wedding: the venue, part 2

Today is the one month mark. In one months time I am getting married. That still sounds like such an immense sentence to speak outloud.One month. Thirty Days. 720 hours. 🙂 Remember when I told you in the middle of July that we hadn’t yet found a venue for our wedding party here in Brussels?…

Hedda’s wedding…

Saturday was the wedding of my friend Heather, who I first met in South Africa, when we were volunteering at God’s Golden Acre in KwaZulu Natal. I was a naive idealist (what’s changed?) 18 year old, spending my days washing, ironing and distributing 50+ school outfits to the children and Heather was the mature motherly…

oxfordshire

In four hours I am getting on a train to go home. Well, to my other home. The home that was home for the longest and will alwasy be home even though here is home now. I haven’t been back in five months! I just worked it out by flicking back through my filofax and…

wedding: invites

I think there’s some rule that says people are meant to have their invitations to your wedding about two months before the wedding, particularly if they’re expected to travel for it. *cough* Well, they’re going in the post today and the wedding (as my mum posted on her facebook page) is 47 days away. That’s…

two months today

there’s a lot to catch you up on. my silence the last ten days was due to a big holiday to LEBANON! Don’t worry, you’ll be hearing lots about that trip just as soon as I get all my hundreds of photos organised 😉 Lebanon was hot, fascinating, welcoming, delicious, scary, ancient, beautiful… But before…

the venue

We are having two wedding celebrations I mean, what the heck, you only *hopefully* do this getting married thing once in your life, so might as well stretch it out right?! Plus, getting to wear my bee-uooo-tiful dress twice? Amazing. We are getting married in the church in the village I grew up in in…