Who is getting married in 2011?

We had this thread last year and there appear to be a lot of us planning weddings for 2011 so I thought I'd start it again.

I'm hoping for a wedding sometime this summer, somewhere in the Scottish highlands (mostly looking at venues in and around Inverness), for something like 60 people. Our theme colour is blue, my DF will be sporting a kilt and I'm looking at 50s style dresses. As you can see, we've pretty much got it all sorted and can now relax for 6 months.

What about you? are you planning a wedding for 2011?

March 25ht is scheduled to be my big day!  We are getting married in Carloway, and having the reception in my fiancee's hometown of Breaschlete, both on the Isle of Lewis near Stornoway!

August 27th!

Just got engaged on Monday and I'm already driving him nuts looking for a venue!  I just want to do as much as possible while he is here to take part in in.  Anyway, the place I want the most is free and it seems to be in our price range.  We'll be meeting with them on Monday and I hope to have it all locked down.

If I get this place I'll want to go with a book theme of some sort.  A Take of Two Cities keeps popping in my head, but its far too sad at the end, and I expect a happy ending for the two of us!

Me me me!   Wow, what are the chances of so many being from Scotland? We're getting hitched on 10 October at the Atholl Palace Hotel in Pitlochry. I had always thought I'd want a kilt wedding, but after going to a few that had morning suits and seeing DF in one, we've opted for that. He'll then change into a kilt for the ceilidh! I'm extremely organised, so we've already got the venue, photographer, humanist celebrant (do consider those, they can perform a ceremony anywhere and the ceremony is completely designed how you want it, and it costs £275 plus 50p/mile travel expenses, which can actually cheaper than getting a registrar to come out to a venue!) and suits all booked, I have a dress and am meeting the seamstress on Saturday to get some changes made to it, picked a ceilidh band, made the wedding website, and today some of the decorations we ordered arrived in the post!
So exciting!! *bounce*

Wow, what are the chances of so many being from Scotland?

I guess they just make damn good men there! Plus, the kilts are quite cute!


And the accent doesn't hurt! Hee, hee...


My hubby-to-be could be swearing up a storm or saying something awful and I would still be sitting there looking at him all dreamily thinking "say it again!" lol

I am, but not in Scotland Down in LondonTAWN

I'm hopefully wearing a gigantic 50s dress with a coloured petticoat as I am a 50s dress fanatic, I just haven't found the perfect one yet, but it will probably be from Whirling Turban or a very  lovely tea length Justin Alexander if I can get it in time (I'm dropping dress sizes at the moment so there's not point ordering just yet). We don't want anything fussy so no morning suits or matching groomsmen, the boy will be in an early 60s suit, probably vintage and converses. No wedding colours, it's structured eclectic

I'm making boutonnieres from vintage pieces and lego men (we're both lego addicts), I was going to get a felt or button bouquet but might now do real flowers (I can't stand silk flowers), dried lavender from my garden and bubbles instead of confetti.
We're nerds and I'm an amateur confectioner so our favours are wooden block puzzles and very neatly packaged macaroons, with hand stamped tags.

I'm having 45 guests which is fantastically small, but being quite lavish with them (well as much as I can afford ).
Ceremony is taking place at the Old Marylebone Town Hall, Champagne Red London Bus will pick everyone after the ceremony for a tour around town (as most people are not from London), then we're having the reception at the Churchill Cabinet War Rooms, Champagne and canapes on arrival, the museum will shut and we'll have it to ourselves so everyone can explore then dinner and dancing, my friend has a brilliant wedding band, she dresses up like Mia from Pulp Fiction and does mowtown/jazz/50s/60s right up to modern hits and her voice is FANTASTIC.
Cupcake tower with custom London themed icing for the cake and then it's all over and the boy and I will be married - YAY!

Fun, silliness, happiness is the order of the day

Congrats ya'll!   

March 25ht is scheduled to be my big day! 

Squeeee! That's my birthday! You're going to have the best day ever - it's a great day.

Congrats everyone! I think back to our wedding day and I can't help but have a great big stupid grin on my face.

