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I was thinking of heading down to New Covent Garden market and filling my van with flowers the day before and getting the family involved, they're all pretty arty types. Cheap but too stressful? I guess I'd need extra vases.
We did something simliar; ordered a load of roses from the local flower shop, bought vases from ikea and roped in the neices and bridesmaids to make up the bunches into vases the night before - small vases for tables, and a couple of big ones on stands at the front.
My top tip, for what it's worth, is to have people who agree to be in charge of each element of the wedding (ie, the flowers, the DJ, the cake...) - that way, when things aren't going quite to plan on the day, you can leave someone else in charge of setting things up and go solve problems. The upside of this is that people feel involved. My mum loved 'being in charge' of the cake.
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Dredged kicking and screaming from the Lfgss archives.
It's my turn to put a ring on it, six months until D-day. We have venue, food, booze, photographer, invites, honeymoon, dress and registrar sorted but need some lateral thinking on flowers (or general dressing of the hall), DJ's and rings, we are on a budget and there isn't much left.
I was thinking of heading down to New Covent Garden market and filling my van with flowers the day before and getting the family involved, they're all pretty arty types. Cheap but too stressful? I guess I'd need extra vases. What about balloons, everyone likes a balloon and they take up loads of space.
The friends I have who are 'DJ's' are vinyl snobs who would treat 95% of the attendees with utter contempt but we don't want Daves mobile disco - pop hits of the 80s either. iPod djing is a bit soulless, we need a sympathetic someone. ?
Her ring is sorted, I'm after a fairly thin plain 18ct band preferably not from Argos. Can anyone recommend a jeweller?
Ta in advance for inputz.