Sometimes, just sometimes during this pandemic, there’s a shift and just for a fleeting glance, it feels different. Just for a second, you forget there’s a world health crisis, forget you’re in lockdown, forget your troubles and actually enjoy it for a minute.
Read MoreYes, the pre wedding period might be full of planning, decisions and admin but that honeymoon phase has a pretty hefty checklist to follow too - especially if you change your name. From updating your details everywhere to opening a joint bank account (we never needed one until people wrote cheques in both our names in our cards). From writing thank yous to collecting your photos to selling your leftover decor - there’s a mountain of jobs to do.
Read MoreWedding planning is A LOT - that we have established. And whether you’re having the full affair or something more low key, whether your budget is a few hundred or a few thousand, whether you’re taking the traditional route or not, there is a lot of work that goes in before a wedding day comes about.
Read MoreWe booked our honeymoon back in November or December of last year but we’d settled on the plan a little while before that. We thought quite a bit about where we wanted to go and Jos’ passport has expired and whilst we really need to get around to renewing it, we’d pretty much already made up our minds on what we wanted to do.
Read MoreOur venue had all of February and March free so we could pick a date that suited us. We got together on 7th May 2010 and engaged on 7th October 2018 so getting hitched on 7th February 2020 which was a Friday made pleasant sense, combined with the fact it was my Mum’s birthday that weekend too seemed fun and so we booked it.
Read MoreWeddings are going to cost you money, there is no two ways about that. There is no such thing as a free wedding, even if you do the bare minimum legally with not a single frill or even a celebratory meal afterward, it costs to give legal notice and get your wedding certificate. And the more you add on to your day the more the cost adds up and even those who profess to have a ‘cheap’ wedding can easily spend a grand. A cheap wedding these days is a few thousand, with the average British wedding costing £31,974 you need a decent amount of cash behind you for your big day.
Read MoreA month on and the wedding is already a bit of a blur, all mixed into one playlist of songs and no idea what happened when and a haze of hugs and thank yous. I have a list of post wedding admin and jobs I need to get round to doing and one of them is writing down exactly how the order of the day went so I don’t forget and another is recording my favourite stand out memories so they stay with me forever.
Read MoreWe’ll be going on a 10 day honeymoon to celebrate 10 years together over the early May bank holiday (more on that to come in the next month) so we booked a few days away only a car drive away on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.
Read More9 years and 9 months to the day we got together, 1 year and 4 months to the day we got engaged and 11 months to the day we booked our wedding - we got married in a 3 day weekend of chaos, festivities and stormy weather.
I’ll be going into the who, the what, the why and the wherefore in the next month so for today, here’s a little run down of how we celebrated.
Read MoreOhhh yes, after a few years ‘off’ regular blogging, I am coming back for one solid month of wedding spam - because if you can’t rinse the biggest weekend of your life for content then what’s the point?
Read MoreI am mid way through setting up my 2019 bullet journal (a post coming on that when I have time to photograph it) and I have massively streamlined it. One spread that has made the cut though is 15 questions I have posed to myself.
Read MoreIt's that time of year when students are thinking about packing their lives back into boxes (or maybe didn't unpack all summer?) and heading back off to university. It's that time of year Mum's & Dad's around the country heave a sigh of relief as the car of their twenty something overgrown child rounds the corner. It's that time of year you start getting Fresher's deals emails through your inbox and that time of year those of us who have graduated curse our lack of student discount.
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