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Wedding shoes

June 28th, 2006 at 11:46 am

This is the next thing to be crossed off the wedding list. I suppose the most frugal thing to do would be to use a pair of shoes I already have, but since I have a pair of trainers (sneakers!) that I wear to work everyday, and my hiking boots, it's probably not the best thing to do. For our engagement we got some vouchers for a local shopping centre, so I used some of those to buy the shoes (not on sale, but the only things that were were those too-high, wooden or cork soled platforms I have mentioned before!) and fiance will use the rest to put towards his suit hire. At least we have sorted something else out without it costing us any actual cash!

Cake, cake and more cake!

June 26th, 2006 at 03:27 pm

This weekend we went to buy our wedding cake this weekend. It is a traditional iced fruitcake and can be stored until the wedding - we have been keeping an eye out for the cakes that have end dates after our wedding to hit the shelves. We used vouchers to pay for it, that we received for signing my fiance up to my car rescue plan, so essentially it was free! This has saved us £250! Or a little less once the florist has dressed it with greenery. Now all we have to do is not eat it for 3 months. Hard, because we both love fruitcake. Especially with some good, strong cheddar... On second thoughts, maybe the cake had better stay at my mum's.

Registry

June 13th, 2006 at 02:08 pm

I was reading Baselle's entry about wedding gift lists and inspired to write about our dilemma. When we first started planning the wedding I was absolutely determined not to have a gift list, for so many reasons. For starters, I know that fiance's guests are spending a lot of money just to come to the wedding (a 3500 mile plane trip will do that) and it is more important to us that they come and spend time with us as we won't be seeing them too frequently in the future, than it is that they bring us stuff. Add to that the troubles of bringing/shipping gifts from the far side of the Atlantic, or buying them online in a foreign currency, and it just wasn't an ordeal we wanted to put our guests through. Then I read an article which suggested that the average cost to a guest to attend a wedding (between transport, outfit, gift etc) is £400! That's just sickening! I don't want to cost all our friends and family that much! (We're already doing as much as we can on the other fronts by having our wedding at a cheap-travel time of year and a "come as you are" dress code) Finally, we are not really "matching set" kind of people. I think picking out china would suck my life right out of me. This seemed to be going ok for the first few months, and we've had some really lovely alternative gifts from some people - some friends of my parents have offered us the use of their holiday home for our first night, someone else is making a quilt. But now my mum keeps passing on messages from people about the wedding list - they want to know where it is, why don't we want presents, we have to have them . Stuff like that. I don't seem to be getting my point across.