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I am getting marris 8/4/12!
Venue - booked (ceremony and reception at the same place)
Dress purchased
Color scheme - chosen
DIY invites designed - not yet made
photography - booked
cinematography - booked
dj - booked
florist - booked
we still have to book the lighting and event rentals!
O wow! @futuremrsmaista! You seem to be VERY prepared! I'm super jealous! What style of DIY invites are you going for?! I must admit I am totally in awe of the DIY invites I am seeing on weddingbees!!
Thanks, belle italia! I am a super organizer, and I just stress out until things are in place!
Our invites are modern, and brightly colored...we're doing the pocketfolds and bellyband things. How about you??
@futuremrsmaista -- we're date twins! :)
I'm way to overzealous in my wedding planning!
Venue/Caterer/DJ/Photobooth/Photographer - Booked
DIY STDS - sending any day
Dress - purchased and in :)
BM Dresses - purchased, not yet in
Centerpieces - started to design in my head, some of the pieces have been bought
BM gifts - mostly bought (personalized flip flops and pearl neckalaces) but are on ongoing process, just started DIY personalized hangers for my BM the other night
Wedding Music List/Rough Iteniary for the Weekend/other thoughts & ideas - all typed up :)
I work in the school system, I think I really need to go to work before I have no planning left for next year :)
I'm a August 11, 2012 bride.
Church - booked
Reception Venue - booked
Photobooth Favor - booked/purchased
Invitation Kit - Purchased
Dress - Purchased
Photographers -Booked
DJ/Uplighting - Booked
Cake - Taken care of (part of reception package)
Color Scheme - Chosen
Flip Flops for Flip Flop Basket - Purchased
Florist - Chosen, getting ready to send in deposit
Toasting Flutes - Purchased
ETA: Some of my bridesmaids' gifts have been purchased.
I'm on August 25, 2012 and so far I have,,,
- Venue and church
- Catering
- DJ
-Photographer
- Colour scheme chosen
- Have an idea for centerpeices
- Cake
- DIY invites design done not yet printed or put together
- Bridal party chosen
I am currently working on florist, decorator and debating on the chair covers! Do get them or not??
I think I am going to start looking for my dress in the next couple of weeks
Thinks makes me feel a little better, you ladies seem to be on the same page as me, I thought I was way ahead of schedule! I 'm so glad to be in the "less than a year" phase, now I don't feel as crazy telling people everythign that I have planned already :)
I am getting married 11th August 2012
Venue - booked (ceremony and reception at the same place), catering also booked and menus to be sorted out any time.
Dress purchased
Color scheme - chosen
DIY invites designed - not yet made
photography - booked
Videographer.....thinking about having one but not sure yet.
Bouquets made
centrepieces made.
cake chosen, and decorations & topper bought.
STDs made .
Bridesmaids gifts bought
@dressagetiger:I hear ya! I can't wait until the 25th where I can say it's in a year!!
August 11, 2012 here!
Ceremony Venue- Booked
Reception Venue- Booked
Color Scheme- Chosen
Bridal Party- Chosen
Photographer- Booked
DJ- Booked
Dress- Ordered!
Centerpieces- Purchased everything except the fresh flowers
Flip Flops purchased for Flip Flop Basket
Also purchased misc decorations to use for reception
.... will be working on Limo, Cake, and Flowers this summer!
Hey gals, I am a 18th August Bride! :D Nice post! :D
What me and bf have done so far:
Booked church - For free
Booked venue - Paid for
Photographers booked - For free
Bridalparty arranged, all of them
Alcohol is bought every month in the taxfree.. 2 bottles every time we travel. (we travel once twice a month)
Theme - Vintage
Colors - Not yet decided
DIY invites, place charts, program - can't start those until we know what we want as colors.
DIY Fabric bouquets and bouts - Need to order material
DIY Lace knitted wedding shawl - Need to order yarn
BM dress - Decided on models, just need BM's sizes to order
Weddingdress - This is the toughest one, not yet decided
DIY Centerpieces are in the works
DIY favours are yet to fix
DIY Menu has been arranged and I will be making the apetizer and dessert, the entrees will be made by a chef we know
DIY Cake has been decided I am making marsepan princess cake the day before. Simple as that!
I am a August 11, 2012 bride..
