The World According to Mrs B: Anniversary! 10 years have passed already!

So this time 10 years ago, I was waxed, plucked, painted and primped; and all ready to get married tomorrow!

I can't believe it's been 10 years, it's gone so so quickly.

I wasn't a completely traditional bride, and I had a massive 'thing' about spending the night apart from Mr B the night before the wedding. Everyone wanted us to stay in separate places, as tradition states, and I was having none of it! I've no idea why, or even why I felt so strongly about it. It got as far as me refusing to get married if I couldn't spend the night with my husband to be! Stress does wonders to your perception of life.

Speaking of stress, I didn't just do wedding planning, I rolled everything stressful into one! It was my last year in uni; writing a 10,500 word dissertation on mental health and social exclusion, I chose this opportune time to give up smoking and was planning the honeymoon to leave the very next day of our wedding. I also couldn't possibly have a wedding car like normal people, I insisted on hiring three mini's for our wedding cars (red, white and blue.... Think 'self preservation society'...) which needed returning in our absence, just to make it more difficult!

Anyways, this time 10 years ago, Mr B and I went out for dinner and promptly got quite drunk! We left the restaurant and went along to a few bars to keep us topped up, when it dawned on me it would be hilarious to call my mum. So call I did! I rang home and told her i'd changed my mind and the wedding was off, everything needed to be cancelled.... The prank however backfired on me, when my mum fell about laughing too - yep she and my dad were indoors drinking wine and were quite drunk too! Like mother like daughter eh!

Well we've had an amazing time this last 10 years, and I love looking back at our wedding pictures, it was a fabulous day. So I thought I'd share some with you.

My pyjama party hen night, with my two best friends.

With my mum and dad, two of the most important people in my life.

With my beautiful bridesmaids.

There was a moment in the Registry Office where we couldn't possibly stop laughing and this is my most favourite picture of the day. Mr B got an attack of the nervous giggles, which brought about the giggles for me and then the whole room! Even the registrar had to sit down and take a moment! I don't remember our vows at all, but this moment meant that all our wedding pictures have natural smiles and absolutely no one forgot our wedding day.

With my grandparents, very sad to say none of them are here anymore.

The wedding party. I still to this day feel sad we got married in a registry office, not for any reason other than we couldn't have everyone there I wanted to and that still makes me feel sad. But hey... I may manage to get my own way and renew our vows/get our wedding blessed and have a party under the pylon... Watch this space!

So 10 years on, I'm still as happy now as I was then. I may have been very young to get married (22), there may be a huge age gap between us (19 years, nope doesn't bother either of us or our families), I had to have two wedding dresses (that's another story) but I married my best friend and love him dearly.