Our wedding isn’t far away now, less than 4 weeks, with yesterday marking the passing of the 28-day barrier.

Still a lot of things to do:

• Find presents for groomsmen (chosen but not yet obtained)
• Finalise seating plan for reception
• Make sure I am able to perform bridal waltz (I’m a little unco)
• Finalise running time of reception
• Talk to videographer about what we want and confirm their presence
• Write my vows
• Write my wedding night speech
• Arrange a suit-fitting for my youngest brother, who will be ring-bearer
• Confirm champagne and furniture requirements with ceremony venue
• Obtain quote from hire company on a marquee for the day, should the weather not go our way
• Choose song for bridal waltz.

Quite a list! There are also a few other things to do, mostly arranging final payment for people.

Despite being quite busy finalising plans, I am getting very excited about the day itself. Being E’lise’s husband sits very well with me (naturally) and I can’t wait until I can speak about her as ‘my wife’.

In just 41 sleeps I will be a married man and I am very excited about that.

E’lise is the most beautiful woman, she gives reason to all I do and makes the hurdles I’ve had to jump to get here worth it. She’s cute as pie too – I’m a lucky man!

In the past few days we’ve nailed down some more things, including the ties for the groomsmen, which was a real challenge to match up with the bridesmaids’ dresses. We’ve also booked the cars for the day.

One car will be a six seat stretch limo, to ferry the wedding party from ceremony to reception. The other car is to bring E’lise and her father to the ceremony and then to drive the newlyweds (that’s us) to the reception. Check out our ride:

1935 Rolls Royce Phantom

We still have a few things to tidy up and will be busy doing so over the next few weeks, but getting this sorted was a big relief, and we ended up with a sweet ride!