Off The Record: Busy Bees, Brilliant Boyfriends & Broccoli!

My oh my! What a week we’ve had! We’ve been busy visiting old friends, attending awesome events, creating our first ever YouTube video, planning our 2 year old birthday party and to top it all off we were listed as one of Channel 4’s top 10 wedding blogs!! Yep…That’s what I said, Channel 4! How exciting is that?! I’ve gotta say, Wednesday was by far one of the highlights of my week! Sure, it had it’s lows like city driving (seriously! This country bumpkin is a nervous wreck in Bristol! lol!) and reverse parallel parking into a space while cars sat waiting for me to hurry the hell up so they could continue on our journey! But despite those minor ‘bumps in the road’ it rang so true to me on Wednesday that you cannot underestimate the importance of getting away from your laptop and spending some quality time with people! We met up with Isabel While from Bridal Styling in the morning to chat all about what’s been going on (and of course we gobbled down a lot of biscuits and tea!) then we spent our afternoon over the gorgeous Emily Fisher’s house from Fishee Designs where we started planning our Birthday party for next month (eek!) and were treated to a delicious evening meal! If that wasn’t enough for our day we then headed over to Little Wedding Space for the evening to attend the opening of a mini wedding fair that lasts two weeks! So, if you can’t quite make it one day, fret not! There’s plenty more days to pop in and see Little Wedding Space and all of it’s fabulous exhibitors along with it!

That’s not all we’ve been loving this week though! There’s so much more…

Jess loves:

♥ When Emily is tipsy on champagne! She becomes even more hilarious and constantly insists on getting a McDonalds! (hey, who wouldn’t?!)

♥ Getting a visit from my friend Matt who lives in London! There’s nothing like a good old catch up with someone you haven’t seen for months!

♥ Cooking home made fish fingers and lemon mayo dip! It was delicious! Not to mention, pretty healthy!

♥ Having a boyfriend who is always very happy to support me in whatever I do, he’s so bloody helpful, understanding and supportive!

♥ Doing our first ever work shops at a wedding show! We were at The Vintage Wedding Fair, exhibiting and teaching brides a few DIY tricks to create a wedding day even more personal to them! Such good fun!

Emily Loves:

♥ Our new branded Bespoke Bride backdrop that made its first appearance that Designer Vintage Bridal show last weekend. If you want to see it in all its glory then head on over to The Vintage Wedding Fayre at Blackfriars Priory in Gloucester between 10am and 4pm where will be exhibiting and holding some DIY workshops!

♥ Visiting the gorgeous Isabel While and her cute little baby bump!

♥ Cooking up a strange concoction of pasta, broccoli and cauliflower in cheese sauce with Emily Fisher of Fishee designs – We got skills!

♥ Visiting the wonderful new Little Wedspace pop up shop in clifton – such a unique idea!

♥ Recording our first ever DIY You Tube video with Jess’s other half and owner of Just Say Yes Films -thats right we are setting up our very own channel!

♥ Visiting an Antiques fair and discovering the first edition of ‘Wood’s Natural History’ – if you are a geek like me, this was the most fascinating read ever, back when Orangutans were thought to be Gorilla’s.

♥ Eating yummy veggie burgers and peanut butter milkshake with Mr T at Ed’s Easy diner