Getting to know you...

Hi Rachel!

I always wondered what your name was haha

My name is Steph, Stephisaur is one of my nicknames from OH which stems from us attending a dinosaur themed party... lmao

I'm 25 and have been with FI for almost 9 years - we get married on our anniversary!

I love animals, music and baking. I'm super into my comic books, as is h2b, so we're trying to incorporate them into our day

I'm addicted to the internet and spend more time on here at work than I should!!

Hi Rachel, nice to meet you, I was thinking the other day how quite it is on here now!?

My name's Vicky I'm from Bucks, and I'm turning the big 40 in June arrrrrggghhh ? I live with my man who I've been with for 8 years and we're getting married on our 10th anniversary. We haven't got any children and probably won't be, instead we've got 4 cats ? Buddy our grey and white tabby Lenny in my picture is a Bengal and decided he'd rather live on our farm than live with us ?. Nelly is our girl Bengal who unlike Lenny is extremely homely. Finally our little Myrtle who's a tortiseshell. My OH is trying to convince me to get another ?

I love food and my other half is a chef so a result and reason that I need to lose 3 stone! Also love my wine and travelling to different places.

look forward to meeting you all and hearing about your weddings xx

Fab idea!

I'm Claire, just turned 45 and been with my OH for just over 3 years... will have been together three and a half years when we tie the knot in May!

We live in glorious Somerset with our four dogs, five cats and African Grey Parrot... oh, and my dear old Mum!

OH has two grown up kids, I don't have any and never wanted any so my answer to the usual 'just married' question will be 'over my dead body'!

Our wedding will be attended by all sorts of assorted 'internutters' which is my pet name for those I've met and become good friends with online- I have met them all IRL loads over the years too!

The main Internutter will be my OH tho- met him online whilst trying to master an e-cig... joined a forum for advice and he was a moderator! Neither of us were looking for love but it found us anyway!

Claire that is such a cute and unusual story!!

Hiya,

I'm Becca, I'm from South Yorkshire, I've been with my OH for 12 years and I asked him! We have a lot of pets; dogs, rabbits and rats. I collect vinyl records and hard rock pin badges, I love festivals, motorbikes and heavy metal. Tattoos stand at two and counting.

I'm into alternative styles and my wedding will have all sorts of random touches with its red and black theme including a lot of gothic references. I come across as confident but I can be quite anxious and I often don't say anything if I'm worried about how it might sound.

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Jayne. (Never have guessed would you lol) turning 60 this summer, not sure how that happened and also a south Yorkshire girl Becca but now live in Essex. Been married a year and yes it goes fast. Spend half my time in our place in Spain. Grown kids and grandkids with one due any minute. Been with my partner ten years before we got round to tying the knot although that was somewhat delayed by finding I had breast cancer and I wouldn't get married looking like Chemo woman.

Love the sun in Spain, the snow in Lapland, northern lights, cats, reading and eating out. As well as partner, kids and grandkids obviously. Gutted I can't have cats due to having two homes so I adopt and fed the strays when I'm in Spain.

Yes hitched is much quieter than it was a year ago. Nice to meet you all properly. X

Hi, it's nice to read everyone's introductions

I'm Lisa, 27 and will have been with my OH nearly 9 years when we get married in October. I'm originally from Cheshire but moved to Hampshire to be with OH after we met at Uni. We have no pets but plan to get a Boston Terrier after the wedding.

I love food and working on little craft projects.

Hello everyone! Nice to meet you all - I'm a prolific reader of posts but not generally much of a poster... apologies for not helping with the quietness...

I'm Amy, I will be 28 when we get married - my other half and I (C) get married in August 2017. We've been together since Sept 2013. We live in Shropshire and have two cats that are sisters - Smudge who is black and white and Gizmo who is black. Cats seems a popular pet on here, which is lovely - big cat fan

We like tea and cake and spend an absolute fortune on it at National Trust properties and Costa (other coffee chains are available haha). We're big walkers and I'm also a runner (a few 10k's and one very slow half marathon - I think a snail would have beaten me!)

