2014 Brides

MrsB2be

Hi All,
Just hit me like a ton of bricks today that I'm getting married this year!!! :eek:Silly I know, after 2 years of planning!:o

Already have the sick/nervous feeling in my stomach and just wanted to get any other 2014 brides feedback on how you are all feeling/how far along you are with planning? I keep thinking I'm done then something else creeps into my mind


xxx

whiskeyman

2 years of planning?
how could you be worried?
Get down to looking forward to it. Once the people you care and love about are there, nothing else matters.

January

Getting married New Years Eve and have hotel booked, dj booked, hair and make up booked and that's flipping it. I'm pregnant and due in April so will shop for a dress after the birth, bridesmaids dresses picked just not bought, having button bouquets but making them myself. Have to book photography, someone to do flower girl wands and grooms men boutonnierre's. Cake is being made as a present... haven't given notice to wed yet but have ages for that.

Not much else to do, not having cars (staying in hotel night before wedding).

No stress, no fuss... Relaxed and prepared.

Pang

I only have less than a month left before the big day so I am getting quite excited.

Everything is basically done except the table plan of course. I don't want to sound bad but people are incredibly slow rsvping. I can see myself ringing around soon.

MrsB2be

Pang; 3 of my friends got married in 2013 and had a nightmare with RSVP's, I dont think theres any avoiding it to be honest! One friend had 10 people (5 couples) RSVP yes and not turn up

January; Wow busy year for you so! I think I have everything I can do, done so far. Fingers crossed!

So exciting!

Pang

MrsB2be wrote: »

Pang; 3 of my friends got married in 2013 and had a nightmare with RSVP's, I dont think theres any avoiding it to be honest! One friend had 10 people (5 couples) RSVP yes and not turn up

Omg, that is such bad form. I can't believe people would do that.

Got the last few bits for the ladies bathroom basket today so that is it, I hope!

pooch90

We are the start of August.
Have venue, celebrant, photo, video, band, my dress, make up, cake done. BM dresses nearly picked. Going to attempt a button bouquet, think I have my shoes picked, rough idea of invites.
Appointment made with HSE.

Anything else that should be done this far in advance?
Ceremony musicians and hair soon.

Dortilolma

7 months to go here.
After Christmas it hit me and I have already been apologising to everyone for the inevitable 7 months of nothing but wedding chatter from me.

Have venue, band, officiant, photographer and dress. Finalising guest lists this weekend - sending save the dates in the next few weeks and finalising invites to go out in February/March. Still tonnes to do but it's all moving along.

Pooch90 - you sound well organised! That's loads to have done by now!

stinkle

June for me! At the 6-months-to-go date I was really surprised! where did the time go... but looking back that we're fairly organised too and we were trying to book one thing a month as we went along. So legalities are done, celebrant booked, venue sorted, photographer arranged, band and dj, my dress and shoes, cake. Chief bridesmaid just had a baby so will order bm dresses whenever she's ok with that. We want to get wedding rings soon, but will go to the jeweller who sold us my engagement ring so that's KINDA sorted as well. OOh I;ve been looking at DIY invites online and found some that are lovely so that's probably good to go soon too.

All that's left is suits for the lads and flowers. I know the flowers I'd like (v simple and in season) so that should be grand as well. Regarding the suits... I was gonna suggest the lads all go to a suit hire place, but a friend told me that she and her OH went together and picked the style they were both happy with. All the men were delighted to just be told what to wear! Is that how people normally do it? Also, we aren't 100% whether we even want the guys to all be the same anyway...

Optional stuff for us is: car and videographer. We're having ceremony and reception in the same place so car seems dispensible as no-one really sees it anyway. Plenty of people we know have DIY-ed it and had friends/family drive them. If we can afford it, a video would be great but won't stress about it till we've a better idea of total expenses

pooch90

Phew!
Dortilolma- can I ask about the timing of your invites, is March not very early? We were thinking May/June but maybe Save the Dates in Feb.

AoifeCork

Don't forget those ceremony musicians!! Very very important!

Dortilolma

pooch90 wrote: »

Phew!
Dortilolma- can I ask about the timing of your invites, is March not very early? We were thinking May/June but maybe Save the Dates in Feb.

It is early but we have people coming from a long way. Also I'm designing the invites and I feel if I aim to have them done by March they should be done by May

pooch90

Oh good, you threw me a bit on that one!
Best of luck with it.

