Well I had a meet up with my Mum on Friday and we discussed a bit more how plans were coming along and what to do next. I showed her the price list for the in house Flouriest and she agrees with me that I should go with Di for the flowers. We re-talked about the wedding dress I like and she likes it, so next is to arrange a trying on date, so I want to talk to Vicky my Sister In Law and see if she wanted to come with me and my folks to have look at the dress and get another opinion when I try it on. And the last thing we decided we needed to arrange is a meeting with the wedding organiser of The Coppleridge Inn to get a more clearer idea of costs etc and what else needs to be looked at.

Received our Quotation from Di regarding the flowers we discussed the other day. We need to contact her 3 months before the date of our wedding to let her know whether we would or wouldn't like her to do the flowers -

Greenery over fire place 25.00

Ribbons in Blue, Silver, and white each end of the fire place 6.00

Flowers and Ribbons inserted in the Greenery 15.00

Table Arrangement - Bud Vase with Calla Lily and silver twig and blue ribbons round base 8.50 each

Button Hole - Dave 5.00

Button Holes 3.50 each

Bride's Bouquet - Calla Lily 40.00

Maid of Honour - 3 Calla Lillies with green and ribbons 17.50

Small Bridesmaid - Wand of Calla Lillies and ribbon 7.50

I went to H.Samuel Jewellers to have a look and see if they have any Wedding rings to go with my Engagement ring, but it turns out it is best to talk to thier in house designer and talk over Ideas with him. We have an appointement but not sure as of yet if we will be able to make it, as it's quite a drive from here. But all so whilst there I came across these gorgous flutes - Special Memories Crystal Champagne Flute 6082610. They are gorgous they cost 39.99 which is a little more than what we would want to pay. So they are on my wish list.

Had a meeting with The in house flouriest of The Coppleridge Inn - Dianne, I showed her the artifical Calla Lilli flowers I had originally chosen and she is able to do similar with fresh Calla Lillis. She is going to send us a no obligation quotation in the post for us too look at once she has worked out how much it will all cost. Also she has the vases too which she has said I can use for the centre pieces. And even discussed decoration for the fire place and top table too which I kinda forgot myself.

Ok time for a run down on what has been done:

1. Bought Bridesmaid Princess necklace for thankyou gift
2. Bought 2 teddies for my two youngest boys to carry and will be their thankyou gift too.
3. Chosen Ceromony Wording
4. Chosen on the type of Invites I like and that I want to do two different types one for main guests invited to wedding and reception and a different type for evening guests.
5. Chosen theme colours and flowers - Calla Lillis and colours Blue, Silver and White. Hint of butterflys too.
6. Decided on the Type of cake and topper we want - 3 layer, fruit and sponge white Icing and silver ribbon with blue butterfly topper we found on EBay.
7. Flowers we have a look we like and now we want to get them in to real flowers instead of silk.
8. The Coppleridge Inn is booked for our wedding and reception
9. Found styles of Dresses I like.

And is still to be done:

1. Need to try the dresses I like on
2. Need to get Quotations on flowers - spoken to the lady who is the Coppleridges in house florest and shes going to visit me on Thursday 11th at 7.30pm. Also my friend across the road her mum is an ex florest and is going to do a quote for us too.
3. Cake - Need to Contact my parents friend and see if she's able to do it and a quotation.
4. Need to go to Blandford Registary Office to give notice and make payment to secure everything.
5. Wedding Rings - We need to look into and see bout getting one made to fit my engagement ring.
6. Thankyou gifts for Mums, Dads, Maid of Honour, Best Man and Ushers.
7. Outfits for Bridal Party
8. DJ - need to check that Butler will still be up for it and if so book the date with him.
9. Wedding Car Quotations
10. Need to look into Photographers properly and have a chat to MIL to see about her budget as she has offered to pay.
11. Invites need to be made
12. Table Centre Pieces need to be made
13. Will need to look into Veil and Shoes to go with my chosen Wedding Dress
14. Decide on Tiara also once Chosen my dress too - theres someone whos offfered to help me make one so it will be unique or I could go with the original one I found on EBay
15. Need to talk to some one at The Coppleridge Inn about the Buffet Menu and evening Buffet.

I'm Hoping that I will get to go to HobbyCraft and have a look for the bits for the table centre pieces and possibly get ideas for other bits.

