Valentines Day

[kellyandpiggies]

Have you all got your Valentine?

Are you planning something?

My hubby is taking me out to a really posh chinese restaurant!
Aint got a clue what to get him yet!

Kelly and piggies xx

[squeakypigs]

Oh yeah, forgot its valetines day soon. Whoops... Am totally broke and so is my boyfriend!! :(

[kellyandpiggies]

You don't have to go anywhere really or buy anything.. Once I was ill around Valentines Day and had to stay in so we had a nice meal with candles!

Also hand-made love cheques are good! :D

[StromasDragon]

I have no idea what to get him it our 3 V day together eeeccckkk I an making a nice veg plate for the Piggy's

[Kellie]

Nothing going on here for me .

[Michele]

hubby will porbably have jet lag so it will be a boring evening for me. about 8 years my hubby surpised me by getting a taxi to take us to london and went to see an elvis impersonator with meal and champagne. Had a fab time and got very drunk(t-total now)lol

[kellyandpiggies]

hubby will porbably have jet lag so it will be a boring evening for me. about 8 years my hubby surpised me by getting a taxi to take us to london and went to see an elvis impersonator with meal and champagne. Had a fab time and got very drunk(t-total now)lol


Awww.. I like that.. OK, maybe not Elvis, but the being whisked away sounds lovely!

[Michele]

It was great. i thought we were goin gto a local restaurant. then the taxi drove on to the M3 and i still didnt know where i was going until i got there. great surprise!

I did a similar surprise for him. I took him to see The Hobbit when it was on in one of London's theatres. I give him 3 clues on the train on where we were staying and he didnt know. Then we walked to the theatre and I gave him 3 mor eclue on what we were going to do. we were vitually standing outside the theatre and he still didnt know. He loved it though.

This all happened before we got married. LOL. now its changed!!!!! LMAO romance is dead and buried after nearly 9 years of wedding bliss. LOL

[cashmincal]

Nothing for me; I'm a singleton! :-\
Clare x

[Wheekster]

My boyfriend said about the two of us going out to dinner somewhere, but we would then have to sort out a babysitter. It was a lovely idea of his, as we haven't been out for a meal on Valentines day for years, lol. However, we decided it would be easier to stay in again this year and get a take away, either that or we'd have to take the kids with us to a restaurant, lol. I've already got him a card and a small gift ;D

[Kellie]

I have bought my little girl a 'love bug' she gets one every year LOL

[claire]

Matt has been hinting about going for a meal.

I really don't know what to get him.

Love

Claire
x

[Janella]

Single here as well

Ohh well

[alexr]

Weeellll...I've been hinting to my boyfriend that i'd like to go and see the musical about Eva Cassidy's life story which is on in Manchester a couple of days before Valentine's day. I really love the songs she did - she had such an amazing voice - so it would be a great night out for me - not sure if James is so keen though! We shall see!

Alex :)

[purplegem1985]

I got a new engagement ring for Valentines day i was allowed it early!! :) its soooo pretty!!

[StromasDragon]

One week till V day let the love flow people

[purplegem1985]

I've just booked my fiance in for a 3 course meal at Bristol Zoo. well the restaurant isnt at the zoo but you get to go to the zoo too and get a drink on arrival and get to adopt an animal of your choice too

[StromasDragon]

Awwwww that sounds so lovely

[squeakypigs]

Sounds lovely Gem. Is is a surprise for your fiance or does he know?

I will look into making some valentines smileys :)

[purplegem1985]

Well he gave me my engagement ring early so i thought i would give him his present last night.. i printed out all the details and did it on nice card and stuff

he said it is a really cool gift hehe

[squeakypigs]

Awww thats so lovely. Did you have another engagement ring before? How are the wedding plans going? When will it be time for a little baby? lol Questions questions questions.... I am so nosey!!!! lol

[purplegem1985]

Yeah i had a temporary engagement ring but i wanted a proper diamond ring
this is the one i had first

http://www.argos.co.uk/wcsstore/argos/images/2298748A64UC210134X.jpg

thats the one he proposed with

and this is my new one
http://www.argos.co.uk/wcsstore/argos/images/2297347A64UC213879X.jpg

The wedding plans are going great! I've got my dress, shoes, tiara, veil, garter.. um the church is booked, the car has a deposit on it, we've got our photographer we need to put a deposit on him. we have found where we going to have our reception and we just waiting for them to start taking bookings for 2007. Its about 15 months away now!! hehe scary..

we';ve got soo much saving to do and then have the task of finding a house.

umm... babies... could be a problem... as i dont appear to be ovulating at the moment TMI i know.. i havent done for about a year now i could have something called PCOS - like things on my ovaries.. so when the time comes that we want kids it will just be a case of waiting for them to come along.. I'm in no great rush at the moment. I've got 4 piggies! hehe they dont cry they dont answer back.. and their poop is minimal! hehe

[squeakypigs]

Both rings are so beautiful Gem. You are so so lucky. I am so glad that all wedding plans are going well. Once you are a married lady you will need to show us your wedding pics. Bet you will look so stunning!!!

