Honeymoon catch up!

So this is the reason why I haven't posted for a while, honeymoon! Our first stop was Las Vegas, somewhere we've visited before and I’ve always wanted to go back. 

After a very long journey we were rewarded with an amazing room, our suite had both a huge bath and shower, 3 TVs, a lounge and 2 rooms, all with a view of the strip! I've never stayed somewhere so good in all my life (and probably never will again!)


When we arrived it was quite late so we just grabbed something from the food court before going to watch the Bellagio fountains. 

The next morning after a delicious breakfast at Caesars palace (where we caught Michelle Heaton in the queue in front of us haha) we went to the pool for a few hours, and got severely burnt! Margarita's helped me out though haha.

  
We visited a wine and cheese 'hideaway' for lunch and then to look around the Bellagio conservatory, it’s so pretty! We had tapas for dinner, our favourite kind of food! 

 
We had a Rivera type breakfast overlooking the pool the next morning and then spent the morning at an aquarium and after to a bar for alcoholic slushie. 

Our lunch that day was a build your own burger bar- I went sooo overboard, especially as they had a build your own milkshake option! We went to the bodies’ exhibition after where we got to handle a real brain! Of course after that the natural option was to visit a tequila bar haha. That night I got to do something I’ve always wanted too, order room service! It was soo fancy!

Our reason for our room service night was we had a super early 5am start due to a Grand Canyon day trip. We got to see some amazing views of the canyon; it was a tiring day but so worth it. That night we got home, went out for an Italian and then straight to bed!

The next morning we went for a buffet and I’m never very good at them, I go so over the top and then have to give up haha. It didn't help that I was a bit nervous because after we went to the gun range! Actually turns out the nerves were pointless because I'm AMAZING at shooting! I have the worst hand-eye co-ordination so was naturally expecting to be bad but actually, I got aim! 

Lunch after was a place famous for their sundaes, we shared a deep fried Oreo sundae (yeah it was sickly) but decided to have our own frozen hot chocolates, we didn't realise how big they would be! 

Our day continued with cocktails and as we were so stuffed from lunch we skipped the dinner and went for more cocktails! That night we went to Zumanity, the kinky cirque de soleil show, it was so funny! 

Breakfast the next morning was sitting out overlooking the strip eating gruyere and ham crepes. We had a wonder around that morning going to the pearl factory where I opened an oyster and got a pearl out and we went to the oxygen bar where we also got a massage while hooked up.

 
 After we had our vow renewal! Typical Vegas style baby!!! 

 Our celebratory lunch was at a place called the sugar factory; they had amazing cocktails based on sweets. After we went to the CSI experience where you get to solve a crime, that’s when I was in my element! We actually went for another cocktail night instead of dinner and finished the night going to a comedy club. 

The next day we actually went for a 'healthy' breakfast, we went to a restaurant in a spa and I had peanut butter and banana sandwich haha. We went for a gondola ride at the Venetian, our hotel, and then did some gambling. The boy lost all our money but don't worry I won it back! 

We had a buffet lunch (with unlimited champagne!) and then went to the dolphin habitat and the tiger sanctuary.  

That night we had the boy's fave dinner, we went to a fancy steakhouse and he had waygu beef steak, I'm not a steak fan but I tried some and wow it was gorgeous. We then went to see Penn and Teller, the magicians, who were brilliant and we got photos after!

Our last day in Vegas was made the most of, we went to a typical American diner for breakfast and then went up to the Stratosphere hotel, and they have rides that go off the side of the 1200 foot hotel. The boy left me to go on my own! We had a delicious tapas meal for dinner and went to a cocktail lounge before catching our stretch limo to the airport! 

I'll post something soon about the New York leg of our trip!

xx

Midweek catch up!

    

Things are a bit hectic at the moment with honeymoon preparation, work and post wedding tidying but I’m hoping to have more time to blog after the honeymoon! We went up to Manchester last weekend to see my beautiful Besty Beth and her partner Matt. We went out for dinner, drinks and a night out and it was lovely to have a catch up before we went away.

I thought my first Easter as a wife should go down with a bang so I did an Easter egg hunt for the hubby; I hid 50 eggs over the house! It was so much fun haha, it took me right back to being a child. I might start this as an Easter tradition!

It’s been cold but bright this week so the boy and I have been taking full advantage by taking some walks around the lake. It’s always one of my favourite things to just have time the two of us without the distraction of TV/ laptops/ washing up.

I caught up with my other friend Alia (ex bridesmaid) for a midweek lunch at Giraffe where I allowed myself to get fully in the spring mood with some strawberry cider.

And yesterday the boy and I had a date night at the cinema to go see Side effects, however as I write this before I’ve actually gone....I’m hoping it was good!!

I'm married!!

