The week before
May 27th, 2009 by Sam
Yes, suddenly there are less than 7 days before our wedding. I have been meaning to write here for weeks, but all of a sudden life took over! I have been ill and had to resort to antibiotics, and that was definitely NOT in my plan.
So, now feeling better and the sun is shining. Dare I say it, the weather forecast is good (I have been checking about twice a day for the last fortnight, in which time it has been up and down quite a lot).
Lots of last minute things to do. One of those things is write my speech! I’m going to give it a go tonight after the kids are in bed and the wine has been opened.
Home-grown flowers
The flowers are the other main thing; you may remember I wrote many months ago that we were trying to grow our own. Well, a lot of the things I planted have been and gone e.g. the tulips (always a long shot) and camassias. The alliums are trying to hold on; will the roses and irises be out in time?
But, things have sprung up in my garden that I had forgotten about, such as forget-me-nots and centaurea montana and so I am still hopeful of having a bouquet that I have grown myself. My friend, who is doing the flowers, has also found Flowers By Clowance – Cornish grown flowers, who do next day delivery, so we are supplementing what we have with some stocks and sweet williams from them.
Lilo & Stitch movie
Veggie BBQ
Our veggie barbecue the night before the wedding has been causing some consternation amongst some of the guests, who can’t quite contemplate no meat, but hey, I’m sure they’ll live. We have ended up taking inspiration from our daughter’s school, and allocated various things to people to bring, to feed 6-8 people. We were worried we might otherwise be inundated with Linda McCartney’s sausages!!
The rings
The rings have arrived and we are totally in love with them. I have also ordered a present for our flower-arranger from Les at Hairy Growler too – he is making a flower brooch out of a spoon bowl.
Final touches
I spent about 3 weeks trying to track down some non-brown, slightly prettier recycled serviettes. I did find some, but you had to order about 3000. So, we are going for brown. In they end I thought “Hey, they are just serviettes after all”.
My other recent ethical dilemma has been brown – this time about fake tan! I don’t wear make-up, but I was a bit concerned my strapless dress wouldn’t go with the rather nice t-shirt mark I have acquired. Various friends have been extolling the benefits of fake tans, spray on tans etc, but as much as I researched I couldn’t find anything that wasn’t packed full of chemicals.
Luckily, the weather has changed and I am spending as much time as possible in a strapless sundress. I have also bought some “body lustre” from B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful (a sister company of Lush), which has a nice gold sparkle.
Food glorious food
We have found some lovely non-alcoholic bubbly for our pregnant friends – it is sparkling blueberry or raspberry. (From our local health food shop – the owner told us it is also delicious with vodka…). Our friend who is making the cake is now concerned that cheesecake may not be the best thing in hot weather, so who knows what we might have. We trust her to make something delicious that we can share with our family and friends.
A nice day for white wellies
Right, now off to paint my wellies, although, fingers-crossed we won’t need them. I’m so excited and am now trying to get it into my head that it will all fall into place.
My mantra for the last few days has been “I am a professional co-ordinator” – in my working life and life with 2 small children – and have been whispering this into Graham’s ear in the hope he won’t wake in the night panicking! So far it’s not been 100% successful…
Will try and write again soon wih some pics!