Misticles

Just over 6 months to go for me.
Outstanding is:
MoH dress
Suits
Shoes & accessories
Compiling music to play
Transport
Ladies toilet goodies
Alterations to my dress which will start next month
Invites ( was going to do DIY) but think I will get the same style as our save the dates

Everything else is booked decides on our honeymoon today.

Ms2011

11 weeks for me.

Mine & my bridesmaid's dresses alterations need to be done.
OH, bestman & pageboy's suits to sort.
Hair & make-up trials to booked.

Hen's is in 6 weeks....I'm sure there's something I'm forgetting to do & starting to get butterflies :eek:

kc83

I'm 8 months......oh my god......only realized ha Ha!! My brother and uncle just recently offered to play at the church , I've DJ , venue sorted, have to do all the paperwork though and register etc
Pre marriage course next week

cmbutterfly45

I've 9 weeks left!!!
Am really starting to get nervous/ excited now!
Have still to organise
Honeymoon
Church decor
Bathroom baskets
Favors ( haven't decided to do or not yet)
Hair trial
Going to send invites in about 2 weeks
Boys have to get suit fittings
Table plan

And a million small bits

Ms2011

What's a bathroom basket??

cmbutterfly45

Ms2011 wrote: »

What's a bathroom basket??

They're baskets filled with little essentials that ladies may need on day, deodorant, hair clips, plasters, fem products, ect

stinkle

I dreamt last night that it was the big day and had left loads of stuff till the last minute! was never so glad to wake up and realise it's still January!

cmbutterfly45

stinkle wrote: »

I dreamt last night that it was the big day and had left loads of stuff till the last minute! was never so glad to wake up and realise it's still January!

Lol nightmare!!!!

homemadecider

I'm getting married at the end of the year. We're doing the legalities overseas, just the two of us - a sort of "Weddingmoon" if you'll forgive the awful portmanteau. I don't have much to organise - our travel agent will book our flights, accomodation, insurance and wedding for us. I just need to contact the resort later in the year to confirm the wedding plans and book a place in the beauty salon. I'll buy a nice white beach dress for the wedding and that's all my planning done.

We'll have a party when we get back so I just need to book a venue, send out invites (which I will make myself), make some music playlists and book a hair & makeup artist to come to my house. I feel very relaxed about the whole thing to be honest!

grainuaile

I have 8 weeks left :O
still to do:
Dress fittings
Bm alterations if necessary
confirm flowers
meet with photographer
Cake - doing it myself like an eejit
mens shoes & cufflinks
Menu tasting
Favours
Invites!!!
Finalise ceremony music
order of service
Drink reception music
cd for during meal
table plan
survive the hen



MOTHER.OF.GOD :O

Ms2011

Had my dress fitting on Tuesday & hair/make up trials today...it's all getting very real.
8 weeks to go!!!

stinkle

jeweller called today to say the rings are ready. yippee! hair and make u trial on sat and have started on the bridesmaid clothes. ceremony musician is sorted too, now to plan the ceremony!

Ms2011

Met with my wedding co-ordinater today & ironed out how the day will (hopefully) go. We were on the same page about everything so I'm feeling like a weight's been lifted.
Only other things left to do now really is organise the meal & cake tastings.
Hen's in a week & a half & wedding a month after that, can't believe how fast it's closing in!!

January

We found out on Saturday evening that our wedding co-ordinator has quit. We're meeting with her tomorrow before she finishes up with the hotel.

LNH666

We are June, and I think we have all the big stuff sorted. Just sending invitations and the dreading RSVP wait to go now. Didn't do a "save the date" so sending invitations early(ish) March.
January -will someone else step in from the hotel or what happens now?

cmbutterfly45

January wrote: »

We found out on Saturday evening that our wedding co-ordinator has quit. We're meeting with her tomorrow before she finishes up with the hotel.

Hope your meeting goes well and it dosnt affect any of your plans!

Ms2011

January wrote: »

We found out on Saturday evening that our wedding co-ordinator has quit. We're meeting with her tomorrow before she finishes up with the hotel.

How did your meeting go?? Feels so real going though it all, hope the co-ordinator leaving doesn't effect things for you.

January

Ms2011 wrote: »

How did your meeting go?? Feels so real going though it all, hope the co-ordinator leaving doesn't effect things for you.

Not too bad at all. They don't have a replacement just yet but she went through absolutely everything with us and made sure to write it down in the file and sign it. She also threw in a free filled Candy Cart for us. She really is fantastic at her job, sad to see her go.

