Wedding plans: What have you left to do?

Hey, we get to choose the options ourselves. Our guests will get to choose between the three options we decided on which are a prime rib, a pickerel and a chicken and shrimp dish.

Hey Stephanie!! It's so amazing you could have all these options on your menu!! Will you choose yourself what the options are or will your guests get to decide when they rsvp? I can't wait to see what you'll choose!

Our tasting is in November. We're having our reception at a hotel and chose to have a sit down dinner. We get to choose 2-3 options of each entree, soup, salad, and dessert, plus a late night snack. The catering menu is huge so many different chicken, beef, fish and veggie entrees to choose from. Same with the salads and soups. So we're having a hard time deciding. They have a great head chef. I'll definitely create a group discussion.

Awesome! Our tasting is in November as well. We have to choose 2-3 entrées, salads, soups, and desserts from the big menu, then our guests choose on the rsvp which entrée. Lol having trouble deciding from the big menu. Haha so many choices!

Hi Stephanie

I'm so happy you're reaching out!!

What are the options your caterer/venue are giving you?

You should create a discussion and share your options with us so we can give you more feedback.

I can't wait to see all your delicious food options!

When is your tasting?

Our venue does tastings in November for couples that have booked for 2017. It will be buffet style with everything that's on the menu. We're also having a sit down dinner.

Hello Everyone! How goes the planning? I'm wondering if anyone has done their tasting for their reception dinner yet? Mines in a few weeks and we're having trouble deciding what to taste. We're having a sit down dinner. What kinds of things did everyone choose?

Oh the purple highlights never left (it's my signature look ), but I won't be "freshening them up" until about a month before the wedding though

That's great Valerie! Can't wait to see pictures of your trials!

Will you go for purple highlights like you mentionned?

Haha love the picture! I found 1 place I like and I'm working on booking a trial (gotta find a date first). Everyone will be getting ready together since I'm having hair and makeup come to us, so it makes things easier.

Thanks for the link

Hi Valerie

How is your search going? If you're still looking for someone to do your hair and makeup, have a look at vendors in our directory. I'm sure they could help!

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Will you and your bridal party all get together for hair and makeup the morning of your wedding day?

This picture could be a really funny one to take with your bridesmaids

How do you like the idea?

Hi Nelly

Pre-Cana can definitely bring up some interesting topics! It's so important to communicate and it makes you think of so many aspects you might not have thought of before.

I'm sure you discussed a lot of topics and questions that could be really interesting. What would be your best advice you learned in Pre-Cana so far? Maybe you could start a discussion about it I'd love to hear what you have to say about it!

That's great!

How to deal with our large families and how are we dividing week-ends, some couples spend Saturdays with one side of the family and Sundays with the other. Some couples spend every Sunday alternating families. Do we only visit siblings when other siblings are visiting and that way we kill 2 birds with 1 stone, and that was something that we had never discussed. The topic of love making and intimacy also came up. We are both virgins and haven't done anything but holding hands, hugging and kissing. The topic of different sex drives came up, and different positions until we are comfortable sexually with each other. So our pre-cana gave us topics to comminicate.

If it is too personal please don't feel compelled to answer:

What was the must surprising or impactful thing you have learned in your course?

I agree we have been dating for 8 years and I foud it a great help.

Sounds very practical! Some ideas we can all benefit from for sure

Enjoy your retreat!

There's a lot of talking about making marriages work and the importance of respect, faithfulness, loyalty and self-growth. We also talked about money and how the majority of divorces happens because of lack of financial communication. We have our retreat next week end. We're really looking forward to it.

I'm not very familiar with pre-cana, I understand it is a pre marriage "class". What is involved?

I only need to book our ceremony space- the City of Toronto won't issue permits for park weddings until Nov. 1. That part is making me crazy! But that will be the last "big thing"

Beyond that is is only hair, bouquet, song selection and details like that. I'm not finding the process very stressful, but I do attribute that to having a small wedding. We don't have to worry about bridesmaids, groomsmen, seating plans or large menus. Most of the decor and flowers will be made or grown by myself and my mother.

So convenient! Oddly enough my usual salon is in the city I'm getting married even though I live 2 hours away, but her price for doing my bridal party was too far out of everyone's budget, so I unfortunately had to look elsewhere

I am using the salon that I always do so I just booked them for our wedding

You are on top of things!!!

I think the only vendors I have left are hair and makeup, cake (but I have my tastings all booked) and limo

I'm enjoying our Pre-Cana we are learning a lot about ourselves, each other and marriage.To get married in the Catholic Church in Toronto we meet do a Pre-Cana and so far I'm really enjoying it and I've also met some really nice people

Hi Nelly

I am so happy you two are helping each other with wedding planning and doing all this together! That's truly amazing!

How do you find your Pre-Cana?

I know that Olivia was wondering whether she should do it or not with her FH.

Any thoughts on premarital counselling?

Would you recommend it to other couples?

Our wedding planner helped us finalize our flowers and decor. Now she will only be involved as the day of co ordinator.

Also, I agree that there is a lot to do when it comes to wedding planning.

That is awesome Nelly! I'm pretty do a lot of planning without a wedding planner and my fiancé is helping out with finalizing the details. I have also have my MOH and best friends who have been giving some tips on the wedding.

Thanks Fernando was an amazing help

I have the videographer, dresses, bouquet, etc to complete.

But ther's still a lot of little things to do. Wedding planning is so much and I truly have an amazing fiancce that has helped me every step of the way.

Our wedding planner is also wonderful in helping us making our inspirations becoming a reality

Way to go Nelly!