We recently celebrated our 8th anniversary. I say celebrated because it's a real achievement to get to 8 years, in fact every year is a testament to your survival as a couple and love for each other.

Marriage is hard work. Not laborious work (well maybe sometimes) but sometimes it's hard to work through the difficult times, the highs and lows of being together for a lifetime.

You can read the anniversary post here complete with a video from our wedding, if you fancy a nose!

We had a big white wedding. A marquee wedding, which was something I had dreamt of since I watched the film Father of the Bride.

There is really not much I would change if we got to do it all over again. I'd still want to get married at the school chapel as we met at sixth form, and I'd still want the marquee on the school cricket pitch behind.

I might change the weather to a sunny day!

I loved that we had a live band, I loved that we had a cheese buffet as the evening meal and I love that we had the same guests all the way through.

From the 5 little flower girls dressed in the poofiest sugar plum fairy powder pink dresses to the central dance floor with all the tables around to the sticks of rock on the tables, hats pinned to ribbons on the marquee walls and the sofa area where the 3 Grannies (who are no longer with us) chatted together so proudly – there is not much I would change if we had our time again.

But then I hadn't discovered Pinterest or wedding blogs back then.

Sometimes I think, would I go for a complete mis-match of colours, go rustic and wild with a real English country garden theme, but I always come back to pink. Though maybe with a hint of gold.

So here is my fantasy wedding blog wedding! I'll save dresses for another time ;)

You can find all these wonderful sources of inspiration on my Perfect Wedding Pin Board.

Richard and I were best friends before we got together as a couple and that's what makes it work. Even when the forces of nature are pulling us apart we always come back to each other.

We are about to embark on a venture together, a mini empire that could grow into a family business for our sons to join one day. We both know our strengths and I hope that this is the start of an incredible adventure which may take us to far away places.

As soon as I can share more, I will.

I just know that sometimes in life you just have to go for it. And you need someone by your side.

If you are lucky enough to find that one person, who will stand by your side, you never want to let them go.

Every Wednesday I support The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation, a charity that help terminally ill people stand beside that one and say I do. Please help in any way you can. You can donate here or share this post and raise awareness for an incredible charity. 

So what would you change about your wedding or are you planning yours now? Where do you look for inspiration?!

And if pink is not your thing then check out last week's post and the colour palette for the Bristol bride and groom lucky enough to be being helped to have their dream day. 

I'll leave you with this video which might just be my perfect wedding...

Wedding bells are chiming again today on the blog and this week I am talking colour palettes. All to support the charity The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation who organise and fund weddings for terminally ill people.

I love colour palette posts. Mini mood boards that are an easy way to save your favourite ideas.

The Foundation's Bristol Bride and Groom have their hearts set on a red, black and white theme, the Bride joked that was his only input and if he had his way, they'd be getting married at Old Trafford! You can read their story here. (I warn you, it's a beautiful but emotional read.)

When my Mum married again in 2007, to my step dad, who is a life long Everton supporter, they had the Z cars song, which the players always walk out to, as their first dance!

I think it's wonderful to choose a theme or colour that has great sentiment. 

I had baby pink, as I had pictured that being my wedding colour since I was a little girl. 

I had a good browse on the internet for inspiration for the Bristol couple and here's what I loved. 

How sweet is this photo idea?!  

It poured with rain at our wedding and I wish I had seen this as I would have definitely picked up a coloured brolley when we saw the forecast! 

The red shoes just make it. Who says rain can spoil your photos?! 

Wow - these stunning anemones make an incredible bouquet. Just imagine a thin band of red ribbon around it.

This photo by Jonathan Ong makes my heart soar. You could do half of the balloons with black curling ribbon and half with white.

Cakes. Oh these cakes would almost be too beautiful to eat! Works of art in themselves!  I love the simplicity of the Le Petit Four white base and black ribbon icing. The chocolate cake is so indulgent, you just want to dive straight into the photo! And this place setting would almost be too pretty to spoil with a plate of food! 

Something for the boys?!

And something for the girls?!

When it comes to flowers and this colour scheme, you are spoilt for choice. These button holes made me gasp. The button hole by Calie Rose is so intricate and delicate at the same time, with the addition of non floral elements. The red hanker chief is a great way to make this button hole look even more crisp and fresh. What about a brooch bouquet like this stunner? You can incorporate some sentimental jewellery or scour the local charity shops for a beautiful bargain. These poppies look stunning against the white and black print backdrop. You could make a great photo booth backdrop with some similar print wallpaper! Lastly a floral ice bucket! Genius.

And finally here is an incredible mood board of ideas by The Knot, which is an amazing source of inspiration for brides to be. 

So, did you start out reading this post with doubts of how stunning that colour scheme could be, or were you sold from the start?! 

Don't forget, every Wednesday is Wonderful Wedding Wednesday on this blog to raise awareness and donations for the charity, The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation to help as many couples have their dream day as possible, before it may be too late. 

Please support them in any way you can. 

See you next week wedding lovers! 

I'm a sucker for a good wedding.  

Any wedding. Friends, family, Facebook friends. I so enjoy reading about a celebrity wedding (For the record Marvin and Rochelle from the Saturdays is my favourite celeb big day) or two and get lost for hours in wedding blogs and on Pinterest. 

Who else will admit to be more than a little bit tempted to renew their vows, just so you could plan your renewal on Pinterest?! 

I love a good Royal Wedding too. Oh the tiaras! 

These are some of my favourite Royal brides. Majestic, classic, trendsetting in their day and inspiring. I would take a detail from each one to create my ultimate Royal bridal look.

From left to right, top to bottom: Princess Louise, Princess Grace of Monaco, Princess Marie-Françoise Princess Margaret, The Duchess of Cambridge, Queen Elizabeth II

I adored the build up to THE Royal Wedding of the last decade, we had a party (any excuse) and the house was decorated in red, white and blue! And this was pre blog, so you can see I have always had OTT tendencies! 

I was pregnant with Ollie, in a deliriously happy stage of pregnancy, I had my sister to cry with as Kate entered the church and it was a wonderful family day.

I love how weddings bring out so much happiness in more than just the bride and groom. You see Facebook pictures of couples all dressed up for a friends wedding, mothers bursting with pride when their little ones are chosen as flower girls and that nervous excitement that sweeps the room before the bride makes her entrance is magic.

Every Wednesday I support The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation. Where the work they do is literally magic. 

Magic because it makes a couple's dreams come true. Before something really sad may happen.  They help terminally ill people plan and fund their weddings. Weddings, which would probably have not happened otherwise.

Please help make another couple as happy as Catherine and William, as happy as all the other Royal couples who will come after them, and most of all, as happy as I or you were on your wedding day.  

It doesn't matter who you are on your wedding day. It matters who you marry. And for the couples who are supported by The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation, it matters when you marry.

You can donate £1 or more if you'd like to, here.