Keeping Regular? Well I lied. Maybe fornightly to start with?
So after I bought the stitch and bitch book, I finally got some needles and wool at the weekend and have started to knit. Currently it looks a bit like a scarf for Barbie, with a couple of teeny gaps!
The parents visited this weekend and we had much deserved chilling time. Plus they bring with them the crazy pups, Leo and Maisey (Llahasa Apsos dogs). Leo decided to carry my wool from the sofa right into the garden, whilst I was still hanging on to the needles. Needless to say, the wool has now got a few knots that are a bugger to get out. So tonight after Hip Hop (dance class!) I am going to attempt cutting the wool and then learning how to add the wool in again. Cue reading stitch and bitch and searching for youtube tutorials.
The weekend was somewhat overshadowed by the rugby, the welsh contingent are not happy chappies right now... crossing fingers for 3rd place, just to cheer them up!
Wedding planning: pretty quiet right now. Got a thing for 3ft yellow balloons again thanks to this lovely wedding here: http://www.rockmywedding.co.uk/a-ticket-to-ride/
Hopefully seeing a florist on Saturday too, so can start thinking about what we want.
Oh and 'bridal bob or not' is back in force after seeing this post:
http://www.london-bride.com/2011/09/bobbed-brides-glamorous-bob-hairstyles.html
I am thinking bob all the way! (Mainly because I am fed up of growing it)
I was also extremely excited about the launch of http://www.florencefinds.com/ - go take a peek!
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Monday, 17 October 2011
Thursday, 4 August 2011
10 Months to go... well nearly
10 Months until Wee Day (can I call it that?, I like that it sounds like D-Day!)
10 months until the wedding and I am in that weird limbo stage again... anyone else suffer from it? (Mainly procrastinators and dreamers no doubt)
Our wedding planning as gone a bit like this:
Engaged: look at ring, read a 1000 different blogs, buy 100 magazines, have a new idea every other minute. (This happened for about 2 months)
Make decisions: looked at a few venues, one was pretty and didn’t smell funny and could offer us a BBQ: booked and deposit paid.
Make another decision: 2 months later, look into photographers, find a few we like, book Tom Smith because we like his pictures and he seems like a very nice man and deposit paid
Found local hotel, with nice big room for me to get ready in: booked
DJ, like his website, booked.
Registrar: went to local council offices, told them we are not related, sorted.
Found dress in February, didn’t want to pay full price, looked at loads of others, bought dress I originally wanted with 70% off.
I have basically got the essentials there: a location, some one to do the ceremony, some one professional to take nice pics, a BBQ, a posh dress, music and somewhere to stay afterwards....
My question is: what else is there to do other than 'fun stuff' (i.e. decorative items?)
If it wasn’t for saving the cash, I would have got married a lot quicker. It would reduce the chance of changing your mind constantly, and also spending many a week thinking 'surely I should be doing some kind of wedding planning?' Because when you have got to get stuff done, you just do it.
10 months until the wedding and I am in that weird limbo stage again... anyone else suffer from it? (Mainly procrastinators and dreamers no doubt)
Our wedding planning as gone a bit like this:
Engaged: look at ring, read a 1000 different blogs, buy 100 magazines, have a new idea every other minute. (This happened for about 2 months)
Make decisions: looked at a few venues, one was pretty and didn’t smell funny and could offer us a BBQ: booked and deposit paid.
Make another decision: 2 months later, look into photographers, find a few we like, book Tom Smith because we like his pictures and he seems like a very nice man and deposit paid
Found local hotel, with nice big room for me to get ready in: booked
DJ, like his website, booked.
Registrar: went to local council offices, told them we are not related, sorted.
Found dress in February, didn’t want to pay full price, looked at loads of others, bought dress I originally wanted with 70% off.
I have basically got the essentials there: a location, some one to do the ceremony, some one professional to take nice pics, a BBQ, a posh dress, music and somewhere to stay afterwards....
My question is: what else is there to do other than 'fun stuff' (i.e. decorative items?)
If it wasn’t for saving the cash, I would have got married a lot quicker. It would reduce the chance of changing your mind constantly, and also spending many a week thinking 'surely I should be doing some kind of wedding planning?' Because when you have got to get stuff done, you just do it.
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Venue Decisions
Before I launch into how and why we chose where to get married, I thought it might be worth adding a little back story.
