hooray!

first things first, thank you to everyone who came down to celebrate our engagement on sunday, it was really lovely to see everyone, and thank you also for the gifts everyone gave us, it was really kind of everyone - so THANK YOU!

and now: twice hooray today! here we go...

we have found a wedding venue and are happy to announce that on 23 June 2006, we'll be getting married at ripley castle, harrogate : ) we went last weekend and it was so perfect... in a little village in the beautiful yorkshire countryside, a castle set in the middle of a deer park... it's stunning, and the food is great, and there's a lovely little hotel just next door, and the people are lovely and kind... it's GREAT. have a look here to see what the venue looks like and here to see the part that we will be hiring in particular... (it's even more beautiful in real life... more photos to follow when i'm on my computer, not xavier's).

so now we're looking forward to a wonderful day: a lovely evening ceremony, beautiful food, relaxing in the bar, (hopefully!) enjoying the wonderful gardens, and dancing the night away on the dance floor before staying at the boars head overnight and then having a lovely breakfast with our closest friends and family.

so that's our first bit of good news, and i would just like to say a big thanks! to mum for doing a great job of finding such a lovely place...

AND you may have noticed that you can no longer view our house on the website... sorry if you missed it... but it's because it's now officially off the market! because it's ours :) we now just have to sort out a surveyor, which is harder than it seems it might be, but hey... it'll be done!

a wonderful day of news : )
good night all xxxxx