Sorry to hear about the babies side. All the letters confuse me as I don't know what they stand for. Your only young and I am sure that when the times comes you will have as many babies as you want :) - Piggies are just like little kids arent they? lol. Call of you when the want attention, want feeding e.t.c. :)

[purplegem1985]

PCOS is something like polycystic ovarian symptom... not 100% sure but its something along those lines

i can show you a pic of me in my dress

http://photobucket.com/albums/b160/purplegem1985/

yup the pigs are like little babies!

[squeakypigs]

You look absolutely beautiful in your dress. Your fiance won't know what hit him when he is standing at the isle. :) The dress is sooooo pretty!!! Where you going on your honeymoon?

[purplegem1985]

heheh have a guess how much that dress cost!! hehe

we are planning to go to the dominican republic for our honeymoon!

[squeakypigs]

lol I have no idea how much wedding dresses cost! - Urm £500? - I don't know if that it too cheap or too expensive!! ???

Dominican Republic sounds lovely. I would so love to go there.

[purplegem1985]

apparently the average dress can cost from £100 to £1000 +

this little baby cost me £138 including delivery! from Hong Kong

hehe

[squeakypigs]

Really??? Thats so good!!!! It looks really really expensive. :)

[kellyandpiggies]

Oh gosh (again!) I too, have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome!! ;D

Weddings! Oh brings me back to mine! Gotta go through the album again!! LOL

[purplegem1985]

heheh yup!

i'm having an ebay wedding!

i got my dress, tiara, garter from there!!

we went to Ikea for our table decorations.. we bought 90 p each vases and did some decorating to them

we've also got our wedding rings.. they can all be seen here

http://photobucket.com/albums/v425/GemmaLouiseCox/Wedding%20Ideas/

[squeakypigs]

You looked lovely Kelly when you got married. Remember you showed me the pic of you in your wedding dress with your piggie :) How long you been married now?

[squeakypigs]

heheh yup!

i'm having an ebay wedding!

i got my dress, tiara, garter from there!!

we went to Ikea for our table decorations.. we bought 90 p each vases and did some decorating to them

we've also got our wedding rings.. they can all be seen here

http://photobucket.com/albums/v425/GemmaLouiseCox/Wedding%20Ideas/


lol I was going to ask did you get your dress of eBay as a lot of things come from HongKong on there. I think its the way to go using eBay instead of forking out so much money on 1 thing. Did you see in the paper ages a go that guy who met his now wife off eBay and they bought everything off eBay for the wedding? - My mum was the guy who got marrieds boss lol.

The wedding ring is lovely. I love the engraving. It will be such an amazing day for you!

[kellyandpiggies]

You looked lovely Kelly when you got married. Remember you showed me the pic of you in your wedding dress with your piggie :) How long you been married now?


oh yeah, I'll upload it in a bit!
2 and a half years already!! Gone quick!

[squeakypigs]

Wow, that has. Yes, please upload it. You look so lovely in your wedding dress. I am sure everybody would love to see it :)

[purplegem1985]

yeah i mean our wedding is going to cost about £5k max ** way so why not go for the cheaper stuff!! hehe

its not as if my dress is manky or anything.. its a really nice one that i fell in love with ages ago even before i'd met stu. I can remember saying there's a dress that has a heart bit at the back.. the lace on the back goes into a heart!

its gorgeous!

hehe

i didnt see the thing about the people meeting on ebay no..

[purplegem1985]

yeah do upload it

i love seeing wedding piccies hehe

seeing as its the month for Lurrrrrrve in the air why not!! hehe

what did you do for your reception decorating?

thats one thing i've got to concentrate on.

here is the style we are having our invitations i made this on photoshop by stealing the design from the website picture

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/GemmaLouiseCox/gemandstukeepthedate.jpg

[kellyandpiggies]

we had balloon arches and balloons and flowers, main colour theme was white and lilac

[purplegem1985]

see i'm not going to put flowers on the tables i'm just going to have the vases with floating candles and some ballons in the centre.

ours is burgundy and cream(ivory) as my dress is ivory.. cant have white im not innocent enough!! hehe ::)

[kellyandpiggies]

that was my initial thought! but my mum was like 'it's your first wedding so have to do things by the book'..! so big white meringue dress and church wedding it was!