Mr C and I met in Devon, at University. I am from Wiltshire and the boy is Cardiff born and bred. I moved up to Cardiff (after spending a couple of years apart) 4 years ago. On a weekend break in Bath, he proposed.
When deciding on where we would get married, we first needed to pin it down to a location to look in.
Overseas? Well this was never really an option, I wanted to be able to have as many people there as we could reasonably afford.
Cardiff? It felt like cheating on the West Country
Devon? Surprisingly, didnt find an awful lot of places that floated my boat and if they did they didnt make sense as they weren't anywhere near where we used to live.
Brides Home town? Having not lived there for most of my adult life, it didnt really seem like the place to get married.
So where then?
Well we want it to be not too far from either parents but maybe with some kind of attachment?
So we started to look for venues in Bath, where we had got engaged. Not too far from Cardiff, not too far from home.
Oh my, we could get married in a Cinema!
Oh my, we could get married in the Roman Baths!
Oh my, we could have an Italian Restuarant reception! (if I had less guests, this would have been it - it was so lovely)
And then we sat down and thought about what we wanted:
Some outdoor space, just in case the sunshines
A pretty ceremony space
A BBQ (was always on the top of the list)
So we started to look for what we really really wanted and we found Wick Farm
And I cannot wait to marry Mr C there next June
PS Mr C referred to some of the places we visited as: 'The one that smelt of feet', 'The one that smelt of poo' and 'The one that smelt of semolina'.
Wick Farm was pleasantly odourless.
Mr C and I met in Devon, at University. I am from Wiltshire and the boy is Cardiff born and bred. I moved up to Cardiff (after spending a couple of years apart) 4 years ago. On a weekend break in Bath, he proposed.
When deciding on where we would get married, we first needed to pin it down to a location to look in.
Overseas? Well this was never really an option, I wanted to be able to have as many people there as we could reasonably afford.
Cardiff? It felt like cheating on the West Country
Devon? Surprisingly, didnt find an awful lot of places that floated my boat and if they did they didnt make sense as they weren't anywhere near where we used to live.
Brides Home town? Having not lived there for most of my adult life, it didnt really seem like the place to get married.
So where then?
Well we want it to be not too far from either parents but maybe with some kind of attachment?
So we started to look for venues in Bath, where we had got engaged. Not too far from Cardiff, not too far from home.
Oh my, we could get married in a Cinema!
Oh my, we could get married in the Roman Baths!
Oh my, we could have an Italian Restuarant reception! (if I had less guests, this would have been it - it was so lovely)
And then we sat down and thought about what we wanted:
Some outdoor space, just in case the sunshines
A pretty ceremony space
A BBQ (was always on the top of the list)
So we started to look for what we really really wanted and we found Wick Farm
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| Wick Farm, Farleigh Hungerford Source: www.wickfarmbath.co.uk/photo-gallery |
And I cannot wait to marry Mr C there next June
PS Mr C referred to some of the places we visited as: 'The one that smelt of feet', 'The one that smelt of poo' and 'The one that smelt of semolina'.
Wick Farm was pleasantly odourless.
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Getting Muddy
So I have been in Glastonbury for 5 days.... and now back to normality which is kind of weird.
On Monday I was scared of traffic....
Yesterday, the telephone at work gave me the heebie-jeebies
Today I am back to (some kind) of normality.
Mr C didn't come with me as (and I quote) 'its too big' for him. So, although I had a fab time, I really missed him.
He picked me up from the bus station and I was so please to see him I had a little cry. *shhhh don't tell anyone,
The festival got me thinking about the wedding and the amazing ideas you can take from a festival and incorporate into the big day
Prior to getting engaged, I really liked the idea of an outdoor ceremony and 'festival' esque theme. A friend of mines' boy wants to have a 3 day Wedfest. And I must admit the idea is amazing.
But bloody expensive... and also (and you do have to ask this in the UK) what happens if it rains?
So although we are getting married inside....it is in a barn.... it is on a farm*, in somerset.... and Prince will be playing at ours**
*Wick not Worthy
** live via the DJ ;o)
On Monday I was scared of traffic....
Yesterday, the telephone at work gave me the heebie-jeebies
Today I am back to (some kind) of normality.
