Our Initial Thoughts

The first time we have really talk about what we both want and it’s a good job we both want the same sort of things. So far our planning is going well, and we know what we want for quite a few things already.

We both want to have a big wedding with a traditional ceremony and for the reception to be a mix of traditional, modern and slightly unique. We want the more traditional aspects of having the first dance at the reception, I think the unique part will come from the actual decorations.

The first ideas we had for dates is Valentine’s day but then we started to think of dates more special to us this led us to the date we got together the 6th April. We know that we want to be finished university/ close to finishing which means it would need to be in 2016 or 2017. In the end we chose 2016. However the 6th in 2016 is on a Wednesday but we agreed our wedding will need to be on the weekend so we want to have it either on the 2nd or 9th April.

We have thought of a couple of places for our reception, the first we thought of was having it in Kilve Court as that is where we first met, however when we looked into it they didn’t have a church close by with working bells (this is important for us as we want to have the bells rung before and after the ceremony). So we then started to think of other places we would like I found Orchardleigh House & Estate which I thought would be a really romantic setting for our reception we both liked this place as we both like the idea of having the reception in an old building. Once we had discussed having our wedding in an old building we talked about having it in a Castle which led Scott to suggest having it in Alnwick Castle as he loves Harry Potter and that castle was the setting for the first few films, this would give us a unique setting and a romantic old building/ castle too.

Links for our two favourite locations so far:

http://www.orchardleigh.net/

http://www.alnwickcastle.com/

We have thought that the most we will spend is £25000 but that is the absolute maximum, the minimum we think it will cost is £15000.

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