The Station House Hotel

Once we got engaged we went round a few hotels to get the venue for the wedding sorted. I liked the look of Park Plaza Hotel and was set on having it there, but then we got a brochure in the post from The Station House and just thought we'd go up and have a look. As soon as we pulled into the drive i wanted my wedding there!!

It is so beautiful. Makes me think of Alice in Wonderland with iron chairs and tables and candles all over the place surrounded by trees with sneaky little swing chairs and benches hidden all around. So pretty.

It's a convert station house (d'oh) so is lovely and personal and not too big and commercial (which is exactly what i wanted). The bridal suite is a converted signal box so is like a mini little house! So cute!!!

So we got it all booked and paid for but Lee was having a few doubts about the size of the room.

Because its a converted old building it's quite small (compared to modern purpose built hotels) so Lee was a bit worried about fitting everyone in comfortably without squishing us all together.

So last night he ran to see if there were any wedding fairs coming up that we could go to and see it all laid out again and have a proper good nosey (count how many chairs were laid out etc). We're looking to probably invite between 120 -140 people so dont want people squashed.

The lady on the phone was cool. She didnt have to sell it to us cos we're already booked so she was quite honest. Said that the owners daughter got married last year and had 180 people sitting down for a meal which was a little bit squashed but not uncomfortable....so our 140 would be cool! She said 120 - 150 is perfect (whoop).

So now Lee feels a lot better about the whole thing and we're gonna go up on 18th February to see it all laid out again.....

Planning, planning, planning!!!

Right, here's the start of the craziness!! Thought i'd keep a blog purely for wedding stuff to keep a track on all the happenings of what's going into making sure our wedding is wicked!! Even though we set the date months ago now that our wedding is next year we really have to get it all organised and planned out properly and im starting to get for real excited!!

Im half mega looking forward to all the planning and picking and choosing but half nervous... im completely rubbish at organising things and i know im going to have a mini heart attack over it all!!!!!! Doesn't help that 2 countries are involved!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Im sure me and Lee are going to have fights and disagreements along the way and im pretty sure im gonna end up calling it all off about 100 times but it'll be worth it when im wearing my pretty dress (accompanied by white boots - none of this airy fairy wedding shoe malarky for me!), with all my important people around us!!! :)

What needs to be done?

1. Venue - Booked and deposit paid. Wanna go down and see it again and hopefully get a food tasting opportunity. Got to decide who is going in what rooms....that is when we make our list and know who's definately coming.
2. Church - Booked. Gotta sort out all the registry and all that malarky! But that doesn't need doing until nearer the time!
3. Guest List - WRITE A LIST OF GUESTS!!!!!!! How hard is this!!!! Seriously....we know too many people! It's so hard to decide who to invite and who to miss out! It's so mean....'you are not worthy'! :( Poo!! Cue first argument for me and Leo!!!
4. CAKE!!!!! - Know what i want. Have a pic. Just need to find someone i trust to make my beautiful masterpiece...and not for €5million. Cakes are so expensive!!! Getting chocolate biscuit....dribble...none of that crappy fruit cake pants of us!!!
5. Dress - Need my dress.... kinda have an idea of what i want but dunno if it's gonna happen! Want Lea and Oz here to help me but not sure when that will happen! Dying to get it now....but i think the anticipation is part of all the excitement!!!! Also need shoes, jewellery, underwear etc
6. Bridesmaid Dresses - Gonna let the girlies pick their dresses (as long as i like them!!hahaha!!) Want them to look and feel cool...no puffball pants please!!
7. Flowers - For the church, me, bridesmaids, button holes....the reception has flowers included so that's cool.
8. Suits - For Lee, Russler, Chris (who's giving me away), Terry, 3 groomsmen and Ros.
9. Favours - Want something cool but not expensive! Something people will eat/use/keep so its not a waste of money!
10. Invitations - If time allows i might attempt these myself! Why pay someone for something that i can do myself!!
11. Hair/makeup - not goin mad on this...happy to do my own make up and just get a hairdresser friend to do our bouffants!
12. Little extras - We have a few little ideas up our sleeves to make the day (sounds wierd when you realise this is all for one day!) even more cool but these will only be happening if we dont run out of dough.

I know there is stuff missed out and im gonna poo when i remember them!!! But that's the jist of what we need to start on!