This is a post about change. To be honest I don’t really like change. It took me 8 years to change our relationship from boyfriend/girlfriend to fianceé/fiancé. I’m a creature of habit… or would be if I was ever not at work long enough to be in one place and develop habits. I’m a Yorkshireman; things haven’t changed in Yorkshire since they started slicing bread. Although to be fair when I were a lad they didn’t have these fancy computer things… used to ‘ave a cardboard box, and that’s if you were lucky!
Sorry, all gone a bit Yorkshire for a moment there! Anyway, the point is that things change… sometimes through choice, sometimes through circumstance. We can but hope that change is a good thing. In the last year or so my life has changed massively, and I’m fortunate enough to say that I’m absolutely loving it!
I always wondered whether marriage would really change my life at all considering the already considerable depth of our relationship. It has. Not in a huge way necessarily, our day to day lives have returned to being much the same as they always were (except for less wedding planning which can only be a good thing as my Whisky cupboard was starting to look decidedly bare!) But something is definitely different.
Dom is now Mrs Thompson… we are collectively the Thompsons. She’s truly my family; we’re a unit. Our decisions are made together and our commitment is now absolute. I mean I’ve got to be pretty committed to someone to wear jewellery for them! It’s a difference that you can’t really put into words (which pretty much sucks when you’re writing a blog post about it by the way!) but if you think it’s just signing a piece of paper, think again!
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Other things have changed too (yes I am changing the subject having established words are pretty much insufficient…just roll with it!). One of the key ingredients has been this blog. When we first started writing it I had a vague idea I used to be ok at English. Since then between the two of us we’ve written something every single day, whether it be a few sentences or a long, drawn out and by now potentially boring post like this one! Still with me? Then I’ll carry on. Not only that but that wedding journey we started on nearly two years ago has converted me from a truly gormless groom with not a clue about weddings to someone who works professionally in the industry and offers advice to other brides and grooms. It’s been a bizarre transformation, but a pretty cool one. Now though it’s time for just a smidgeon (god I love that word) more change!
When we started this blog despite what we thought we really didn’t have a clue what we were doing or where it was going. It started out as a diary really, a way of keeping a record of our own wedding and sharing a few other stories. Somewhere along the line it changed into a completely different beast, and now it’s time to change again.
Now that we’ve completed our own wedding journey we want this blog to be a place to help other Brides and Grooms along their own wedding path, to share other couple’s stories and offer useful tips and advice. We’ve been doing some updates and in the process we’ve been working on some improvements. Pretty soon we’ll be making a few changes to the site but before we do we need your help. We want to know what you want from a wedding blog. Tell us what you like and what you feel is missing. If there’s something you think we can improve then let us know and we’ll take your suggestions on board! You can email us via our contacts section or drop us a message on Facebook or a DM on Twitter. We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
Now I feel I should finish a post like this with some sort of deep, meaningful quote like:
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw
But this is the Monday musings, and we don’t do that kind of thing here, so let’s finish on a much more philosophical statement:
“A leopard can’t change it’s spots. But then leopards frankly don’t care about acne.”
― A bleedin’ idiot
Because some things never change!
