Bugger tradition and bugger fine food for the guests.
Make the guests pay for drinks and do a buffett.
( girlinthehole, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:06, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I suggest volauvents, chicken drumsticks, cocktail sausages and cheese and pineapple on sticks

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:08, Reply)

I can never understand why people put themselves into so much debt for one day's festivities.
I'd rather keep the money for a house or holiday. Bugger the guests. If they don't like it then they can stay away.
( girlinthehole, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:11, Reply)

^ this
£5k on food and drink for spongers (sorry, guests), or off on a trip to the other side of the world?

No brainer.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:16, Reply)

I do want a big wedding
but I aim to do everything that I can on a budget.

I want to get married at a castle, so that will cost like £5k, which is unavoidable really. But the dress, cake and food I can do quite cheaply. I reckon I'll do all that crap like the table decorations myself as well.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:23, Reply)

I'm so bad with my hands :(
I wish I could do it all, although the budget includes all the decorations already, and the hotels don't let you do it yourself, because they have arrangements with the flower shop.

I'm going searching for dresses at the end of July. I have the feeling I'm not going to like any and I'll end up getting someone to do it for me.

On the plus side, we found in ebay really beautiful invitations, for less than 30pence/invitation.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:31, Reply)

that's pretty cool
I plan to make everything like that but I've heard that when you're writing the 100th invitation you start to hate your guests.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:37, Reply)

Yes, I thought about doing them myself
But as I said, I'm crap with my hands. And these are very pretty, with a ribbon in the colour you choose and a little accesory, like a butterfly or a flower or something you choose.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:40, Reply)

Using my mad photoshop skills I'm making my own invitations
we're intending to get married in a cool looking greenhouse basically, so am getting a pic of that, making it into a black and white line drawing and using that
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:52, Reply)

Aye, we've done our own invites.
I'm going to get them printed on postcards from Moo.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 10:02, Reply)

How much each?

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 10:09, Reply)

£28.99 for 60

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 10:12, Reply)

Not bad
It's good to know, in case this woman on ebay says she can't make the Spanish ones.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 10:21, Reply)

I'm thinking getting them on compliments slips
because it is the right size and shape. should be cheap enough I reckon
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 10:26, Reply)

That sounds really cool
I wish I was better at all this.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 10:05, Reply)

If my ebay dress doesn't fit post-baby
I may have to come looking for a corset instead. (I can make a skirt but not a corset.)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 10:04, Reply)

Why everybody can make things but me?

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 10:07, Reply)

Bugger the guests. Repeatedly.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:20, Reply)

I never wanted fine food
I want something filling and nice tasting. It'd be wrong not to pay for the drinks. I'm hoping my father goes along with tradition and pays at least half of it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:25, Reply)

do a massive paella
/stereotype
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:28, Reply)

Hahaha!
That's exactly what I want. A big filling plate of rice or pasta, and some meat. I don't want pumpking cream in caviar sauce with wild berries, ffs!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:32, Reply)

I read about a couple whose caterers fucked up and got the wrong day
so the wedding had started and they had no food. The bride's father ran to the chip shop down the road and got 50 orders of fish and chips. Legend.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:36, Reply)

That'd be great
My mother is going for all the posh restaurants. I need to talk with my father and explain him what I prefer. At the end of the day, he was going to sort that out, but my mum is too impatient to wait for him.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:39, Reply)