I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and that 2010 will be a lovely year for you all. I thought I should start my posts in 2010 with our current list of wedding items still to do. Some are in progress but others still need to be started which is a little worrying! I have to admit that I haven’t progressed any further with the wedding invitations since we got back from holiday but I’m not too concerned yet as they shouldn’t take too much longer and all of our guests already know about the wedding from the save the date cards. I would like to have them all sent out before we meet our venue coordinator at the end of January so that we have a better idea of our final numbers.
Flowers by Florish & Green
So with 83 days until the wedding, this is what we still have to do:
• Give notice of our marriage {as soon as possible and before the middle of March}.
• Finalise our hymns, readings & music for the ceremony and speak to the minister.
• Choose people to do the readings.
• Book the hairdresser.
• Pay for our wedding rings and decide what we want engraved inside them.
• Choose a song for our first dance.
• Have hair and make-up trials.
• Have our hen & stag nights {the bridesmaids & best man are arranging them}.
• Hire a kilt for one of our ushers {the other usher & best man are buying their own}.
• Buy all of my accessories; my shoes, veil, tiara & jewellery.
• Finalise my old, new, borrowed & blue.
• Make all the day & evening invitations {this is still a work in progress}.
• Choose our menu & wine and decide whether to upgrade to Champagne & canapés {we have a meeting with our venue coordinator on the 30th January}.
• Make all the order of service’, menus & placecards {samples have been ordered}.
• Decide on the seating arrangements & make the table plan.
• Decide on the table names & make the table name cards.
• Choose the gifts for our Gift List.
• Get gifts for the bridesmaids, best man & ushers.
• Make thank you cards for the bridesmaids, best man & ushers.
• Buy chocolate eggs for the favours and tissue paper to put inside the boxes {we got the boxes while we were in the US}.
• Paint our G & G letters.
• Decide if we want to ask one of our guests to video the ceremony & speeches.
• Book a hotel for the Sunday night before we leave for our honeymoon.
• Buy anything we need for the honeymoon & pack.
• Check if we need any vaccinations etc for the honeymoon {as soon as possible}.
• Try to grow my nails then get a manicure the day before the wedding.
• Decide if I would like a fake tan or not and have a trial.
I’m sure there are other things that I have forgotten about or not even thought of yet and of course we still have to pay for everything and pay all of our suppliers when the bills arrive!
You can keep up with all my wedding planning in the run up to the wedding on my blog Our Day by Design.