Ms2011

January wrote: »

Not too bad at all. They don't have a replacement just yet but she went through absolutely everything with us and made sure to write it down in the file and sign it. She also threw in a free filled Candy Cart for us. She really is fantastic at her job, sad to see her go.

Wow, wouldn't mind getting a candy cart for free, ours cost €150 :eek:

January

Ms2011 wrote: »

Wow, wouldn't mind getting a candy cart for free, ours cost €150 :eek:

I know! She asked us if we were going to do anything like that and my mam (always great to bring the bull dog...) said that we were but we'd be doing it ourselves and she said 'well, tell you what, we have one here so we'll provide it filled free of charge'... Nice one...

Boombastic

Ms2011 wrote: »

Wow, wouldn't mind getting a candy cart for free, ours cost €150 :eek:

I did mine for €60, candyfloss and all

Ms2011

Boombastic wrote: »

I did mine for €60, candyfloss and all

Yeah I could probably do it myself for less but to be quite honest I couldn't be bothered with the hassle

Boombastic

Ms2011 wrote: »

Yeah I could probably do it myself for less but to be quite honest I couldn't be bothered with the hassle

I love doing things like that, although I'll probably regret it lol, I'll tell you in 3 weeks :eek:

Ms2011

Boombastic wrote: »

I love doing things like that, although I'll probably regret it lol, I'll tell you in 3 weeks :eek:

Yeah I've done a few bits myself like the ceremony booklets & the place cards but I drew the line at the candy cart

Boombastic

Ms2011 wrote: »

Yeah I've done a few bits myself like the ceremony booklets & the place cards but I drew the line at the candy cart

lol, I drew the line at place cards and table plans..not going to do those at all

only trouble doing the candy myself is I keep eating it

Ms2011

Boombastic wrote: »

only trouble doing the candy myself is I keep eating it

Yeah I could see myself having that problem too, then I'd have to be sown into my dress

Birdie086

Nye 2014 bride here.

have all the big things done, venue booked, church booked, band booked, dj in progress.

Bridemaids dresses ordered, hair booked and make up artist booked (pending a trial).

We are not doing a save the date but have already told everybody that will be attending.


Have a quote for invites, and photographer is being gifted by a bridesmaid(the photographer is her very close friend and friend fo mine is charging a fraction of usual cost)

Other than that we are just saving like mad and I am working on losing wieght and getting healthier. Gone from a 20 to an 18 since Christmas.

For my dress I am going to wait untill June ( give my myslef and chance to lose a bit more wieght) and I will try on dresses in town, hopefully find something I llike and try and source something from light in the box or dhgate.com - a fraction of what you will pay in town!!

The mens suits are priced already and the hotel have bumped up the their wedding packages so now some of the food for the afters is included in the package we are going for , at the same price!

We are doing a james bond theme, and have already a few bits from amazon to do this.

Also will be getting glowsticks and funny hats etc from cheap chinese websites for the disco part.

Even though we already have the bank booked - they are well known and quite good, we went to see them last night and they are brill. We booked them via a a friend whose brother is in the band so they not charging extra for NYE(would have been an extra 500!!!)

And a friends mam is doing the cake, again at fraction of the usual cost.

January

Birdie086 wrote: »

Nye 2014 bride here.

have all the big things done, venue booked, church booked, band booked, dj in progress.

Bridemaids dresses ordered, hair booked and make up artist booked (pending a trial).

We are not doing a save the date but have already told everybody that will be attending.


Have a quote for invites, and photographer is being gifted by a bridesmaid(the photographer is her very close friend and friend fo mine is charging a fraction of usual cost)

Other than that we are just saving like mad and I am working on losing wieght and getting healthier. Gone from a 20 to an 18 since Christmas.

For my dress I am going to wait untill June ( give my myslef and chance to lose a bit more wieght) and I will try on dresses in town, hopefully find something I llike and try and source something from light in the box or dhgate.com - a fraction of what you will pay in town!!

The mens suits are priced already and the hotel have bumped up the their wedding packages so now some of the food for the afters is included in the package we are going for , at the same price!

We are doing a james bond theme, and have already a few bits from amazon to do this.

Also will be getting glowsticks and funny hats etc from cheap chinese websites for the disco part.

Even though we already have the bank booked - they are well known and quite good, we went to see them last night and they are brill. We booked them via a a friend whose brother is in the band so they not charging extra for NYE(would have been an extra 500!!!)

