to get the photographer bang-on right, out of everything, the wedding shots will be there for a heck of a lot longer than a lot of other things in a wedding, such as the cake (that definitely doesn’t last long), and food (gone by the end of the day) and the list goes on.
I am thinking that I might write a little comparison chart of the various photographers and grade them on what we want out of the day. Maybe that will help.
October 22, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Thought it was time to blog as I haven’t done in a little while. Progress hasn’t really been made on new wedding stuff until very recent weeks. I went to the Birmingham NEC wedding fair with my mum and both my sisters. It was really busy and every bride for herself pretty much. I was also taken aback with how many brides had brought with them an army of people (some had 5 or 6!!) which would then fill a stall up and no one could get in properly to look which wasn’t ideal and really quite selfish.
It was a fab weekend (drank faaaar too much wine lol). I tried on 2 dresses while I was at the fair, the very first I tried on was loooooooovely and on sale (from 1700 to 600). When I left the wedding fair I was really concerned I’d let it slip through my fingers, but recent events have removed that feeling (thankfully!).
There were a lot of local suppliers at the Birmingham fair for things like photography and flowers, but I have been aiming to get those more local to Southampton, so I didn’t find those stalls so useful.
The most useful thing I found out of the fair was looking at dresses. I’d seen plenty in magazines but none ‘on the hangers’. Something that strikes me is just how awful some dresses look hung up, then on a person really nice. To be frank I saw more dresses I didn’t like than what I did which was a little disconcerting in one way, but at least it made me more clearer on what I wanted.
We had a brilliant weekend, ate at some wonderful places and went through I fair bit of alcohol and had such a laugh. The hotel was a nice place my sister picked, close to the station and the shops too. Susan managed to get a bargain on a 4 star hotel, so it was quite posh.
On Sunday before we all went home we went shopping in the city centre too, Birmingham is a brilliant place to shop.