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Well, after having been together for 15 years and living together for almost 7 years we finally tied the knot on 12th September.

Myself and my chief bridesmaid spent Friday night at the reception venue, Holiday Inn, Impington, Cambridge after having a lovely Chinese in a local restaurant.

Saturday morning started very early after only getting a very small amount of sleep.  We started the day with a nice relaxing bath, then breakfast, trip to steam room and a jacuzzi before heading off to get our hair and make up done at 11.30am.  Lunch was at Kelly’s house after meeting up with my children who were bridesmaids and pageboy and then headed back to the Holiday Inn to get into our dresses.  This was a very emotional time and both myself and Kel were trying hard to not blub when I had my dress on …. the dress was beautiful and very flattering.

My car arrived to take myself and my dad to the registry office at 4.40pm.  Unfortunately, the previous wedding was a bit delayed so we had to wait in the car round the corner so we could not be seen and waited for the thumbs up from one of my brother’s to drive back round the front again.  Thankfully, Dennis was there although there was a tense moment as he seemed to be sat in the pub with his best man waiting for me to arrive!!

Nevertheless the whole day was the cliche of perfect.   I was so pleased there were no huge glitches and the whole service, wedding breakfast and evening entertainment went very smoothly (as far as I am aware anyway!!)

Over the coming weeks, I will be writing a piece about all the companies involved in helping my dream day be perfect.  Some of the companies used were work at home mums, like myself, and was delighted to be able to ask them to help me with everything from wedding invites, to thank you gifts.

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Teeny Munchkins is proud to support our friend Jo and her website in her quest to raise funds for CLICSargent.  Jo has chosen CLICSargent as her charity to support this year and is aiming to raise £1000 by January 2010.

On 1st September, Jo launched a raffle (which has a winning prize of a Nappy Bag filled with lovely goodies from other companies) for all those donating at least a minimum of £2 via her Justgiving page.  The first person to donate won a Groovy Bead Tube and the next 9 won a Jade Jagger friendship bracelet.  (There is still a chance to win one of these)

Jo is also running a spot prize competition via her Twitter page on September 10th and 20th.

Teeny Munchkins has provided prizes for the Nappy Bag: a pink Chiggs Wheel and a Skwinkle. There are lots of other lovely prizes from other companies too.

Please help Jo get to her £1000 by donating via her Justgiving page.

All donations received from September 1st until September 30th will be entered into the draw.

Many thanks

Alison

www.teenymunchkins.co.uk

Many of my readers will already know that I am about to get married.  Some of you are probably sick of me going on about it in the various places where I network!!

Anyway, we are now down to 11 days to go!  It’s very exciting but also very scary.  The idea that I am going to be a Mrs instead of a Miss is somewhat frightening but I can’t really explain why.  Marriage is something I have wanted for a long time now but, now that reality is kicking in, so are the last minute nerves.

It has been smooth sailing up until now, unless you count a disaster with the wrong bridesmaid dresses being sent from the supplier, but that is now all sorted and something we have put behind us.

My biggest panic so far is that nobody is going to turn up!!  Lots of invites have gone out,  some guests are not able to make it so we have been able to invite others we would love to share the day with us.  But, although we have had lots of acceptances, I still struggle with the idea that people are going to want to turn up.

Well, I guess that I have to accept that what will be, will be and there is nothing I can do to change it.

Over the coming weeks, I will be blogging about the various businesses that have helped me along the way in providing items such as invites right through to the favours.

I also have a very special friend and her husband who is taking care of the photography for me as a wedding gift and I cannot wait to blog about the memories they will have depicted for us.

Will write again soon

Alison

www.teenymunchkins.co.uk