And a friends mam is doing the cake, again at fraction of the usual cost.

Wooo New Years Eve Actually cannot wait. I've found a lot of the suppliers I've contacted don't charge extra for the day which is fantastic.

Birdie086

January, we were orginally going to book for the 30th, we just assumed it would be extra for NYE, it was the lady we met at the hotel who filled us in on the fact it wouldnt cost extra, by the way she is operations manger in the hotel and far better than their wedding coordinator!!

She has been at the hotel(Clarion in Limerick) since it opened and is very passionate about her work.

How did you get on with your hotel, I see your wedding coordinator is leaving. Do you still have confidence in the hotel? If they do weddings regularly I wouldnt be too worried.

January

Birdie086 wrote: »

January, we were orginally going to book for the 30th, we just assumed it would be extra for NYE, it was the lady we met at the hotel who filled us in on the fact it wouldnt cost extra, by the way she is operations manger in the hotel and far better than their wedding coordinator!!

She has been at the hotel(Clarion in Limerick) since it opened and is very passionate about her work.

How did you get on with your hotel, I see your wedding coordinator is leaving. Do you still have confidence in the hotel? If they do weddings regularly I wouldnt be too worried.

I was expecting extra for NYE too but when she told me it was the same price I was delighted.

We got on great, she was supposed to finish up yesterday but she forwarded our updated contract to us just there a few minutes ago so she's obviously just trying to fix up the loose ends before she leaves. I still have confidence in the hotel so we have no worries.

Ms2011

Just back from my meal tasting, everything was soooo good, have very little to critic

Hen's was two weeks ago & an absolutely brilliant night, had no voice for 3 days after

3 weeks tomorrow....!!!:eek:

Berty

Sept Groom here. I've done the lions share of the work so far, except the dresses of course.

Nothing left to do except shoes, tasting, send out invites in mid July, buy gifts and prepare favours.

xzanti

Misticles wrote: »

Ladies toilet goodies

Edit: I just read back and saw someone asked this already..

Where do we put these baskets? Are they for general guests or do they go in the Bridal Suite for the Bridal Party or both??

My God, I thought I had everything covered... eek

Dolbert

^They go into the ballroom toilets for guests. I wouldn't bother with them tbh

pooch90

I would put in the baskets tbh, I've been caught out at a wedding where tape of a specific nature stopped doing its job.
Had to scour the hotel for something to stay secure in dress, in the end finally found a sewing kit.
For this reason, I am putting swing kit, plasters, hair clips, deodorant, hygiene products, toothpicks etc in bathrooms. All easily gotten in €2 shops.

Ms2011

Went to collect my dress today from getting it taking up & it was too tight to close :eek:
Haven't put on any extra weight so dunno what's going on, anyway had to leave it there to be let out a bit, thought I'd be home & dry today where the dress was concerned:rolleyes:

stargazer 68

Ms2011 wrote: »

Went to collect my dress today from getting it taking up & it was too tight to close :eek:
Haven't put on any extra weight so dunno what's going on, anyway had to leave it there to be let out a bit, thought I'd be home & dry today where the dress was concerned:rolleyes:

We went to try our BM dresses at the weekend and they are too tight :mad:
Sister has lost a stone and a half and I have lost half a stone but both of us have put at inch on the waist and hips! :eek: Mind boggles!

Seamstress said she will let them out and then work from there!

stinkle

agh, I just left mine into dressmakers on Friday, here's hoping it'll fit ok when I get it back! Ordered BM dresses finally, the lads are sorting suits at weekend.

We've got our tasting evening and will get to chat to the wedding co-ordinator too, so I'm making a list of questions to ask. Obv we signed a contract ages back and didnt bother with too much haggling at the time, but of course things come to light - is it reasonable for us to mention stuff like that now or suck it up? We aren't 100% about DIY-ing the wine, so corkage needs to be enquired about. My only gripe with the venue is they dont offer a menu choice unless you pay extra. It was my number 1 "if we can afford it" extra, but really we're all still only getting the one dinner! If anything, I'd rather pay for extra canapes instead. Also, food-wise, we're getting basic evening food in our package (sambos/cocktail sausages/ta and coffee), is there any need for extras there?

Our invites came on Friday. I DIY'ed them on a template site but I rather stupidly forgot to leave a space to write the guests names on, but I think it's all good. They read just fine and we'll be seeing most people as hand delivering as many as possible.