ok so i'm not engaged but...

I am planning my dream wedding with my soul mate and have even started buying supplies for it.

Planning may have started weeks into my relationship with my amazing partner.

It all started on our first date when after i told him that my favorite movie of all time is Beauty and the Beast. He told me a story of how he told his mum when he was little that he wanted to marry Belle.

So through our love of all things Disney and Geeky and feeling like we were meant to be and will be together forever we started planning together dispute no actual proposal.

Don't get me wrong its not one of those engagements where a couple agrees to get engaged and its done - i expect him to propose and i feel like he wants to do it too.

And it isn't me steam rolling him - i have asked him if i didn't want to get married would he still want to? and he was clear that he would (even came up with a way to trick me into it) :P see were both crazy so perfect for each other right??

Any who despite going back up to 122kgs because of some very minor (i was very restrained over our weekend) treats on the weekend (we had a movie outing with friends Friday and a friends birthday Saturday) in which i even smashed through my 10,000 steps both days, i'm still happy because my man encouraged me to work on our wedding plans (ill do heaps for a couple of weeks then start going bridezilla and stop completely for some time)

The place i want to get married gave me a quote a while back which would have totally blown our budget ($14,000 - $15,000) and wouldn't allowed us to do/get the other things we wanted.

To be honest i have a problem with spending even $14,000 on one big party... yes i would like the big party but is the money worth it?? Come on i would rather a deposit for a house.

Soooo why am i happy today ?

Because after his latest encouragement i have had several wedding breakthroughs this weekend

1. We found cardboard that matches our theme colours (Royal Blue & Gold) for 50cents a sheet because a newsagents near us is closing down so i brought every last sheet and it was exactly the right number sheets for us
2. We wrote a guest list and got numbers down enough to be able to keep the location i want
3. I got a quote from the celebrant at the top of my list and it was for almost $500 cheaper than i had budgeted as long as we have it in June rather then May
4. Then because part of the discounted price for the celebrant was because of the month i went back to the venue i want for the wedding and asked them about June and they can take $30 per head off to do it one month later!!! so that would save us nearly $1,500 (June being our anniversary of when we met i am really ok with this)

So things for the wedding are going well. My daughter is at her new kinder today (this being her second day of the new one - she was being picked on at the old one) and she has already made a friend and was sooo happy to go which is a lovely change to the old one. The only other news from today is we have booked our meeting with our lawyers to discuss our options to proceed towards a custody agreement.

So tho a few unpleasant things, i am feeling productive and happy and that's all i can try to achieve in life. 

Cheers

Skye