Wedding Excitement - Just 2 Weeks Away!

Hey Guys!

Hope your all okay?

 

Well I'm sat typing this blog post with one thought on my mind.

This time in two weeks?

I will be married.

 

It's crazy!

 

 

While walking through town to exchange my hen do dress (was covered in someones fake tan - lurvelllly) my phone beeped and I looked down to a notification.

 

"Getting Married in Two Weeks."

 

At the moment,at exactly 1.15 I realised,in two weeks I will no longer be Miss Trevener,it made my stomach just flip.

 

Thankfully everythings come together now,

and its all just the loose ends that need tieing up,

like doing the favours etc.

 

Today the last of the bridesmaids got there shoes sorted so I'm all excited to see them all dressed up!

 

It's also lovely to see everyone else getting excited too,

nothing beats having people to share your excitement - so I've got to say Im pretty happy I have been in Birmingham these past two weeks while Gareth has been away.

 

Generally I'm super excited and the thought of the wedding keeps flipping my stomach but im sure the closer we get now the nerves will kick in haha.

 

Not long at all now.

I can't wait!

 

Stay Safe & Speak Soon.

Kate

xoxo

A Day in Pictures - Stratford upon Avon.

Hey Guys!

Hope your all well.

 

You all seemed to love when I shared photo's from my walks out,

so I figured I would share these from when I spent a few hours in stratford.

 

I have always enjoyed going to stratford since I was smaller,and It's defintly a cracking day out when it's nice and sunny - the amount of people out showed this sunday !

 

A great day out at stratford is actually the butterfly farm,

where I love to go - infact one of the last pictures of me before transplant and in good health was there!

The butterfly farm contains loads of gorgeous plants too so worth a visit if you don't just want to take photo's in your garden like these.

 

After a morning of it being pretty over cast it then turned gorgeous!

Blue skies and pretty warm too!

 

 

How secret garden'esque is this gate?

 

This lampost reminded me so much of Narnia! haha.

 

How cute?

 

And of course this boat called out to my disney loving side of me too!

 

This weekend the river was covered in couples taking out boats - pretty sweet!

 

This sunday there was a little market on which I got a bracelet for the wedding from - there were so many stalls from food to leather bracelets!

 

Armed forces day up at the Town Hall.

 

A trip to stratford is not complete without visiting one of the many old fashioned sweet shops - I'm gutted I didn't take a photo of all the jars of sweets.

When I visit them I steal feel the uncertainty as my 5 year old self would have had trying to choose!

 

Those of you who have been to stratford will also know there is a year round christmas shop - which ofcourse loving christmas,I think its incredible haha!

 

& Possibly the cutest shop in the whole of stratford.

After all who doesn't like peter rabbit?

 

The creaky cauldron is one of the coolest places in stratford.

Selling Harry Potter type gifts but upstairs on evenings they do ghost hunts - something my mom used to do alot when she used to card readings and such.

I always feel on edge here haha.

 

Got to love these kind of unplanned trips out!

 

Stay Safe & Speak Soon.

Kate

xoxo

Where have I been..

Hey Guys.

Hope your all okay.

 

Some of you may have noticed I have been gone for a while,

and my Facebook has been full of "Uploading tonight guys" statuses but the trouble is.

 

I have had writers block.

 

While planning the wedding things have got so busy,

and when I get home from a day of planning I've got to be honest I usually fall straight asleep.

I didn't want to upload if my content was going to be rubbish - Thats in my eyes worse then not uploding at all really.

 

 

Last few weeks I have been suffering quite bad with my anxiety,

so I knew I needed to just take a few days to sit and chill (hard when planning a wedding) and try and not let the anxiety ruin what should be a very exciting time for me.
Which I'm sure you all understand now why I haven't posted?
But now Im back on a roll - and seem to have more of a handle on my anxiety!

 

 

Im so sorry I have been gone,

when I have promised lots of posts.

But I really do mean it when I say..

 

The next few days I will be uploading Daily!

 

 

So Stay Safe & Speak Soon.

From,

One Stressed Wife to Be

xoxo

What its REALLY like having no immune system...

 

Hey Guy's

Hope your all well?

I saw some people chatting on twitter this evening as was shocked by someones response to a person who was trying to explain they have a low immune system while waiting for a transplant sooo figured I'd write about it.

 

I have a pretty none excistent immune system, and people often ask

 

"So how does a low immune system affect you then ?"

 

And People often reply with:

'Oh so you get colds all the time? Gah that's like me'

 

 

Now anyone who has a lacking immune system will know that this can often grate on you,as it's not as simple as 'getting colds all the time' it's so much more then that.

Talking from personal experience you are currently on edge whenever somebody gets sick and are always on the edge of caution to see someone if there ill.

 

I can't even count the amount of times I have caught colds, ear infections, chest infections, vomiting bugs and the symptoms are evident literally the day after.

Sadly with my immune system and my medication they kind of come on very quickly,so I usually end up at the local a&e getting treatment.

 

The second problem being that with the condition I have mixed with my medications,my body can often disguise what the actual problem is,so I could show all the symptoms of a chest infection but my bloods would not confirm that fact or the other way round. I could have no symptoms at all but I have blood tests which say I have a chest infection - something that happens quite regualry.

 

My doctors are currently trying to balance my medications so that my immune system can grow a little but as soon as they do that my liver grumbles meaning my medication stays just how it is to prevent rejection.

