Author Archives: Frances

I realise that 18 days to go is an odd num­ber to blog, but we have been so busy recently I haven’t been able to blog!

Time is zoom­ing by and lots of things are falling into place! We had a meet­ing with a wed­ding coor­di­na­tor at our Recep­tion venue and sorted out lots of lit­tle twid­dly bits.

It was really excit­ing to talk to the wed­ding coor­di­na­tor, we could really pic­ture the day and we were both in such a happy mood!

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I’ve got a wed­ding count­down ticker as an app on my Chrome browser, and when I saw the 47 days to go, my heart twisted a lit­tle in panic! Seven short weeks to go!

The To Do list is get­ting shorter, how­ever. We are meet­ing with our church florist, I have booked a make-up trial, we’re meet­ing up with our pho­tog­ra­pher and the brides­maid dresses are being altered!

The best recent wed­ding thing is that… I’ve been on my hen do!

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We have done the seat­ing plan! I feel as if it’s the biggest achieve­ment of the wed­ding! No one tells you how dif­fi­cult it is to do a table plan!

The top table was easy because we’d spent a lit­tle while decid­ing who was going to join us on the top table. We decided on our par­ents so that our best man and brides­maids could sit with our friends and socialise.  Read more…

Lots of things have been hap­pen­ing! I can’t believe we’re down to dou­ble fig­ures with the days to go!

My friends have been plan­ning my very secret hen do. All I know is where we’re going, what time I need to be there and that at some point we will be eat­ing! I love sur­prises but I’m so curi­ous about what we’ll be doing! I really want to be sneaky and find out but in all hon­esty I do love sur­prises.  Read more…

I can barely believe it’s only 98 days to go! Our wed­ding is just around the cor­ner and I’ll soon be Mrs Wong!

I’ve been look­ing back at what I’ve achieved over the last two years and I’ve been focus­ing on the what I’ve made myself. I’ve noticed that in a lot of blogs and mag­a­zines, they focus on the lit­tle touches that the bride and groom make them­selves. This is what we made:

I’m also mak­ing the table plan but I haven’t started that yet as I’m still wait­ing for all the RSVP’s to come in.  Read more…

I started blog­ging on Eng­lish Wed­ding with 321 days to go! Now it’s just over four and a half months to go! It still feels like ages away, but I’m so so so so so excited!

H2b has been focus­ing on our wed­ding photo booth. He wants to make it him­self, and he’s col­lected some really fan­tas­tic ideas.

My friend had one of these photo booths at her wed­ding and it was so much fun! It’s basi­cally an MDF wall with holes cut out for silly pho­tos. Our pho­tog­ra­pher is help­ing us out with a tri­pod, cam­era and a flash so that one of our friends can stand and take pho­tos for us.  Read more…

I don’t really have many updates! The trou­ble with plan­ning your wed­ding two years in advance is that it’s so slow!

We booked the wed­ding venue, the church and the pho­tog­ra­pher Decem­ber 2009/January 2010, which seems like ages ago. We booked most of our sup­pli­ers in Spring and Sum­mer of 2010 and I bought my wed­ding dress last April. Every­thing is organised!

Wed­ding things are, how­ever, start­ing to take over our liv­ing room. I’ve ordered and received all our wed­ding favours which includes bub­bles, boxes and lit­tle organza bags.

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It’s a dou­ble wed­ding fayre week­end this weekend!

The first wed­ding fayre I went to was at my cer­e­mony venue, the local church. It was amazing!

I’m not sure if I enjoyed it more because I was chat­ting to peo­ple directly involved with our wed­ding (the vicar, the church flow­ers lady) or if it was because they had a mock wed­ding, but it really was the best wed­ding fayre I’ve been to! (And I’ve been to a lot!)  Read more…

I recently wrote a check list post on my own blog and have scared myself! I was look­ing at the things that need to be done, and what I’ve actu­ally achieved, and there’s more on the To Do List than on the Done List.

We have set a date, booked the church and the recep­tion venue (after vis­it­ing 16 dif­fer­ent venues!), I bought the wed­ding favours quite early on as they were in the sale on Con­fetti, and the cake top­per was one of the first things I bought!  Read more…

I am going to have to think of some more inter­est­ing titles for my blog posts! With so many days to go, it may seem as if I have heaps of time, but actu­ally it’s only just over 7 months!

We have been busy since my last post! The brides­maid dresses have been booked and mostly paid for (except for adjust­ments). All my brides­maids liked Alfred Angelo 7076, and we are hav­ing it in lavender.

And yes­ter­day, I got the team round, pro­vided many cups of tea and we fin­ished some of the twid­dly wed­ding jobs!  Read more…