The Engagement Party

On saturday we all travelled to my grandad's house in Swindon for a family celebration! Despite it being over a year since me and Simon got together, our families have never actually met, so we thought it would be a good idea to have a little engagement party to introduce the families and to have some fun too. Also, Mel, Luke and Tom (the maid of honour and best men) came down for the occasion.

We all had a really great afternoon and our families got on well which was so great! We also decided to have 'opposite' speeches which proved to be a lot of fun and gave other people to say something who won't get a speech at the wedding. So instead of the groom, best man and father of the bride doing speeches, we had the bride (me), the maid of honour and the father of the groom saying a few words. It was so lovely to hear from people how they see us as a couple.

In the afternoon we went for a walk around the village where my dad grew up and where I have many happy childhood memories. It meant a lot for me that I could share this place with Simon. It is a special place for me.

After a long long day, I went back to Simon's flat with Luke to drop off a few things before going back home and having a good long sleep :)

Reunited at last - plan plan plan!

Gosh it has been ages since I last posted! So much has happened. I have been to Romania for two weeks and also volunteered at a festival called Momentum for a week before moving house. My life has barely stopped and as I sit here writing this latest update I am quite pleased that I currently have nothing to do.

Yesterday I FINALLY got to see Simon after over two months apart! We met up at Twickenham station and had a super big hug. So good to see eachother and I am so pleased that hopefully we won't be apart for so long ever again. Some updates here - we have both moved house and are now within a 25 minute train ride of eachother! So life is going pretty well the moment.

Anyway, after meeting up, we got the train into London to book our honeymoon!!! After various issues with booking the correct room (no, not a twin room.. no, not for 7 nights, for 10 please!) we finally put a deposit on the holiday of our dreams - ten nights in Cape Verde next to the beach with all the food and swimming pools anyone could possibly want! We both did a little happy dance after leaving the holiday shop.

The hotel!

     After this, we had some lunch and a little stroll before heading off to Hatton Garden for rings. I would highly reccommend this place! It was incredible! Hatton Garden is a street with over 70 independent jewellery shops on it, and loads of them make custom made rings. Apparently it is the biggest jewellery quarter in Europe, so we decided that if we didn't find something we wanted there, we would never find it!
     We had a great time trying on rings, window shopping and making deals and bargains when we had decided on what we actually wanted. In the end we managed to get a really good deal on our rings. We each got to design our own wedding band. We chose the metal, the weight, width, depth, style and even some diamonds ;) - who knew these things were so complicated!

Hatton Garden

Here's the shop that got our money!

    












After a busy day making purchases of a lifetime, we headed back to Twickenham for dinner out using some of the money we saved from getting a deal on the rings before Simon drove me home.

This was a once-in-a-lifetime sort of day. I will remember this day forever.