[purplegem1985]

yeah my dress will be a bit puffier once i've got a thing to go underneath it

i want traditional so i've got a gorgeous church booked

http://www.friarn.co.uk/StMary/church.jpg

thats the description of the dress on ebay

On eBay type "NWT BEAUTIF* GRAND* WH WEDDING GOWN DRESS ALLSz SIZE 14"
www.ebay.com

(Hope you don't mind that I made the link smaller - squeaky-pigs)

[kellyandpiggies]

both lovely! We got married in St. Mary's church in Warwick!!
http://www.stmaryswarwick.org.uk/info/church.html

and my dress was from Stevies gowns in London! was about £500!
http://www.steviesgowns.co.uk/catalogue/moreinfo_n.asp?pcode=9301_03

[purplegem1985]

ohh the church and dress are BEAUTIFUL!!

i've also got my jewellery i bought it all with the money i got for my 21st birthday!

http://shop.swarovski.com/publicimages/CG/B2C/PROD/240/697364W240.jpg

earrings something like this

http://s7ondemand4.scene7.com/is/servlet/izoom/Harrods/SJ16?$productDetailLarge$

[kellyandpiggies]

ooohh so similar to mine! My parents bought me some jewellery for the day!

We had our photos taken at warwick castle too!

[purplegem1985]

hehe :D

we got good taste then! hehe

i really cant wait.

getting our own house is going to be amazing too!! *** sooooo hard getting on the property ladder :(

need to save up £5k for the wedding plannin to do that by the end of the year

ithink the only thing my parents are paying for is the hire of the reception hall

i dont want them to have to fork out for stuff because they have had to put up with me for 21 years! hehe

[squeakypigs]

My boyfriend is 21 and he got on the property ladder when he was 20. Here are some pics of our house

He got the house for £120,000 and it was built last year so it was a new house. Where I live, they were building houses between 50,000 and 120,000. They are really nice. They were designed for young people or people that had divorved.

Here is some pics...

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/House/house24.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/House/house21.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/House/house20.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/DSC00390.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/DSC00389.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/DSC00388.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/DSC00386.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/DSC00394.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/DSC00393.jpg

Its a 2 bedroomed house

[kellyandpiggies]

Bet you can't!

We planned and saved for ours in just under a year!!

We paid the majority ourselves, parents (mine) paid for the reception, half of the catering, champagne, balloon arches and my jewellery!!

A hell of a lot of planning I can tell you! LOL

Who are you having for your photos?

We're currently on a council list for a 3 bedroomed house! (starting to go towards future)
But we've been told that we can end up waiting years!

[purplegem1985]

wow thats amazing!!

the thing is we can afford that much.. :(

i'm on £12,500 and stu's on £13,500 and we can just about scrape a mortgage for £100,000

because stu's got bad credit ratings.. almost black listed!! so it would all be based on my earnings..

[purplegem1985]

all the planning for the wedding is pretty much sorted.

we know where we are having everything.. know roughly what we want,, know where we are getting suits from. flower from

this is the car we are getting

http://www.hbiffen.co.uk/oldenglishwhite.JPG

[kellyandpiggies]

aww its really pretty!

We had Kodak Elegante to take our piccies, they were with us all day! Were really nice, a husband and wife team!

Over £1000 though which was a bit of a downside! But the pics we got are amazing!

[purplegem1985]

yeah there is a fantastic photographer that i want but then i thought... everyone is bound to have digital cameras and what not.. so i can get a cheaper photographer and use the pics that other people got

thats who we are using

http://www.lentonphoto.co.uk/weddings.htm

[kellyandpiggies]

:D not everyone had digitals back then! lol

that photographer you're having is great for the price!

how long have you been together?

[purplegem1985]

hehe

our photogrpher is doing it on proper film he doesnt like the digital stuff .. which is cool i suppose.

we've been together... since April last year. We met on the internet.

he lived in london i live in somerset, we first met at Gatwick Airport on 30 April 2005 and totally fell in love.

he saved me from a rather rubbish relationship!! fell for Stu left my other boyfriend of 3 years and Stu proposed to me on 14 June 2005

if you wanna see our webpage we got a site telling you how we got together and everything

www.ss4ya.tk

[kellyandpiggies]

Oh crikey! another snap!! lol

Met my hubby on internet too, 6 years ago!! Married for 2 and half, time has flown by!

I was in Warwick, Mike was in Colchester! Got engaged after 2 years then started to arrange weddings!

[purplegem1985]

heheh funny how common internet relationships are really heheh

i wouldnt change stu for the world.

i can remember everyone saying "what if hes a mass murdered or something"

lol

but you can just tell cant you?

[kellyandpiggies]

oh yeah, totally agree with that! no-one could understand either!

but yeah, you just know it's not some weirdo.. but trying to convince people otherwise is a different story!

[purplegem1985]

yup.. cos i went up to london to go and meet stu and bring him back to my house on the second occassion of meeting they were like be careful cos you will be on yoru own in a place you dont know..

its like.. man.. we've talked for about a month before.. we've seen each other everynight on webcam.. we've texted all day,, emailed.. phoned each other before we go to bed..

i think he's safe!! heheh

but in some cases you do have to be careful cos people are not who they say they are unfortunately which does give the internet a bad name :(

i've met a few people from the internet there is a girl from another forum that lives about 30 mins from me. ive met someone from bristol, and 2 people from london

[kellyandpiggies]

yeah..

