Can it be ? Can it be that after all the planning and prepping and money spent and my unwavering enthusiasm for all things images, magazines and details wedding , we finally hit the point of wedding fatigue. Yes me and DF both of us , literally just want to get it over with .Enough of spending money, worrying about details, stressing about guests and bridesmaids and family and catholic and French bureaucracy. We are still excited , but with only 8 weeks to go we want the time to pass already , the day to come to know who is coming and to celebrate!

We got our date for the town hall wedding yesterday, its June 5th in the afternoon which neatly places all of it in one month and we have May to chill out and prepare.
It’s true that if we haven’t had waited this long we wouldn’t have that wedding we imagined the whole lovely fairytale , but if it could have been helped I think a shorter engagement( if only by half a year) would have been better.

We are looking forward to just get on with life , travelling, maybe looking for an apartment in Paris ( now that’s a new project!), maybe find a new job around autumn, or look into mowing abroad.

So there, until then I’m trying to enjoy my last weeks as a fiancée I have a feeling I’ll miss it a lot once its over.

peony bouquet from googleimages.

Somehow today was a really hardcore monday ... not only did I have a short weekend (was workin on saturday as well as the coming two saturdays) and 1 day weekends just don't do it for me, I also got in a fight with one of my bridesmaids and am slightly annoyed with another . I guess it makes sense that the friends who've been the biggest help and kind of moral support in this whole planning crazyness are the ones that recently-or semi-recently got married , they are just angels and I really appreciate them. Not to completely bust on all my single friends or get into bridezilla territory , but the wedding's coming up and its getting intense and well they've all seem to've got their lives filled with their own drama.

Nevermind ,i got home smooched DF, ate some grapefruits and listened to DF's best man, J.'s song,( ) i love it when friends make songs, it helps that I actually like the music , but something wth recognizing the voice as well.... it just makes me happy , same with my friend Kc's album 'Melt with you ' .

Another thig that cheered me up this weekend was the fact that me and >DF tried dancing. He's a great dancer but me ....another story.Despite all my years of toddler and child ballet classes, its sad . But we put on Sinatra ( We're thinking ''Fly me to the moon..) and actually managed to dance even though some of DF's more ambitious twirls bumped me into the tables in our small living room it was hilarious . It gave me some hope though we might manage to look OK dancing together.

PS,For cheering up, waching High Society helps too.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to you all! Mind you I'm in the office working ( not too much of it though as it is blessedly calm)

Brought wedding work with me too as I'm planning to start writing the place cards this afternoon and answering letters from those family members who can't come. We are just at the stage where we try to hunt down our invitees who haven't sent their RSVP's trying to figure out who we can still invite last minute and starting to work out how the tables will work. Which goes something like this " So if I invite uncle S. then I can't not invite aunt E. but with her we still have 2 free seats and I don’t want to punish people by sitting them there so let’s invite the two horrid cousins and just make it a table." Yeah family is fun! That’s the worst of it though the seating rest is way more pleasant.

Also lots of things made me happy this weekend , it started with the blooming Park in Levallois ( tulips, magnolia trees, pansies...) then I bought a bunch of new books in WHSmith’s , and Vanity Fair arrived in the office which always means days of reading . I got two cute hair bands both with bows ( cause, "Who doesn't like bows?!" )
Went to the Marché in rue Cler ,on the 69 bus my favorite line in Paris, bought flowers and a pot of daisies and D. showed me where to get cupcakes, aaaand they are amazing ,not to mention the 3 cute guys who work in the shop are serious eye candy.
And DF made the yummiest healthy dinner on Saturday and got me some noix st jaques ( which I managed to overcook AND over salt my pea puree soup, (I'm SO not a cook!)

both images taken by me.

The day is approaching and things are nicely rolling along… The big good news this week was that I’m keeping my job ( our company is downsizing and letting go about 10 people) so when back from our honeymoon in beginning of July and will be moved to work on Dior perfumes & cosmetics instead of the leather goods stuff. Oh well love beauty stuff and extremely grateful for the French labor laws and my CDI contract right now. somehow didn’t feel like going off on my honeymoon with unemployment looming.

Our dossier is given to the mairie and in 10 days we get our appointment , and flights etc booked.

Oh yeah and last Sunday just after our big we are starting to diet so good bye fabulous food lunch ( fois gras & sauternes , duck leg with honey marinade and ile flottantes) I was walking through the Marais and enjoying all the open shops and decided to drop in to les petites where I ended up buying the dress , the dress I fell in love with weeks ago and DF despised ( he’s coming around now)

We are still on the search for the flower girl dresses , and my adorable bridesmaid J. led me in the right direction with US websites having these amazing offers ( forget Paris , nothing proper under 100Eur) except that somehow the sizing doesn’t work, it might just be that we have no idea about kids sizing.

Oh and a few photos of the controversial dress for the civil ceremony..

Here we go again!

Writing about diets can be boring , but the blog is about the whole process to get to the wedding , and right now that involves hardcore not eating starting this Sunday ,so I need to put it in writing to strengthen my resolve in the matter. The goal is at least 10pounds in 4 weeks.

So the plan is :

-carbs ( brown rice , vasa crackers, brown pasta) only until 12am – not that I will feel like eating much of those in the morning.

- vegetables , fish, meat, fruit allowed as much as I like.

- When possible , no eating after 6-7 pm

and NO SUGAR ! NO BREAD , NO PASTA ! –God the sugar thing is going to make me suffer , but hey for vanity’s sake and only until June 20th aka our wedding day.

This actually works when I hold to it ,last time I did the same thing I lost 5kg in 4 weeks , in time for my dress fitting so I’m hopeful it’s going to work this time around.

The thought of our fabulous wedding feast sustains me , just thinking of our menu , the wedding cake , our honeymoon , tapas in Barcelona etc … makes those two and a half months of fasting not seem so bad . I’m almost looking forward to eating all healthy stuff except for my sugar addiction I love fish and vegetables , so no problems with that .

Images by me , the last carrot cake ...



And I promise next time , I’ll find some other silly topic to write about then my food intake .

Just spring!

We got the papers , finished the preparation course, ( actually quite sad , it was great ! ) So now its off to the mairie and hopefully we'll get our appointment in about 4 weeks or so ! yeay !