It's gorgeous Puggie! Thank you!!

Just logged in to tell you all about my day wedding planning and saw all our sigs. YEAH! We now have our own sig!! Glad you all liked it!

OK - now for important wedding planning business:

1.) ORDERED MY DRESS! Went in and got measured, and all is set for a Sept. delivery (quite possibly earlier if they have my size in the country already)

2.) Found my wedding car! Was going to have a Mark 5 Jag, but ended up going with a Mercedes 300 convertible (site here - under convertibles, 2nd from the bottom) http://www.tripler.com.au/

3.) Went to the Park Hyatt to check out the suite for me to get ready in. It has stunning cathedral views (not where I am getting married, but still GREAT for photos) and it was very luxurious. Should be for close to $1k a night (EEK!)

Anyway - am glad us twinnies have a sig - this twinnie has 'pulled finger out' (so to speak) in terms of organisation!

Glad to hear about your flowers, seedyem!

P.S. I thought I might do a general 'Nov 2006' PMing to all those who have posted here in the past and let them know we're an 'active' thread (and invite them to use our sig if they'd like). What do you think?

Sounds good. Today was a no-wedding zone. H2B is sick of me talking abt weddings constantly and me getting stressed out abt it so today I decided not to talk about weddings at all, we'd both stay away from the computer and use the time to get some things done around the house and spend the time together. Worked well, I'm glad we did it

We all need that sometimes! My HTB is pretty glad to leave my Mum and I to sort this out, and thus avoid any 'wedding' talk beyond the necessary!

Mum and I have often locked horns in the past - HTB is delighted to see we are really enjoying this time together to organise my wedding (kinda necessary since she's paying....).

I am a BIG dag I know - but I have never felt my Mum to be so interested in me/what I am doing. It's now NICE to include her (not an obligation)!

Puggie, I love the sig! I logged on during the day at work and saw it and uploaded it right away. Just didn't get the chance to say thanks until now - so thanks hun! It's great that u ordered your dress (it's so exciting isn't it ) And the car u picked - wow! Very nice!!!

Thanks, pinky_babbee, I kinda think it's nice there's a few of us going through similar things at similar times IYKWIM?

Glad you like the sig!

Hey girls,

Yay I have the sig now - how is everyone's planning going???

So far I have organised

Bridesmaids
Flowers
Reception and ceremony booked
Limos
My dress (I love it!)
Photographer (he is awesome)

Just got to organise
Invites
Boys suits and
honeymoon (I have quotes but gotta get the cash together)

Where are you guys all going on honeymoon - we are going to Malaysia

Me
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San Francisco and Mexico here

I'm heading off to France & Italy (it's gonna be a bit cold, but H2B and I are still keen to go). Malaysia, San Francisco and Mexico sound like lovely honeymoon destinations

I have planned so far:

Reception
Church + Decorations
Photographer
Videographer
Tea Ceremonies
Cars
Band
Dress
Bridesmaid Dresses
Shoes
Hair & Make-up
Flights for honeymoon (still need to book accommodation)

I so need to get my flowers organised soon - have been procrastinating lately so haven't been doing much. I'm trying to gather my stuff for the invites, but when I went to order my paper flowers - they had sold out I have been hunting around for them everywhere, but haven't been able to find them yet.

Thank you so much for the signature Puggie! I love the design and appreciate the time you put in to make it for us November lassies, big thank you!!!!

We went to a travel agent on the weekend and the great news is we should be able to get the flights we want for our honeymoon. So hurray for RTW tickets....we're going to visit Europe & North America...our last hurrah before kids & mortgages!

Does anyone here rely purely on credit card travel insurance? Any experiences or comments would be welcome. From what I can see, it seems to be fairly comprehensive.

Great to hear your planning is all going well.

I just got an e-mail to say our invitations are ready! They're being made in NZ, and we'll print the insert with the wedding details on ourselves.

I'll need to start thinking about what else will go in - recommendations for accomodation etc.

Ooohh! How exciting! Can't wait to see a sample

Hello girlies!

Thanks for the sig Puggie, looks great!

Sorry I have not posted an update in so long, I have to admit I have been very slack on the wedding front and do not have any excuses!

Things I have organised area:
Celebrant
Ceremony
Reception
Dress - have first fitting on the 24th June!!!
Photographer
cake
hair & make up

Things I really need to do... really need to pull my finger out!
Flowers - have appointment this sat.
Guys Suits
BM dresses
Band for Reception
Honeymoon
Rings
Invites -DIY
Cars

We wanted to go to Thailand for the honeymoon but are a bit tight on the cash front so we are looking into Bali at the moment maybe staying a Lombok.

I am really struggling with BM dresses. I really want to find something that they can wear again so thinking boutique more so than a specialist bm shop. But at the moment all their winter dresses are in so will have to wait till August/Sept.

