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09-08-08, 01:40 PM
Couple plans for shoestring wedding
A couple will marry on a shoestring budget of £407 after trawling the internet and picking up bargains for their wedding.
Christopher May, 21, and 19-year-old Odette Fenwick, from Ilfracombe, north Devon, will tie the knot at Barnstaple Register Office on August 16.
Ms Fenwick's wedding dress cost £52 on eBay, while guests will drink toasts in sparkling wine from plastic glasses.
Couple plans for shoestring wedding - MSN Odd News | MSN UK News - news & weather
How many would be happy with this?
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Life is one those things that most of us have to experience... Love peace \'N\' hair grease.
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09-08-08, 03:52 PM
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Couple plans for shoestring wedding
A couple will marry on a shoestring budget of £407 after trawling the internet and picking up bargains for their wedding.
Christopher May, 21, and 19-year-old Odette Fenwick, from Ilfracombe, north Devon, will tie the knot at Barnstaple Register Office on August 16.
Ms Fenwick's wedding dress cost £52 on eBay, while guests will drink toasts in sparkling wine from plastic glasses.
Couple plans for shoestring wedding - MSN Odd News | MSN UK News - news & weather
How many would be happy with this?
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I say good for them...they are way young so they have time to save for anything extravagent later on. But truthfully, i can see myself doing it with just as little, probably even cheaper....especially if it's in the summer....my living room, get some Jolof rice(not the West African one...heehee...Central A is better...lol) grilled fish, braisedd goat meat, salad, plantain and to drink fruit punch, wine and 2 bottles of champagne. I can get Abs to fix a pretier dress than hers 
Et voila, a less than £400 wedding....yet my guess will be fed proper and well....and since i have a common behind our place, we then make a toast in beautifull surounding free of charge! Chaa, they should have hired me...
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09-08-08, 04:55 PM
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I say good for them...they are way young so they have time to save for anything extravagent later on. But truthfully, i can see myself doing it with just as little, probably even cheaper....especially if it's in the summer....my living room, get some Jolof rice (not the West African one...heehee...Central A is better...lol) grilled fish, braisedd goat meat, salad, plantain and to drink fruit punch, wine and 2 bottles of champagne. I can get Abs to fix a pretier dress than hers
Et voila, a less than £400 wedding....yet my guess will be fed proper and well....and since i have a common behind our place, we then make a toast in beautifull surounding free of charge! Chaa, they should have hired me... |
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09-08-08, 05:55 PM
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Mez--> <---DSP
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09-08-08, 06:13 PM
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09-08-08, 06:18 PM
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Yeah whatever....you were typing nonesense after too many cans of beers, now you're acting like if i am the one who doesn't get it..... 
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09-08-08, 07:51 PM
Unless it is part of an old tradition, I do not see the point of spending a fortune and dumping resources into a huge wedding. There are better things for a couple just starting out to put that energy and money into.
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10-08-08, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Mezmerized
I say good for them...they are way young so they have time to save for anything extravagent later on. But truthfully, i can see myself doing it with just as little, probably even cheaper....especially if it's in the summer....my living room, get some Jolof rice(not the West African one...heehee...Central A is better...lol) grilled fish, braisedd goat meat, salad, plantain and to drink fruit punch, wine and 2 bottles of champagne. I can get Abs to fix a pretier dress than hers
Et voila, a less than £400 wedding....yet my guess will be fed proper and well....and since i have a common behind our place, we then make a toast in beautifull surounding free of charge! Chaa, they should have hired me... |
Mez... hurry up and get married so I can come nyam some of that food  In fact should someone have completed the difficult task of getting me down the Isle I'll give you a call. That cool? 
