I do - my wedding blog

I think things are finally coming together. I took my parents to visit the venue this weekend, which I thought was reasonable given that they will have to give me a cheque for it next week! It was quite a warm afternoon (for a change) and it was getting quite toasty in there, but I shouldn't think that will be a problem. The flowers though... Apologies for the rubbish photoshop but here is what I think I want bouquet-wise So it's sunflowers (yes I decided they were a good idea), gerbera, lilies and some greenery. The bridesmaids will have the same but smaller with no sunflowers. Image mine

So we get married 1 year from today And it's raining... I keep looking out for rainbows but can't see any I don't mind if it rains, if it means we can have pretty umbrellas As long as it doesn't mess up the arrangements too much Never mind, it's exciting to be only a year away, though a little scary I just popped along to the venue and it looks great this time of year as all the flowers are coming out. They were having an event on today and I kind of wanted to hang around to see it all in action Image from stock.xchng user jadey919

Image via Wikipedia I realised I still had not blogged about the hen night I helped to organise (with one of the other bridesmaids) for my best friend. We went to Ladies' day on the Grand National weekend at Ascot racecourse, which was a good excuse for dressing up. I wish I had made more of an effort rather than just pulling on an old dress I had, as some girls had really gone to town! If you ever wanted to know who buys those ridiculously high heels and those dresses that only just cover the bare essentials, look no further than Liverpool (no offence to anyone from there, I think it is the culture of the event rather than the people). We had a 'picnic' on the train on the way up from London, which included buck's fizz - a great way to start the day. The horse racing was quite good fun and we all got in the spirit of it, betting huge amounts (ok, 1 or 2 pounds) on horses and exclaiming when we lost! The bride to be was the only real winner, gaining about 50 on one race...

When we were in Scotland last week I was buying a bunch of flowers for my grandparents as we were going to visit, and spotted in the florist these bouquets including gerberas and lilys! Perfect, it is not the weird combination that I thought was going to result in the florist looking oddly at me! Images from J's phone

We were walking through Greenwich on very sunny Saturday and saw some people walk through with a London Underground table plan ( Greenwich maritime is a beautiful wedding venue, we looked at it ourselves but stopped looking when we saw the price!). So that has led to a big rethink and a more modern think on the decor ideas. Roll London transport related pics: It would be a good theme as I am a transport geek! Also, many of our guests are from outside London so it would be nice to have something which is relevant to the location. Images from Bee happy designs , Hello Lucky , Anna Rosell via Bridalwave

I spotted this inspiration board at Stylish Events while trying to make decisions on my own colour scheme (still somewhat undecided - I need to sit down and work out what is currently decided and what is left to do, so I can then get on with stuff. Anyway, back to the board, it is a very spring/summer blue and yellow combo which I am quite fancying at the moment - possibly with a brighter blue, I don't really do pastels. For info on the image sources go to the original post here Image from Stylish Events