3 Days and counting..

Three?
Three!!!
Blummin' three!?

After nineteen months of planning, the amount of time until this wedding arrives seems to be running out very quickly all of a sudden.

But it was quite a productive weekend wedding-wise, and I think pretty much everything's in place now so that all I need to do at this point is turn up. 

One small matter still outstanding is the speech.. 
Oh, no, it is written and everything, I'm just not looking forward to getting up and speaking in front of eighty eight assembled guests (thankfully, two have dropped out, I mean if I'd had to deliver the speech in front of ninety people I'd have been petrified). 

The speech itself, I think, is ok - I'm just not sure I'm going to be very good at delivering it.  To quote Harrison Ford's rant at George Lucas during the filming of Star Wars:  "You can type this shit, but you can't say it!"

Also, I just don't have one of those voices that lends itself well to speech delivery (really I think you need to sound like Simon Callow or Brian Blessed or at the very least be RSC trained).  I know this for sure as, in an attempt to commit the speech to memory, I have recorded it onto CD and now have it on in the car when I'm driving to and from work and, at best, I sound like a DJ on hospital radio.  Trés cheesy.  It will get a laugh from the audience, I'm sure.. ..but for all the wrong reasons.

I think I'll get the page boys to hold up cards with "Laughter" on them so the audience know when the humour has been delivered, it's the only way this speech is not going to die on it's arse methinks!

11 Days and Counting..

..and yesterday I got a phone call from the Suit Hire Company to tell me that my suit was ready to pick up.  Blimey.  That means that the suit I'll be wearing on my wedding day will be in the house this week, all hanging up on the back of the wardrobe door and everything.  It'll be, like, totally visible. 

Cripes. 

All seems very real all of a sudden..  Still it will be another thing to check off the list...

Also I've been dashing round trying to find and purchase gifts. 
You see, you have to give gifts to all sorts of people to thank them for playing their part in the whole day.  Additionally I get to be like Santa, and get to give out all these presents during my speech (a speech that sounds like it will feature more "thank you's" than your average Oscar acceptance rant!). 

I do think I've done quite well with what I've purchased so far, though, even if I say so myself..

But it's all go, I tell thee..

12 days and counting..

..and you know what?  I've still not thought about my speech yet..

I've also still got to get round to booking the honeymoon

tick.. tock.. tick.. tock