I'm sure every woman spent some point during their childhood dressed up in their mum's clothes, shoes and/or jewellery. There was always something exciting about putting those high heels on, or wearing that hat and parading in front of the mirror. For me, it was rollers! My mum had a big tin of hair rollers that she kept in the drawer. For some reason I loved playing with them, trying to put them in my hair. I never actually remember seeing my mum with them in, but somehow playing with them made me feel very grown up.
Tonight I have been helping one of my real forum friends (as mentioned in previous post) choose her bridal accessories. So, armed with some borrowed tiaras and veils from work I arrived at her house as excited as a child getting ready to put the heels on! As she opened the door, it was a relief to see she was just as excited, maybe even more so!
The result of my outing was that she has now chosen the tiara and veil she wants, which I have to say did look very nice on her.
So that was my night, grown women having a coffee and dressing up in bridal accessories. It just goes to show that you are never too old to play dressing up!
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Monday, 30 March 2009
Forums and Friendships
One of the first things I recommend to anyone planning a wedding would be to join a wedding forum. Now, a lot of people may think it's quite nerdy and some may think it's weird, but it's the best thing I ever did.
For example, most friends and family members will get excited when you tell them about your dress or accessories, but how many will get excited when you order your favour boxes or choose your menus? This is where the forum comes in, you can share all these details and people will listen, and comment, and even get excited! You will no longer have to bore your work colleagues and even husband to be with all these litte details. Ok, some people may not be bored, but the majority of those who ask how the wedding planning is going, probably just want a quick answer such as 'good thanks'. The other good thing about a forum is the opinions and advice that can be gained from other people.
There is also the social factor, not all the chat that goes on is about weddings, and in a strange way you begin to build virtual friendships with these people you may never get to meet in the real world. You are with them throughout their wedding planning, through the ups and the downs, and when they get to their big day, you get excited for them and even look outside at the weather and think of them!
I have been lucky, not only have I built some of these virtual friendships but have been lucky to start building real friendships with a couple of these people. One of them lives nearby and our paths would probably have never crossed had we not both been members of this forum. I have not only had the opportunity to read about her wedding plans but to help in a small part of it too, and am looking forward to attending her evening reception later this year. My other real forum friend (as opposed to the virtual forum friends), I talk to online nearly every night, I have even travelled just to meet her. They have both helped me out with my wedding planning and with unrelated problems too, and I feel very honoured to have met them both.
For example, most friends and family members will get excited when you tell them about your dress or accessories, but how many will get excited when you order your favour boxes or choose your menus? This is where the forum comes in, you can share all these details and people will listen, and comment, and even get excited! You will no longer have to bore your work colleagues and even husband to be with all these litte details. Ok, some people may not be bored, but the majority of those who ask how the wedding planning is going, probably just want a quick answer such as 'good thanks'. The other good thing about a forum is the opinions and advice that can be gained from other people.
There is also the social factor, not all the chat that goes on is about weddings, and in a strange way you begin to build virtual friendships with these people you may never get to meet in the real world. You are with them throughout their wedding planning, through the ups and the downs, and when they get to their big day, you get excited for them and even look outside at the weather and think of them!
I have been lucky, not only have I built some of these virtual friendships but have been lucky to start building real friendships with a couple of these people. One of them lives nearby and our paths would probably have never crossed had we not both been members of this forum. I have not only had the opportunity to read about her wedding plans but to help in a small part of it too, and am looking forward to attending her evening reception later this year. My other real forum friend (as opposed to the virtual forum friends), I talk to online nearly every night, I have even travelled just to meet her. They have both helped me out with my wedding planning and with unrelated problems too, and I feel very honoured to have met them both.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Welcome!
Welcome to my blog! I have never written one before, but I guess it will be like writing a diary. I kept loads of those during my teenage years, although I only kept up the writing for a few weeks each time. Lets hope I keep this up a bit longer and that the content is a little more interesting and stretches a little further than playground fallouts and teenage crushes!! This will be a complete set of ramblings about my life, my wedding planning and my general thoughts. Quite often I lie awake at night, unable to sleep, with millions of thoughts floating around in my head. I'm hoping by spilling them out on here, I might start getting a decent nights sleep every now and then!
Hope you don't get bored reading!
This time last year I was newly engaged to the perfect man, something I never thought would happen. I always thought I would be the girl stuck with the second choice man, the not quite perfect, the type you can never completely be yourself with. I never actually fully believed Mr Perfect existed. As I found out, he does, and life with him is perfect, I can be myself all the time, not just some of it. I can have pyjama days and make up free days, I can sing badly and laugh loudly and all the time be accepted as normal. As I said - Life is perfect!
So, over the last year we have been slowly starting to plan our big day. We have booked a beautiful church, a lovely reception venue, a pricey but fantastic photographer, and I have ordered the dress of my dreams. So basically we have started spending money on what will be one of the biggest purchases of our lives - a wedding - stick the word in front of anything and you can stick an extra zero on the end of the price tag!
During the next 16 months (if I haven't already bored you), you will be able to follow our planning which will (hopefully) end in the perfect day - THE BIG DAY!
Hope you don't get bored reading!
This time last year I was newly engaged to the perfect man, something I never thought would happen. I always thought I would be the girl stuck with the second choice man, the not quite perfect, the type you can never completely be yourself with. I never actually fully believed Mr Perfect existed. As I found out, he does, and life with him is perfect, I can be myself all the time, not just some of it. I can have pyjama days and make up free days, I can sing badly and laugh loudly and all the time be accepted as normal. As I said - Life is perfect!
So, over the last year we have been slowly starting to plan our big day. We have booked a beautiful church, a lovely reception venue, a pricey but fantastic photographer, and I have ordered the dress of my dreams. So basically we have started spending money on what will be one of the biggest purchases of our lives - a wedding - stick the word in front of anything and you can stick an extra zero on the end of the price tag!
During the next 16 months (if I haven't already bored you), you will be able to follow our planning which will (hopefully) end in the perfect day - THE BIG DAY!
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