wedding jitters July 21, 2009

I finish work today. Today! Cripes!  Have just been treated to flowers and cakes from the work girls all to the wedding march tune! Bless them – a lovely surprise.  I actually drove the camper van into work today to get over any jitters I have about driving it round. It all went fabulously well and is now parked right at the entrance of work on display to all!

Aside from the camper-tastic-ness, somehow the wedding is now only four sleeps  away and it seems unbelievable that it’s crept up on us so soon! We’ve leapt from three months to less than a week and time has absolutely flown. Admittedly I’ve been focused on my bridal bootcamp regime a fair bit and painting Trevor like it’s going out of fashion, and life has been manic to say the least, so the wedding has kinda crept up on me…

Anyhoo, to add to general realisation that the Big Day is not far off, there we were in church Sunday and our names were in the newsletter as a forthcoming wedding – in black and white, there it was! Added to that, our lovely priest singled us out at the end of Mass highlighting our forthcoming nuptials – cue lots of well-wishers shaking hands, offering good luck and some dishing out advice. The priest reckons we look chilled out, which we probably do in all fairness (it was 0830 and my worry genes hadn’t woken up by then).

Having said we look chilled out though and with The Boy usually in a state of placidness as far as stress goes, this morning Boy revealed he’d had his first wedding related dream. His first, a week beforehand! (I’m shocked as I’ve been dreaming about it for years. literally.) Anyway. The dream wasn’t great and basically everything was running late. Now, this gives me an indication that under The Boy’s calm exterior is a shot of panic somewhere. Compare this to my dreams (for about 18months) of tripping over shoes, dress being ruined by peanut butter bagel on the morning, Boy being drunk, guests stuck in mudfield at reception, PA system not working, camper van being nicked, Priest ill on the day etc etc. You get the idea.  But this is all in my head and I’m telling myself to relax, be calm and enjoy the day on Saturday. It’ll only happen once and whatever happens, it’s going to be ACE!

Bride Speech July 14, 2009

I’ve decided to do a speech myself at the wedding – after all where there’s wine, a mic and an audience, I’m usually likely to strike up into song so I figured I should prepare and do something other than a rugby tune!

So, I’m well into my speech concept. I don’t want it to be slushy or too lovey-dovey as that’s not our style. I’m aiming for cute and comedic.  I think my idea is ace and it’s involving a bit of additional preparation involving a talented work colleague and a bit of internet research. Hopefully The Boy will like it and it’ll get some laughs.  I’m a bit nervous about it but I reckon by the time I get round to standing up I’ll have had at least one champers for dutch courage.

Talking of speeches, my Dad emailed me a draft of his Father of the Bride speech as Mum told him to let me look at it. I was in a total quandry as I felt I oughtn’t look at it, but some colleagues were recommending I did check it over. So, being curious, and a control freak, I did look. It was completely ace as I had expected and Dad noted that he has some more material up his sleeve so I’m expecting some surprises too! Bless him.

Dad being a doubly good Dad to have if you are getting married, is also doing our wedding cake and I’ve just seen pics of the cake topper we ordered to go with the themed cake. Totally brill, the lady doing it is soooo talented – you can see some of her work here. I can’t wait to see it altogether on the day…and to stuff my face with cake (now on week five of bridal bootcamp. I seriously can’t wait to eat good nice naughty food!!).

tarting up trevor July 6, 2009

Not long until the big unveiling of Trevor, the honeymoon vehicle, at the wedding. The Boy and I are cracking on with painting him up – here’s some initial pics:

This is the ‘country garden’ side of the van so eventually there’ll be some green involved.

This side will be the ‘beach’ scene. You can see we’ve started the sand and sky – sea and beach-type accessories are yet to come!

It’s fair to say, we’ve a fair bit to do yet…

Tinkering away July 6, 2009

Trying to keep some semblance of normality in the run up to the wedding, I’m continuing my piano lessons and although I don’t practice as much as I should or do my scales that frequently, I am really enjoying it. My piano teacher’s ace and is picking up on lots of elements of my playing which I haven’t addressed in the past, so it’s all good.

I’m currently attempting to play this Debussy (with mixed results, so far…):