2 flights, 6 trains, 3 buses, 8 towns, 4 kilt shops, 1 Parliament, 1 Chinese takeaway, 1 Italian restaurant, loads of cups of tea, 1 wedding venue, 1 wedding fair, plenty of beer and wine, 2 days off work, 3 photographers, 1 football match, caught up with friends and family.

1 successful wedding planning weekend.

And one roll of elephant toilet paper.

This weekend Craig and I are going up to Scotland to take care of a whole medley of things on our To Do list including:

Book a photographer already! Shortlist contender number one is Life in Frame. It’s actually two guys who do the photography of the day, which really appeals to me because that means that they’ll be able to capture both our preparations before the wedding.  We’ve met one of the guys and I can tell that at least he’ll be really comfortable with Craig and the boys.  The second contender is Paul Walker and I just love how he works with lighting. The front of our ceremony room has a wide window overlooking a lake, which is beautiful, but does pose some tricky backlighting challenges.

Hire a band! We’ve provisionally booked Ernest (here’s some YouTube clips of them) but we’re hoping to meet them face to face at the Scottish Wedding Show in Glasgow on Sunday.

Revisit the venue! We have an appointment to go through some more details at the Lochside House Hotel, but we’ll actually be meeting their wedding coordinator at the wedding show.  We need to figure out some more details with the layout and plans for the day.

Cake! Well not really cake (more about that as soon as we know we can do it) but we’re hoping to visit some of the local bakeries to see if they can help us realize our alternative cake idea (and no, it’s not cupcakes).

The look of the bridal party is slowly coming together.  Today I’ve commissioned Rachel Larraine to create my veil and hairpieces for my bridesmaids.

Etsy has so much creative talent, but hello! How could I not choose Rachel?

Just gorgeous.  And of course I had to just have her design some hairpieces for the rest of my posse after seeing her other creations:

Fabulous! I can’t wait to see them!