Yay picked a wedding date!!

How exciting. Enjoy the planning! Make sure you keep us all updated.

Congratulations! It definitely gets more real when you set a date! ?

of course lol =D i'm gona b on here religiously now i have a date. feel like i can actually comment more cos i know when its all gona happen. I'm gona sit down this weekend and do my wedding folder with all my ideas and hopefully get things started ?

Lol i know. the past year has flown by already! i'm expecting it to be 2011 before i know it lol

Oo fab! what does your OH do then?? (ex-theatre employee)

How exciting!!

I've just been out today and got a wedding planner from WH Smiths and I can highly recomend it x

he's a theatre technician. we met through his sister who went to the same theatre school as me. i actually could have met him several times b4 i did or after when i did when my college did its summer showcase at the theatre he works at. It goes darks during july and half of august but since my birthday is in august i thought july would be better for the wedding lol

Tinkerbelle - we've had a few ideas. the colour scheme is gona be 2 shades of purple with ivory and silver to mix it with. And we think we'll get married in Newark as it in-between both our families and not too far from where we live ourselves. I tried a dress on at a wedding fayre and fell in love with it so hoping i can find it again and try some others on like it to make sure its the one. we've found soe invites we like so it's just a matter of choosing between them. thats about it really. just been playing around with ideas but now i can start setting things in stone

which one did you get? i've seen quite a few but don't know what i should be looking for in a planner

That's a good idea actually! hadn't thought about that. with the honeymoon we want i might even still be on honeymoon (just) so that'd be really cool.

The dress i tried on is the Sophia Tolli Y1922 with the jacket as well. it fit like a glove and i just felt like a princess. people were stopping and staring at me in it lol. made my mum cry. it was actually her who picked it out and told me to try it on.

We're hoping to go to new zeland, another island near by oh wants to visit and finally australia. hoping to spend 15 days/3 weeks away. makes more sense now he'll not hav to book tie off for it to make the most of it. we want the 1st week to be relaxing, the 2nd to be adventure filled and the 3rd sight seeing. it's a once in a life time trip and since the flights take up 24 hours of the holiday we want to get the most out of it whilst we're there

I'd love to go to mexico sometime. and at least if you've been before you know what to expect and where to find things. I'm just hoping we can afford to do everything we want. Hoping to do a honeymoon gift list for anyone who wants to give something. at least we have 2 years to save as well lol

My fingers are crossed for you =)

we're going on holiday in July to spain (our 1st holiday together and his 1st time on a plane). it's an engagement present from my parents. We're staying in my Auntyy's apartment which she rents out for 2 whole weeks. It's going to be bliss, spesh since i haven't had a holiday in years!!

We want to move house atm as well but with the way the current housing market is we can't afford to. We're quite happy where we are though as it's right near town, just wish i had a garden lol.

Awww bless ya. I'm really lucky as my dad could afford to get me a flat to live in whilst i was at college to my OH moved in with me and my dad's quite happy for us to keep living here until we can afford to take over the mortgage from him. It's very strange for me whenever i visit home cos i'm so used to my freedom now that i cant get used to always telling mum where i'm going when i go stay for a few days. Must say though, i think they don't mind me staying here, away from home as i have so much stuff now i don't think it'd all fit back in the house lol

I hope you can find a place soon. It must drive you mad not having your own space.

Lol i know the issues of trying to share a single bed well. We went to visit OH's parents and had to share a single bed. It ended up with me geting fed up of lying in the crack between the bed and the wall and i ended up sleeping on the floor. the look on my OH's face was hilarious the next morning when he was like 'why are you down there?'

that must be really hard with him working so far away. I cant stand to be away from home for even 1 night, really sad but impossibly true. At least when you can live together it'll feel so much nicer!

I always get the wall side cos when i had my leg in cast i couldn't feel the radiator through my cast. Even though now i'm fine and i'm the one who sleeps with knees up, i still get the wall side lol. Fortunately at home we have a double bed but had to get a king sized duvet due to us both wanting to steal the cover!

It'll be really nice for you to be able to see him for a few months. i really admire you being able to spend that long apart!

I know that feeling. when i went to london for some rehearsals for a panto thing i did i got really upset one night and phoned him in tears, then once i was back it was all forgotten about. its the hugs that i miss the most when i'm away as well. why do they have to be so good at giving them? lol

U c an get pillows with arms that hug you but its just not as good. I can understand worrying about him not being there on a slight level. My OH around panto time may as well be the other side of thw world for all i see of him, and some shows keep him away all day and late into the night so i dont see him b4 he goes to work and im asleep b4 he gets back. so not seeing him at all, spesh if you hav children in the future. hope he gets placed near you