Hi everyone. Sorry for not replying sooner but I forgot to subscribe to the thread and so didn't get informed that there were any replies. I thought it was suspiciously quiet.

Thanks for all the well wishes, we are all really excited. Also, thanks for the warning about the cost but we have a set budget, which we cannot go over, and the wedding planner is aware of this and so is budgeting accordingly. So far we have the venue for 38,000php (including 2 rooms in the hotel the night before) and then the wedding planner cost is 165,000php for 200 people and this includes all the flowers, food, drink, sound system, disco, photographers etc. etc. etc. so all we need to get then is dresses and the priest, so we will even have a little bit of our 250,000php left, although the rate the pound is at the minute we might lose this in the conversion.

Someone asked if my parents are flying out, well my Dad is but my mum is not. She is disabled and could not make the journey. My brother and some of my best friends are going so there should be about 10-20 people on my guest list I think and the rest being made up of my Fiancee's friends and family and so on. We paid for the venue today and signed the contract for the wedding planner. It's all coming together nicely.

One last question for everyone: I have been told that I need to register the wedding at the registry office the day after in order for it to be legal here in Britain. Is that true?