Mike came down to my college a few months after meeting on the net! He then stayed with me the easter break at mine withmy parents!
like you, constantly talking on the phone, text, email, you name it! but still people were a bit funny!

sharing so many secrets and stories, and they just know you so well!

after that we saw each other at leat every month as I was at college and Mike was in uni..

Haven't got as far as meeting other people as majority of mine are foreign, be it america or egypt! lol

[purplegem1985]

yeah a lot of my friends are from the netherlands and germany and stuff and a few in the states. :)

hehe

are you at college now?

[kellyandpiggies]

aww gosh, finished 3 years back! lol.. did start a course sometime ago, but couldnt be bothered with it, so am now a housewife!

you? what are you up to?

[kellyspiggies]

heheh have a guess how much that dress cost!! hehe

we are planning to go to the dominican republic for our honeymoon!




i went to the dominican republic last year, i actually won the holiday all inclusive holiday for 4, all it was great, bit scary seeing all the poor people but the hotel was amazing the pool went around the hotel we stayed in the north

[purplegem1985]

heheh

i did 2 years at college i did an business and admin course for the first year but i was "so in love" with someone called dan that i skipped my lessons and got behind and eventually failed the course but i got a few qualifications in motivating and developing people and some typing qualifications

the second year i did a secretarial course and got RSA 1,2,3 medical word processing and audio typing

then i got my job at the solicitors and i did the first year of ILEX last year which is a legal exec course.. failed the law part but passed the practice and kinda gave up..

am just happy coming to work, doing work and going home

[purplegem1985]

i think we are going to puerto plata? or something like that

mum and dad have a timeshare thing so its costing £510 for 14 nights all inclusive for us to go to hotel and we just have to find the flights to go on top of that too

[kellyspiggies]

i went to puerto plata what hotel i went to breezes it was unbelievable food 24 hours a day all you could drink and beach parties

[purplegem1985]

i'll have a look after lunch.

be back in an hour! :D

[claire]

Hiya

Your wedding sounds like its gonna be great.

I met my partner Matt in April last year aswell lol, it must have been the month for love.

We now have a place together and 3 gorgeous guineas.

Your dress is Gorgeous and i love your new engagement ring.

Love

Claire
x

[purplegem1985]

am back :D hehe

the place we planning to go to Hotel Hotetur Dorado Club in dominican republic.

hehe i agree with the month of lurrrve hehehe

thanks for comments about ring and dress.

hehe

[kellyandpiggies]

you still at work Gem? naughty naughty! hehe!

deciding what to cook for tea! hmmmmmm

[purplegem1985]

yeah i work 9 - 5 monday to friday hehe

ohh.. i think i've got some kind of pasta dish tonight.. mum does concopt some weird stuff hehe

[kellyandpiggies]

not much work being done if you're on here!!

think I might do a chicken casserole

[purplegem1985]

fast fingers and use of shortcuts means i can work and play! hehe

i've done quite a bit today acutally :P

[kellyspiggies]

when we were there i went to ocean world or something like that i swam with the dolphins its really good there you can touch sharks and there is a tiger pool it looks like your swimming with the tigers but your not cause that would be silly there is a glass window seperating you, its brilliant there was so much there, you could swim withthe sea lions too, you have to pay extra but well worth it

[purplegem1985]

ohh that sounds AMAZINg!!

i think i'll definately save up loads i've always ALWAYS wanted to swim with dolphins!!

i cant wait hehe :D

[kellyspiggies]

defintely go and save save save cause there is so many trips you can go on unfortunetly i had my kids with me so there was alot of things we couldnt do, but i still had a great time

[purplegem1985]

well it will just be me and the old boy heheh :)

[kellyspiggies]

thats good and how it should be on your honeymoon

[purplegem1985]

uh huh! hehe

relaxing, enjoying married life hehe

cant wait!

really looking forward to sunday going for the romantic lunch and then going to the zoo :D

[kellyspiggies]

very nice for v day im going to stay in a hotel at brands hatch

[purplegem1985]

ohhhh heheh

sounds lovely!

[kellyspiggies]

yep cant wait 2 days and one night away from the kids lol peace i get to lay in lolgoing to have an indian aswell just a short walk from the hotel there is a indian havnt been there b4 so going to try that, last time we went me went to a spanish tapas bar had paella very nice not as good as spain but still good lol

[cutecavy]

Ooh, I have been to the dominican republic! It's lovely and so AMAZING! You will have a blast Gem! You look lovely in your dress and your ring is gorgeous! Lucky you ;D