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Afternoon ladies ☺ Going jump into the thread if thats ok?.
We're getting married july 2016. Have venue and ceremony booked (same location), wedding dress sorted, dj too. Have to get in touch with his aunt about the cake. A friend of mine is doing the flowers. Struggling to find a good photographer on a very tight budget. It doesnt help that ive already gone over budget on the venue and dress lol. Himself is of absolutely no help as and im quoting here "if i left it up to him it would down his local with a chippers" lol
What's your budget for a photographer?
Im starting dress shopping in 2 weeks, cant wait!! Thought i was very early, but doesn't seem so, going by some of the posts i've been reading online with others going dress shopping too
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What's your budget for a photographer?
Im starting dress shopping in 2 weeks, cant wait!! Thought i was very early, but doesn't seem so, going by some of the posts i've been reading online with others going dress shopping too
Its's never too early to go dress shopping ðŸ˜. I was originally going to buy my dress online from the same site my sister in law to be did last year. I went out to a little bridal shop in kildare that had the same one i wanted as the online shop and it was horrendous on me!! I'm so glad i did go though as i found the perfect dress for me. The ladies that own the shop are so lovely. They even worked out a payment plan for so i could get the dress as i couldnt afford to pay for it there and then as it was double my entire bridal wear budget lol.
Our budget for photographer is basically the cheapest we can get without skimming on quality lol.
Oh and to anyone still looking for venues always try and negoiate as the hotel is doing a payment plan with us as well.
We are trying to pay as we go because we dont want to borrow and are in the middle of trying to move to so massive deposits are a no no.0 -
Delighted to be able to join this thread. Got engaged only today in the National Park in Killarney!
Already started (vague) plans, and thinking of late next year for the wedding, Himself is set on a Christmas wedding We're looking at Country Houses because we want a fairly non-traditional wedding and to be able to have a lot of free reign with decorations and stuff. I haven't a clue where to start, soooo excited to begin though 
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Woohoo, Jwacqui's starting the planning First thing's first, get the ceremony booked. If you're getting married in a church, approach the priest after mass and see what's available. The July or August Bank holiday weekends could be pretty popular! After that, put a deposit on your venue (use a card).
Once your date's nailed down you can start asking bridesmaids etc Often, your invitation theme will be tied in with your bridesmaids colours. We all went to Debenhams with an open mind, spent an hour trying on everything and all of them looked amazing in a dusky pink, which I'd never have picked by myself! I then chose a cherry blossom theme based on the dresses and time of year. You don't need to send out invitations until about 8-12 weeks before, unless it's overseas.
You'll need to register your intent to marry with the HSE, so once you have a date set you can make that appointment. Good luck!0 -
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Woohoo, Jwacqui's starting the planning First thing's first, get the ceremony booked. If you're getting married in a church, approach the priest after mass and see what's available. The July or August Bank holiday weekends could be pretty popular! After that, put a deposit on your venue (use a card).
Once your date's nailed down you can start asking bridesmaids etc Often, your invitation theme will be tied in with your bridesmaids colours. We all went to Debenhams with an open mind, spent an hour trying on everything and all of them looked amazing in a dusky pink, which I'd never have picked by myself! I then chose a cherry blossom theme based on the dresses and time of year. You don't need to send out invitations until about 8-12 weeks before, unless it's overseas.
You'll need to register your intent to marry with the HSE, so once you have a date set you can make that appointment. Good luck!
Exciting and nerve-wracking haha! We want a church wedding so thats a must, it will be outside the parish so we will have to get our own priest I think which will be fine!
I love the colour of your bridesmaid dresses, its the colour I have in mind, must look in Debenhams when its time to look! Did you do a save the date?rainbow kirby wrote: »We started planning 11-12 months ago for this weekend - your timeline sounds about right! If you're looking for a humanist celebrant on a Saturday for the summer you may already be too late - the lady that did ours yesterday is already 100% booked out for 2016.
In terms of bridesmaids - I had a general idea of what type of dress I wanted them to wear, gave them a lot of leeway on colour though. I had been looking at summery prints but we ended up going with a plain navy dress in the end and because the girls accessorised well and the dress was a good fit on them it looked great. I gave the girls around 9 months notice. Our groomsmen were my OH's 3 brothers and that was probably always going to happen!
We sent invitations in January with an RSVP date of Feb 28th for May. We don't live in Ireland and around a quarter of our guests also had to travel from abroad, so we gave a little more notice.
We only made our final decisions regarding flowers in April, and ended up adding a few more table centrepieces on Thursday when we went in to see them!
Cake - we made our choices late on this one. We had cupcakes, cake pops and a single tier of fruit cake to put our topper on. We ordered our cupcakes and cake pops in March. It worked out great, we had something for everyone.
Thanks so much!! We are hoping to go with Church and are flexible on dates so fingers crossed it all comes together! Feels like very little time! I think we need a good plan and strategy, a time line and a spreadsheet wouldn't go amiss either. The OH is an accountant so he can be in charge of the spreadsheets! :P
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honerbright wrote: »Himself is set on a Christmas wedding We're looking at Country Houses because we want a fairly non-traditional wedding and to be able to have a lot of free reign with decorations and stuff. I haven't a clue where to start, soooo excited to begin though
If you are thinking of Christmas I suggest you get searching now. We were looking in Jan for next year and the only dates a lot of venues had were Halloween Sunday or a couple of Sundays during the year!0 -
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Going to post here, As well its a great forum for the extra ideas of a wedding. (I'm a Groom But its ok as we voted on equality)
Getting married in June 2016, Getting married in England as my bride is from there and her Grandparents would have trouble getting to Ireland where as mine would have no problem getting to UK.
Have to say the UK is a bit more relaxed when it comes to weddings. We have been able to get who and what we want for our date ( Our bonkers priest wasn't even going to put our date in the diary yet as we are the only one so far for 2016) More hoops to jump through too, They really expect you to attend mass every week...
Booked our venue but only thing which will be different is that we will have lunch in the dining room and afters in one of the out buildings would you think that people will scatter after lunch? My brides thinks we would let them go off for a couple of hours before our first dance.
I have to recommend the app trello to everyone, The bride and I are shared users meaning we both get to see what to do and by when and anything we want to add you can add as a note to the item.
Anyone have an idea where I could buy about 10,000 fairy lights?
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