Birmingham NEC Wedding Fair – October 10
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.