With the GM suits, H2B's brother is supposed to have a contact in London who can do Armani suits for us. I keep pestering H2b to ring and see what the go is but he is yet to do it! Tonight will hopefully be the night!

Also if anyone has been to a wedding who had a great band or are having a band I would love to hear about it! We only have a small space so maybe only a 2/3 peice and we are in Sydney.

Am struggling with cars as well. Wanted to get something a little different, H2B loves Kombi's so was trying to find someone who hires them out with no luck, so back to the drawing board!

All the best gals... will come in here more regularly... promise!

Kylie

Honeymoon - 5 days in Thailand, 18 day tour of France, Italy, Czech Rep. etc, 3 weeks in UK then 10 days at Chamonix ski resort in France.

No more updates from me at the moment, ordered BM dresses and invite materials yesterday - will start making them by the end of next week.

Thats about it!

Glad to see you back in here and chatting, Kylie

Oh, I'll do a summary:

Name: Kylie & Andrew
Age: 27
Date engaged: 27th August 2005
How: I opened a boutique on Sept 1st and we were getting the shop organised for 2 weeks prior to this. H2b set the shop up with newspaper on the windows, candles (about 1000 tealights), flowers, a set table and had his mate pick food up from our fav restaurant. It was awesome!
Been together for: 10 years this July
Getting Married: 3rd November
Ceremony: Clareville Beach
Reception: Whale Beach Restaurant
Guests: 100 ATM but fingers crossed less than that.
BM/GM's: 4 each
Honeymoon: Bali

Think that's it??
Kylie

Hi girls, just found this twinnie section - so i thought i'd ad it to my sig too.
I can't believe how fast my wedding day is approaching (25th November) - how exciting!

Hi Sheree - there's a few of for 25 Nov

Come on now - we want all your details!

Ok - details

Name: Sheree & Aaron
Engaged - 25th December 2004 (Christmas Day)
Age: 23 (me) 26 (Aaron)
Getting married - 25th November
We live: in Orange, NSW

So far i've organised

Church
Reception
Horse & Carriage
Flowers (sort of)
Make-up
Hair
Photographer
MY DRESS (woo hoo!)
Bridesmaid dresses (but i have one bm that is giving so much grief its enough to make me cry )
Invites

yet to organise the groomsmen, the rings but we have a fair idea, finalising the cake, we have no idea about the honeymoon - but this is partly my fault cause i'm currently looking for another job & can't plan anything yet.

Can't think of anything else at the moment but i'm sure there is more!

Hi Girls,

Great job on the November sig puggie!!! ....and thankyou for the pm, it reminded me to get my butt into here .. I've only ever posted once or twice in here, so don't know any of you

You are all SO organised, and I have barely done anything...but I work well under pressure.

For the past few weeks I have been too busy as I was organising my sons 1st birthday party...so now that is over I can concentrate on the wedding plans.

However I did order my wedding dress last weekend, which was pretty exciting and a huge relief now that it is out of the way. Next weekend we are going to look for bridesmaid dresses and hope to find something straight away and finalised so I can start organising/deciding on other things that 'revolve' around the colour of the bridedmaids dress.

Some Info .....

Name: Jess
Age: 28
Relationship: Been with H2B for nearly 10 years
Location: Melbourne - Eastern Suburbs
Job: Mummy!! - SAHM for the minute.

ENGAGEMENT
When: June 2001
How: So unromantic and we went shopping for the ring together.
Ring: 18ct diamond gold ring - Not too good on the explaining what it looks like

WEDDING
Date: 5th November 2006
Theme: "Spring feel" - like the idea of Cherry Blossom
Where: Rosebank Reception North Ringwood
Time: Cermony @ 4pm
No of guests: 80
Dress: Sincerity Collection
Bridal party: 1 BM, 1 GMs
Honeymoon: Not sure yet - somewhere that is kid friendly.

Happy Planning everyone!!

Can anyone recommend any companys that sell pre-printed cards - my uncle is a printer so we are looking for some cool invites to match our theme. We want to purchase pre-printed and cut cards so my uncle can print the wording inside

Cheers girl
Me
x

hey,

just saying hi to all november gals!!!

plans are going well. just ordered my veil from a lady in WA. (Im in Syd)
I bought a custom made fingertip veil from her for $69 & a custom ring pillow for $30, including delivery!

check out her website Veil

Hi Everyone!!

BIG Welcome to all the newies/come-backer-ers! Great job Puggie in getting us all back online - I LOVE the new Twinnie ID and will PROUDLY add it to me sig tomorrow! I love reading about everyone and how they met!

I have had a little read - But I have a major accounting exam tonight (50%) and have not been around the last few days (not at work - home studying - well kinda) So I shall jump on tomorrow and chat some more - When I have time - hehehe!

BUT I have to say I am a melb SE gal as well and would love to meet up with you guys! So any ideas???

Catch you all soon!

