I have, however, given her a small list of things that I do NOT want to see at our wedding:
- tulle - can't stand the stuff
- mirrors under the centrepieces
- balloons (unless they are the really cool massive ones)
- carnations
- those things that you sprinkle on top of tables...hard to explain but my Mom loves them and always uses them - e.g. sprinkles hearts on the table at Valentine's day
- any wedding-related crap that the industry tries to get you to pay through the nose for (i.e. anything featured on the blog Godawful Wedding Crap - see below)
I hope I'm not being mean or offensive with the list, but those things just don't fit into my vision of our day... :)
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I'm pretty sure that picture encapsulates everything on your no-go list. :)
Hi Sarah - I'm wondering if you could share some tips with me. In the next year I will be in the same situation as you (except I live in Ireland and I'll be planning a wedding in New England, USA). The boy is from Ireland so we plan on doing a blessing/reception here after the actual wedding in the USA. I am curious to know how you decided the timeline of the reception in the UK (in terms of how soon after your wedding to hold it) and how you decided who to invite to the wedding versus the UK Reception (or is there major overlap?) Are you going on your honeymoon before the UK reception? And how are you managing the invitations? An insert into the regular invitations (I think I read that you were doing that a while back but I didn't go through all your posts...) You are the one wedding blog I have found in a similar situation and I've really enjoyed reading it! Thanks for any tips you can offer! ~ Elizabeth
Hi Elizabeth,
I think the most helpful thing for me has been having my Mom in Canada. Lee and I did a lot of work researching things on the internet, and sent Mom out to check out places. I trusted her instinct completely and if she liked a vendor or location that we had found on the internet, we booked it.
We decided to honeymoon around Ontario to save some cash and so that I can visit more with friends who I see only once a year or so...
In terms of our UK reception, we decided to have it a month after our Canadian wedding for several reasons: it was close enough to our actual wedding so that we still felt in the wedding mood, Lee knew that he had the weekend off, and it was 2 weeks after we returned from Canada.
As far as invitations go, all of the UK guests got a little insert about the UK party. My parents, my sister and a few very close family friends also got invitations for the UK party.
The UK party is going to be rather informal evening do - just a dance, drinks and some nibbles.
Hopefully that is some help. It really did help to have my Mom and some close girlfriends 'on the ground' at home - I hope you have same. Good luck!
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