Myself and Mrs Tom are due to get married later this year, making things official after seven years together.  An exact date however is not known, which is possibly a little unusual at this stage – we are hoping to get married in October.

Our main reason for this late arrangement is cost.  We will be able to make things a heck of a lot cheaper for ourselves if we leave the booking late, and as we are paying for everything ourselves (no donating parents here I’m afraid) this is pretty much a must.  We’ll be heavily dipping into an ISA that Mrs Tom has been keeping for around ten years, as well as a maturity fund which I have which pays out next year (essentially I’ll be borrowing money from Mrs Tom’s savings and giving her back what I get when my fund pays out).

It’s not as difficult as you might imagine.  We will have things like suits, dresses, invitations, flowers, favours, cake etc all taken care of, so when we do finally know the date it should hopefully just be a case of popping the invites in the post and taking care of some final arrangements.

Now we’re getting down to booking a venue, we’ve found a couple that we like and now we just have to negotiate with them to make it affordable for us.  This may or may not be successful, but we have to give it a go, anything we can save will help us hugely.  Hopefully we’re not too far away now.  I’d post links to the possible venues, but I’m scared my one reader might book it before we have a chance!  Perhaps I’ll report back when it’s all sorted!

Hopefully my nominated best men (plus helper) will sort me out a nice stag do to preface the big day.  I’ve been holding my breath, but I’m starting to turn blue!