… as both mothers now have found their outfits.
We went to the Solent Hotel again for Valentines day and saw another wedding going on. The bride looked really pretty and really made me feel like it won’t be long now, which I suppose it won’t be.
Graham
On the shoes-front, I tried on a pair of shoes while I was trying on dresses sometime ago but they seemed really low heeled – too low!!! I have a boyfriend at 6 foot and a sister at 5 ft 9. Heels are in order me thinks. They were Else Metropolitan (by Rainbow), but I’d spotted another pair much earlier that I really fancied which were much higher, by Rainbow which were more expensive but I decided to leave the shoe buying until I went back for my dress fitting. Anyway, in the Christmas sales in John Lewis, I was having a wander around for a feather duster of all things…and as I walked past the shoe section spotted all the wedding shoes on sale, row after row of Rainbow shoes. I got the higher heeled shoes I was after for half price @ £32.50. Bargain and they’re utterly fabulous!!!!
On the bargain front me and Graham are rackin’ em up. Dress, shoes, at the hotel, and the photographer too, but even after all that weddings still cost a lot so we are doing our best to get best value for money.
The next on the to-do. Bridesmaids 
Well I thought it was time to update the blog. I blogged about dress shopping and didn’t get around to making live so here it is!!! This post is real late it’s from December time!
Dress shopping had me seriously worried. I don’t wear dresses. I always wear jeans lol. I had been checking out the magazines at the various styles for a long while, since we got engaged , and reading ANY article I can get my mitts on about dress styles, so had ideas about what I wanted. Kind of! After looking at the dresses at the Birmingham Wedding fair, I thought I’d need to spend at least 600 quid to have a really nice dress, which I was definitely wrong about. I also found I had to bear in mind any required alterations, which for me are a necessary evil, because I am so short. In my discussions with various dress people at fairs, I found I had to bear in mind how complex the train on the dress was patterned. Having nice beads and intricate cloth is very well and nice, but when you have to chop 3 inches off it, you lose the effect on most of these dresses, though I heard some of these dresses came in different lengths sometimes.
So, cue all this worrying I was doing leading up to dress shopping. I tried 2 dresses on at the Birmingham NEC wedding fair and the first one was lovely, but I couldn’t decide if the excitement I felt was ‘first dress’ type of excitement or ‘the dress’ excitement. I tried on another dress that I didn’t like so much, which then made me worry about the excitement of the first. Anyway, the first dress I tried on was £600, so out of my budget really. I left that dress at the wedding show. I couldn’t buy the first dress I tried on.
Then we visited the Southampton Civic Centre wedding fair in October and I got all this ‘so you will have tried on loads of dresses by now then?’. Errrr No. Apparently you should look for your dress from the 12 month mark for time to order it in and alter it. oooooooookk………. And if the alterations and dress is complex then it can be longer! So I knew I had to hop on it. Logistically, a bit tricky, with my mum and both sisters being in Hull and me being in Southampton. But then Graham came home the Friday after the Civic Centre Wedding and said the wedding dress shop near us had their sale later on that week. I asked my girlfriends in southampton if they fancied dress shopping and cue wedding dress shopping. I tried on quite a lot of dresses in 2 shops in Southampton and in the second shop found this dress I loved the moment I put it on and it was on sale!!!! £100 quid off-my jammy luck. When I put it on and walked out the fitting room, I immediately had a mini-gush about it with my friend Natalie and then compared every other dress I tried on, to this dress. I went away having a good think of whether I should look in any other shops but to be honest this dress really did seem the real thing so I went back next day and bought it. Oooooooh it’s prettttttyyyyy.
We had a picture sent to us from the Hotel in an email showing the room we’ve booked for the wedding all decked out for a ceremony and it looked really nice. It was pink, with white chair covers. Anyway, I’ve now been thinking colours, everywhere I look I’ve been thinking ‘colours’ hehe. While I was doing some web designing I found a deep purple/pink/red that I like using one of my colour designer programs, but it’s so hard to decide. Graham also showed me a very beautiful deep purple colour that he found on a dress, which would also look nice. I am also wondering ’should I go 2 tone’? For example deep purple, with a matching lighter colour.
It’s hard to decide but I want the wedding pictures to look fab (doesn’t everyone in a wedding? lol), which means getting the colour just right.
Answers on a postcard…….