I know I should apologise for not updating my blog with proper ‘interesting’ (is it ever?) content, so I am not going to. However I will say that I feel like I have let myself down with not keeping it up, but with good reason I think. Work has been super stressful… Read More
(source) I get married on 17th November, around 8 weeks away. I will be a Mrs. I’m just not sure what will come after the ‘Mrs’. I have lived all my life with a double barrelled surname, I learnt to write it before I started at primary school and have had to spell it… Read More
Shorts: ancient. Jumper: peacocks. Scarf: Primark. Turtle Belt: Dorothy Perkins I hardly ever wear pink, but actually I think it suits me! What doesn’t suit me is the dark bags under my eyes, I think I need to start wearing concealer! I’m blaming wedding stress and friend stress and general stress. Plus I have some… Read More
In August my friend Yasmin got married, and because she did it on Scotland she was allowed an outside ceremony at her parents house, unlike here in England. sock bunting, and a ceilidh, whisky & an amazing outdoor ceremony. It was perfect and if my wedding guests look HALF as happy… Read More
So this Saturday marks 12 weeks till the Wedding, the invites (that took bloody hours to hand make!) have been sent and the RSVPs are starting to come back in. I am currently feeling half relaxed, all the big things are done, and until we get all the RSVPs back there’s not much else I… Read More
[my wedding related posts were going to be ‘wedding wonders’ but this is more woeful] I didn’t want a big white wedding. I didn’t want a wedding at all in fact. I had no desire to get married before meeting Sam, and mainly I agreed because it really means a lot to him. He’s… Read More
So I bought a wedding dress. It was kind of an impulse buy. It was 20% off, but it was still £150 over my very minimal budget for a dress. The dress is lovely, and bar having to lose my rather rounded belly in 6 months I like it. BUT (always a but!)… Read More
Bouquets, from the extremely extravagant to the petite posies… There are just so many to choose from! I cant decide what I want. To be honest I am kind of tackling this tiny little decision first so avoid bigger ones (how are we going to make the seating plan so that each of our divorced… Read More
All the pictures in this post are taken by the beautiful and beautifully talented Laura McCluskey. I couldn’t even begin to choose my favourite pictures, as they are all special in their own way, but I have chosen a little selection to show here… On the first Saturday of the year we spent the whole… Read More
This past weekend I time up in Norfolk. We drove up after work on friday, via Ipswich to have dinner at a friends house. The journey was arduous and tiring to say the least, its highly irritating when people bump into each other causing one lane of the a12 to be shut at peak time… Read More