The Cat

She may or may not have practically fallen off the window sill not long after this photo was taken and then stalked off like she was too cool for school throwing the window sill dirty looks.

How well do you know the bride?

Readers, for what feels like the umpteenth time I need your help.

On Friday, ash cloud permitting, #1 & #2 will be arriving for my hen weekend. We are having a day at a spa and then a girly night in. My hen organising committee have asked me to come up with a "how well do you know the bride" quiz to help break the ice and to help all the wonderful ladies in my life get to know each other. So do you have any suggestions for questions?

My weekend:

Plenty of girl banter
Sisterly catch ups
Full body massage
relaxing in the sauna
Drinking - not much for me, I can count on one hand the number of drinks I've had this year so far. Drink does not agree with me at all!
Not very much sleep

His weekend:
Cleaning the flat
Printing invitation inserts
Cutting card for the inserts
Printing envelopes
Sleep
Bath

p.s. One of the organising committee actually reads the blog. Yup a real life person - when I get a free second I will tell you all about her but at the moment she has lost the link to the blog and is waiting for me to send her it again.

Stag Do

I'm feeling all out of sorts my boy is off on his stag do. 

His weekend:
Plenty of boy banter
Surfing
Drinking
A long journey
Not very much sleep

My weekend:
Cleaning the flat
Eating lots of unhealthy snacks
Watching lots of rubbish TV
Printing our invitations
Gluing bits of card for the invitations
Printing envelopes
Sleep
Bath
Reading

Random Fact

So as a break from all this wedding crap I thought I'd give you a random fact about me. I'm scared of filling hot water bottles. I luurrrrvvvve hot water bottles and could cosy up with one any day. But actually filling them fills me with dread. When I was young, about 9 or 10, I was filling a hot water bottle, it made some strange gurgling noise and scalding hot water erupted out the top all over my hand. Luckily #2 who was babysitting* immediately shoved my hand under cold water and held it there for a really long time. The day stands out in my mind not only because I nearly scarred myself for life. But because it was the day that I gave my pet rabbit away to the "farm**". She was a bitch of the highest order and my parents convinced me that by giving her away to a farm she would calm down and make her a lot happier.
This isn't my hot water bottle, I'm inordinately attached to a hot water bottle with an owl*** cover which was given to me by my Nana about a year or so before she passed away.

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*I imagine she will have got into quite a bit of trouble for allowing me near the kettle

** Not sure what really happened, maybe she did go to a farm
*** Too well loved to publish photos 

Baby Boom

When we first got engaged the only two children on the guest list were my niece and nephew and I don’t really count them as children. Since then though:
At the end of September my friend had a baby boy. She was the first of our peers to have a baby. Her son will be 10 months old by our wedding and running around causing chaos. I can’t wait to see him in his little suit and he happens to have the cutest smile I’ve ever seen.
At the end of January our new nephew arrived. He will be hitting the six month mark by the wedding. I might be biased but he is stunning.
Last Friday one of O’s friends had a baby girl, she was born a week early but at 7lbs11 I’m sure her Mum is grateful. This is the first baby amongst O’s friends and I think he is freaking out slightly that one of his friends is a Dad.
That is it for the day guests of our evening guests there are two more babies due before the wedding. One due in the next couple of weeks and another at the beginning of June. Oh and my makeup artist (good friend) has just had her 12 week scan, they are having an alien apparently either that or the scan wasn't very clear.
I’m looking forward to having lots of little ones at the wedding it just seems to be the stage of life our friends are at and it is wonderful to share that with them*. Our venue almost had a heart attack when we told them there could potentially be 5 babies at the wedding they only have 3 high-chairs, I’m not sure if they were horrified or relieved that most of them will be too small for high chairs.
So lovely readers I’m looking for any tips/advice you might have about how we can make the day easier for all the little families that will be in attendance?

*if you are not having children at your wedding that is your decision, we just made a different one.

Weekend

I managed to get myself on a course in Leeds so we are having weekend at my parent's house courtesy of my work. On the list:

Visit the jewellers to pick up O's wedding ring and to leave my engagement ring so the wedding band can be made to fit along side it. Really don't want to give them my engagement ring but it will be worth it.

I'm sure there will be plenty of wedding chat.

Saturday night:

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We are going to see the Blues Brothers with my parents. There will be singing and dancing, O might get very embarrassed. I promised that we wouldn't get dressed up.

Flowers all around

Oops posted too early by mistake sorry

So the florist* is booked, we are having low square glass vases filled with vendela roses, blue delphiniums, lilac, freesias, white veronica and silver green foliage. I'm having a tear drop bouquet and my girls are having hand tied posies. The boys will be having thistles as button holes. I'm waiting for my Mum and O's Mum to decide on what flowers they might want. Here are some of the flowers I sent to the florist for inspiration:

*we got on really well and she agreed to stick to my budget

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As my florist pointed out most of these are purple not blue which is what I'm going for. Huh?!

Shoes, Shoes, Shoes

Remember I wanted these but flat?

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Well I've ended up with these:

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Oh and these:

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Oh and these:

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Don't ask I don't know.

Mother of the Bride

My Mum has bought her Mother of the Bride outfit. I think she might be the most glamourous person at the wedding - she will beat me hands down.

My Mum is difficult to shop for, being petite and having a upper half a different size to her bottom half it isn't easy to find things that fit her. She also hates shopping. #1 & 2 took her for a day with a personal shopper and this was the outfit that they came up with, a whole day and they only came up with one outfit. I had to cut off the hat they chose because I can't figure out how to blank out just her face (such a nice way to talk about my mother). My Mum's words it is "ok" if I can't find anything it will be the one. Huh, who would have thought that MoB shopping would be the same as wedding dress shopping. There isn't the perfect outfit just a "one" that will do. Anyway I happen to think she looks fabulous in her "ok" outfit.

Pft

Thank you for your lovely comments on my last post. I'm still not back to "normal" but I'm working on it. Instead of trying to write anything sensible for the next wee while I thought I'd just show you some details. Concentrate on the things that I have done instead of worrying about what is still on the list.