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Food
Beware the budget buster! Feeding people is expensive: fact. A conservative price for a three course meal with coffee would be around £25 ($55) a head not including wine.
You have two options here.
First option, have a small ceremony and meal and have a big party in the evening. Cut the ceremony and meal to immediate family only and invite extended family and friends for the evening reception (this is what I did). Remember everyone at the ceremony should be invited to the meal (if there is one), and you will …

Clothing
Wedding clothing doesn’t start and end with your dress. You will need a suit or kilt for the groom. A suit or kilt for the best man. Bridesmaids and flowergirl dresses. Pageboys and ushers will also require outfits. It is traditional and typical that all of these are paid for by whoever is paying for the wedding.
As you can see costs can start to escalate pretty quickly if you are planning on having all four neices as bridesmaids with a flowergirl and pageboy thrown into the mix.
Consider scaling down, for …

Make a Flower Collage
You will need;
A4 piece of paper (or larger)
Coloured card or paper (green + any other colours)
Glue
Scissors
1. Pre-prepare flower cut-outs, you will need to cut out;
several leaves in different sizes
several stems in different lengths
petals in different colours and shapes
circles in different colours and sizes – these are for the flower centres
2. Lay the shapes out and let your child ‘build’ his/her own flowers – one shape at a time and glue them onto the paper.
*Tip Don’t interfere too much, they will learn about the different shapes – they …

Location, Location, Location
Products and services vary in price greatly depending on your area. It’s obvious that a wedding in London or Edinburgh will cost considerably more than a wedding in Swansea or Aberdeen.
To combat this consider both you and your partner’s birth towns. Do either one measure up better than the other? For example in my case we live in Edinburgh where Alex was brought up, whereas I’m from Swansea in Wales. We chose to have our big day in Swansea as we found we could get more for our …

Contributors
Your next step is to deal with contributors, by which I mean mums, dads and anyonelse offering to pay for something or donating money to put towards the big day. I had the cars, cake, honeymoon, decorations and photographer covered by ‘contributors’. Very important point though, this step definitely comes after our first step (utilising Friends and Family) – you want the contributions to really make a difference.
If people have offered to pay for services already provided for free in step one, politely tell them and suggest an alternative contribution …

You can have the wedding of your dreams and it doesn’t have to cost anything like the exorbitant ‘average wedding’ figures you see in the magazines. Slash your bill to as little as two or three thousand pounds, or less depending on your contacts and where you live. I followed these basic steps and saved myself a fortune and still had the wedding of my dreams.
Write it down
Get yourself a ‘wedding notebook’. Write down your idea of a perfect (for you) wedding. Write which parts of the wedding are …

To tell or not to tell? The big dilemna.
Do you tell people the happy news straight away or not?
Well, some say yes, some say no. I told those who loved me straight away and those who didn’t after the landmark twelve week point. Reason being, I figured that if they loved me (family and close friends) then they would only feel as upset and disappointed as I would have if anything went wrong, also I would have my support network ready to help.
People to tell after 12 …

Wow! It’s been six months? (I check the calender again, yip definitely six months)

This month we took Erin swimming for the first time – which she really enjoyed. She is babbling like a baby pro, some of her ‘stories’ last upwards of ten minutes (you should hear some, so interesting!).
Her character is definitely starting to emerge, she’s cheeky, happy, nosey, smiley….
and great company – I haven’t felt like that before but recently I have been quite enjoying our little ‘chats’ and impromptu ‘sing-alongs’

Exploring Different Textures
You will need;
some or any of the following
Wool
Fur
Tin Foil
Sponge
Velcro
Play-dough
Water
Tissue Paper
plus any other things you have which have a different texture and feel to them.
1.Put all the different textures out on a blanket and let your child feel each one. Is it hard/soft? Rough/smooth? wet/dry?
*Tip – If your child is older, blindfold them and let them feel each one and try to guess what it is.