Hiya.

Well it is exactly 4 months today until I sashay down the aisle in my frock and greet my man in a gorgeous blue suit at the end of it. Yes I said blue suit, this means that we have successfully managed to sort out the third most important outfit of the day (sorry guys but the Brides and Bridesmaids come first hehe). All along Mr C has wanted a blue suit and we originally investigated the hiring options but we quickly realised that most hire places only seem to offer the tails option which isn't what we were after. After some research we came across a lovely suit in Reiss and just like that the suit mission for the Groom was accomplished as it was absolutely perfect. I also accompanied my Dad shopping and after convincing him to try on a navy suit he admitted that he quite liked it and navy wasn't that bad after all...you wouldn't believe how many conversations were had about his dislike of the colour haha. We also managed to secure my mum a lovely cream jacket to go with her gorgeous dress, so the wedding party is slowly shaping up, eeek it is all getting very real.

Also we have had the pleasure of munching on some cake. Sally, a family member has very kindly offered to showcase her baking skills and offered to make us some cupcakes and a larger cake to cut. I discovered her yummy cakes whilst on a hen weekend, check out the photos of the bride, groom and bridesmaid style cakes. She also made red velvet cakes which were a huge success amongst us girls. We have gone for red velvet ourselves as a result of how lovely these cakes were. I am not overly a fan of cake or traditional icing and despite initially being adamant that I wanted a naked cake I realised that this was in fact a tad on the selfish side as some folk just like icing and my hubby to be is quite an icing fan. Long live red velvet cakes :-)

So onto crafting, firstly I must apologise as my giant K has not received any TLC as of late, I need to get off of my bum and get covering. I am tempted to try and use fabric as an experiment although that could prove disastrous. But none the less I have still been pretty busy with my crafting endeavours. I have hand stamped some luggage tags to tie onto our invitations (more about those next time as they are top secret for another couple of weeks but I am busting a gut to get them posted) I am pretty pleased with the tags and am hoping to use tags as name places at the wedding... good job as I have 300 of them ooopsie. I have also made some burlap table number flags for one of my BFF's weddings which is in just over 2 weeks' time, hopefully that has got me some bridesmaid points ;) . I am so chuffed with how these came out and I can't wait to see them in situ, she's having jam jar flowers so hopefully they will be rustic perfection. I am also hoping to knock up some bunting between now and then too.

In more exciting news I am gearing up to be a Bridesmaid twice in June!! Thus I have been on a fitness kick to get aisle ready. I have joined the local gym and have certainly been put through my paces by the guys that work there. I am almost regretting saying that I wanted to tone up as I feel like they might be trying to kill me - slowly. We have also booked our engagement shoot with the lovely Kathryn Edwards who is photographing our wedding. Although we are getting married in Nottingham, we have decided to have the shoot in London as that is where we are currently living and we fancy a city style shoot over a country one, I just need to decide what to wear ho hum, new outfit time maybe hehe?

Right it's Toodles for now but next time I shall reveal the progress on the giant K (and J I hope) and reveal the invitations... I found the invitation research far more difficult than dress shopping but I am hoping that they are a success. Until next time xxx