 

 

So it’s over and wow, what a day. I have to say the day was better than I could have even imagined it. Once we get our photos I’ll give you a full update and talk through! 

On the Monday we whisked ourselves off to London for a minimoon, it was so perfect. We had a fancy PJ day all Monday, we were so tired from the wedding so we opened champagne, a box of chocolates and then nibbled in our posh hotel hehe. 

Monday night we went out for possibly the best dinner we've ever had, Clos Maggiore, it was just beautiful from start to finish with an impressive wine list (94 pages!!) and amazing staff. It was really romantic; we were sat right by a roaring fireplace.

 

The next morning we were up for breakfast at the Delaunay which was super yummy and then off to London Aquarium for a few hours. We went to see Mousetrap for a matinee and then had a bite to eat in Covent Garden; it really was a perfect little break.

I hit the ground running with post wedding preparations as I spent Wednesday night writing out all our thank you cards, Thursday night emptying all our boxes of decorations and putting everything away and then we went out Friday night for dinner as it was one of the boys friends birthday. We can start the honeymoon planning too, excited!!

My wedding diary: 1 day to go!

My new place cards!

Oh wow the time is crazy right now! I've already entered my 'Zen' state, whatever goes wrong now I’ve just kinda of accepted I have to shrug my shoulders and let it go. My job has been stressing me out but I realised I had no option but to soldier through it. Then I fell down the stairs right onto my back, I’m on painkillers and I had some phsyio and I’m just going to put up with the pain. 

A box of wedding stuff went missing containing our place cards for the head table and our candles for the cake. I went out and got new place cards, small bottles of alcohol thanks to Vom Fass, however at first I was pretty upset about the cake candles. We've cut our losses and decided to just use some long thin candles; it’s not worth letting it stress me out!

So let’s work on what I’ve done since the last catch up:

My mum did our fingerprint board for us! This is going to be for our guests to create a masterpiece for our home on hehe.

We paid off the venue, the photographer and the cake! What a relief!

I made our chalkboard runner! This is what will be used when we walk down the aisle, written on it is the lyrics to the song I’m walking down the aisle too, 'Anti D' by the Wombats. I also spent some time planning on who was walking down the aisle and when!

I put together a timings spreadsheet for the day. In 10 minute slots I now know the plan from first to last thing. I also contacted all of the attendants to let them know all kind of information about when, where, how they need to be at places. No one has an excuse for not turning up on time haha.

We're having a big dinner tonight with about 20 members of family and I realised I didn't have a new dress. I looked all over Topshop, Miss Selfridge, River Island, H&M, New Look, Dorothy Perkins and ended up finding a gorgeous dress in...Primark! Its cream so I feel quite bridal!

Can you believe it but this week I was still chasing RSVPs! We needed answers because my mum’s doing the seating plan and she obviously needed to know. Luckily all guests are now accounted for and my mum has made the plan for us!

I made up some reservation signs for the ceremony room. There are some family members that need reservations because they want a front row seat (Nan’s and parents), the people walking down the aisle need seats to get into obviously and the people who are doing readings need aisle seats. 

We made some signs for the toilet using baby pictures, embarrassing ones of course!

We planned some things for our London Minimoon, we're only going for an overnight stay but I still can't wait for a night away with my new husband!!!!

I started wearing my wedding shoes around the house to wear them in hehe.

I tried on my wedding dress...and thought it was a bit snug! Cue an emergency trip to Marks and Sparks for some shapewear haha, now I should be all sucked in.

We got our order of service printed out. I just need to hand these over to my brother, the usher, to hand out.

I photographed all the things that need to go on the table, then boxed everything up and sent it over to the venue. It’s lovely having a clear lounge again hehe.

My mum made our cake; she wanted to surprise us with the cake that we'll be cutting so she's been working on a top secret cake. I know it’s iced, decorated and she's taken it to the venue already.

We put together some ad lib cards for our guest table. Guests will fill them in and drop them in a memory capsule for us to open on our one year anniversary!

We spent a night sorting out the fortune tellers. The boy was cutting, I was folding. We worked for what seemed like an eternity and when we did the last one I threw my arms out in celebration....and knocked lemonade all over them! We saved half though haha.

I worked on a few signs, signs needed for the tables to explain things and signs to direct people to the photo booth etc.


We had our final meeting with the venue where we went over EVERYTHING; got any questions I had out the way and left with me feeling generally better about the whole thing haha.


So what's left?

Well this morning I’ve gone to the hairdressers to get my hair and nails done all ready. I'll then be coming back to pack my bags, pick up the cake pops and go over to the venue. We need to sort out the final payment for the entertainment as that is due on the day and I still have a few details to go through with them too but that’s it! I OWNED that list! Although the post wedding list is still quite long......