Just got an Email back from http://www.pocketfoldinvites.co.uk/ as I emailed explaining what I was hoping to do and this is the info they sent back -

Hi, It depends how you want your invitations to look in the end, if for
example you want the inserts to look like those pictured on our Indulgence
design in our design gallery for each invitation you would need: One pocketfold
(obviously!) 89p eachOne 125mm x 125mm silver insert ( boarder) 20p eachTwo
120mm x 120mm white inserts ( one with invite details, one with map) 20p eachOne
120mm x 100mm white insert (taxi info)15p eachOne 120mm x 80mm white insert
(R.S.V.P)10p eachOne monogram card approximately 50mm x 50mm 8p eachWe cut all
of the card ourselves so you can pick and choose the sizes to suit you. Please
do not hesitate to contact us again if you have any further questions. Kind
regards Kelly Edgecombe http://www.pocketfoldinvites.co.uk/

This comes to £1.82 per invite, I don't think thats to bad is it? Got to now find out how many I will need to make.

Been browsing the internet to see if I can find some ideas and this is kind a close to the style I was thinking about. I like the style of the last two the best. As these will be for the evening guests only I havent got to add as much so this style would work.

If I did it it this way I would use my Monogram to close the invite.

I like the Style below, I'd use silver Organza ribbon and add my Monogram. I like this style because the cut point reveals the names which I think is a nice touch.

for the style below, again I'd use my Monogram and have like an envelope point instead of the hearts

The main Card would be Sapphire then the invite printed on white and matted on silver. Same style to the Pocket Invites that I want to do for Wedding and Reception guests.

I also would like to do them DIY and feel confident that I could draw up a template for these invites.

Or I could just do ordinary card style, heres a couple ideas I had been talking to madhattermillie over on Ukscrappers here is her idea as I put up a post asking for suggestions -

Originally Posted by madhattermillie

hi there

i have a suggestion to keep it simple! Stampin up do roller stamps, where the
ink is applied as you roll, there is a lovely butterfly one called 'flitting by'
on page 43 they also do 'you're invited' stamps in the following setssincere
salutations £20.95 p61 cheers and wishes £16.95 p63 Ink wise, i would recommend
using a blank roller (£5.50 p83) filled with versamark refill (£3.25 p82) and
silver embossing powder (£3.75 p82) Card wise, i would say make/buy your own
card blanks and the purpose made ones tend be a bit stronger. There is a
brilliant blue ink available £4.50, Matching cardstock, A4 pack of 24 £4.50 and
the jumbo ink cartridge for the roller stamp is also available in this colour
for £6.25. i currently have a 10% discount until the order is sent on 24th
august, p&p £3.50 hope that helps! jox

And here are some of the ideas I came up from her suggestion -

Using a roller on white card but rolling once to create a blue design let it dry then roll again but so I get the silver and emboss silver over lapping but so the blue still shows. Adding blue butterflys 3d effect and adding little silver rhinestones and the word your invited at the bottom.

Another idea, same principle using a roller on Blue card but rolling once to create a white design let it dry then roll again but so i get the silver and emboss silver over lapping but so the white still shows. again adding white butterflys 3d effect and adding little silver rhinestones and the word your invited at the bottom.

Blue as main card colour, a flourish swirl type roller going across vertical or horizontle depending on card shape so then use silver embossing powder so the design shows and then with a small butterfly punch cut some white card and use the little butterflys glue them to the vine giveing a kinda 3d effect and then the your invited in silver to so it shows up.

Madhattermillie has offered to make up some samples so I can have a look before buying the bits. Also Paula on Wedding Announcers Forum is putting together an idea for me too. Can't wait to see the results as I have a theory as you can see of what I want but it may be to expensive to do it my way.

Here are some pictures so you can get an idea of style. For Mine I want the main Pocket Fold to be Sapphire Blue and then three inserts (1) Map and Directions (2) Taxi numbers and where to stay (3) R.S.V.P.

I want the main invite to be printed on to white card/paper and mounted on to silver card/paper. then the inserts white and maybe have the info boxed so theres and outline round the information if that makes sence. To close the invite i want to use velcro and have my monogramme attached. And if we use ribbon it will be silver.

These invites will be made up for the Guests we want to come to the wedding and reception and I'm going to do different styled invites for guests invited to just the evening bit which I will share my ideas when I have looked into it abit more.