So, it has been whole days since I last talked about the wedding. And we can’t have that, because I have been busily organising things in a bordering-on-manic fashion recently, and I demand recognition! In addition to the cake and the photographer, I have also now sorted out, or at least considered, the following things:
My Outfit
The dress is ordered. It’s coming. There are no pictures of it ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET. I’ve looked. And anyway even if there were I couldn’t link to it because J does occasionally read this blog and, you know, TRADITION! So you’re just going to have to trust me: it’s lovely.
Also sorted: hair and makeup, veil, necklace, earrings, underwear, stockings and garter (something blue!). Not yet sorted: shoes. But a friend of mine who was a bridesmaid recently and wore ivory heels has said I can borrow them. We are the same size and she promises they are really comfortable. So, excellent: footwear and my ’something borrowed’ in one fell swoop.
DJ
I am freaking out irrationally about the DJ, because the DJ is the only thing I’ve booked after just finding one on Google that looked good. Everything else has been based on personal or magazine or hotel recommendations. So now I have sent in my deposit cheque I am thinking ‘but what if it’s just an elaborate scam to fleece poor innocent brides of their £450 deposit and then on their wedding there is NO MUSIC?’ Actually the idea of losing a £450 deposit I can live with; the idea of all our guests having to dance to J ineffectually Beat Boxing into a radio mic gives me chills.
But anyway, I am no doubt being ridiculous! Look, they are totally legit, right? RIGHT?
Flowers
I have booked a florist, she’s called Beryl. She has a misplaced apostrophe on her website but I am trying to overlook it. We are meeting nearer the time to discuss floral arrangements. Right now I’m leaning towards just doing everything in burgundy and ivory roses, but I wonder how excessively out-of-season roses are in November? I am trying, if I can, to keep the carbon footprint of the wedding more Lilliputian than Gulliver.
Bridesmaids
Obviously bridesmaids are sorted. They are Teabelly and my friend Liz, who doesn’t have a blog, although this should not be held against her. Liz lives in Holland and isn’t back until August, so bridesmaid dress shopping is on hold until then. My plan A is to find them nice little burgundy dresses, but if that fails plan B is to find them nice little black dresses, which will be easy because you can always buy little black dresses. The wedding is going to be black tie, so bridesmaids in black dresses would actually look kind of cool.
Rings
Rings are J’s department and consequently they have not been organised AT ALL. We’re planning to go back to the same guy who made my engagement ring in Hatton Garden. We were originally going to both just have plain gold bands, but J asked me if I wanted a diamond eternity ring instead and my response was:
But won’t my ring finger look ridiculously bling?
*Pause*
My ring finger will look ridiculously bling! Let’s do it!
Inside every woman of taste, there is a footballer’s wife desperately trying to beat her way out.
150 days to go! Eeep!
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July 2, 2008 at 9:04 am
Tom
Out of interest, what shop did you use in Hatton Garden? Sounds like you’d recommend them?
July 2, 2008 at 9:12 am
plattie
It wasn’t a shop, but a jewellery maker called Dennis who has a teeny tiny workshop above a newsagent in Hatton Garden. He makes jewellery for the shops in the area, and so: wholesale prices. Winner!
He was great, and my engagement ring is beautiful, so I would absolutely recommend him. I’ll email you his phone number if you like.
July 2, 2008 at 1:41 pm
lisa
I was going to get a plain platinum band, but once I tried on the eternity band there was no going back! I love it!
July 3, 2008 at 9:25 pm
kicking_k
I would have thought roses weren’t more out-of-season in November than anything else is. I have a rosebush in my garden which has been known to keep blooming until January.
If your DJ evaporates I will send you my J, who used to DJ quite a lot when we were at university.
He may have ace mixing skills but there is NO WAY my dear one would have suggested that ring choice. Are you sure your J is actually male? Or is it just that all the men I know are totally uninterested in jewellery and think thrift is a cardinal virtue (except – in the case of my dad – when it involves buying a new computer)?
I am perfectly happy with my simple gold band, but then I am not very girly. I got a bit of a funny look from the jeweller when I explained that my ring would have to be easy to take off, because otherwise I would scratch it to bits on the metal bar grips when I was weightlifting. I do have a pretty engagement ring, but I don’t wear it every day.
July 4, 2008 at 9:14 am
plattie
Kicking_k – I’m pretty sure he’s male! He’s just an extravagant male. And, after buying my engagement ring, he is now alarmingly well-informed about ring design. Better informed than I am actually – he keeps using terms like pave and princess-cut and I just stare at him in confusion.