We're also season ticket holders at Crewe Alex football so we're going to have a silly one off football related photograph on the day - C did suggest getting married there at one point but that was an absolute no! Our photographer does Wedding, Pets and Sport photography so we often see her at the games.

Looking forward to reading more!

It's really nice to read all these introductions!

I'm Philippa and I'm 28. I'm originally from Preston in Lancashire, but I now live in Bedfordshire with H2B and our cat mustard (love that nearly everyone else seems to have a cat too!). I met my OH at uni and we have been together for 8 and a half years

I am a bit of a fitness fanatic, triathlons are my thing, and me and H2B are massive film nerds. We also love food, and eating is probably what we are looking forward to most about the wedding (most looking forward to pick n mix and a massive wedding cake nom nom nom).

Oh yey! I'm so glad you all wanted to get involved I realise I missed off my age, I'm 26. I've really enjoyed reading these and getting to know you all a bit more xx

As the only contributing groom on here, I suppose I better introduce myself!

I'm Richard, turning 49 in April. I'll have been with my lovely partner for (gets fingers out) 8.5 years I think by the time we get wed in July this year. We live in Halifax - I'm a Bradford lad by birth - and getting wed in a field in York.

This is my first time married (I did have a looooooong engagement to someone else though!), second time for my partner (who turrns 40 this year). Between us we have two 17 year old girls and two older boys! We have William the cat and Dougie the dog.

My other half proposed to me at Bradford City Football Club - pitch announcement, up on the scoreboard...the lot. However, I had disappeared to the toilet so missed it all! I wasn't very popular that day!

Music, food and beer are my interests, the other half (who is originally from Telford) does outdoor swimming and the occasional 10K run.

It's nice to know some proper names but it does take the mystique away a little, lol!

Mr_P

I'm Emma, I'm 24 and from Somerset. Been with my OH for 8 years, we met at school

We are in the process of buying our first house at the moment so very stressful few months.

I love reading the posts on here as it's great to see that it's not just me that worries and stresses about things.

Mr_P my illusions of you are shattered knowing that your name is Richard lol!

Can't believe you missed your own proposal!

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Mr_P I'm so glad to have a groom on here for some input! I will be honest in my mind you're a suave character like Mr Big in Sex and the City! I can imagine there was a lot of grovelling after you missed your proposal!

Hahaha!

I am very much a suave character Miss_Conduct! And Stephisaur, you can call me "Big Dick" if you prefer - I am 6'3" after all!

Mr_P

I very nearly spat my tea out at my desk, omg ?

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Awh I really love this idea! I too am guilty of being a lurker rather than that much of a poster, but definitely want to get involved more!

I am Tash, I'm 23 years old & have been with my partner, J, for 8 years in December. We live together just outside of London & are getting married next April - I cannot wait! Sadly no pets, not through my lack of trying, but I will convince him eventually!

I feel like we are slowly getting things organised after me having stressed a hell of a lot in the first 6 months of planning. I love reading all the posts on here, so I promise to contribute more often !xx

Lovely idea! Yes let's get the casual chatting going again.

Also a Rachel, 30 live near Croydon. Known husband for 10 years this Sept, however been a couple for 7.5 years due to being platonic friends first. Married to him for nearly 10 months.

I am actually really boring, I am a causal sims PC player and really enjoy lego PS games, and anything like God of War etc, used to have a season ticket at Crystal Palace for I think 15 years could be more, but they upped our seats to £1,800 so couldn't afford it anymore. I enjoy baking, but my favourite thing is getting into the loungewear and binge watching TV series usually with wine.

We also have a cat, 5 years old, tortie called Pandora who absolutely rules the roost. Big cheese music fan, any 70's disco or 80's bad pop I am there, Gloria Gaynor, Wham, obviously the Spice Girls.

Mr_P - did you not hear the tannoy while in the loo? Well I am glad it all worked out!

