Bijou Weddings

Making it More Affordable

When I was checking my traffic sources on my blog stats, I found that someone had Googled which was the cheapest day of the week to get married, and which was the cheapest time of the year.

Never fear! The answers are here!

Cheapest Time of Year

Peak season in the wedding industry is from April to October. Therefore, the cheaper times of the year to get married are November to March, with the exception of Christmas as Christmas Eve can be more expensive than a Saturday in June!

Take into consideration all the other costs that will also be cheaper between Nov to March, such as flowers (as long as you only choose flowers that are in season), invitations, venue, caterer, cars and wedding dress. You’ll have more chance of getting discounts off your purchases as suppliers will want to encourage your business.

Cheapest Day of the Week

As long as these days aren’t a bank/national/religious holiday, the cheapest days of the week to get married are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Saturdays are the most expensive, followed by any Sundays preceding a bank/national/religious holiday. Fridays aren’t as expensive as Saturdays (unless they’re a bank/national/religious holiday).

Hope that helps!

300 Days to Go!

300 Days to Go!

So exciting!!!

I think it’s just because it’s a large round number. It is still a rather large number, however. I was thinking about what we’d be doing at 200 days to go and 100 days to go. More about that later!

This week has been a fairly productive week.

We have ordered and received pretty, sparkly decoration for the tables and some fun Chinese fortunes.

I have also, with h2b’s help, finalised the menu choices for the wedding breakfast! I wanted to get them done a little bit earlier so that I could pop them in the invitations, so that will be going on our website!

And we’ve started to plan our Chinese wedding in Hong Kong. We are still discussing the best date for a wedding in Hong Kong, but hopefully we’ll get that sorted soon.

Yay!

Wedding Favours

More Things in the Post

I opened the door (after walking an hour home from work – got to lose weight!!) and found another of the packets I ordered!

Fortunes! I found them on Amazon.co.uk, and absolutely fell for them. I’d have preferred them in silver, but they were only available in gold.

The Chinese word on the front means ‘fortune’ and the proverbs inside are different in each card. I thought it might make a nice talking point on the tables. The guests might compare fortunes to see which one they’ve got.

Ideally, they would get guests talking to people they wouldn’t otherwise know. I was thinking of putting them into the favour bags, and along side the favour boxes (because they won’t fit in the boxes) for each guest. And as you can only open the fortunes once, we won’t be able to pick and choose the fortunes, it’ll be completely fate as to which fortune you’ll receive.

It’ll be interesting to read the fortune h2b and I get on our wedding day!

Time is Flying By

9 Months, 29 Days
or
304 Days to Go!

Everyone told me that the time would fly by! Well, it hasn’t!

The Wedding has been so far away for so long that it’s strange to think it’s under a year now.

A lot is happening in the next few months: Already, one of my friends had his new baby, another friend will have her first baby. We’ve got the hen do and the stag do, lots of friend’s birthdays, some of them 30th’s.

But still, it’s under a year away! So many things are going to happen, the invitations need to be delivered and then posted out, everyone needs to be measured for a variety of clothes, table plans need to be made, the favours and the table decorations need to be sorted and organised. We’re going to have a meeting with the photographer and the florist, it’s all just so exciting!

Yaaaaaay!!

Exciting Things in the Post!

All That Glitters..

Exciting things have arrived in the post!

I got a bit bored on Sunday and decided to buy some things for the wedding I’d decided I was going to buy anyway.

I was a little disappointed that there weren’t as many diamantes as I thought there would be. When the packet says 2600 diamantes, I pictured a rather large bag!

However, when I poured them out to take this bag and saw them sparkling in the torch light (giving away my photography secrets), they actually take up quite a bit of space.

Also, mixing them together with the purple diamantes (they are purple, despite the picture looking blue) will the tables out a bit. I was thinking of including some normal confetti, hearts or something, like my brother had on the tables at his wedding. Or is that too much? Decisions!

Also, these silver shimmer place cards arrived!

The silver shimmer is very subtle and no one will notice, but I think they look fantastic! I was thinking of putting a diamante flower (from Hobby Craft) in the corner, just to link all the sparkles together.

There are is one more item arriving in the post,, these are going in the wedding favour box ready for when we need them in a few months!

Wedding Shopping Fun

Exercising the Credit Card

The problem with planning your wedding two and a half years before the actual wedding date means lots and lots of gathering ideas and saving money, and not so much buying things.

But I have been buying some of the things on my Amazon wish list using the money we’ve saved up for just that purpose!

The first items I got were a bit of wedding sparkle, some diamanté's for the tables. I got them in clear and purple, as the wedding colours are in purple, and I think they will look fantastic shimmering in the candle light in the evening.

I shopped on Amazon.co.uk, and they were £4.99 for 2600 crystals, I’m hoping that’s a big bag. They come in different sizes. The purple crystals were only £1.38 for 2600 crystals. Bargain!

I also got some favours for my guests, Chinese fortune favours. We wanted to bring an element of Chinese culture into our wedding.

Each of the fortunes have a different fortune on them, almost personalised for each guest. Each packet has 20 fortunes in it and they came to £4.45. It’s just something nice to put with the favours for our guests to take home.

I also got 100 place cards. That is 10 short of the number we need however I didn’t want to get an extra 50 just because I was 10 short. I’m thinking I’ll have to go to Hobby Craft or somewhere similar (Staples?) and get an extra 10. They’re only plain white place cards so I was thinking of decorating them with a diamanté stars or something similar to make them look a bit more interesting.

Yay!

I like getting things ordered. I should soon get some interesting packets in the post!

Yay!