Category Archives: Blogger Brides

I can’t believe that it’s already been a month since the wed­ding. Time really has flown – our hon­ey­moon seemed to flash by in the blink of an eye, and we’ve set­tled into mar­ried life so eas­ily that it feels things were always this way (in a good way, of course!). I’ve not expe­ri­enced the post-wedding blues that so many peo­ple talk about – we had our spe­cial day and yes, it’s over, but now we’re embark­ing on an even more excit­ing stage of our lives.  Read more…

The wed­ding is on Fri­day (can’t believe it’s nearly here!) so I must keep this brief – I’ve got orders of ser­vice to tie together and a house to clean before we go on hon­ey­moon. I just thought I’d share with you some pic­tures of my very spe­cial hen day, organ­ised by Maid of Hon­our extra­or­di­naire Alexan­dra. Alexan­dra and I have been best friends for 19 years, and she really pulled out all the stops for an amaz­ing day.  Read more…

Just a short post, as we’re off shortly to try to find Paul an out­fit. Like me, he doesn’t want to wear some­thing des­per­ately tra­di­tional – he’s think­ing either an inter­est­ing jacket and trousers (as opposed to a match­ing suit) or a waist­coat with­out a jacket. We shall have to see what Blue­wa­ter has along those lines…

My brides­maids have all been send­ing me pic­tures of the dresses they will be wear­ing (I let them choose). It’s safe to say they are all going to look fan­tas­tic. So far there will be two brides­maids in green, one in red, one in blue and one in black (there are still three whose dresses I’ve not seen yet). It’s going to be fab­u­lously colour­ful, and I think the dresses will look great with the ori­en­tal fans that I gave the girls instead of bou­quets.  Read more…

With just six weeks to go, the wed­ding seems to have rolled around pretty quickly. We planned a fairly short engage­ment (we got engaged in April, wed­ding is in Sep­tem­ber) but it still seems to have gone super fast and I really need to get my act together as there are still lots of things left to do! We need to find Paul some­thing to wear, sort our rings, meet with the reg­is­trars, find me some lin­gerie, fin­ish mak­ing the orders of ser­vice, organ­ise the music…the list goes on. Unfor­tu­nately I’ve been feel­ing pretty ill recently, which is why there’s still quite so much left unsorted (I’m not usu­ally that dis­or­gan­ised, hon­est!). I’m also very wor­ried about feel­ing ill on the day itself, but there’s not much I can do about that except keep a pos­i­tive atti­tude, so that’s what I’m going to try and do.  Read more…

I’ve not been feel­ing too well recently, which means wed­ding plan­ning has slightly been put on the back burner. It’s only two months to go now, but due to our fairly laid back approach and all my mum’s help there’s not actu­ally that much left to do. (Although hav­ing said that, Paul doesn’t yet have any­thing to wear on the day and we haven’t sorted our rings. But that’s what July and August are for).  Read more…

The first thing most newly engaged women think about (after the romance of the pro­posal has had time to sink in, of course) is the dress. If you are any­thing like me, you’ll have been imag­in­ing wear­ing a wed­ding dress since you were a young girl, and the like­li­hood is you already have an idea in mind of the sort of thing you are after. Acces­sories, how­ever, are a whole dif­fer­ent ball game. Most lit­tle girls dream­ing of mar­ry­ing their prince don’t pay much atten­tion to what shoes they are going to wear, or what jew­ellery to match to their dress. It can there­fore be a bit daunt­ing when you realise that you have the dress of your dreams but have absolutely no idea what to put with it. After some care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion, here’s what I’ve ended up choos­ing to acces­sorize my vin­tage 1970s maxi dress with on the big day:  Read more…

I’ve been able to tick off some big things from the To Do list this week!

On Sat­ur­day we went to the travel agent to talk about our hon­ey­moon. We got some options, had some ideas and then on Tues­day we went back and booked the hon­ey­moon!

Pos­si­bly the most excit­ing part of book­ing the hon­ey­moon is that we booked it in my mar­ried name! This does mean that I have to make sure I get my pass­port sorted in the right name. I have gone to the .gov.uk web­site to make sure I get it all done right.  Read more…