Side note, as there's a large majority with fur babies, can we upload some pics? I do like a good cat picture?

My little Queen of Sheba

Yaaaaayy any excuse to show off my fur babies ?

This is our grumpy Mr Budweiser, my OH found him in a pub garden drain when he was only about 4 weeks old, our friends who own the pub took him to the vets in a Budweiser box hence his name

This picture was when he wasn't so grumpy!

This is our beautiful Lenny, who doesn't want to live with us anymore ☹️

And finally our gorgeous girls Myrtle aka "the turtle" on the left and Nelly on the right

Looking forward to seeing your beauties xx

Great idea Rachel!

I'm Claire, 38 & live in Bedfordshire with my OH - I'm a PA & hate my job, & OH is a paramedic. Operation New Job will hopefully keep me busy once the wedding is done & dusted! We get married in June this year, and have been together five years (this week in fact). We're a weird online couple! ? He has a stepson who's nearly 14 who I get on really well with - I'm very lucky!

We live with our lovely crazy rescue dog Colbie, & our beautiful but grumpy full-of-attitude cat Blue. I'm working on acquiring fur baby number 3 by the end of the year. Here they are:

I love live music, Glastonbury (this is the first year in many that we're missing, because of the wedding mainly!), sewing & furniture restoration, travel & general adventures outdoors!

Those ears Metalbride! ❤️

Hello, I'm Lucy, and I feel like the odd one out because I don't have a cat haha!

My other half and I have been together for nearly 9 years. We met online through Facebook but we also went to the same uni which helped encourage me to meet him in real life! I suggested he come along to the university rock music society and we became good friends before finally getting together.

I enjoy music (folk/rock mainly), and we go to gigs and concerts whenever we can. I also like to read, but I seem to spend more time reading the various pages of the internet than actual books these days!

It is quiet on here lately yeah. It's much busier on the You and Your Wedding forum so maybe that's where everyone is. I tend to switch between the two and check them both far too much...

A big HI from me too.

My names Emily I live in the Midlands, I have been married to a wonderful man for 3 years and we have been a couple for five. When we originally got married, I was quite ill so I didn't have the 'bridal feel' on my day, and its made me quite sad, plus a few other things about the day that I wish I could change. So we've decided to coincide with a trip to Las Vegas in June 2018 that we are going to renew our wedding vows, just me him and the registrar.

I never really used forums last time and so am looking forward to getting involved this time. I am quite blunt and honest, I won't sugar coat but at the same time I never want to offend people

Hi, I'm Katie-Jo and 22 years old. I've been with my OH for 5years. I live in Peterborough and met my OH through his cousin as she practically forced me to add him on FaceBook but 5 years later are here we are. 13 weeks away from being married.

Hi! It's so nice to put some names to the posts!

This is my fur baby Lola:

OMG Lola is adorable ❤ x

Blue is beautiful ❤ my OH wants a blue x

I think the photo is a little misleading - she had the bow on very briefly :p I'm jealous of Blue too!

What a lovely idea :-)

I'm Sarah, 33 and live in Bucks although originally from Kent. I'm a PA which I find dull but I have started my learning journey to do aromatherapy and just found out yesterday I have passed the first anatomy theory exam.

I have been with my partner, C, for 3 years and we get married in November. We met at work so dated in secret for 8 months until she left for another job haha. Had an amazing proposal in the Shangri-La hotel in the Shard.

We bought our first house last year so a lot of our time is spent doing various jobs in that, or planning how we'd like it to look. If we're not doing that then we're likely to be in the gym. Sadly no pets but yet but definitely on the horizon after the wedding.

I love keeping up with everyone's wddding plans :-) x

Sarah that is so strange! I have a friend called Sarah who's also becoming a Mrs Davies this year! I've kept wondering if you were her but she's getting married in April x

Ha! Don't be fooled by Blue's good looks - he balances that out with being a right arse! He's a killing machine, the dining room was covered in feathers the other morning from a dead bird he'd brought in overnight!