So I posted on Saturday morning saying how excited I was as my hen do was to begin shortly, although I had no idea what was going to be happening! Soon after that, my best friend Gemma who was organising the whole thing arrived – she’d told me she was coming to help me choose my outfit before we left, but she actually turned up with lots of yummy brunch stuff and it turned out that everyone was coming to mine for brunch. H2b had been prepped and had got up early to clean the flat (in hindsight, this was a bit odd ?).
Everyone else arrived (10 of us in total) and as it was a lovely day we tucked into brunch and champagne in the garden and I got given a gift from the girls – gorgeous bridal underwear from Agent Provocateur.
After brunch two cabs arrived to take us to the next destination, I didn’t know what it was going to be until we got there and was a bit bemused when we pulled up outside a gym – a session on the treadmill wasn’t exactly what I had in mind for my hen do! But we went upstairs to a dance studio where there were fans and feather boas waiting and it turned out we were having burlesque dancing lessons. The girls gave me a ridiculous Marilyn Monroe-style wig to wear and we learnt how to remove gloves and stockings sexily (although we were all concentrating so hard on doing it right I’m not sure how sexy it actually looked) and we learnt a routine. I thought it was going to be a bit embarrassing but it was actually really good fun and we all had a giggle.
After a quick stop at the pub next door the cabs came to pick us up again (I was liking travelling in style!) and take us to my friend Bella’s house. We made cocktails and out came the willy straws, as well as a willy whistle and willy antennae…..well, it wouldn’t be a hen do without them would it.
The next bit I think was my favourite bit of the whole day – Bella had prepared a quiz about me and my friends were divided into teams and had to answer questions about things I’d got up to at school etc, it was really sweet and she’d gone to such a lot of effort, I was really touched.
After that a couple more of my friends who hadn’t been able to make it during the day arrived and we ate pizza, drank more cocktails and got ready to go out for the evening. Gemma had made up some playlists on her ipod of my favourite music so we had that on.
Then the trusty cabs arrived again and took us to a club in Camden for more drinking and dancing – I think the best part was when I got ID’d on the door (I’m 26!!) Although it caused me a slightly hairy moment as I couldn’t find my drivers license and was thinking “if I can’t get into a club on my hen night that’s going to be a bit of a downer….” Luckily a queue was starting to form behind me so the bouncer just let me through. Had a really good night, strangely ran into a stag party who it turned out had spent the day go-karting at the same place that h2b had been on his stag do last weekend! Eventually headed back to Bella’s house again to watch Dirty Dancing, drunkenly eat the remains of the pizza ? and finally left to go home at about 6am.
It was sooooo much fun and I really, really enjoyed it and felt really special and loved. It was just the right number of people and it was great that everyone got on so well, as they hadn’t all met before.
Sorry this is a bit long, here are some pics if you’ve made it this far:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22789409@N05/sets/72157605256491690/
