Aaroncupboard wrote:

Rehersal done. Reception venue has been decorated. Family is in the hotel that is very similar to Fawlty Towers. One night to go.

Good luck mate!

best

g.man

Have a great day. All the best.

Best of luck Aaron.

Cheers guys, the wedding was incredible. Very chilled out, relaxed and great fun. I genuinly couldn't stop smiling.

I am now a very happily married man.

Toot!

Bwark!

Woooo!

Right. Wedding rings guys.
We've just spent hours looking at expensive uninspiring rings. 
What did you lot do?

I have just had the idea of buying some pure gold and making our own. A quick web search has a place in Hatton Gardens London that spends the day with you for £150 each person and you make the ring yourself. Gold is approx £30 a gram and I just found a dealer selling it for £39 per gram, so for approx £350 each we could have pure gold bands with a bit of meaning behind them instead of the crap 9ct rings that the high street is trying to sell you for £500+ each. 
We also have some old gold that can be melted down, so it could be even cheaper. 
Any opinions?

Edit
We wouldnt be wearing the rings at all times so the soft nature of pure gold is not really an issue.

Ok I'm going to try out some photos from the big day...

Congrats Aaron and all the best!


Even though I'm about as far away from having to think on marriage stuff as is possible I think it's kind of polite to ask the father. It obviously depends on the family situation but I think it's a nice touch. I'm kind of old fashioned though. I also think spending a ridiculous amount on a ring just because is rather silly. Surely it'd be more important to have something that means something specifically special to the person. If that's diamonds then so be it but I think it's pretty well known how ridiculously overpriced diamonds are considering they're not at all rare and the market is just controlled by DeBeers. They're pretty, sure, but so are many other precious stones.
If having a super expensive ring is important to somebody then I don't think I'd want to be getting married to that somebody.

But like I said, I've got no idea, that's just my two cents worth of wedding ring.

Oh, and funny story whereby I was at a friend's place and her younger sister had been seeing a guy for not that long (about 6 months) and he decided to call up and ask for permission to marry the sister while I was there. Didn't go very well. If you're going to ask, best to ask in person.

Ha ha. Me too. Lady Pantyfire went from not being bothered about the whole getting married thing to OMG!!!!! Table decorations, centre pieces, flowers, dress, guests, OMG, OMG OMG!!
In about 5 mins. 
No matter how cool they act they all have a wedding plan in mind at all times.
Now though the magnitude and the family politics of the situation have sunk in and she has calmed down a lot and has even said its a massive pain in the arse. 

The package it looks like we are going for at the venue will take a lot of the hassle out of the organisation of things and we are not going and getting things like a horse and carriage etc...

I have fired off an email to the ring making experience people and we have weighed some 99.9% gold jewelrey that her grandmother gave her but she never wears because it's quite frankly not nice and it looks like for the fraction of the cost of a high st set of rings we can have two with a bit of meaning behind them and maybe a half decent diamond set into hers.

It is a mental name! Gwenllian, pronounced gwen-lee-an. Its a welsh name.

Congrats!

pantyfire wrote:

Right. Wedding rings guys. We've just spent hours looking at expensive uninspiring rings.  What did you lot do? I have just had the idea of buying some pure gold and making our own. A quick web search has a place in Hatton Gardens London that spends the day with you for £150 each person and you make the ring yourself. Gold is approx £30 a gram and I just found a dealer selling it for £39 per gram, so for approx £350 each we could have pure gold bands with a bit of meaning behind them instead of the crap 9ct rings that the high street is trying to sell you for £500+ each.  We also have some old gold that can be melted down, so it could be even cheaper.  Any opinions? Edit We wouldnt be wearing the rings at all times so the soft nature of pure gold is not really an issue.

Can't remember what part of the country you're in fella but we travelled down to the jewellery quarter in Brum for the wife's engagement ring. Most places have workshops in the back so they'll pretty much make you a bespoke ring.

Wedding venue browsing today, looking forward to seeing some, if only it would calm down the other half a bit and stop being in research mode constantly, bless her.

Our mind set is that the money we can save over the next 2 years is much better off being put towards a house deposit rather than a spectacular wedding. We have only a small family and a close group of friends so guest wise we are looking at around 50-60, no church required so just the venue and the surrounding costs etc. We already have a photographer and cake maker sorted at no cost.

So we are going in with budget in mind, although i'm more inclined to pay out more to get away from some of compulsory budget choices. One venue we are looking at tomorrow only allow one choice of a menu for example, but I don't exactly want to have everyone forced to have a vegetarian meal just because a few of our guests are vegetarian for example.