Zombie bride

The Photobook arrived, all our photos glossy against the black shiny pages.  It all looks good, apart from the photo on the last page, a big portrait of the two of us smiling at the camera.  For some reason the colour on the printing is off, and my lips are a blue grey colour - [...]

A white dress

I’ve been trying to decide what I should do with my wedding dress, which is hanging up in the study still un-dry-cleaned. I know I should have had it cleaned before now, but I’ve been trying to decide whether to fork out the money to have it put in a box with a window [...]

Returns

It’s hard trying to get back into blog writing after what feels like a long time away. I never know where to start - methodically recap my time away from the very beginning, or refer to it briefly before getting back into my usual day-to-day writing. I don’t know how people who only [...]

Final days

The dressmaker wants to make a few teeny-tiny final adjustments to the dress, and so I’m picking it up on Thursday. I hope she’s properly grateful that I’m not too neurotic, and am therefore not pitching a fit about picking up the dress two days before the wedding.
Although her perpetual vagueness has annoyed [...]

Hair trial

1. *sings, to a strange version of Angel of Music from Phantom of the Opera* Eight days to go til the wedding… eight days to go til the wedding… my dress may not be finished, but everything else is done, and I’m really past stressing at this staaaaage…
2. Isn’t my hair pretty and twirly? I [...]

Inner secrets of handshakes

I’ve been sending off great piles of very dull emails recently, mostly saying, “Just wanting to confirm that blah blah blah”, “blah blah” in this case equalling a number of wedding details and payments - mostly payments, thank goodness. I am sick of thinking about details. The florist who is making our bouquets called me [...]

Bread breaking out

“Crap!” screamed the man in the van, screeching to a halt next to the set of traffic lights where Smoking Lawyer and I were waiting to cross the road. (In fact, he said something a little ruder than crap.) He shouted it again, and then leapt out of the van into the road, where three [...]

Hens night (where does the aprostrophe go?)

LanternsOriginally uploaded by cee.rose.
I went to a hens night last night, which thankfully didn’t involve a stripper, but did involve penis shaped straws and a Pin the Macho on the Man game (macho being a euphemism for a paper penis in this instance). When I told my mother on the phone that I hoped there [...]

I can hear music

Thanks to my father offering to pay for a band to play at our wedding reception (and me letting him do so - past experience has taught me that if I tell him I don’t want him to pay for something, he will just deposit money directly into my bank account and then refuse to [...]

Painted face

I’ve recently been buying and experimenting with makeup in preparation for doing my own for the wedding. Usually, I’m completely barefaced, especially at work during the week. I tend to go to the gym in my lunch hour, which makes wearing make-up fairly pointless, and while I like the way I look with makeup on, [...]