I love reading about all the upcoming weddings! I remember ours so perfectly and it was the best day ever...The planning for me was a highlight but I also put it together in under 8 weeks and it rocked.

All these posts just me make smile - love makes the world go round! I am so happy for all of you ;-)

Best of luck to all those getting married this year!

My mom already has me in tears.  We're going to have in in NYC, where I live, and she's announced that its too difficult for our family to come here so it will just be her and my dad.  The things that make this just awful are (a) my sister just got married and as we are not close I didn't want to go but was forced to go to MD for it (b) everyone happily traveled to MD for her wedding (c) only three family members actually live in MD (including my parents) (d) about 25 - 30 people will be flying here from the UK.  If  they can come 3500 miles why is my  mom saying that my family won't drive 3 or 4 hours?

My mom won't give up an invite list.  She's the keeper of all those things and told me that she won't give me anyone's address who she doesn't think will come (which is everyone).  Once I have the venue nailed down and start working on the save the dates I think I'm just going to get mean and tell her that I want to send invites to those I'd like to have here and let them make up their own minds whether or not they can come to Manhattan. 

The biggest kicker, about 90% of this will be funded by DF!

My mom already has me in tears.  We're going to have in in NYC, where I live, and she's announced that its too difficult for our family to come here so it will just be her and my dad.  The things that make this just awful are (a) my sister just got married and as we are not close I didn't want to go but was forced to go to MD for it (b) everyone happily traveled to MD for her wedding (c) only three family members actually live in MD (including my parents) (d) about 25 - 30 people will be flying here from the UK.  If  they can come 3500 miles why is my  mom saying that my family won't drive 3 or 4 hours?

My mom won't give up an invite list.  She's the keeper of all those things and told me that she won't give me anyone's address who she doesn't think will come (which is everyone).  Once I have the venue nailed down and start working on the save the dates I think I'm just going to get mean and tell her that I want to send invites to those I'd like to have here and let them make up their own minds whether or not they can come to Manhattan. 

The biggest kicker, about 90% of this will be funded by DF!

YES!  GET MEAN!  That's just awful.  It's your day, not hers.  She needs to get over the control freak thing.

YES!  GET MEAN!  That's just awful.  It's your day, not hers.  She needs to get over the control freak thing.

Thanks! I think my sister let her plan almost the whole thing and I've worked at an event planner and enjoy this kind of stuff and I want to do it.  Plus, my sister had a hoe down in the woods, I want an elegant Manhattan wedding.  Well, it's hopfully going to be in a bookstore, so as elegant as I can make that!

Thanks! I think my sister let her plan almost the whole thing and I've worked at an event planner and enjoy this kind of stuff and I want to do it.  Plus, my sister had a hoe down in the woods, I want an elegant Manhattan wedding.  Well, it's hopfully going to be in a bookstore, so as elegant as I can make that!

Wow a bookstore sounds lovely!

I made my mum cry at the start, I just drew a line in the sand and was like "my day, my choices" and after she started talking to me again (lol) she's been much better, I think my Dad has been on at her about it as well. She's just so fussy, imo she ruined my Sister's wedding but just carrying on at her. I've said this before, but she decided that the Caterers didn't have enough food and went to the supermarket in the middle of the reception and bought more food, my Sister (and the caterers) were mortified. They bring out food slowly throughout the evening and there was a BBQ planned for later.

*shudder*

Wow a bookstore sounds lovely!

I made my mum cry at the start, I just drew a line in the sand and was like "my day, my choices" and after she started talking to me again (lol) she's been much better, I think my Dad has been on at her about it as well. She's just so fussy, imo she ruined my Sister's wedding but just carrying on at her. I've said this before, but she decided that the Caterers didn't have enough food and went to the supermarket in the middle of the reception and bought more food, my Sister (and the caterers) were mortified. They bring out food slowly throughout the evening and there was a BBQ planned for later.

*shudder*

OMG.  At least I'm not the only one!  One of my co workers who is getting married in July told me that at first her mom told her that Rhode Island was too far from NJ and that she wouldn't be attending!