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My daughter, her fiance and their daughter made the wedding cake - lots of cup cakes! they can be made beforehand and frozen

well last year I went to a civil wedding,,,,,,

bride .groom===teeshirts,and jeans

guests ==teeshirts.and whatever.

it was different and tbh enjoyable...not tie to be seen,,,,,

Dont know if I'd like that Kay to be honest, just my opinion, as I live in jeans every day. In theory I'd love people to come dressed like they were going to Ascot! Fascinators and fake tans!

:-) Thanks Janet I'll google it now, havent heard of it before. Sounds like you have a very clever daughter!

My wedding 10 years ago cost about £300-£400 in total for a church wedding and 106 guests. It was also a christening for our son, so a double service.

Church costs including cost of wedding licence £112.00. £10.00 of this was the cost of the christening service, so £102.00 for the wedding.

Dress, ex hire bridesmaids dress from a wedding shop £20.00. Borrowed sister in law's veil. Shoes were a fiver in a sale.

Photos, OH's family paid a photographer to do these as a gift for us.

Car, sister in law's ex husband had a posh car that she borrowed and chauffeured us. She put ribbons on the front.

Buffet we catered ourselves with the help of family and friends lending us freezer and fridge space so that we could do stuff in advance and spread the cost. We could also grab any bogof offers and freeze them in advance.

Wedding/Christening cake 3 different sized celebration cakes from M&S totalling about £75.00, used sherry schooners filled with petals as the supports for the tiers. Also bought ribbons to put around the sides.

We just had an afternoon event so used a hi-fi and CD's for background music.

I told my bridesmaid to wear whatever she wanted. She had recently been a bridesmaid so I half expected her to turn up in the same dress again, but she didn't. She wore a turquoise trouser suit with cropped trousers and she looked wonderful.

A wonderful day was had by all from what we were told and we thoroughly enjoyed it ourselves too.

Dianne xx

Dianne, Im surprised you had to pay for the christening. I had all 3 of mine christened and the vicars at each church said christenings are free. But what a lovely day, you sound very organised, I wouldnt even think of half those ideas lol, the cake idea is great!

The reason was that it was to be a private christening ie not during regular service.

A christening was all it was supposed to be as well, until we had a think about it and decided to get married at the same time as a lot of friends and family were travelling hundreds of miles so to save them doing it all again for a later wedding we decided to spring a surprise wedding on them. Very few knew there was going to be a wedding as well.

I just wore the long dress for the christening, then nipped next door to the tea room of the church to pop my veil on and grab the flowers then I came back down the aisle as the bride. People's faces were a picture lol

Dianne xx

dianne what a great day and super idea to do the wedding and christening on the same day. im sure your family and friends appreciated that as they didint have to buy two outfits or come back another time, marvellous

Friend with very little cash is getting married in July. Used this site to get few things + ideas to do ourselves .... http://www.foreverwed.com/