OK enough , It's all going wrong lol ive made so many mistakes today it's unbeliveable. i really dont know were my head is at :( first thing i did this morning was put a teabag in my coffee...spot the mistake? pmsl and the rest of the day has'nt been much better either. then my sis phones up and tells me all these wonderfull (reads: not wonderfull) ideas that she has had for her jewellery at the wedding....that ive got to make. and my other little sister has gone and had all her hair chopped off but still wants a tiara....how the hell do i brouch that subject? "sorry little sis you cant have a tiara cos it wont stay in your hair but im going to have to let your other sister have one because if i dont she will kick up a stink and proberbly wont come and it'll be all my fault. and im sorry that you will throw a paddy too because she's got one and you havnt" arrrg. so so far ive still gotta make:3 tiaras , 3 knecklaces with matching pendants 3 pairs of matching earrings, and 9ct gold set of 2 pairs of earrings and a necklace to match the others (that is gonna cost me a bomb because the 9ct ear wires alone are £7.90)....oh and jewellery for me. and to top that off it's only 1 month and 6 days to our wedding....that leaves me with 1 payday between now and the wedding and thats usless because the wedding is on the 6th july and we get paid on the 27th of june. so no time for orders to come through and all that jewellery to be made in a space of 10 days. great. Sigh. Someone talk me down cos im about to go stark raving bonkers lol

List of spent so far:
Wedding Licence fee's of £30.00 each = £60.00
Comemerative Certificate = £5.00
Wedding Venue £170.00
Reception Hall £ 185.00
Rings = £79.00
Dress & Bridesmaid Dresses £500 mine & £18.00 bridesmaids each =£536.00
Shoes £1.00 £10 + £10 = £21.00
Groom & Bestman Suits = £75.00 in total
Groom Shoes = £22.00
Groom and bestman Cufflinks £6.00 each = £12.00
Usher & Ring Barer Suits £15.50 each = £46.50 for 3 Suits.
Usher & Ring Barer Shoes £45.00
Boquet , Corsages & Buttonholes = £66.00
Limousine = £150.00
Cake topper = £5.00 and a lots of time! (made myself)
Cake knifes = £9.90
Wedding Cake = Cost unknown as yet.
Wedding Reception Food Est = £200.00 (Making by our selfs)
Photographer =£250.00
Wedding Reception Party Plates , Bowls & Cutterlery = £10.00
Wedding Reception Table Cloths, Balloons , Table Confetti & Bubbles = £49.07
Wedding Reception Hall Decorations = ? Not got yet.
Jewellery for me , Mum & Bridesmaids = £60.97 (made myself)
Tiaras for same as above = £30.00 (made myself)
Wedding Organza Favor Bags = £2.99 for 10 = £14.95
To make Chocolate favours = £10.00 for 220 chocolates (made myself)
Underware = £40.00 + matching Garter £8.00 = £48.00


So are you prepared to see the total so far?....It's £2159.82

My god I'm gonna feignt. mind you thats not so bad i suppose concidering that the av uk wedding is reported at around £15764.00 , and we have almost everything sorted out at £2159.82 so thats a whopping estimated saving of £13605.00

oh for *beep* sake. i cant sleep again. someone please hit me over the head with something cos this is driving me nuts lol

I'm off to my mum's house for sunday dinner :) theres nothing quite like your mums cooking! that reminds me its her birthday on the 7th june so id better get looking for a birthday prezzie. Oooh actually while im here i forgot to show you the photos of our trip to the natural history museum , my mum tried hiding from the camera in that pic , she should of just said cheese cos now she looks like an old dinosaur...LOL

*yawn* I cant sleep. its proberbly a combo of the heat we are having at the mo and the stress of days to come. its 12:30 in the morning and ive gotta be up at 7 , but it was fruitless trying to get to sleep because ive been laying in bed for wayyy over an hour and im getting nowhere.

Tomorow is a big day for me. well sorta. its the first time i have ever been on a sunbed and im being draged along with my sister kirsty because she says "you want to look nice on the big day dont you?" the only problem im having with this is the fact that i'll have to stand there in my undies. Shudder. but other than that nothing has really happened in that last few days...thank god i needed a break. got the shopping to do in the morning as well , i hate the monthly shopping , anyone want to offer to do it for me? anyone? ok maybe not but it was worth a try.
Oh i got another job offer today :) the place were i taught the last course at ,have asked me to teach 2 workshops on the 11th of June , should be fun , oh and im going to be running another six week course in september. they did ask me to do it now but the problem with that is that the course dates run straight through our wedding and honeymoon and i dont think that it would be fair to the 10 people who sign up for the course to cut it short by two weeks , so i had to say i couldnt do it. but great stuff they rearranged for september.

I had my hair trial this afternoon and this is the hair that I've decided on (see pic) i love everything about it! i don't know if you can see but in one of the closeup pic's you can see a small crystal...i attached on with wire to a bobby pin and i think i like it lol so i may have 4mm swarovski crystals dotted through out the curls. thank you to Michelle (Amy's mum) for helping me out...your an absolute angel:)

look at what Luke and Zac made lol Bless their little cotton socks. thats the first time in about 3 months (maybe more) that they have actually sat down and done something together with out arguing or full on fighting. and to think they were doing that for the reception hall. Awww it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :) and no before someone feels obliged to say 'that's slave labor' it wasn't my idea...they thought of that all on their own awwww.
Have you noticed the counter at the top of my blog? every time i look at it it feels as if someones just dropped a brick in my stomach. lol
oh and....ahem.....don't look at the crap under the chair. its funny how stuff piles up in places you cant see huh.
Steph , Krista , Jayne & Jess... if any of you are reading this could you please explain to me how to find you on my space pleaaase (Sorry , i cant help being thick!) x