Mr C didn't come with me as (and I quote) 'its too big' for him. So, although I had a fab time, I really missed him.
He picked me up from the bus station and I was so please to see him I had a little cry. *shhhh don't tell anyone,
The festival got me thinking about the wedding and the amazing ideas you can take from a festival and incorporate into the big day
Prior to getting engaged, I really liked the idea of an outdoor ceremony and 'festival' esque theme. A friend of mines' boy wants to have a 3 day Wedfest. And I must admit the idea is amazing.
But bloody expensive... and also (and you do have to ask this in the UK) what happens if it rains?
So although we are getting married inside....it is in a barn.... it is on a farm*, in somerset.... and Prince will be playing at ours**
*Wick not Worthy
** live via the DJ ;o)
Friday, 17 June 2011
Being Us….
A lot of people have ideas about their wedding day before they get engaged, and I must admit I had too.
As we had been together for 8 years when we got engaged, certain ideas had already crossed my mind and there has been one area which Mr C and I have discussed probably for about 4/5 years (out of 8 years together).
We talk about it most days.
For me, one of the most important parts of the day (oh after ceremony of course… maybe)… so much so that my dress decisions are being affected by it.
First Dance…..
Now I would quite like to learn some actual 'dance moves' Maybe Rock ‘n’ Roll classes, maybe Rumba, maybe Tango….
He had mentioned previously thay maybe we could go to a dance class
(I took this as YES WE CAN) but now he has changed his mind
And the other VERY IMPORTANT question is:
What will we have has as our first dance? (Also Ceremony Music has recently fallen into this discussion – apparently I am not allowed MJ here either…. Grrr)
Now 90% of the time the songs Mr C mentions are a joke, 10% actual real suggestions. Mr C has a habit of doing this where you have to work out 'what is Sarcasm, what is geniune'... I love this about him... and now I can nearly tell most of the time.... but some of the 10% actual real suggestions sometimes seem like a joke.
We spend hours playing on spotify, pick a song, dance around the room to it and then change our mind.
And I absolutely love this! It is currently my favourite time... sat there together in the evening, drinking wine, singing and dancing to songs that bring back all kinds of memories from the past 8 years.
Despite having quite different music tastes (in general) BUT you having been together for quite a while, there is definately more than ONE song….
And so, the more we play on spotify, the more the list grows, and so I think we may have music covered for most of the day. (yes it is a whole year away, I know, not very important to some this is what staying in does...can't go out to party? do it indoors)
Yet still no budging on the dance class or MJ for entrance/music.....
(NB. We met whilst doing a Theatre and Performance degree… just in case you weren’t sure)
As we had been together for 8 years when we got engaged, certain ideas had already crossed my mind and there has been one area which Mr C and I have discussed probably for about 4/5 years (out of 8 years together).
We talk about it most days.
For me, one of the most important parts of the day (oh after ceremony of course… maybe)… so much so that my dress decisions are being affected by it.
First Dance…..
Now I would quite like to learn some actual 'dance moves' Maybe Rock ‘n’ Roll classes, maybe Rumba, maybe Tango….
He had mentioned previously thay maybe we could go to a dance class
(I took this as YES WE CAN) but now he has changed his mind
And the other VERY IMPORTANT question is:
What will we have has as our first dance? (Also Ceremony Music has recently fallen into this discussion – apparently I am not allowed MJ here either…. Grrr)
Now 90% of the time the songs Mr C mentions are a joke, 10% actual real suggestions. Mr C has a habit of doing this where you have to work out 'what is Sarcasm, what is geniune'... I love this about him... and now I can nearly tell most of the time.... but some of the 10% actual real suggestions sometimes seem like a joke.
We spend hours playing on spotify, pick a song, dance around the room to it and then change our mind.
And I absolutely love this! It is currently my favourite time... sat there together in the evening, drinking wine, singing and dancing to songs that bring back all kinds of memories from the past 8 years.
Despite having quite different music tastes (in general) BUT you having been together for quite a while, there is definately more than ONE song….
And so, the more we play on spotify, the more the list grows, and so I think we may have music covered for most of the day. (yes it is a whole year away, I know, not very important to some this is what staying in does...can't go out to party? do it indoors)
Yet still no budging on the dance class or MJ for entrance/music.....
(NB. We met whilst doing a Theatre and Performance degree… just in case you weren’t sure)
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