Due April 2009 - Episode 10 - Fanjo Warriors demand Padded Purple rooms......Great Expectations!

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New thread for us all! How many days this time?? {grin}

Anyone for a homemade choc-chip cookie?

ok... i'll try to relax

I'm trying really hard to keep my patience, but I'm rapidly remembering why it is that I was so tempted to drag witnesses off the street & not bother with a 'proper' wedding. I knew involving other people would start making it infinitely more difficult & lo & behold...

DP only phoned his family about 90 minutes ago to tell them that we've set a date. Already they've booked a hotel around the corner from us for the Friday night (our wedding night!) & are planning on arriving at our flat first thing on Friday morning so we can all get the tram into town together.

I'm sorry, but that's not how I pictured any of this at all. I find it a bit weird to think that I'd travel in with DP anyway, let alone with all of his family on the tram. & what about my family? & are we really not meant to do anything nice on our wedding night because we're going to be entertaining them that evening / the next day?

What the hell? & DP doesn't really understand why any of these things are so much as a bit odd, let alone annoying.

Bleu is trying to relax but not having much luck.. (This is DH speaking. I don't know if I am breaking some kind of taboo here or what)

Wow is Bleu's DH the first boy we have allowed on our thread???!!! How is she doing now?

Ok girls, am trying to be a supportive wife but am sat here giggling away at all your comments like a child which wasn't how I imagined consoling DH tonight!

Thanks for msgs earlier he is ok actually, just trying to work it all out in his head / avoid working it out so we are having very random conversations mixed in with sad / serious ones - whatever he needs really!!

Springy tell them to BOPP OFF! and Tell DP he has the choice of supporting you or marrying them! Spend the night before with your family at their hotel or shift DP off to a friends and have your family with you, take your time getting ready and meet the IL's at the registry office - AFTER the ceremony - there is no need to even speak to them before hand! Have your dinner, but make it clear that post dinner, you and DP will be off for a night - LIE tell them it was a wedding present from your friends for a night in the hotel together (I'll make you a mock gift if you like!!) - they can hardly criticise that, you will be with them until 6 ish anyway with dinner etc so that is more than enough time

Relax, remember the happy thoughts - you and DP are all that matters and let the IL's do what they want but do not change your plans to fit them - they can fit in with you!!!

I would say for now, that you don't know the exact plans for the day and when you do you will let them know and do just that - plan it your way, let DP tell them and they can decide how to fit around you then!

Boffing - lovely page - LOL at the 'down under oil' tee hee!! Ok I really feel like I should order some of this cream / oil - have 7.5 weeks left and all you lot are way ahead of me!!!

Also Nutty are you excited - has been two days and we are on 788!! which means we are likely to smash your three day target!!!

Well if we leave puzzle alone to talk to herself and get frekkles to try out some sort of technological element we should be there is a few hours!!!

Yay you get your DH to yourself for you b-day tomorrow - do you know what he has got you???

Please he would be mortified at all the different creams and lotions! he is still scared of the massage cream that I am yet to buy!!!!

Ah that is a really nice idea - will be a lovely day as he will keep you entertained! And it is the MW tomorrow so she might bring you a nice b-day present with the promise of an early CS!!

Oooh that will be nice - maybe drop some hints!!! I always help DH out by leaving brochures with big red circles around things I would like normally in the bathroom about 2 weeks before b-day and Xmas!!

Oh, I missed a man on the thread! A MAN! The lesser-spotted male, who got us into this mess in the first place

Have just had a discussion with DP - will read what I've missed & fill in the gaps that aren't answered by responding to that

It's not really feasible for me to go anywhere in the morning, because everyone's so far away. I'm not yet exactly sure what we'll be doing about that, but I'm considering spending the Thursday night in a cheap hotel, perhaps with my sister, so I can get ready there on the Friday morning & avoid them. My family will be coming up on the Friday morning as well, I think, so there'll be some back up against the ILs - it'd just be nice to catch my breath with them first & not have to have DP watch me get ready, etc.

'BOPP OFF' - that phrase may yet come in handy. I've now had a big rant considered chat with DP about how I don't want to spend our wedding night with them before flopping down on our sofa & watching naff tv before retiring to bed & getting back into a normal routine. So I suggested couple of nights in a hotel thing & went to have a shower. Now it looks like we're suddenly staying in a Premier Inn in the middle of Sheffield. Words fail me, really. It's not exactly the romantic mini-break I'd had in mind, but it'll do I suppose.

& I'm glad that your DH isn't in too many pieces at the moment. I think that you really are doing the best for him that you can by letting him lead the conversation & just going with it, no matter how random it all is. It can't be easy for you, either. It's all rubbish

& Nutty, you may be wishing for a Barcelona mini-break, but prepare to spend a couple of nights in some sort of Bristol Travelodge

Oh, absolutely - I was the one who demanded a hotel afterwards anyway. It just wasn't quite what I had in mind

I wonder how bleu is...

Springy, Premier Inn??? Premier Inn?? Are you sure?

Frekkles, email me at boffinmum at hotmail dot co dot uk about the hypnobirthing if you like. It was very interesting but made DH grumpy, because he thinks it is too new age and US franchised for his liking.