It's hard to believe in 2 months I will be jetting off with the love of my life and my parents for our wedding in Hong Kong. There have been a few ups and downs along the way, but mostly it has been easy flying, but now that it's sooooo close, I'm feeling a lot of emotions; happy, excited, nervous, anxious...I think that's totally normal, especially because its the 'unknown' of things to come. 
As K and I live on the other side of the world, it's been long distance planning with his parents, who've taken the time to do most of the groundwork, and organised everything for us. It's kind of like planning a wedding over Skype and photos sent by email. I'm positive his parents have done an awesome job and I can't wait to just walk into my wedding banquet and see how wonderful it is!
I'll be posting more of our Hong Kong wedding updates as the weeks pass, and I still have an enormous amount of packing to do for not only myself, but helping my parents as it's their first time overseas! Exciting!
In the meantime, I hope you like this little gem. This is my wedding band we bought last year in HK, so I could wear it on my other hand as a reminder of our first wedding!

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K & I been trying to decide on a destination for our Honeymoon for quite some time, and although we aren't following tradition and going right after our September wedding, we'll be going the year after. There are a few reasons why, most of them are because of me being in a new job and most likely not being able to take time off, so we decided this would be a better solution.

Firstly we decided on South Korea. I've wanted to go there for a long time, and I was 100% convinced that's where I really wanted to go, however, being a woman you know what we're like! Just kidding! 

The reason I re-thought our plans was because I knew K wanted to go back to Europe. He had been there before a few years ago with his family, but missed out on a lot of things he wanted to do and see, like more of the British Museum, or more time in Rome - which he is fascinated with. We had spoken about leaving the European trip until we were old (retired and walking with canes), but I thought, 'do I really want to do that when I'm old??'

I probably spent a good day thinking about this, thinking 'can I survive the long haul plane trip? I've done 14hrs when I went to the USA (and almost went mad), it cant be too bad right? Right?'

Finally, I ended up telling K, 'lets do it'. I'd much rather travel Europe whilst we're still young, as its basically a once in a lifetime trip. We can do South Korea at anytime we go to Hong Kong as it's only 4 hours away, and perhaps, be a good destination for future family trips with the children! 

Needless to say, K didn't need much convincing!! Haha

So at the present, I am planning like a lunatic, I have spreadsheets of different routes, different destinations with every cost detailed so we know exactly what we're doing, and where we're going. 

If its one thing I've learnt from K, (apart from learning how to work a DSLR!) is how to plan. He is an absolute expert when it comes to planning, and me being such a forgetful oldie, it comes in handy.

So far, our route will consist of; Rome, Florence, Venice, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, & London. I've basically lived on Viator (check it out!) to see what day trips, and tours we can do in each city. I used this website regularly last year, and bought a whole bunch of tours and attraction tickets for my trip to the US. It makes things so easy, and it's affordable as well.

Once we've fine tuned our itinerary, and have all the places we want to go, we'll take it to our travel agent and see what fabulous deal they can give us! (hopefully a good one!! Haha)

So my question is; what is the best place/attraction you've been to in Europe? I would love some travel tips, advice, tidbits and alike to help plan the best honeymoon EVERRRRR.

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After a long wait since June, my wedding dress for our September wedding next year finally arrived! It arrived in one of those soft flat pack parcels, but inside was this lovely package. I opened it up and had a sneaky peak and the dress was just as beautiful as I saw it on the website. My mum wasn't home at the time, so I waited a long time for her to come back so I could try it on and share the experience together!
Yes, I bought my wedding dress online. You may think that doing that is a little bit crazy, and yes I thought so too, but after looking in the bridal shops here, I didn't find anything I really liked, or didn't flatter me, or suit my personality. This particular one took my eye straight away, it's simple, elegant, rustic and very me. Needless to say I placed a custom order right away! 
It was quite amazing that a talented designer could create this dress thousands of miles away for me, just by me giving my measurements - and she was right on with sizing! (I would give a link, but I don't want my future husband finding my dress!)
If anyone is thinking about buying their wedding dress online - I recommend it, but make sure you do your research. Read reviews, read anything you can find on the designer, and try on similar designs to see if it flatters you. I'm a big believer in if you can get something of amazing quality online, for half the price that's in a bridal store, then go for it!
Have you ever bought your wedding dress online? If so, what was the verdict?

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