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11-08-08, 07:49 PM
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Mez... hurry up and get married so I can come nyam some of that food In fact should someone have completed the difficult task of getting me down the Isle I'll give you a call. That cool? |
Lol...i think we'll get you down that isle quicker than me love...lol....and yes, give us a call, even though i hate weddings, for you i'll make an exception! |
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11-08-08, 08:27 PM
good for them
if you have the time bargains are to be had on ebay
i remember when i was a ebay newbie hahaha
good for them
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11-08-08, 09:24 PM
as a sideline i sometimes help out [usually at gun point] with a family catering business..So i've done a few Black weddings at never cease to amaze me how OTT some couples go on the least important options, but then cut corners on key bits...
On one wedding which was held in the city, the couple [for that read the bride] hired a real posh hall, had a table spread akin to harry potter...a menu card that was stoosh and caterers [moi] to cook and serve the food as buffet... But for some strange reason had noone to serve drinks on the arrival of the guest to the hall.. no one to organise and serve behind the bar...
But to top it off the Wedding gift which a CD of the couples choice ofr song was to put it bluntly THE worse mixture i've ever heard.
They had a mix of M jackson off the wall, Attitude the ragga tune and then various rap tracks... Now call me old fashion but what sort of a CD is THAT? its better dem nuh badda wid it!!!
Another couples whose wedding I serve on, hired real glass on every table 6 piece silver ware, at least three sets of plates, two sets of glasses and table decorations for at least 200 people... Everything basicaly for a silver service... They even hired Eddie Nestor and Robbie Gee.....Just one problem they didn't hire a silver service caterer..they hired a buffet service...
So Muggings then had to collect every piece of plate to serve from the buffet table, then...the pillocks wanted a second service to cater for later guests..great..except they arrived more than 5 hours later than they should have done..so you guest it both service ran into each other...
But really pissed me off after they done spent [waste] all that money to show off they thwen refused to pay the caterers citing bullshit reasons..basically they had ran out of money and had basically planned a jim screech....not nice!!!!
So if you're planning a wedding and you find that the caterer now refuses to accept nothing less than full payment up front this is why..because too many our people do this shit.....
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11-08-08, 09:40 PM
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as a sideline i sometimes help out [usually at gun point] with a family catering business..So i've done a few Black weddings at never cease to amaze me how OTT some couples go on the least important options, but then cut corners on key bits...
On one wedding which was held in the city, the couple [for that read the bride] hired a real posh hall, had a table spread akin to harry potter...a menu card that was stoosh and caterers [moi] to cook and serve the food as buffet... But for some strange reason had noone to serve drinks on the arrival of the guest to the hall.. no one to organise and serve behind the bar...
But to top it off the Wedding gift which a CD of the couples choice ofr song was to put it bluntly THE worse mixture i've ever heard.
They a mix of M jackson off the wall, Attitude the ragga tune and then various rap tracks... Now call me old fashion but what sort of a CD is THAT? its better dem nuh badda wid it!!!
Another couples whose wedding I serve on, hired real glass on every table 6 piece silver ware, at least three sets of plates, two sets of glasses and table decorations for at least 200 people... Everything basicaly for a silver service... They even hired Eddie Nestor and Robbie Gee.....Just one problem they didn't hire a silver service caterer..they hired a buffet service...
So Muggings then had to collect every piece of plate to serve from the buffet table, then...the pillocks wanted a second service to cater for later guests..great..except they arrived more than 5 hours later than they should have done..so you guest it both service ran into each other...
But really pissed me off after they done spent [waste] all that money to show off they thwen refused to pay the caterers citing bullshit reasons..basically they had ran out of money and had basically planned a jim screech....not nice!!!!
So if you're planning a wedding and you find that the caterer now refuses to accept nothing less than full payment up front this is why..because too many our people do this shit.....
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I so totally HEAR yaaa...lol. I have seen many a weddings(ours mind you...Africans ehh...lol) where they leave in their own world throughout the entire period of preparing for their weddings. Expecting you to do them a favour or them giving all sorts of bulshit reasons. Some of the weddings i used to be dragged to where torture....you think you is a guess, yet you end up as the waiter because some two horny people didn't prepare for that since they don't have enough money but are in a hurry to get married because the church had forbiden sex before marriage......yeah like i believe them...LOL
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