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.
From all the reading we’ve done we’ve found the best place to start is planning a budget – after playing around with numbers we’ve just about got that on track which is good.
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks looking at the pretty aspects(vs the practicalities!) of the wedding, in magazines and on the web, such as the invites and dresses and shoes etc (well I’m a chick what the heck else you expect!) – not looking at buying quite yet of course! But I’ve been checking out if our budget plans are realistic…hopefully they are.
We’ve decided to use a budget planner that the ‘You and Your Wedding’ website supplies (which Graham found) – it’s really good!!! It’ll help us to keep track on the spending.
I’m determined to not turn into ‘Bridezilla’, it’ll be a very lovely wedding but not ‘over the top’. While it is a very important day, there’s the rest of our lives yet – therefore NO getting into debt for this thing, unlike what a lot of people probably do!