Our Day by Design

...to everyone for the lovely comments on my Coming soon... post! It has been so good to finally tell everyone after weeks of keeping it a secret! I am currently 13+5 weeks {so in my 14th week} and the baby is apparently almost the size of a lemon! This pregnancy was planned and we were lucky that it didn't take too long at all. We found out when I was almost 5 weeks so it was hard not being able to share our news with everyone. We told our parents and sisters first then waited until our first scan at 11+3 weeks to tell the rest of our family and all of our friends {many of whom had guessed since I wasn't drinking!} I have been very lucky and been feeling pretty normal most of the time, apart from being so tired! It was lovely to have our scan so we could see there was a baby and see it jumping and wriggling around! The baby is due on the 29th January so we have plenty time to buy everything and get organised. We are also going to find out the sex so that it makes it easi...

...the newest member of the family!   Due to make an appearance 29th January 2012!

Congratulations to the lovely A Dizzy Girl who is marrying her Irish Boy today! I have met A Dizzy Girl a few times now and have loved following along on her wedding planning journey. I am so excited that we are going to attend her reception this evening, along with some other lovely bloggers. I can not wait to see the dress! I cant wait to hear all about it; hope you both have a fabulous day and it is everything you could have wished for!

Congratulations to the wonderful Zoe from Conversation Pieces who is marrying her other half {as she refers to him} today! I have met Zoe on a number of occasions and have loved following her blog. I was so disappointed to discover I wouldn't be able to attend her wedding, since we are still in Marrakech, but I'm sure the rest of the girls will take lots of photos and make sure to tell me all about it! I cant wait to hear all about it; hope you both have a fabulous day and it is everything you could have wished for!

Its Grahams 30th Birthday today; Happy Birthday G! This last year has gone so fast with all the weddings, holidays and events we had planned so we are now looking forward to what this next year will bring! (Image by Craig & Eva Sanders ) This is also our anniversary of 8 years together {and I year, 10 weeks & 5 days married!} As you know we are celebrating in Marrakech and hopefully at this moment we are enjoying the sun and lazing by the pool! We are going to celebrate with his family when we get back by having lunch on Sunday at Grahams parents house.

We are off to the sun in Marrakech for a week; spending our first three nights in the medina then moving to a boutique hotel & spa for the rest of the week where we will celebrate Grahams 30th birthday. See you all soon!

The reason we went to Italy was for the wedding of our friends Helen & Nick, where I was a bridesmaid. Helen was one of my bridesmaids too and I was honoured to be able to be there for her special day, especially since it was only four months after our wedding. The preparations started with us having a meeting at the hairdressers on the Tuesday, a drink in the main square in Siena before meeting all of the other wedding guests for dinner back near the villa. We had a gorgeous Italian meal before the members of the wedding party were presented with gifts; the bridesmaids all got a gorgeous necklace and matching earrings to wear at the wedding. They were all slightly different so mine had pearls alongside the silver design. Afterwards Helen, me, the other two bridesmaids Lucy & Nic, and Helen's mum went back to her room to enjoy a glass of champagne and make the last minute arrangements for the next morning. We ended up enjoying a couple of glasses before we went back to o...