 

It's not fun.

 

So in future?

When someone say's to you they have a lowered immune system,

you now know it doesn't just mean they get the old cold from time to time!

 

I really don't want this post to sound like a rant, I just find it difficult to try and explain to people the difference between getting colds every now and again and having a lack of an immune system and what that intails.

 

Stay Safe & Speak Soon.

Kate

xoxo



My Wedding Makeup Artist - Talking Transplants Talks Weddings.

Hey Guys!

Hope your all well?
 

Not so long ago I had a trial for my makeup which I will be wearing on the wedding day - Eeek.
 

And after a few bad experiences with makeup artists trust me I found it hard to find someone I felt comfortable to have a trial with.

I found Danielle through one of my pageant friends who had been on a shoot which Danielle was doing the makeup for.

The fact the makeup she did on the shoot was choosen to be in the June edition of vogue says it all!

Aswell as being a freelance makeup artist she also works at MAC so she knows her stuff!

 

(Pictures from that exact shoot! How stunning??)

 

As soon as I called her I instantly knew id love her,she is so lovely and straight away makes you laugh yet she is still so professional! 

So I booked in for a trial and from there got really excited to see the magic she would work on my face.



(Danielle applying makeup on my Friend who recomennded her!)

So the day came for my trial.
I knew generally what I wanted but I can be so indesicive so was worried that I would keep changing my mind and confuse poor Danielle
Once the kit was all laid out,she went on to ask the kind of look I wanted to go for.

 I told her all I was certain on was I wanted a flawless highlighted base.
With makeup artists in the past I have often come away,gone into natural light and my foundation isn't matched right and im way over bronzed which is a pet hate of mine since I'm so pale.

But not with Danielle,everytime she did something she got me to check it and see if I was happy with it - and was happy to make any adjustments to bronzer highlight,well anything really!
This meant I didn't have to be indescive because she had no problem with altering and tweaking things to achieve the perfect look.

So ofcourse I knew straight away Danielle would be the one to do my makeup for the wedding! (and my moms and maid of honours too!)
 

 I won't be sharing how my makeup will look on the day in this blogpost - as my fiance does read my blog sooo wouldn't be a good idea!
 

But Danielle has kindly said that I can share some photo's of makeup she has done in the past so you can all see how fab she is.

 

 

 

So if You need a makeup artist?

Go to Danielle.

I couldn't recommend her more - and It takes alot for me to recommend MUA's !

Her website is www.lookbydanielleguiden.com

& You can also find her on facebook at Look By Danielle Guiden
And contact her on 07812394699

 

Stay Safe & Speak Soon.

Kate

xoxo

 



Wedding Invites - Talking Transplants Talks Weddings

 

 Hey Guys!

Hope your all well?

 

Today I thought I'd share with you all,

Our Wedding Invites are from a company called Ginger Ray,which specialise in party supplies.

 

 

The invites we decided to go for were the Vintage Affair Invites in Brown Kraft which we got from Hobbycraft.

For ten invites it was £3.99 !

The cheapest invites around we could find that fitted the kind of look we were going for!

 

 

They have a very vintage look to them and they're perfect!

I am kind of gutted though from checking back on Ginger Ray's website they also have invites solely for the evening reception - Kind of what we could have done with but there we are..

 

When I saw this heart confetti I couldn't stop giggling.

When it was gareth's birthday in January he decided it was a great idea to through this kind of confetti everywhere, and even now we are still finding little gold stars all over his moms house!

 

Because of that we really wanted to put confetti in our invites haha!

I think it add'd a little something to the invite,and ofcourse makes people go "awww" or "aaah not confetti" !

 

 

We are really happy with the invites we choose,and I would defiantly use Ginger Ray again in the future as there stuff is such great quality and well priced!

 

Well it's not long at all now untill the wedding - still got some invites to hand out,but im sure the confetti will make it worth the wait ha ha.

 

Stay Safe & Speak Soon.

Kate

xoxo

Hair Update.

Hey Guys!

Hope your all well?

 

A few weeks ago I decied while in birmingham I despreatly needed my hair cutting but with the wedding coming up I wanted something different doing with it.

 

Those of you who have read my blog from the beginning will know that I have always been someone who gets bored with hair very easily and since last summer I have managed to stay Blonde - with a temporary light brown stage..

 

 

I have been getting pretty stressed about the fact my eyebrows are naturally quite dark so I hated not having eyebrows that matched my hair,but I didn't want to get them tinted as I was petrified they'd drop of or something haha.

So I knew for the wedding I wanted to look as natural as possible...

So I decided... To go Brunette.

Again.

 

The more I thought about it though,If I had just brunette hair I know for a fact I would get bored so quickly!

So I decided after speaking to the hairdresser that I would have ombre ends and highlights throught.

The great thing wwas this wouldn't be damaging for my hair as I was already blonde,sooo what they did was they left the ends of my hair without any colour on and then just smudged the transitions in to make it look blended.

 

I am super happy with how it turned out,

I like the fact I am generally brunette and the roots and top of my hair matches my eyebrows - hurrah haha.

 

Now I just need to decide on how I want my hair for the wedding!

Wish I had time to get extensions fitted,but sadly there wasnt time or budget!

Do let me know if you guys have any ideas :)

 

Stay Safe & Speak Soon

Kate

xoxo