I do - my wedding blog

Chatting weddings, as I do, with J while we were watching Four Weddings... We were discussing what we thought of the communal/ interactive elements of the day. We have one idea which is still a surprise even to family and will not be announced until much closer to the time. But, in terms of guest books and favours, we're not convinced. We're just not into the soppy messages which get blurted out at every wedding everyone goes to, with perhaps a name change if you are lucky (yes, we are quite a cynical couple), but also do not see the point in something we are only going to look at a couple of times ever. So I set myself the task of looking at alternatives: from style me pretty from kiss the groom J liked the idea of the photo booth or polaroid guest book - which kills both the guest comment and photo birds with one stone. I think I forget that he doesn't scour the wedding blogs/ magazines like I do and hasn't seen this however many times I have. All those others who are

We're making our own invitations, and thought, now we have everything booked up, that we could start to make them. The more we do now, the better. We are doing pocketfolds, with info and RSVP cards in the pocket. Reasonably modern on cream card with blue details. Much like these from the Knot I made a first mock up, but managed to leave it with my mum before I took any pictures of it I'm now looking for a way to emboss some detail Image from the Knot

I ended up watching the film Confetti on Sunday night, which was quite funny. It was always one I said I'd get round to watching, starring as it does a number of funny British comedy actors. It is about three couples competing for a magazine 'Most original wedding of the year' contest. The three weddings are themed tennis, musicals and naturist! I then ended up watching Four weddings on Living last night. This was the same thing but real life. Four couples competed, except the weddings didn't have to be original, they just had to be rated by the other brides. Plenty of ideas of what not to do! Obviously they are going to pick ones which make more interesting TV, but they were all a little odd

I love maps (yes, I'm a geek) as does J (yes, he's a geek too!) but I never considered combining them with my wedding! This great post at project wedding shows how it can be done with flair - and diy!

I was dress trying on at the weekend, with mum and my sister (also a bridesmaid). We went to Johanna Hehir in Marylebone, London as this was where I saw the first dress I really liked . It was a lot more relaxed than the previous trying session (I guess that's what you get at a designer boutique) and we started by looking through the style books and letting them get an idea of what I liked/ didn't like. I did start to worry for a moment as I hadn't seen the dress, but it was, happily, on the last page of the last book! I tried 5 dresses in all, starting with one which was a bit different to what I thought I was looking for - just to rule it out (or not). It's the one on the right of this picture. It has cute short sleeves which I liked and a light skirt, kind of evening dress style. And that's what I thought when I put it on - not quite a wedding dress for me. Dress 2 was more what I was expecting and was the dress! I was really excited to finally try it on. And

It's exactly a year since we got engaged. I'm so happy and excited. We only get one of these days so it's really special. This time next year I'll be Mrs M!