Hi guys just got engaged on xmas day! :) planning to get married in Aug next year, excited and nervous as ive already started planning :s too soon????? i doubt it but anyone who lives in London who can give any tips or any advice form anyone indeed in deeply appreciated. congrats and good luck to all :) xx
CommentAuthorKat831
Hello, welcome, and congratulations! I'm in Scotland so no help for London tips but all the girls here are lovely and I'm sure someone from London will be along soon :) . No, not too early to start planning lol. I started at 20 mths, planned like mad for a few weeks, bought the date forward 6 months, panicked, then stopped doing wedding planning for a few months. Now with 9 months to go I'm straight back into it and nervously exited lol
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CommentAuthortrishad22
Hi, and thanx...good to know im not being one of control freaks..even though I ma slightly..lol to be honest not sure where to start or what to do...been 17 years waiting for this! (not long then lol so where abouts in scotland are u? sounds like you got handful with kids aswell as planning! ive got 12 year old son and 8 year old daughter!! handful in their own right!! lol
CommentAuthorKat831
I'm in Ayrshire on the west coast. I've got 6 year old twin girls and my wee boy has just turned 3, they are lovely kids but yeah its hard work at times! Is your daughter excited about the wedding? One of my girls is obsessed with it, shes my official wedding planner lol x
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CommentAuthortrishad22
lol, yeah shes excited too but I dont think she quite understands fully yet...she even joked about a choir singing 'here comes the bride in church' ..... Sounds like your going to have a very scenic wedding! we wouldnt be with out kids would we but what on earth possessed us!! lol a friend of mine has twins...i dont think she ever sat down or slept!!!!!!!! lol x
Welcome and congrats from a fellow London bride! x
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Then she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while your bleeding
But she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself 'cos she's always a woman to me.."
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
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to and congrats on your engagement!
I'm a London wife (got married in September last year in Las Vegas, and had a blessing and reception in London in October), so happy to help you out where and when I can! Never too early to start planning - enjoy it! Hx
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CommentAuthortrishad22
Hi to both the London brides....and congrats HeatherG aka MrsN......where abouts do I start???????????? would have been easier if I lived out of London :) xx
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
You could always elope LOL! ;)
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Budget is the best place to start and for that you probably need to have an idea of the number of guests you'd like to have. Which part of London are you in? I'm in SW, so can probably help you out with some venue suggestions in this area. i'll also bump a thread about where to start etc. Hx
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CommentAuthormillwalljayne
Do you know whether you would like a religious service or civil ceremony? x
.."She'll promise you more than the Garden of Eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while your bleeding
But she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself 'cos she's always a woman to me.."
CommentAuthortrishad22
budget....ha....yeah been trying to get that out if the old man but just keeps telling me not to stress but Im trying to do it so its nice but without costing an arm and a leg!!! Im in nrth london, kilburn but looking around. We have decided ona church wedding. Looked into the churched, gonna go visit them but I do know that we will have to start attending in order to have a church wedding!!!! Looking more now at the venues for the recpetion! x
CommentAuthorjoey86
Congrats on your engagement and welcome to UKbride :-)
I'm a fellow London bride, from SE. And trust me, never too early to start planning! I'm getting married next year too, but I got engaged in Dec 2010 and started planning straight away! Which was probably wise as it took us 9 months to find a venue...! Can totally sympathise that it would be easier to get married out of London - definitely cheaper! However, we found that there are loads of venues and other suppliers who don't charge crazy prices just because it's London!
I definitely found the search function on here useful for finding potential venues - that and a lot of googling!
Good luck with your planning :-)
x
CommentAuthoriluvcakes
Hiya!! Congratulations and welcome!!
I'm a London bride to be, live in SE London. We've just set our date for January 2014 and we're starting to plan already especialy with venues and costings :0) Any tips/venues or suppliers joey86 that you can recommend, please can you post to my wall - sooooo many places add a couple of noughts when they hear the words 'wedding' and 'London'!!
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CommentAuthorjoey86
Whereabouts in SE are you iluvcakes? I'm in Crystal Palace xx
CommentAuthoriluvcakes
I'm not far from you joey86, I'm in East Dulwich :0)
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Can't wait to do it all over again on the 4th October 2017!!
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
I'm not far either - just the other side of Brockwell Park - officially Clapham Park, but basically Brixton. We had our reception in Herne Hill!
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CommentAuthoriluvcakes
Lol really Mrs N! we 3 are almost neighbours!! Any tips you have too would be greatly appreciated :0) Where did you have your doo?
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Became Mrs Robinson 4th October 2012 xxx
Can't wait to do it all over again on the 4th October 2017!!
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Cafe Provencial, just after the railway bridge on Half Moon Lane. They were awesome there. Adam, the owner, was amazing. The food is out of this world, which is why we chose it LOL!
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CommentAuthorjoey86
iluvcakes - I've just posted the list of the ones we viewed on your wall :-) I've also got a list of the others that we contacted but didn't end up viewing. Let me know if you want that one too!
MrsN - I didn't realise you were that close to me either! Brockwell Park is only a bus ride away from me lol.
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Indeed it is, in fact even better than that is the 417 from CP to Clapham Common. It goes up Kings Avenue and that's just at the end of my road!
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CommentAuthorjoey86
Lol 417 stops right outside my house! We're on the main road down from Palace towards Crown Point/Streatham!
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Sooooo funny! So close and never realised LOL!
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CommentAuthoriluvcakes
Hi joey86, have posted on your wall :0)
Oooh thanks Mrs N, will have to go check it out!
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Became Mrs Robinson 4th October 2012 xxx
Can't wait to do it all over again on the 4th October 2017!!
CommentAuthorjoey86
lol small world :-)
iluvcakes - I've just replied on your wall :-)
CommentAuthorUnknown
welcome to ukbride! i am not far from london. im in chesham at the end of met line xx
CommentAuthortrishad22
Terri Barker - thanx ......Chesham.......i recently viewed a property there to move to but it fell through...it is sooooo beautiful there.....the kinda place id love my kids to grow up in!!! xx
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and congrats on your engagement!
