I don’t really know how to explain what happens to your brain, or for that matter if it’s the same for everyone, but for me once we’d set the date I literally became consumed by the wedding. It started slowly I admit, googling potential venue’s in my lunch break, flicking through the odd wedding magazine in the newsagents but almost a year down the line from the proposal I can think of nothing else. I’ve purchased too many wedding magazines to mention, fashioned colour coded mood boards, spent hours creating spreadsheets documenting every tiny detail, called Bridesmaid meetings… I could go on but I’m even boring myself. What makes it worse is to start with its easy to keep it internal and simply sit at your desk and get lost in the catering menu’s or whatever wedding related item you’re tackling that day, but as time goes on you feel this burning desire to talk about little else either. To everyone. Its still over 11 months until our big day and already Rob’s rolling his eyes every time I mention something “weddingy”, I fear my friends wont bother attending as they’ll have lived the occasion so many times over the phone/in my sitting room/down the pub…

Last week I challenged myself to go a whole day without mentioning the wedding (out loud).

I haven’t managed it yet.

As I’m in the middle of a difficult situation with work, as well as launching my own company (In Any Event) I really could do with using some of my wedding time on other things right now – all of which will enable us to have the wedding we want – that’s what I have to keep reminding myself anyway. But that’s a good thing too coz while I take a step back from 24/7 wedding planning it means I have time to catch you guys up on what’s happened so far! I cant jump right from November 2010 to September 2011 without filling in some gaps! I can feel your excitement from here. Ha!