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please ask me questions about my wedding

34 replies

xalyssx · 21/08/2013 23:14

So I am planning to marry DP in approx 18 months, and we have to start planning now because we are also moving and setting up a business in that time as well! I think I have everything decided, please may you 'interview me' so I can make sure that I have everything ready to organise. Thanks

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bruxeur · 21/08/2013 23:24

Knotted, bows or plaited ribbons around the vases of flowers on the tables at the reception?

Nerfmother · 21/08/2013 23:25

Are you inviting children Grin

LauraChant · 21/08/2013 23:28

What will your first dance be to?
Will your tables have names or numbers?
Trad fruit cake or other?
Are you throwing the bouquet?

BikeRunSki · 21/08/2013 23:29

What music will you have before, during and after the ceremony. If it is not a church, what do they have to.play it on?

ChaosTrulyReigns · 21/08/2013 23:30

Have you told friends that they may have to be on the Z list Evening only list, depending on totally random criteria?

Yawner247 · 21/08/2013 23:31

What music will be played when you walk in&out if your venue? What music will be played whilst you have your meal? What will the order of speeches be?

ChaosTrulyReigns · 21/08/2013 23:32

Strange and arbitrary dress code to be adhered to by ALL guests?

paperclipsarebetterthanstaples · 21/08/2013 23:34

Buffet or sit down meal?

What time are you getting wed / eating?

Band or dj?

andadietcoke · 21/08/2013 23:36

Speeches before or after the meal?
What will your guests be doing while you're having your photos taken?
Are you allowed confetti? Do you want it? If not - rice, petals, bubbles?
What time will the evening reception start if you're having extra people?
Are you having a gift list? Do you have a twee poem?
Are you buying presents for bridesmaids/ushers/mothers?
Have you chosen readings for the service?
Do you want/need orders of service?
Who will act as MC for the speeches?

Portofino · 21/08/2013 23:37

Harpist booked?

Nerfmother · 21/08/2013 23:38

Have u sent save the date cards?
Have u deliberately omitted a random relative from the invitations?
Have you invited all children bar from one particular family?
Have you written a poem demanding cash?

BOF · 21/08/2013 23:39

Will you have a wishing well?

ChaosTrulyReigns · 21/08/2013 23:40

Have you told your bridesmaids not to get duffed?

Silverfoxballs · 21/08/2013 23:42

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Nerfmother · 21/08/2013 23:42

Have you insisted all bridesmaids pierce their ears?

Nerfmother · 21/08/2013 23:44

Have you registered for class 2 NI conts ( sensible hat on as former tax adviser)

ChaosTrulyReigns · 21/08/2013 23:45

Doves.

You need Doves.

You could dye them to match your schemme. I'm sure there's an MNer who does a nice sideline in birdcolourisation.

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xalyssx · 21/08/2013 23:48

No ribbons
Lots of children
First dance Rainbow Connection by Kermit the frog
Tables will have names, they will be titles of our favourite books
We're having a seminal cake and some cupcakes
I will throw the bouquet
It's not in a church, and the room has a PA system
We don't have many friends

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Shodan · 21/08/2013 23:51

Have you organised to do a spectacular first dance with your new husband, possibly including breakdancing and/or can-can moves?

Have you notified all guests, even Great-Aunt Martha with her dodgy hip, that they will be required to join in, flash-mob-style, or risk forfeiting their place at the buffet?

WafflyVersatile · 21/08/2013 23:57

Does your cash gifts only poem scan properly?

Have you reminded your future MIL to wear a white dress?

Have you booked the dance lessons for the first dance?

notnowImreading · 22/08/2013 00:05

What time is the wedding? What are you goin to eat in the morning so you don't get ragingly pissed on the first glass of champagne/faint at the altar?

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xalyssx · 22/08/2013 00:07

Closed your eyes will be played as I walk in
DP has chosen the recessional music
During the meal Mr. Rimsky will play his bicycle piano
Speeches will be: my dad his dad best man groom
Dress code will be smart space cowboy Grin
We're having a sit down cream tea at half past 3ish
Getting wed at approx 2pm
Neither we will have a Morris group and a man on a piano bicycle
Guests will be watching Morris dancers
We will have dried flower petals thrown at us
We're not having extra people, we're having a cream tea and then sending everyone home lol
We're not having a list, I like spending money on people and I don't expect anything in return
We are buying outfits and jewellery and watches and shoes etc for parents and groomsmen and bridesmaids so that will be the presents
My granny is reading the owl and the pussy cat
We don't want orders of service
Rimsky will be the MC
Speeches before the meal

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IHeartKingThistle · 22/08/2013 00:10

I really really hope this is a real wedding!

Rainbow Connection is an inspired choice for a first dance- my dad's brass band were playing during our ceremony and as we walked back down the aisle they changed abruptly from Vivaldi to the theme from the Muppet Show. 'Twas awesome Grin

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xalyssx · 22/08/2013 00:12

My exs mum is a harpist lol
We are sending std 6 months in advance
I am not inviting my uncle aunt and cousins as they are very rude and snobby
We are having as many children as possible
I don't want any money
What is a wishing well?
What is duffed?
They all have their ears pierced already
DP is in charge of legal stuff
I don't need doves thank you though

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ChippingInHopHopHop · 22/08/2013 00:13

Will you be there?

Will your DP be there?

Will the vicar/priest/celebrant/humanist/registrar/whoever official be there?

Honestly, anything else is just cream on the top :)