'London here we come!' - The Hen Weekend...

I cannot recommend a bloody good hen weekend enough to anyone getting married. It is an awesome way to de-stress, enjoy the girls and come back with a clear head.

For the previous couple of weeks I'd been getting extremely stressed out and worked up by a lot of things to do with the wedding and to be honest I couldn't wait for it all to be over. It got to the point where I didn't even want to go on my own hen weekend and was seriously thinking of calling it off - thank you hubstobe for talking me out of that one!

So, what happened...

I'm going to steal Kez's list of events and expand on them!

Imaginary friends & the gatecrashing lady our train journey - Kez was the only one boarding the train at Birmingham (the rest of us were getting on at Warwick Parkway) so had to pretend she had lots of imaginary friends so she could bag us two tables for the journey. There were seven of us so we piled our bags into one seat and took up the other seven, only for a lady to get on and insist she had that seat despite there being others nearby?!

Kirsty identifying Cox when she couldn't find Oli & Glee being their new song - the girls had arranged party games 'Guess Oli's body parts' and 'Mr & Mrs'. I however, managed to pick Kez's husband out a couple of times instead of Oli lol! I also found out that 'our' song according to Oli is Glee's 'Don't Stop Believing' despite our first dance bing to a Take That number?! BOYS!!

"Why are you Lebanese?" - Stoopid dance teacher. As we were having a Glee themed dance lesson the girls had arranged t-shirts like the cast wore in the 'Born this way' episode. Mine said 'Can't sing' - thank you for that one Lauren! Anyone who watches the show will know that Britney thought lesbains were Lebanese hence Lauren's t-shirt lol!

Don't stop believing/single ladies megamix requires a double vodka - we even managed to get a bit of the single ladies routine into it whoop whoop!

Short changing the taxi driver to Revolution - this bit I know nothing about?!

Cocktails, Elvis cocktails & the chilli shots (inc his & Lauren's 3!) - possibly the best bit of the evening, our cocktail lesson at revolution in Soho. Amazing fun, we were trollied by 7:30pm!! and there were chilli shots for those who lost each cocktail race - poor Lauren got 3 and informed us she had red pooh the next morning!

Shot train not working - poor Elvis, our cocktail teacher, was trying to impress us ladies with his shot train only for it to fail at the first glass!

Our fancy dress theme being über popular...oh and Friar tuck - possibly THE best fancy dress theme ever! London underground stations - I was Maida Vale. 

A few more highlights from the weekend...

£50 rickshaw rides & "the chase" - beat that rickshaw & take them out if you have to
Robbie Savage welcome & Kez's attempt to sneak in free
Weird oriental pole dancing & old grannies
"My Frangita" is for pleasure
£17.40 for 3 shots of vodka & 1 can of monster
Singing Pink songs to the taxi driver on the way home
KFC & no zinga towers!
Dolly getting the night of her life
Late night fag stop with Imo in pj's, OCD t-shirt, blazer & no shoes
Wasted by 7.30pm & in bed before midnight

I'll leave you all to wonder about these ones lol! 

 A HUGE thank you goes to Kez for her amazing organisational skills and for giving me an even better hen weekend than I could have imagined or planned myself. You are a star and I'm incredibly lucky to have such fabulous friends xx 

Celebrations & Smiles...

It's been a week of good things all round for us really (at long last things seem to be working out & heading in the right direction!)
It started on Monday with the news that I had got the transfer I had requested to another store, which in turn meant we can now rent our first proper home together...excited muchly!

The happy week ended with Oli's graduation ceremony at Coventry Cathedral on Thursday 24th November. I can't begin to tell you how proud I am of him and what he has managed to achieve.

For reasons I won't go in to, there were times when I thought we'd never get here and there were times when I thought he was giving up which is why these happy photos mean so much to me. It was a fabulous end to an awesome week - I only hope it continues! : )

All that's left for me to say is "Ol, I love you so much, I'm so very proud of you & I can't wait to be your wife!" xx

One, yes just ONE month to go!...

I can't quite believe I'm writing this but yep, there's just one month to go, four weeks on saturday until I get to marry my most favouritest man in the wholest, widest world!

So, what's left to do?

Not a lot at all to be honest! This last week we've paid for the car, the church and then the hotel at our 'final details' meeting today. The timings have been agreed for the running of the day and all that's left to do is enjoy the rest of the run up.

And then there's my hen weekend, this weekend in London and I can't wait to have a girly weekend full of fun & surprises (nice ones I hope lol!)

Until next time xx