Wedding plans

We've been pretty busy. We've booked our honeymoon, the hotel for our wedding night, booked the church ( only it's a bit more than just a church) , booked the reception venue, sorted out the Order of Service, hymns, readings... Mum has bought the champagne for the reception in the Cloisters after the service. We are currently designing the invites with a friend who has offered her services as a graphic designer and artist. We still have to book a restaraunt for our families after the service, book the ceilidh band, a pianist, sort out flowers and music and catering and all the housekeeping stuff and guest info. And get a frock for me, but that will be next month, once I've got the book deadline out the way and lost the festive tum. And there's lots of other stuff to do that escapes me now, but it's not that stressful. I've sung in the choir at so many weddings I could probably do the service from memory. I know lots of brides go completely bonkers before their weddings and get into a frenzy about all sorts of random things like whether the bridesmaid's knickers match the colour of the napkins, and spend hours and hours tying pastel bits of material round sugared almonds in the evenings and making spreadsheets, but I'm not like that. Not yet anyway.

The wedding is in April. It's very exciting. I keep doing small skips and J is grinning as he takes down the Christmas tree.

Right, I'm off to walk to the gym in the rain. January is a no-alcohol month with lots of running and weights and what-have-you; the thought of the wedding is a great motivator, although the remains of Rabbitstrike's stilton from the New Year's Eve celebrations is hard to resist, even without port to accompany it...