So now we're very nearly in April, and there's just over 17 weeks to go!  We'll be in Australia celebrating New Year before we know it!


We've booked and paid for the flights for our main honeymoon, which we will be taking in December.  We're heading to Australia (and New Zealand) for a few weeks, and we'll be spending Christmas Day on the beach in Melbourne, and partying away in Sydney for New Year's Eve.  Matt's been planning all the details for the honeymoon, so I'm not too sure on exactly what we'll be getting up to, but we're both incredibly excited.  It will give us something to keep on looking forward to after the wedding is over.


This week we need to decide on the food and drink for the reception, and get together all the other little details as we have our main planning meeting at the venue in a few weeks.  We've received some wine samples and spent Friday night having a little 'tasting session' to decide on the white wine.  The reds are still waiting to be tried and tested!


Over Easter weekend we're spending a couple of days in London visiting a few different friends, and we're hoping to get going with the invitations too.  They're going to take a while to put together as we're making our own, and we need to send them out very soon!

Just when we thought things couldn't get any busier, how wrong were we?!

Back in February, Matt's parents came down to stay in Essex.  It was a weekend full of appointments, and we booked all the flowers, got all the men measured for their suits, and showed Matt's parents and the Best Man around the venue.  Overall it was a fun weekend, and brought on even more excitement for the day itself.

All of the important things are booked now, so we thought we'd be able to relax a little more, but that's not the case!  We're in the middle of designing our invitations, and are hoping to get them sent out at the end of April-time.  We're really pleased with them as we think the idea we've come up with to fit in with the theme of our wedding is really good!  We've also bought a couple of other secretive items that we're quite excited about!

We've also pretty much decided on what will be happening the day after the wedding.  It looks as though we may be going to a family friend's pub in Hedingham, and there'll be a BBQ and things so for everyone that would like to stop by for some lunch to alleviate hangovers before heading on your long journeys home it would be really good to see you.  All the information will be on the invitations.

Last weekend we headed to our friends, Sam and Gary, in Norwich for their engagement party (another wedding to look forward to next year already!) and we had a great time catching up with Vicky and Gary too.   We had a look through Vicky's wedding album from last year and now I just can't wait to be married myself!  It does seem strange how the three of us girls lived together at uni, and now we're getting married in three consecutive years!

I'm getting on well with putting together our scrapbook for Peru, so hopefully that will be ready in time for the wedding weekend if people would like to see it then.  There's so many other little special things I want to get done in time for the wedding too, sometimes I wish I wasn't such a perfectionist...!