I know you'll all be really excited by this news
I finally booked my florist on Sunday! Yay! The last major thing ticked off my list. I'm getting them from the florist at the local supermarket and they were hugely reasonable! I knew wedding flowers were expesnive so I had budgeted with a bit of leeway but these are half what I budgeted! I hope. They said they can't give me an exact price as it depends what the flowers cost them on the day - at least I know they're not going to add huge mark-ups. But she was tellingme about a wedding they did last weekend with 6 bridesmaids and 6 groomsmen and it came to less than half of what I budgeted for me with my two bridesmaids and 2 groomsmen. We're going to spend any money we save on these on the increased budget for the table flowers and the bar tab. These are what (approximately) I've ordered:-
4 corsages - for the Groom's mother, celebrant, M.C. and female reader. I know we don't have to get any of these really except for Ben's Mum's but I want the others to feel more of the bridal party. Miniature white roses.
2 bridesmaids. I want roses instead of tulips and I was really gutted to find that freesias are not available here out of season so I want sweet peas instead
And last but not least... mine. But mine will be dark red roses, not white.
The boys are just going to have plain large rose buds. Ben and Dad will have red and everyone else with white.
I got my hair quote from my hairdresser on Saturday and it was a little bit more than I thought it might be but only $15 more. Didn't book an appointment though as I will leave that until they have actually got their 2008 diary up and running. She put a fringe in for me though - quite long and side sweeping as we agreed that just pulling all the hair back off my face would look a bit harsh. I really like the fringe.
On Sunday afternoon we also went to see our celebrant and just about finalised the ceremony stuff. Ben still needs to write his vows, but the details are down and I think we've decided on the second reading. We're going to see her again towards the end of January. I really like her and am not sure whether to invite her properly to the wedding or not.
I went to the stationery shop today to pick up some more white cards in case we need to send any more invites (and I'm also going to cut a couple in half and use them for the table numbers), and I see our gold rose paper which has become a bit of a theme for us has gone up from $1.20 a sheet to $2! I'm glad I bought the bulk of it for the Orders of Service months ago! I only need to get another 20 sheets I think. At least it's not 60!
4 corsages - for the Groom's mother, celebrant, M.C. and female reader. I know we don't have to get any of these really except for Ben's Mum's but I want the others to feel more of the bridal party. Miniature white roses.
2 bridesmaids. I want roses instead of tulips and I was really gutted to find that freesias are not available here out of season so I want sweet peas instead
And last but not least... mine. But mine will be dark red roses, not white.
The boys are just going to have plain large rose buds. Ben and Dad will have red and everyone else with white.
I got my hair quote from my hairdresser on Saturday and it was a little bit more than I thought it might be but only $15 more. Didn't book an appointment though as I will leave that until they have actually got their 2008 diary up and running. She put a fringe in for me though - quite long and side sweeping as we agreed that just pulling all the hair back off my face would look a bit harsh. I really like the fringe.
On Sunday afternoon we also went to see our celebrant and just about finalised the ceremony stuff. Ben still needs to write his vows, but the details are down and I think we've decided on the second reading. We're going to see her again towards the end of January. I really like her and am not sure whether to invite her properly to the wedding or not.
I went to the stationery shop today to pick up some more white cards in case we need to send any more invites (and I'm also going to cut a couple in half and use them for the table numbers), and I see our gold rose paper which has become a bit of a theme for us has gone up from $1.20 a sheet to $2! I'm glad I bought the bulk of it for the Orders of Service months ago! I only need to get another 20 sheets I think. At least it's not 60!