Goodbye Chocolate Cake from Mental Health


I've just had to spend ten minutes with a duster to get through the cobwebs formed over my blog!


THE RUN UP TO THE BIG DAY...

In April I finished working for Queensland Health and began my first full time job in Australia as ‘Senior Administrator Engineering / IT Support’. In hindsight, starting two weeks before we were due to go away to get married wasn’t the wisest decision – but I managed, albeit with a few days off here and there for dress fittings. It felt so good to have my own desk at last and at least I could go away knowing that I was coming back to a new job.

Every evening and weekend in the run up to our trip was spent sorting out: invitations, flights, rooms at the castle, registrar, running order for the day, wedding dress, wedding rings, jewellery, veil, bridesmaid dresses, suit hire, photographer, florist, music, string quartet, disco equipment, speeches, payments, hair appointments, food and drink arrangements, seating plans, table decorations, favours, hen dos and organising a timetable for our time in England to make sure we got to see everyone as well as get all the final wedding details organised! All this is common knowledge to those of you who have been through the nightmare of organising a wedding, but I had no idea just how many decisions and payments we’d have to make. At this point I would like to thank my mum and Caroline, without whom people would have been invited on post-it notes, the bridesmaids would have been in jeans and I would have had my hen night in Selby!