2014 Brides

stinkle wrote: »

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?

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When I asked about corkage it was the same price as they were charging for a bottle of wine so went with theirs!
Evening is sambos and cocktails sausages too - don't think anything else is needed unless you really want to spend more money/
To be truthful I would prefer a menu choice than extra 'cocktail hour' food but thats just me.

xzanti wrote: »

This sounds like a good idea.. may I ask what site you used?

I used Nowyouprintwedding.ie and I really recommend them. I got 100 flat card invites with envelopes for €85 and the delivery was free. There's loads of designs to pick from and you customise the wording to say what you like. I put an email address and my number for texts for RSVPS and so didn't bother with RSVP cards but you can get those matching too if you like

January wrote: »

Booked my photographer today wohoo

Had my final meeting with mine this evening, all starting to feels so real:eek:

I've actually had my pic taken by our photographer before at another event & 2 of those pics are the only ones I use as my Facebook profile pic as they are the only ones I feel I look half decent in so he gets the thumbs up from me haha!!:P

I went suit shopping yesterday with my OH, not because I don't think he should be let out alone but because we actually like doing these things together.

Beer Baron wrote: »

My OH was not involved in my suit, and won't be because she doesn't need to be. If your man cannot be let out on his own then fair enough but it's not a necessity for a woman to attend.

I walked in, knew what suit I wanted, what colour I wanted, said I needed 5 of those, shoes, shirts, ties etc, paid a deposit and left. It's not rocket science. I will go back in 3 weeks before the wedding with the material cutting to match it to a tie. It's not rocket science.

It's not the suit, a suits a suit really it's the bestmans waistcoat & tie, it's supposed be coral to match the bridesmaids dress. Gave OH a pic of the dress & left him to order it, it came in last week, bestman got fitted for it yesterday OH comes home with a pic of it on the bestman & it's ORANGE, not coral, orange like the fruit:eek:
My heart sank when I seen it & it's too late to re-order, looks like the bestman will end up wearing an ivory waistcoat & tie now. €160 down the drain:(

Ms2011 wrote: »

It's not the suit, a suits a suit really it's the bestmans waistcoat & tie, it's supposed be coral to match the bridesmaids dress. Gave OH a pic of the dress & left him to order it, it came in last week, bestman got fitted for it yesterday OH comes home with a pic of it on the bestman & it's ORANGE, not coral, orange like the fruit:eek:
My heart sank when I seen it & it's too late to re-order, looks like the bestman will end up wearing an ivory waistcoat & tie now. €160 down the drain:(

I was weighing up Coral and Orange in my mind and had to Google it to be sure, I am a bloke after all. I knew they were a million miles apart. :rolleyes:

When I was in the suit shop the tailor wouldn't let you out the door until everybody was sure the colours were a match. I told him ours is Mulberry and the colours he had were either too dark or light, in some cases different because it was either a satin or organza material, but they are getting in 100 new colours soon so I'll wait.

My suit is a 3 piece single material/colour suit so the waistcoat is the same colour and material as the suit itself which makes things easier. The only fly in the ointment was the small suit for my nephew, they only do it in a 2 piece which means I had to get a waistcoat for the child. Easily solved. Flower Girls are wearing Ivory to match the bride so Ivory it is.

I had a similar colour issue with the hotel because their seat bows are too light or dark for mulberry. As the seat covers are white we cannot have ivory as it would look stupid so the choice is/was gold or silver. It will have to be silver because the BMs shoes and accessories are silver and there's no gold anywhere in the day. :rolleyes:

The hotel wedding coordinator has never met the bride. Initially she thought it was odd but has gotten over it. She will meet her at some stage, maybe but there are hotels all around the world who never see the groom till the wedding day so why should it be different the other way around. :pac:

Went to a travel agents to today to enquire about honeymoon, I would usually book our holidays online myself but have never booked anything stateside.

I had a bit of research done and it what we want looks to be about 2 - 2,500. Anyway went to the travel agent to ask about the same type holiday and she tried not to laugh at our budget and told me what we want will cost about 4 - 4500!!!!!!! Back to online booking for me.

Topaz did a fab job with engagement ring. Exactly what we wanted, will probably just go back to him. We were quoted 1500 for the same job in a jewellers in town, he did a better job for less than a third of that quote!

Beer Baron wrote: »

We got the engagement ring in Shannon before we heard of topaz. He has not online presence so without word of mouth we didn't know.

Shannon was expensive but his work top notch. Topaz has the same quality but about 1/3rd cheaper.

Shannon said "he probably uses a lighter metal" turns out his rings were heavier than there's. Talked themselves out of the rings really. Lol

My partner tried to haggle with the guy in Topaz and he just looked at my partner and said in a deadpan voice 'when you see the ring you will be more than happy to pay for it'! And as it happens when we went looking at wedding rings the people in the shops were impressed with the band on my engagement ring.

Beer Baron wrote: »

He rounded ours down by €50 but saved a total of €350 below our budget price. We are thrilled as we can afford a second wedding car for the bridesmaids now.

Every euro counts! We eliminated wedding cars, gonna ask friends/family with nice cars to do the honours, we have someone on line to valet said cars for free if needs be.

LNH666 wrote: »

Try hotwire.com, we use that site a good bit for booking hotels for holidays. We once managed to get a 5star hotel on International Drive in Orlando for $50/night for the 2 of us. Happy days.

I went to another Travel agent and we got a fab holiday for our money. Four nights vegas, two nights miami, and a seven night cruise to jamaica, bahamas, mexico for 3,000 euro all in. We havent paid deposit yet though so might check out hotwire.com first.

January wrote: »

Wow, that's amazing value! I'm getting quotes for nearly 2 grand for 5 days in Vegas... It is Jan 2015 though... (Wedding is NYE) so I think that's why it's so expensive.

NYE here as well, but not leaving for honeymoon till the 11th of jan, so that made the flights more reasonable. I may go back to work for the week inbetween or maybe not. we shall see, I have an aunt coming from australia with her children, so it suits me to be around for the week after the actual wedding.

January wrote: »

Ohhh that's a good idea... We're flexible with dates too so will have a look at the second/third week of January.

It was the travel agents suggestion, I would usually book things online myself but this is too big an undertaking to do myself. Was asking a customer from my job what he thought(he travels backwards and forwards to states regularly) and he thinks we are getting great value for our money. I dont know where you are based but I could pm you her(the travel agent) details if you want.

We used Topflight last year, who are normally the most expensive out there.

Beat everybody. 9 nights in Honeymoon Suite(best room in hotel so booked it even though not Honeymoon) in Cancun in 4* All Inclusive Hotel, 4 nights in Las Vegas in a Standard Hotel, all flights included, taxes etc. €3,500

Some prices people quoted us were actually laughable and bordered on laziness by some of them just plucking the first price they see. At least at home you can search and search till you find whats suits you. I know they don't have the time, they need to sell you one and move to the next customer.

This year, for our Honeymoon, we're heading out to Lanzarote for 11 nights, renting Villa, and then later we are heading to London and splashing out on a 5* hotel for 3 nights.