Dubai Adventures

Another day, another trip to the airport, but this time I am flying solo to Dubai to get ready for Erin’s amazing beachfront wedding!

Drinks as the top of the tallest building in the world!

With Nick unable to spare any holiday days so early in the year, I had a glorious five day so of dedicated girls time stretching ahead of me, and we really did make the most of it.

Bride and bridesmaid lunch

Along with some final wedding prep bits and pieces, there was also ample time for happy hours and dinners, brunches on the beach and on the day after the wedding, a full day of sunshine recovery by the pool before I had to fly back out to Singapore and real-life.

On the first day (having landed at 4am on three hours sleep) I forced Alhannah, Erin’s other bridesmaid and the only other person able to come out and play in the desert with me. After a 7am pick up, we drove for around an hour to play in the sand on quad bikes, camels, sand boards and four-wheel drives. It was great fun!

Sunday recovery time by the pool

This was the first destination wedding that I have been to, and it was an utter treat!

Erin & Naz tie the knot!

WHAT A FABULOUS DAY!

            It feels like it’s been in the planning for ages (even though it really hasn’t been that long!) so the excitement really had built up by the time that it was finally the big day for my darling Miss Laing to become Mrs Daniyel!

Wedding breakfast with mummy 

From when Erin first arrived in Singapore fresh from her Dubai holiday, carrying her giant rock along with her, right up to the last night of sleep in a shared room with myself and Alhannah, Erin has been over the moon and so excited about everything wedding related, and it really did show in the utterly beautiful day that they laid on.

            There was a shockingly beautiful dress, amazing flowers, beautiful venues, endless dancing, incredible food and just an amazing atmosphere!

What a beautiful day!

           

 It was a cracking day from start to finish! Congratulations Mr & Mrs Daniyel!

Countdown to Dubai

I can’t believe that it’s already time! I am flying out to Dubai TONIGHT! My lovely Erin is getting married out in the Dubai sun this Saturday, and so we’re all grouping up and preparing with a couple of days of fun before the big day.

            I’ll be staying with Erin and trying my best to be helpful, but we have a couple of adventures booked in too (drinks at the top of the fancy tall building and a morning desert safari) and with the girls all arriving in the next few days, there will be a bit of time for mooching and hanging out before the big day too.

            I can’t believe that Erin is getting married this weekend! It feels like just the other day that she was in Singapore celebrating the engagement, and even less time since she sent a little card and present asking me to be her maid of honour. Roll on this weekend!

Wedding photos are in!

I know that this isn’t a very exciting thing to share here, not least because I’m not going to share all the photos here, but our wedding photos have finally been sent through, and we could not be happier with them!

We were a little bit worried that by having a wedding entirely in the dark we would be left with a bit of a random selection of blurry dark snaps, but Helen Cawte did us proud, and we have received over 1,000 amazing pictures of the day, which I can’t wait to work through and get set up in albums, pretty frames, and just generally get stuck up all over everywhere. There are some really beautiful ones in there, capturing a lot of very precious moments. We’re so happy with all of them!

One monthiversary

It’s been a month to the day since our wedding, and it’s flown by! We’re still waiting for all the final pictures to come through, but here’s a little teaser while we wait.

*Post Edit

Whilst it was obviously lovely to think that we had made it safely to the one month marker, it was even more lovely to celebrate in style.

I stocked up on essentials for a delicious dinner celebrations involve smoked salmon, steak and apple strudel, while Nick outdid himself, searching around Singapore and somehow managing to find the one man in the country who had just two bottles of our wedding bubbles in stock. What a lovely treat, especially considering it was just a regular Wednesday really!