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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Nosey family and faddy diets
Every few weekends I travel up to North London to visit some of my family, and in an attempt to avoid the often nightmarish London traffic, I usually choose to leave my car in the garage and take the train.
Since becoming engaged, trips to see my family have resulted in quick-fire questions about the wedding. “Have you got a dress yet?”, “How many bridesmaids will you be having?”, and perhaps the most offensive, “Which fad diet will you be going on?”.
Having said that – they might have a point. I’ve tried on some dresses and they are a little bit on the snug side. So on the train journey back from one visit I had a look at some of the more famous diets and I’m appalled!
The Atkins diet dictates that I should give up carbs, the Dukan diet is likely to make me experience bad breath and a dry mouth (something I would very much like to avoid for my first kiss as a married woman) and the weight watchers diet wants me to take note of every last morsel that passes my lips.
Well, after some careful consideration, I have decided that I most definitely will not be subjecting myself to a fad diet pre-wedding. Instead I will eat less chocolate and more fruit and veg.
Take note, I did say less chocolate and not no chocolate!
Since becoming engaged, trips to see my family have resulted in quick-fire questions about the wedding. “Have you got a dress yet?”, “How many bridesmaids will you be having?”, and perhaps the most offensive, “Which fad diet will you be going on?”.Having said that – they might have a point. I’ve tried on some dresses and they are a little bit on the snug side. So on the train journey back from one visit I had a look at some of the more famous diets and I’m appalled!
The Atkins diet dictates that I should give up carbs, the Dukan diet is likely to make me experience bad breath and a dry mouth (something I would very much like to avoid for my first kiss as a married woman) and the weight watchers diet wants me to take note of every last morsel that passes my lips.
Well, after some careful consideration, I have decided that I most definitely will not be subjecting myself to a fad diet pre-wedding. Instead I will eat less chocolate and more fruit and veg.
Take note, I did say less chocolate and not no chocolate!
Photo © Yortw via Flickr under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, diet, garage, traffic, train, wedding
Friday, July 6, 2012
A wedding dress to wipe away the tears
I’m getting married in April. I know, I know. A spring wedding – it’s going to be lovely.
But before you get too carried away, you should know that I’m not exactly going to be CoverGirl bride.
This is because my boyfriend – fiancé, I mean – it’s so hard to get used to, even if I do like saying it... Anyway, my fiancé has said that he has come up with a brilliant idea to save money.
“What, my love, share a car, and put you on my woman driver insurance?” I asked.
“No, sweet, silly pants,” he said. “Make your wedding dress out of toilet paper.”
“You nasty, nasty man.” I said. “Making cruel jokes when you know I’m going to be the most beautiful bride ever. You already said that, remember.”
But he was serious. Completely serious. He says that a woman in the US has recently won a prize for crafting a wedding dress out of toilet paper.
Naturally, my first thought was, no way! Not in a million years!
But having looked at the garment in question, it’s, well... exquisite.
The problem is, we don’t have a designer and there’s no way I’m going to let my fiancé design and stitch it himself, as he claims he’s going to do. No way!
But before you get too carried away, you should know that I’m not exactly going to be CoverGirl bride.This is because my boyfriend – fiancé, I mean – it’s so hard to get used to, even if I do like saying it... Anyway, my fiancé has said that he has come up with a brilliant idea to save money.
“What, my love, share a car, and put you on my woman driver insurance?” I asked.
“No, sweet, silly pants,” he said. “Make your wedding dress out of toilet paper.”
“You nasty, nasty man.” I said. “Making cruel jokes when you know I’m going to be the most beautiful bride ever. You already said that, remember.”
But he was serious. Completely serious. He says that a woman in the US has recently won a prize for crafting a wedding dress out of toilet paper.
Naturally, my first thought was, no way! Not in a million years!
But having looked at the garment in question, it’s, well... exquisite.
The problem is, we don’t have a designer and there’s no way I’m going to let my fiancé design and stitch it himself, as he claims he’s going to do. No way!
Photo © exfordy via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: wedding, woman driver insurance
Friday, June 1, 2012
Motorised kissing
When I got married it was on a budget, so the one
thing I made a point of driving home to then husband-to-be was the fact that we
didn’t need a fancy car involved. “The car is the least important part of the
wedding,” I told him. “It’s all about the dress, the kiss, the church and the
honeymoon.”
As it was, he managed to arrange couple of vintage
Rovers through a contact of his dad’s, for free, so I didn’t mind.
But what to make of two newlyweds in China who
recently made the cars the main event?
On their way to their reception, as their two cars
drew alongside each other, they leaned out of their respective windows and
shared a passionate wedding day kiss.
"We wanted to do something different for our wedding day
kiss picture," said the couple.
I would have been terrified. Not only is leaning out
of a car window ill-advised at the best of times, but this couple actually did
it on a motorway. All that the groom would have needed to do was lean that
little bit further and it might have been window kiss to widow kiss in just a
few swift seconds.
I’ve a feeling that these kinds of shenanigans, no
matter how romantic wouldn’t be allowed to take place in the UK anyway, what
with health and safety and all that.
And I can just hear the driver delivering the
injunction, “Sorry love, my car insurance doesn’t cover acts of extreme
romantic abandon.”
Photo © Tobyotter via Flickr, under Creative
Commons Licence
Labels: car insurance, kiss, Rovers, UK, wedding