My co-host Jez has been trying to help me with my wedding planning. Despite (by his own admission) barely doing a thing for his own nuptials apart from turning up, he seems to want to get involved in mine.
He badgered me constantly about getting a wedding planner - and now I have the folder, he wants to know how much I've written in it. He's also had thoughts on the following:-
Wedding cars
Food at the reception
Drink at the reception
Budgets
Wedding hair
Yes, you read it correctly WEDDING HAIR. I mentioned in passing to Jez that I was thinking of cutting my hair short, and he remarked that I shouldn't have the chop as I have a 'chubby face.' Now if I'd heard this from anyone else I might have been deeply offended - but this is Jez. Love him, tact is not his strong point and he was trying to be helpful. He prefers women with long hair, and thinks only women with cheekbones that you can grate cheese on, should even consider going short - and let's be honest here, he'd still advise those women to keep their long locks.
We debated the topic on the show this morning, and most of the advice seemed to back Jez's opinion. While there were lots of women who loved their hair shorter, there were also lots more who regretted getting a crop, and one bride-to-be had even postponed her wedding by a year to let her hair grow out!
To be honest I was more confused by the end of the show, than when we started discussing it. Then I received a text from my fiance which read:-
Cut your hair off if that's what you want, will love you either way! xxxx
And that's why I can't wait to be his wife...
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Monday, 9 February 2009
Made-up
I am a self-confessed scruff. If I'm going out then I'll make the effort with hair and make-up, but for day to day life (with 4.30 starts) it's a bare face, tousled hair with jeans and T-shirt.
When I started planning my wedding, I knew this would have to be addressed. Yes I can do a passable blow-dry, and yes my make-up application is OK, but I know I've lots to learn. Forget the wedding, I really want to make an effort for my fiance - he's gorgeous and he deserves a bit more effort from me. While he's got no problem with me looking like a scruffy student, I know he loves it when I make a bit of an effort.
I told my beauty therapist that I was thinking of doing my wedding make-up myself, and once she'd picked herself off the floor, she made me promise I wouldn't. She has done more for my personal grooming than anyone else, but she knows my limits, and apparently wedding make-up IS the limit. So now I'm on the hunt for a make-up artist, close to where my family live.
I need a make-up artist who can make me look like myself. But better. What I don't need is anything frosted within a 5 mile radius of my face, or to have enough eye make-up to get me into drag-queen school. Is this possible?
When I started planning my wedding, I knew this would have to be addressed. Yes I can do a passable blow-dry, and yes my make-up application is OK, but I know I've lots to learn. Forget the wedding, I really want to make an effort for my fiance - he's gorgeous and he deserves a bit more effort from me. While he's got no problem with me looking like a scruffy student, I know he loves it when I make a bit of an effort.
I told my beauty therapist that I was thinking of doing my wedding make-up myself, and once she'd picked herself off the floor, she made me promise I wouldn't. She has done more for my personal grooming than anyone else, but she knows my limits, and apparently wedding make-up IS the limit. So now I'm on the hunt for a make-up artist, close to where my family live.
I need a make-up artist who can make me look like myself. But better. What I don't need is anything frosted within a 5 mile radius of my face, or to have enough eye make-up to get me into drag-queen school. Is this possible?
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Busy, busy busy...
Relief all 'round this weekend when my vicar arrived back from his post-Christmas holiday and confirmed he can marry us. Phew! The ceremony will take place in the same church that my parents got married in, and is the one where I was baptised, confirmed and spent many years singing in the choir - so it was quite important that we got the green light.
Damian and I also went back to the place we're having our reception for a second look - and we loved it just as much, so that was great. My mum, along with my aunt and uncle came too, and we talked table plans and decorations. It feels very surreal to be talking about this stuff so early in the planning stage, but the venue is really popular over the summer and so we won't be able to see it again for months.
The highlight of the weekend though was going to my first bridal shops with mum, and looking at wedding dresses. Despite my fears we would find nothing, there were a few options and so that was a real relief. We visited a gorgeous and very friendly shop a few miles from my family home, and I actually tried a few on. Mum seems to understand what I'm after, which is a relief, as I'd hate for us to disagree on such an important outfit. I've waited years to do this trip and thought it might be quite emotional, but actually it was just lots of fun, and my mum was really encouraging about how I looked - which is just what a girl needs when she's feeling low on confidence!
Damian and I also went back to the place we're having our reception for a second look - and we loved it just as much, so that was great. My mum, along with my aunt and uncle came too, and we talked table plans and decorations. It feels very surreal to be talking about this stuff so early in the planning stage, but the venue is really popular over the summer and so we won't be able to see it again for months.
The highlight of the weekend though was going to my first bridal shops with mum, and looking at wedding dresses. Despite my fears we would find nothing, there were a few options and so that was a real relief. We visited a gorgeous and very friendly shop a few miles from my family home, and I actually tried a few on. Mum seems to understand what I'm after, which is a relief, as I'd hate for us to disagree on such an important outfit. I've waited years to do this trip and thought it might be quite emotional, but actually it was just lots of fun, and my mum was really encouraging about how I looked - which is just what a girl needs when she's feeling low on confidence!
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