Hmmm - what about a coffee somewhere in the city? Or since (so far) us Melbourneites seem to be East/Sout East maybe a meet up at Chaddy or something?

Chaddy or city is good!!
Knox is close to me, that's a good spot too, if everyone else lives near - if not i'm happy to go wherever ...

It's great how this 'possible' meeting is coming together!!

Wish I could join you girls..but I'm a Sydney sider.

Knox is not far from me so is suitable too!

OMG - Cheeky Monkey and I just discovered we live walking distance from one another. HOW FREAKY!!! So - we're going to have a get together soon - who wants to join in?

Putting forward Knox as a possible location - come on gals - who's for the Melbourne Nov gals meetup?

Yeah! How exciting!!!

Who's up for Coffee???

Gee, i haven't posted here since this thread started! It's definately come along way. ....i managed to read through all the posts this afternoon and catch up on everyone's progress and i think we are all doing really well.

Since none of you would really know me here is my info:

Name: Kylie
Age: 27
Relationship: Been with H2B 3.5yrs
Location: Melbourne - Western Suburbs
Job: Personal Trainer

ENGAGEMENT
When: 8th June 2005
How: On the day we got our keys to our newly built house we had a candlelit dinner on the loungeroom floor (on our picnic rug) and he popped the question then.
Ring: 18ct yellow gold princess cut solitare (square on angle not straight)

WEDDING
Date: 11th November 2006
Theme: Pink/white elegant
Where: Williamstown church/Sanctuary Lakes Club for receptoin
Time: Cermony @ 1pm
No of guests: approx 70
Dress: Essense Couture collection silk range
Bridal party: 2 BM's, 2 GMs
Honeymoon: Fiji for 10 days - would have loved longer but can't afford it!

All i have left to organise is boys suits, cake and music selections. Woohoo!

Welcome back, kylz4! So glad to see people coming back to our thread! You interested in catching up at the Melb girls meeting?

Of course! But as the founder, I reckon you need to take the initiative

Us Melb gals are gonna meet up (even if it's just Cheeky Monkey and I, given we're practically neighbours!!). Common Sydney gals (and Melb gals too) - lets do a few meet ups and share ideas, dreams, fears, wines and giggles!

I'm up for the wine bit! *glug glug*

Should be good fun - i'm looking forward to it!

Best thing is, Cheeky Monkey, we are staggering distance to each other's houses (maybe we should have first meeting at your place - we're downhill from there )

I can't come either - I am in Canberra..... but I will be there in spirit!!

WEll, FMIL came round for dinner last night, with her she brought a sample of our cake from the cake maker - chocolate and hazlenut mud.... mmmm....

And we also finalised the guest list and started to draft the running order for the day - was so much fun! Have got a rought draft together already, right down to what time the MC will put the OOS books on the cahirs and what songs we will have for prelude etc..!! We are getting down to the nitty gritty now girls!

Me Me Me

** Waving hand in the air**

I can drive anywhere~ Knox/chaddy/city all fine! And I am also free most weekends now for 6 weeks!

I cannot believe that you guys live so close!

Yeah so what date???? Lets throw up a date??? 24th June????

I am flexible!

Sorry to all who do not live in Melb Millie_belle I lived in Gowrie for a few years - Where do you live up there?? Maybe we went to primary school together or something!

Well I think this thread is really taking off and I love hearing where everyone is at!

Hmmm - well I'll have to consult with Cheeky Monkey whether an 'unsignatured' Nov gal is eligible for the meeting (kidding)

24th in the morning is OK with me - in the afternoon I am off to the ballet. Alternatively Sunday 25th is fine for me too! What about you Cheeky Monkey?

Haha! Puggie.. yes we can start at my house!!! Yaay!!! I'll kick H2b and FSIl out! Both Days are fine with me, and since it's my birthday on the 28th - i'll drink extra!!!

Hmm - OK - time for the other Melb gals here to MAKE THEMSELVES KNOWN!

Cheeky Monkey - maybe we should meet up at a restaurant nearby? Might be a bit less weird IYKWIM? We could do Formosa House (walking distance to both our houses) or somewhere else (where can you recommend? We don't know too many restaurants out this way....) That way we can end up at your place for drinkies

Sounds good. OK other Melbourne gals wanting to me up, speak up!

So far we have:

-Puggie
-Cheeky Monkey
-Harmonie

Cheeky Monkey - it's my birthday on the 22nd! He he

I won't be able to come - we're very busy looking for a new house and with weekends blocked in. But I'll be there in spirit.

I met with a florist today - he was great and I'm pretty sure we'll book in with him. I was really pleased that he seemed to get the kind of look I want, and had a lovely idea too - I want to use an antique purse I bought, and he suggested that I walk down the aisle with no flowers, and that H2B give me a small posy when we meet in front of the altar. I think that's a beautiful idea! So I'll call to book him, then 4 weeks out we'll work out what's in season and looking good and confirm the details then! Yay!