I have been planning the wedding since, September, although apart from booking the venue, i haven't got very far. I decided to start up a blog, to keep track of my manic ideas, thoughts and moods, while planning the biggest day of my life (or so everyone keeps telling me). I am sure all you married women and wife's to be will agree when i say, planning a wedding is the most strangest emotion. All of my married friends keep telling me to take it slow, one step at a time, enjoy it because once its done, its done. Yet my unmarried friends, do not understand what the fuss is about.
My fiance insists on doing what i want and telling him the date and time so he can turn up. Do any of you other brides to be get this as well or is this just my unenthusiastic other? I must say, he has come to wedding fairs, we jointly decided on the venue and he does have his say but sometimes it does seem like he zones out and lets me get on with it. I guess, this is something i have been planning since i was 5 years old, walking down the hallway with a pillow case on my head and garden flowers in my hands. I want to be a princess, i want it to be perfect. Does it really end up like you imagined when you were little?
So the big day is 24th of March 2012 at a beautiful venue named Lumley Castle in Chester-le-Street. I fell in love with the castle as soon as we viewed it, but it was hugely out of our budget. My father died when i was 10 so i have been brought up by my mother....... needless to say she is unable to give us much assistance and the fiances family are not in a position to help so we are saving up and paying for it all ourselves. We looked at other, cheaper venues, but none of them compared to lumley castle. We nearly left a deposit at another venue, but they put their prices up last minute and there was no negotiating with them. We then decided to go back to Lumley Castle and see what they could do for us. In the end we set a date 8 months earlier than planned, but for a bargain price. This was the start of planning the big day...... where do you go from there?
I suppose the reason that i have not got much further with this is because there is so much choice. When my mother and father got married, it was plain and simple. The most complicated decision was the dress. Suites were basic, bridesmaids dresses where traditionally a line, you had to have fresh flowers, a cream or white fruitcake and you only had two sets of parents to keep happy. Now there are so many diferent styles of dress, you can have artificial flowers, bouquets made from jewelery, crystal bouquets, cakes can be made in all sorts of shapes and sizes and table centre peices can be pretty much whatever you dream off. Of course, we have 3 sets of parents to keep happy...... the table plan will be fun :)
I have spent a fortune on wedding magazines (who knew they were so expensive) but hopefully in the end it will be worth it. So, i feel i have bored you enough for my first ever blog. I intend to keep track of different websites and ideas that i come across, and hopefully i may be of some use to other brides to be that stumble accross me. I would appreciate it if anyone does have advice as i feel i am going to need it.
Hopefully the next time you read this i will have finalized something else...... otherwise im going to be a bit rushed leading up to day.
Night all........