Ouch Ouch Ouch Ouch....that's the sound I'm making with every step that i take in these shoes lol...god they are gonna kill me. they have a 3 inch heel so on the plus side I'm taller! but on the downside its going to take me a year to get used to them , so I've been waring them around the house trying to stretch them (so they dont give me blisters on the day) and also to get used to the heel size (i normally ware flat shoes!) wish me luck.

for the last coupe of weeks mike has been really getting on my nerves lol , not so much in a bad way but more of an annoying way , because every time someone speaks to him , he ends up saying "what?" because he didn't hear them. and it came to blows yesterday and i pushed him to get an appointment at the docs (for my sanity's sake) but now i feel a bit of a cow for having a moan at him because it turns out that he has a perforated eardrum....opps. but at least he's now got the problem sorted out! and then i felt even more horrible because i gave him his dinner and said 'ere then realized what id said and laughed hysterically i couldn't help it!....hands up if you think i should apologize!

Guess what?.....the photographer couldn't come today. I'm getting really worried about this bloke. last time we had to meet him our appointment was at 5pm and we sat there waiting for him to show up until 7:30. and then today its a no show. hmmmm maybe its just nerves creeping up on me again , but doesn't anyone else find this a little worrying? what if he does it on the day?!

Ive just realized that i never posted about the limo..... yep a limo , my lads are going to be soooo chuffed to bits that they will get to go in a car like this :) i cant wait to see their little faces light up!
and get this.....it only cost us £150 to hire. see it proves that its not what you know its most definitely who you know.....well who my mum knows anyway lol , thank you Angie my mums best friend in the world!

God is it nearly Wednesday already? this week is flying past , I've got loads to do in the morning including making the next batch of favors and meeting the photographer at 4:30 in Dartford , not to mention fitting in the school trips and doing the pack lunch shopping oh and Luke has his dance class after school so that means I'm going to have to pick Zac up at 2:50 then hang around until 3:45 so that i can pick Luke up and then shoot off to Dartford on the train , i don't think I'm going to make it in time for 4:30. if only cloning was a reality!

ooh its so quiet here at the mo , Luke's in bed , Zac's staying at my sisters house for the night and Mike is fiddling around with the games on his XBOX , so its nice to have some quiet time for a change :)

while I'm here I'm making a public apology for the email i sent Steph chewing her ears off because i was panicking about the wedding (nerve attack...in a big way) Love ya Steph , sorry!

Ive Got my shoes......My lovely mum saved me around £60 by finding this fantastic pair of shoes by rainbow club at a brilliant price of £1 yep 1 quid at the second hand shop , someone up there must love me because I've been looking at these shoes for ages thinking id love to have them but they are just so expensive. well now I've got a pair whoooo hoooo! Thanks mum your a star :) x

just a general update......
Mikes mum still hasn't replied to the wedding invitation. nor has she phoned. I'm getting quite worried actually because its been a month (maybe more) since we took the invitation to her home in gillingham and when i handed her the invite she just put it down on the table and didn't even glance at it. i know that she hasn't liked me in the past but you would of thought that she would of put aside her differences if only for mike. after all its only one day and he is her only child. They hardly ever speak as it is. and really there is no excuse.

As many of you know , that as well as organizing my own wedding i am also making the jewelery for a friends wedding (Mel) this is her tiara & I'm very proud of this one as its quite unique. Click on the images for a larger view! these photos came out better than expected too :)

ok forget the last cake topper , because i dropped it and broke it Opps. I think this one is better anywho :) its fresh from the oven and took aprox 12 hours to make.....proberbly longer if you add in all the time i spent throwing bits away or starting again cos i screwed up hehe

Thought id post some piccies of the dress for those of you who keep bugging me too , no comments on how short the dress looks please lol i cant help being little! im only 5 foot 2 and trust me if i could grow a few more inches i would!

Whoo hoo thats another thing sorted , ive paid the flowers at a total of £66.00 for a red rose & bear grass bouquet , 2 Ivory foam rose corsage's (my bridesmaids have allergies!) , 6 Red rose button holes and 24 white carnation button holes with leather leafs.

OMG. Someone catch me cos im about to feignt. ive just spent 40 quid on underware. on bloody underware. ive never spent more than an tenner for a bra , knickers, socks ,and outfit the kids walldrobes , let alone 40 quid for a bra , knickers and a suspender belt. im in total shock. hey thats a thought..... maybe i'll give mike such a shock he'll have to sleep through the night alowing me to plonk myself infront of the telly. will it work? nope probly not. but then again he best be pleased lol. but did you know that more than 56% of couples say that on the wedding night they were to tired to do anything but sleep?. plus i had the added embarresment of ellie my 3 year old nice thinking i was playing hide and seek when i was being mesured for a bra. i could hear her bounding along the dressing room corridoor saying 'were are you auntie cerrie im gonna find you!' everyone shouted no! but it was to late cos their was dear little ellie pulling the curtain back full pelt and me standing there with.... ahem..... not much on. yep laugh away lol. its funny now im dressed but at the time well there were no words.

boy am i tierd. ive been making yummy miniture chocolates for the wedding favor bags :) i made 110 chocolates in all , they say....

Cerrie & Michael

06-07-07

Thanks for sharing our special day!

theres still another batch thats got to be made but I'm glad that everything is finally coming together now , because all i want to do is relax and enjoy , but i cant do that all the while that im panicking about things that have gotta be done lol