Printing Started!

It's taken me a while to work out what the invites were going to look like, especially as I'm not all that keen to spend a fortune on what is effectively a piece of paper!

My favourite online printing website is Moo ~ http://uk.moo.com/ ~ (not moonpig) just Moo, and we've had all sorts of stationary from them over the years, business cards, mini cards, stickers. All highly customisable and really *really* cute.

So armed with my favourite photo editor (Picnik which has unfortunately just closed down) and some free paper templates with lovely damask patterns on, I've come up with some cute designs for the business cards which will be attached to the front of the plan black invitations, but which will also have loads of info on them about the order of events for the day. 

These were the templates which were then uploaded into Moo and manipulated until they fitted onto the business card format. Don't you just love the font???

These ones are for Mum to give out for the Bromborough party....

I'm loving the damask!

If you want to order some Moo stationary - use this link - it has 10% off and will credit us with some pennies to spend with them later on!

http://www.moo.com/share/hs5jpj

Tried on some wedding dresses

Janey and I went to Harrogate a few weeks ago and thought we'd have a bit of a laugh trying on some frocks - well the laugh was on us really - some really nice dresses were found for me by the ladies at Curvy Bridal.

Check out the hourglass figure!!!

We've got a date - nearly!

It's very complicated, this wedding business - you would think that getting married in Morley Town Hall was virtually the same process as doing it at Leeds Town Hall; as in, you pays your money and you picks your date. But oh no! That would be too simple wouldn't it? First of all you have to book the town hall.

Morley Town Hall interior

The rooms booking people tell you to book the town hall first and then book the registrar after. Good job I thought that was a stupid idea and phoned the registrar first to see what appointments they had on the day we wanted. 10am and 4pm. Hmmmm so I could have ended up booking the town hall, which is free all day, for, lets say 2pm, when there isn't actually anyone available to marry us then. 

Next is the fact that in order to book Morley town hall, they send you a booking form, which you fill in and send back, and then they send you the contract (based on the info from the form) and then you have to sign it, and send it back. ***Leeds rooms booking people, for your info, the form is crap***

Finally, and this is the most galling of all, is that as well has having to pay to hire the town hall rooms themselves, you also have to pay the 'not getting married at Leeds town hall' fee of £340. So, an additional £200 on top of the Leeds fee.  

Cor blimey, it's a licence to print money.

Planning has Started

Hello! Welcome to the wedding blog. We've been engaged now, since December 5th - about 3 months - but we've not been very forward about planning things...but anyway, things are starting to move now.

Firstly, you can see the colour scheme has come down to red, white and black! It was either that or a no colour/all colour colour scheme.

I'm currently planning the invitations, trying to do them without spending £300 :)

Hopefully they'll look something like this.

I've been sourcing petal fold envelopes and organza ribbon, and also, I had no idea how hard it was going to be to find sheets of paper which has the black and white damask pattern (which I totally love, by the way!!)

Watch this space for more crafty trials and tribulations!