Wedding Invites

As you may know i am getting married this August.  We are skint so organising the whole thing has been relatively easy; it's amazing how many things it turns out you don't need when you can't afford anything!  The thing that is annoying me though is the response to invites.  In part this is my fault - I slightly over invited for the ceremony because everyone told me some people would cancel -  and so far no one has! People inviting themselves and their partners to the ceremony is also a pain, as we really don't have the space but, again, i can live with that.  The thing really bugging me is someone umming and ahhing over whether they can make the reception.  It's an invite, accept graciously and either come or say you can't come for whatever reason! This particular "ummer" is from work.  I have invited everyone from my small company to my reception.  The people i care about I have invited to the ceremony as well.   I really don't mind if you can't make it, but everyone else from work has accepted their invite graciously and no-one else has felt the need to make such a production about it!

Wedding Daze

I'm getting married next year! This is very strange to me.  I always kind of assumed I would but now it's starting to be real.  I've been looking into costs and by god is it expensive! I never wanted the whole white wedding thing, but even so the guest list is getting bigger and bigger.  I reckon it will end up at about 30 people at the ceremony and and 80 people at the reception.  I swear if I could get married on-line I would.  It's a whole year away and I'm starting to get stressed about it already.  Not to mention I'm going to have to organise finding and renting a flat for me and Lee and moving into it and buying necessary furniture in a couple of months. 
I reckon we can get an engagement ring for c.£300, a wedding dress for c.£140, get my sister to do invitations, get my other sister to do some sort of gift bag for guests, do without the wedding list and get people to bring a bottle, hire a hall for about £400, get buffet catering for c£200 and £200 worth of drinks.  Is that everything? I sincerely doubt it and we're up to £1240 already. Wish me luck