Invite are finalised,

Well all my bridal ladies, apologies for the lack of blogging.

Ill let you into a secret, i did right a huge blog two weeks ago, spent hours on it, as i do while i watch the tele and keep my dogs apart. I forgot to save it, and my battery died. I was sooo tired i gave up and couldn't be bothered to re write it lol. Its a shame, i think it was one of my best :)

So there has been a lot going on in my life at the moment. We have a new manager at work, he is Gay, so funny, flamboyant and just generally fun to be around. He has certainly brightened up the office. This is refreshing considering all the other things that have happened leading up to his employment.

Anyway, he is getting married end of October and has invited me to this wedding. I cannot wait, it is going to be amazing, he is having a drag queen DJ. I will most certainly report on this when it has finished.

Right so, i have gone from having my own wedding to attend and my best mans wedding, to my best friends sisters wedding, my bosses wedding, the chairman's wedding and another friends wedding all within the next year. I do not know how other Brides have felt about this but it is making me extremely competitive. I feel under a lot of pressure to ensure everything is perfect as i know all the weddings i am attending, the bride and groom will be judging mine as well. Is this normal? Have other brides to be felt like this?

I am trying to keep this brief as i am extremely tired and intend on writing a huge block next week as i am spending a lot of time on wedding planning this week, but i wanted to show you all my invites. These are roughly put together and we will be adjusting the color of the feathers, but you can see roughly what it will look like:

What do you think?

I love it!

So iv tried to keep it short and sweet, speak to you next week brides.

Save the Date!!!!

Its Friday night, i have just got home from the gym (wedding diet, i'm sure you future brides know all about it)and my hubby to be is at a poker party. So what better way to spend a Friday night, than sitting in front of the tele watching Coronation Street, with my two doggy's making decisions on wedding invitations.

I am absolutely in love with the peacock theme that we have chosen. There are so many different ideas and styles it is hard to make decisions and ensure that everything ties in together.

I must stress that there are some amazing wedding bloggers and forums out there and they play a huge part in giving me ideas for different aspects of the wedding. I am sure all future brides feel the same. Wedding Ideas magazine is my bible at the moment. So as we are on quite a tight budget, i have been entering every competition going and i would recommend that all brides do the same. I urge all brides that's stumble across my blog to check out www.bridesupnorth.com and www.lovemydress.net. They are both based in the North East of England which is where i am from but they both have some fantastic wedding competitions. A lot of them are photography based, but if you are local, it is an excellent chance to win free photography, and when you are on a budget every little helps, especially something like that which can cost £500 at a minimum up to £2000. Other competitions have been dress related, favor related, cake related and stationary related, which brings me onto the topic of conversation for today..... stationary.

We have been very lucky as we have managed to use a lot of our friends and family to help us with bit and bobs which is saving us substantial amounts of money. Having been to obscene amounts of wedding fairs and checking out different styles, shapes and sizes of invitation, any peacock related seems to be at least £3.50 or more, some stretch up to £8 per invite. I mean, honestly, who can afford that? I have 70 people coming to my reception, them types of prices, for invites, alone would cost me anything from £250 up to £600. Fortunately for me.... the fiances best man works for a printing company who do wedding invitations as a side earner. As our wedding present, he is going to do all my save the dates, reception invites, evening invites, table numbers, table plan and name cards. He has literally saved us £1000 plus. I would strongly recommend future brides, to take advantage of skills that any friends and family can contribute. It might not seem like much at first but it will all add up. Look at me referring to me instead of we. Do any other brides do this? I suppose its the Bridezilla coming through :)

You wouldn't think that i started this blog at half 7, watched Coronation Street, Eastenders and now the second session of Coronation Street is on. Its funny that it can take someone so long to write something yet it will only take the reader three to five minutes to scan through it.

Im getting very side tracked tonight and probably keep going backwards and forwards so sorry if you lose track of where i am. I wanted to show everyone the ideas i have had for the invitations and stationary. We sent the save the day cards out this week which Mark (best man) did several weeks ago, quite basic, simple ivory card with a green trim and green and ivory ribbon as i knew i wanted some type of green in the color scheme. We based them on this design below. I will try to get an original up at some point but i do not have a scanner as present. Hopefully can purchase one at some point though.

So now we need to decide on the actual invitations as they need to be ready to go out in October at the latest. So please see the ideas i have come across below;

Paper Olive • Peacock Wedding Invitations • Feathered Peacock... (clipped to polyvore.com)

I think they are all absolutely stunning, and have no idea which ones we are going to go for. I will of course keep you all up to date. Next on the agenda is going to be making decisions on flowers. We had some consultations last week on my birthday so we need to make a decision on them. That will be the next blog title :)

So, Lady Gaga is now on Paul Ogrady, it is 9pm. It has taken me two hours to write this blog. It is a good job i do not do this for a living.

Night All.