I like to think that if I haven't been blogging for a while then it means I've been busy writing. And actually, for one, this is completely true. I've roasted 42k words on this latest draft of the novel and I am steaming through to the end. I have a lot of spare wordcount to work on and I feel as if this draft is the best one yet! Good things are coming in the world of Lexi and Tim.
I'll share more as soon as I have more. Watch this space!
This is Who We Are
I think a first dance is a very important part of a wedding and shouldn’t be overlooked.
It is easy for a bride and groom to think that the first dance is just an embarrassing part of the wedding where everyone watches you swaying around the dance floor for two and a half minutes.
But it doesn’t have to be. There are lots of ways to make your first wedding dance much more interesting!
A Spot of DIY
I wanted to post this video because I want to stress the point that you don’t have to spend zillions of pennies on an expensive wedding videographer.
I put this video together using a track I had from a CD I bought, Window Movie Maker, our professional photographers photos and a friend’s photos, and some video my little brother shot for us.
Together with the price of the CD, the video camera and using the professional photos we have already paid for, this video cost barely a fraction of the cost of some videographers.
Let me know what you think:
It’s All in the Details
Every bride spends hours and hours pouring over the tiny details in her wedding: the colour of the chair sashes, the twinkly flowers on the table names, the diamante scatters across the table – it all has to match and coordinate.
The logo’d photographs were taken by Clive Blair and they are utterly amazing!
My poor husband was dragged from Hobby Craft to Confetti, from wedding shop to flower shop to make sure that we coordinated all our tiny details.
My bridal shoes are probably one of the tiny touches that no one really saw, so here they are! I bought them in 2007 from China, they were custom made and I even designed them myself!
And my tiara, one of my favourite pieces from the wedding. I think I’ll keep it forever and wear it when I feel sad just to cheer myself up. It’s so beautiful!
Our Wedding Reception
From the big, red bus to our first dance, every moment was wonderful!
We arrived at the reception venue before all our other guests which gave our fantastic photographer, Clive Blair, the opportunity to take some beautiful photographs of us.
Our Wedding
On a wet Saturday in April, I married my husband. After nine years of relationship and two and a half years of planning, we tied the knot!
And it was the most magical day of our lives.
Before I continue, I want to say a big thank you to Clive Blair, our amazing photographer for letting me use these photos in my blog. I was totally blown away by the photos and am really looking forward to sharing them with you.
We Got Pretend Married! Twice!
It was really surreal going to the church and getting married. For a start, we had a double wedding!
Our church is a very busy church, there are two weddings at our church on our wedding day. (We’re first!) So to save time, our vicar pretend married two of us at once.
I’ll start from the beginning.
Necrophilia?
I’m not the biggest fan of the Twilight saga, but with a wedding featuring in the latest movie I am inclined to take notice.
I actually lasted twenty minutes into the first film, the hormones and teen angst made me reach for my remote. I didn’t enjoy it when I was a teenager and don’t really want to watch films with it in, but the films became very popular.
picture from twilightmovies.org/wallpaper.php
The only thing is, would you really want to marry a vampire?
I Wouldn’t
For this discussion, lets assume vampires are real. Right, got that out the way, now lets remember that vampires are human predators.
picture from uk.gamespy.com/articles/116/1168324p1.html
On Top of It All : –)
The world mainly. I’m so happy, so excited, so over the moon! Everything is progressing nicely and it’s all coming together!
It is really hard to realise that our wedding is only 10 days away. I can still remember telling everyone on Facebook that our wedding was 300 days away! It feels like yesterday!!
So much has happened since over the last few years: lots of my friends have got married, lots of my friends have had babies! I started a new job and had an Ofsted. We’ve had our hen and stag do’s and made a few more friends.
The whole experience has been a roller coaster ride and it’s not even finished yet!
I’ll update you with what’s been going on recently.
Just today…
I used Blurb to make a scrap book about our wedding. I included the photos I have of h2b in his suits, me in all the wedding dresses I tried on, photos of my hen do and h2b’s stag do, as a memory of our wedding preparation.
The Countdown Continues
It has been quite a while since my last blog post because we have been so busy! I have a rather busy job as well, so trying to do that and prepare for the wedding is making me super busy!
Picture from spaweekblog.com/tag/bridal/
(The post it notes are so so so true! My colleagues know! lol)
So many things have been done! It’s really exciting!
I can’t believe that it’s only 18 days away! I’m so excited, I’m going to pop!
H2b and I have been a rather excited team, tackling all our tasks together. H2b is taking over from me when I need to do my day job and we’re working together to see what needs to be done, which is really nice.
It’s a very strange feeling to think I’m going to be a married woman in a few days! I mean, nothing will really change, except my name and my legal status, but it seems like such a huge thing to be married.
We have got loads of tasks for the wedding done….
To Sell or Not to Sell?
This is a very difficult and personal question: After your wedding, will you sell on your wedding dress?
It an be quite a touchy subject, there are lots of opinions either side of the argument, but which answer is best for you?
This question came up when a friend of mine recently sold her wedding dress. In this economic climate, can we afford not to sell our dresses?
Checking the To Do List
As the days are ticking closer and closer to our big day, I’m getting more and more concerned that we have got everything ready.
Like most brides, I want our wedding to be perfect. I don’t want anything to go wrong or be forgotten, so with a month to go, I am checking and rechecking my To Do List.
picture from ohsobeautifulpaper.com
Going over my To Do list really helps me to calm down and realised that everything we have to do is manageable.
Little Messages for the Bride and Groom
I’ve been looking for a guest book for our wedding for quite a while. I was after something really different and while wandering around looking for table name stands, I managed to find the perfect one!
It’s made from wood and has about 80 pages inside. It’s actually really heavy but I really liked it.
My Wedding Dress is Awkward
I love love love my dress. Every time I wear it I think it’s more and more beautiful: It squeezes me in, it’s sparkly, it’s got a fantastic skirt (in my opinion), I just think it’s amazing!
The only problem is, can I dance in it?
Every time I went out to look at a wedding dress, the one thing that h2b said to me was, “Make sure you can dance in it.” Now, I have blogged before about how difficult it was to find a wedding dress. I’m going to admit that being able to dance in the dress wasn’t the highest priority after the first 15 dresses.
All I wanted to do at that point was find a dress I liked!
picture from www.mydaily.com
A Rather Successful Making Day
In short, progress has been made on the photo booth and the table plan is done!
It took 9 hours of hard work, but we made it!
H2b and I had some words about the wall but now I think he’s all on top of it. We have finalised the design and h2b knows where he’s going with the idea.
H2b has been working so hard on the booth, I really can’t wait to see what it looks like!
Although Things are Ticking Along
It is only six weeks until my h2b and I tie the knot. He seems very calm. I am not very calm.
I think I feel as if I’ve got all this wedding stuff to do and it’s not being done. I feel like one of those brides on Wedding SOS who get to three days before the wedding and still haven’t bought a dress or something ridiculous like that.
It’s not until I write a blog post like this that I realise I’m actually on top of most things.
An Hour and a Half in my Wedding Dress
The title of this post is the best thing about today! I had to stand in my wedding dress for an hour and a half!
This isn’t me in the picture, but I was picking up the layers of my wedding dress so that the seamstress could make adjustments to the dress.
I can not express how different my dress looks now that it’s been shortened. It is as if the dress is MY dress, the length of the dress is perfect! The seamstress had only pinned up my dress to adjust it later but it felt so different.
The only problem was the bustle.
