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One Year, One Puppy, One House, One Baby!

One year ago, we were getting pruned and preened and dressed in our finest.  We were surrounded by our closest family and friends.  We drank the finest champagne and ate beautiful food, in gorgeous, romantic surroundings.  We tossed our shoes in the air and danced the night away to cheesy music.  We slept in a suite fit for a king and queen.  We woke in the morning full of plans for our future, before jetting off for a week of luxury and indulgence.

Today, we woke up together and got dressed in our grubbiest clothes.  We had a quick meal on the run in our local cafe, and a late, easy dinner at home.  We were running around after our puppy and our baby all day.  We still drank the finest champagne (one last bottle saved from the reception).  We watched the sun set over the river from our new bedroom.  We laughed at the TV.  We fell exhausted into bed.  We were woken up in the morning by our beautiful daughter and puppy, still full of plans for our future, before getting into our grubbies and continuing working, together.

I'm happier than I've ever been.  Happy anniversary gorgeous.

Snap !

Tonight we viewed our 'official' wedding photos.  It was supposed to take 1.5 hours - but it took 3.  We were supposed to select 75 photos - but we finally settled on 120 after being unable to delete so many.  Or maybe it's because it was 11pm and we'd already sorted through 200!

One Month On

So it's been one month today since we got married, and life is good.  It's been a gorgeous sunny day, so Aaron dragged me out of work early and took me to the terrace at All Bar One Canary Wharf to celebrate with a glass of champagne or two.

Honeymooooon

Off on honeymoon!  Two weeks of sleeping, eating, drinking, sun, sand, snorkelling and shagging.  Yeah!

Hitched !

We did it !  A and I got married today !  And it was the best, most romantic, intimate and beautiful day ever...

And I just want to say thank you to my family for being there.

Running Away

As a bit of a surprise, I hired a Porsche Boxster convertible for the weekend, for A to drive to the wedding, and to take us to Heathrow for our honeymoon.  It's the first time I've ever seen A so jump-up-and-down excited.  It's a beautiful machine.  So to celebrate and partly to escape some of the pre-wedding stress and spend some normal time together, we took off in the Porsche early this morning on a bit of a road trip down to Little Hampton on the south coast.  Zoomed along the little country roads, walked on the beach, felt the sea breeze, and had an English breakfast at a cute little caff (bacon, eggs, beans and toast).  A good start to the wedding weekend.

I Have Dress

Picked up my dress today, with only four days to go!  Woohoo!

Hen Night

Today I am recovering from my fab hen night.  Came home to the flat yesterday afternoon after running around organising some stuff to find balloons and banners all over the place.  I was also given a ceremonial singlet to wear, and it was too stylish - covered in bad and embarrassing photos of the husband to be.  Which I had to wear all night, to the posh restaurant at Wimbledon Dogs.  Great night, even though I didn't win a single thing.  Our tote lady reckons it's because I'm lucky in love.  Awww!

First Fitting. Again.

So after the shoeless and clueless effort last week, I finally had my first fitting of my wedding dress today.  Oh yeah, so it sounds all nice and dreamy and romantic, but really, when you are standing around in a bridal shop, nearly starkers, being poured into a frothy and pristinely white dress, and being squeezed and pushed and pulled and pinned, well... it really was magical.

Beauty Countdown

I might be only three months behind the advised schedule - hang on a sec, does anyone really follow these?  I mean really, does anyone actually go for regular facials for three whole months before a wedding, or get botox to curb that pesky problem with sweating?  So it might be one thing off the list of hundreds of treatments, but yes, I got my hair coloured today.  I'm no longer brunette with a hint of grey - I'm reddish-brunette with a hint of caramel blonde.  Yeah.