Hello. My name is Tim, and I was supposed to be writing a diary for this blog.

However, I thought that it would be best if I didn't pretend to be someone else, I should just be myself otherwise, it wouldn't be genuine. So I decided not to write anything for a long period of time. There, thats me.

But it has been such a long time now that at least I've got something to write.There's been lots going on with wedding stuff recently. As tends to happen, there is a period of calm, and then a period of stress and work. What fun! And it seems that once again, Vikki has managed to flee the country and leave me to it. She's managed to get on the French exchange, so I've been left with trying to do bits of invitation making. Unfortunateyl I haven't done quite as well as I would have liked though. But then, whenever I've spoken to recently married guys, they didn't seem to have anything to do with the invitation making, so Vikki can't really have anything to complain about, can she???

Along with sorting out the invitations (which look quality by the way), we've managed to get the honeymoon and first night sorted. It was a real relief when that was done. I think Vikki has already mentioned where we'll be going so I might as well say too. We ended up being able to go to Sri Lanka, which I am SO excited about (apart from the terrorists, but I'm sure they're a lovely bunch really). It was at the end of a really long search, one that I was beginning to despair about, but then I found a website, emailed them and they came back with Sri Lanka, and this hotel. It's perfect. It is quite a simple hotel, but we're not fussy. It's got a spa, which I've never had, and is literally right on the beach. The Indian Ocean no less. There are also watersports close by, and the Sri Lankan culture is amazing. I could go on all day about the beaches, the mountains and the tea growers, and the stilt fishermen, and the beautiful wildlife, the fishing and the surfing. But one of the things that almost all the things that I've read about Sri Lanka have said is that the people people people people are amazing. (I just hope I can take some pictures a bit like these ones).

Another thing that had to be sorted was the entertainment for the reception. I am under strict oreders (ones that I have already broken) to not say very much, but I had to visit one of the options last weekend. Needless to say that we wont be choosing them. The main guy had probably done 100 too many gigs, as he seemed to have majorly lost his passion for his job, and for people, and it seemed life in general. Bless him.

I do however still have lots to do- order of service, wedding suit hire, songs, and the joy paying paying £60 (2 lots of £30) for 2 vicars who don't know us, to read out to a group of people of people who have never met us that we are getting married. What a great system!

I'm also fairly sure there will be lots that we have forgotten, but that's par for the course with me. So I'd better get on and try to decide what sort of flowers I want in my hair.

Till the next time...

Well, I've just found out that Vikki has written a post, so I thought that I should try to rustle up one too. Well, wedding fever is creeping back again. After we had booked the church and reception venue, and Vikki had found her dress, wedding plans took a little bit of a back seat, but we are well and truly back in to the swing of things now, what with this web site, date reminders (it's on 23rd December remember!), band booking and also the small fact of attending the church. Vikki is actually going to go to the church by herself tomorrow because I'm doing stuff at church, but we're cutting it rather fine with attendance, because we're meant to have been attending the church for 6 months before the wedding. Hmmmm.

Talking of the church, we had our marriage preparation day last weekend with the church. It was good fun, but pretty intense. We watched about 6 hours of a DVD that had Nicky and Sila Lee talking about marriage! But we did learn some interesting things. Like the fact that we have rather differing dinner table or conversation etiquette. Basically I wait for people to finish, whereas Vikki interrupts! There were some other interesting chats that we had during the day- I found out that Vikki doesn't find me funny, which was a bit of a bombshell, but there's no accounting for taste with her; just look at who she's marrying.

So one marriage prep course down, one to go. We've got another one, this time with our church (Vineyard), and spread over several weeks. It should be a lot of fun, but I'll be honest, I'm expecting fireworks! I'll keep you up to date with how it goes as they happen.

But I think that is a suitably lengthy diary entry (although I never kept a diary, so I'm just not sure).

Au revoir, Tim.

This is where I will be writing about what is going on with the wedding prep stuff.