- Venue - Ceremony and Reception (same place) - Booked
- Caterer (have to use venue's) and know what menu I want ..
- Photographer - Booked
- DJ - Booked
- Officiant - Booked
- Decorator - Booked
- Baker (we are having cupcakes and a small cake.. Know which cupcake toppers I want) - Booked
- Color scheme picked out (black, white and red)
- Engagement pictures done already and had the engagement party
- Started on wedding website, doing pretty good..
- Centrepieces chosen, have a good idea for decor ideas what I want.. Just have to coordinate with my decorator and soon to be florist.
- Bridal party is chosen, think the MOH is thinking of ideas for the bachelorette party..
- Florist - in the middle of interviewing now, hopefully make a decision in a week or two.
- Videographer - I know which person I want to use (family friend) but I just haven't gotten around to meeting with them yet..
- Just started trying on wedding dresses a couple days ago but that will be a while I'm not rushing into it.. But my first time shopping was quite good though!
- Have an idea of STDs I want to use, I have to fully decide if I will use a template off the internet or have someone help custom make my own to personalize it a bit more.. (Since I have no photoshopping skills at all). Have a good idea for invitations as well (DIY pocketfolds) but haven't designed them yet, just have inspiration pictures..
- Been talking with the bridesmaids about dresses and getting their opinions of what they like.. But its proven to be difficult to find a style they all like.. They won't be trying them on until the fall.
I think that's it? haha I've been busy.
@Belle Italia: dressmaker booked for mine and the 3 girls dresses designs all sorted
flowers sorted - via awesome lady on ebay
church done - our parish church in village
venue done - one of my best friends runs a hotel
suits - sorting tomorrow
caked booked
my WR done
his WR work in progress
photographer - my cousin
stationary - work in progress
budget aaagggghhhhh saving got to start now !!!!!!
lol
August 18th 2012 Bride here and so far we have
Photog- Booked and deposit down
Venue- Free
Cater- Booked and deposit put down
BM dresses- Picked out not bought (yet)
DIY projects- Started
Cake/Cupcakes- Free
Flowers- Booked
Officiant- Booked (Fi's uncle)
Colors- Picked out (Hot pink, Yellow, Orange, Red, Green, and turquoise)
STD's- Just need to be printed
Favors- 1/2 way done
DJ- Booked (gift)
Grooms cake- Booked and deposit down
Decorations- Slowly collecting
Wedding party- all chosen and said yes!
Flower girl dresses- bought (my daughters are the flower girls)
I know I am forgetting other things but I have gotten ALOT done already
When do you all plan on taking your engagement photos if any?? Like I dont want to have fall or winter photos b/c the wedding is in the peak of summer....but I also dont want to wait till March/April spring time b/c IDK if we'll have enough time to get our websites out, save the dates, etc?
We celebrated our -1 anniversary on the 3rd! :)
I'm usually an awful procrastinator so I'm pleasantly surprised we have the big ticket items booked without any fuss:
- Ceremony and officiant
- Chose processional song - I got all teary-eyed listening to it!
- Reception (separate place from the ceremony, but close enough yay), + menu
- DJ (which I totally overpaid out of ignorance, working on the guilty feeling)
- Photographer, still debating on getting a cinematographer
- Dress bought, but not available til maybe next year? Hoping not to get dress regret as I'm fickle by nature. So far, I still remember my "moment" when I tried it on
* Originally wanted my girls to wear whatever BM dress they want, just that it would be the same color and similar length (BM dresses will be short while MOH is long)
- Pretty sure about the bridal party + flower girls (one is still learning how to walk as of a couple months ago haha) + ring bearers, just need a backbone to gently turn down people's assumptions that they are in the bridal party
- Color/s: Ocean blue/Malibu blue/New Tourquoise, or as I say it, Santorini blue + something neutral, don't care much, whatever is more budget friendly or is already available at the venue
- One of my BMs used to work at a florist's shop, I now have solid ideas on how I want the bouquets to look like - thinking if we should go ahead and do our own flowers or let the professionals deal with it
- Also wanting to DIY the cake; had a bakefest one evening with my ladies (after the wine started flowing, our productivity lessened considerably)
- Started getting stuff for the candy buffet table (I did a poll and everyone is excited for it)
Not doing STDs, it'll just be word of mouth - not that I need to inform people anyway because they're all up in my business to begin with (haha lots of people are excited for our wedding, and I take that as a compliment because most of them are offering to help out in any way. How lucky are we?)
Taking a break, because I started to get stressed thinking about decorations. Thinking of maybe asking a co-worker/friend who offered her interior design skills. Also, stressing out about costs.
I'm impressed by you fellow August bees :D So organized!
@HisWifey2012:I was thinking of doing ours over the Canadian thanksgiving (oct 9th weekend I believe). Now I might wait until Easter. Our photographer is based 6 hours away from us so we have to do it on weekends that we are visiting!
I now have to add finding a venue on my list of things to do :(
But I am trying to get ahold of our photog and find a time that would work best for both of us and then we will be doing our engagement pictures!
Yay now I booked my florist and videographer.. :) Two more things crossed off my list. I have been trying on wedding dresses (a lot) and haven't had any luck yet.. But we are getting close so I hope to find "the one" soon! I'm just so damn picky haha. Also I realized I don't have enough room for live ceremony musicians so I have to tell my DJ to come earlier and cover my ceremony music too.
I will probably look at ordering STDs soon (ordered a sample I liked, see what DF thinks). Then maybe looking around at hairstylists? Bridesmaids aren't going to try on dresses yet, maybe in a month or so. (We have been brainstorming for a while now and posting pictures on facebook we like but it totally changes once you see it on them).
I've been slacking so I am trying to kick myself in the butt again.. Since Wedding Wire has been telling me I have overdue tasks lol..
I've booked my venue (ceremony/reception in one place). They take care of catering, cake, and DJ. I've also booked a photographer, and I'm now starting to look into options for floral, and I'm going to start looking at dresses next month. Also going to start cracking down on invitations over the next few months so I can order them by February.
After reading this thread I feel somewhat behind! Here is our progress:
Photographer: Booked
DJ: Booked
Dress: Ordered, won't be in until March
Venue/Ceremony site: Booked
Officiant: Not booked yet, but we know who he will be (One of our djs is also an officiant)
Cake: Booked
Florist: Haven't really thought about it. We need to get on that!
Invitations: Bought a sample set to try DIYing it, and have yet to make our attempt. Invites are going to be a fall/winter project.
DIYs: Have yet to begin.
Bridal Party: I still have two bridesmaids to ask.
I'm sure I'm missing lots. Ugh... so much to do!
-Photographer booked.
-Venue (for ceremony & reception) booked. Also, caterer is included with the venue.
-Officiant booked.
-Dress ordered back in April, should be here anyday now!
-DJ booked.
-STD's ordered a few months ago, sending those out in January
-Guest list finalized (I hope)
-Colors picked out
-Cake is not booked yet, but we're going to a cake testing next month
-Bridal party has been chosen
Next up: Pick out bridesmaids dresses, get everyone's addresses (ugh), order my veil, book a florist.... super stressed because I feel like I haven't done anything wedding-related lately. I'm trying to concentrate on nursing school so wedding stuff has really gone on the back burner...
We just confirmed our officiant a couple days ago. I'm really happy because it's a family friend, and when we asked him he seemed super thrilled that we wanted him to do it. :-)
Ooh let me play, I'm feeling pleased with myself and starting to chill out after being a stress-mobile for the last six months as we agonised over picking a date.
Ceremony/reception venue - booked, paid 30% deposit
Dress - bought and safe at home, needs alterations
Shoes - bought on Sat from the bay, can't wait for them to arrive!
BM dresses - bought, I hope they fit...
DIY brooch bouquet - a mass of broochs collected, almost ready to start putting together
Favours - Oxfam unwrapped. These are awesome, and fit our colour scheme haha
Sooooo much more to do: photographer, DJ, hair/make-up, florist, decorator.........
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Hey Bees!
Anyone getting married in August 2012? I'd love to hear what stage of planning you are at?
I'll start -
Venue & Church Booked
Dress 99% (fell in love yet to purchase)
Same for BM dresses! (I am only having one BM - my sister)
Colour Scheme 90% chosen - Powder Blue, Peachey and Pinky Tones
Epic 6 & Letterpress starter kit bought (we are DIYing our invites, STD etc)
and that's it for now!
~Belle