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Follow the bride #1

We’re very excited here at SP to have another bride-to-be in the petal shed!

Huge congratultions to Katie and Graham on their recent engagement. We will be following our lovely bride right up until the big day finding out all about what goes into planning the perfect wedding day.

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The Bride 

Hi Katie, can you tell our lovely readers a bit about yourself and your role at SP?

Hello my dears, I’m Katie Plant, General Manager for SP and sadly I’ll be losing my very apt surname for the job at the end of next year... but I certainly couldn’t be happier about it!

As we’re getting very close to Christmas (yey!) what are your 3 favourite, and 3 least favourite things about the festive season?

Mulled Cider, Frosty Days, Family & Friends

No least favourites so instead here’s my top 3 Christmas songs…1. It’s the most wonderful time of the year 2. Carol of the bells 3. I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Who’s the lucky groom?!

Graham Fowles… Graham and I met 5 years ago at the Rugby & Hockey Club, I’m a hockey girl, he’s a Rugby lad, need we say more. Graham is a Firefighter in the RAF so I’m certainly expecting to be carried over the threashold once we’re married!

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The Groom 

So I know everyone’s dying to know, how did Graham propose?

Well last year I bought Graham 30 presents for his 30th Birthday and apparently I couldn’t top that so Graham wanted to make his Birthday perfect and proposed! But as always when you plan a particular date you can’t always expect it to run smoothly… I was flued up to the max so lying on the sofa with Bramble & Robinson ( our dog & cat) feeling sorry for myself, the house was a bomb site as we’re renovating our new house which we moved into a few months ago so it couldn’t have been in more chaos. Despite this, Graham made a lovely tea (quite an achievement with no oven) and with a carpet covered in dust, he got down on one knee and proposed. To most this would be chaos, to me it was perfect!

Unlike most brides, Katie’s very lucky and has two engagement rings! Tell us about your rings please.

So Graham planned everything a while ago when he was in Afghan so bought my ‘proposal’ ring off Amazon and got it shipped out for him to keep safe. Mum had said to us a long time ago if I wanted my Granny’s ring so of course when we rang to tell her (with Dad sniggering next to her as of course Graham asked his permission and Mum didn’t know!) we asked if it was ok to have Granny’s ring. Granny got married in 1924 and it’s beautiful, yes I’m very lucky!

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Katie's Granny's sparkly ring 

Have you set a date for the big day?

5th December 2015… ‘Married in December’s cheer, love shines brighter from year to year’

Working in the wedding industry for nearly 6 Years, you must have a pretty good idea of your perfect wedding day. Have you made any plans yet?

Yes we’ve set the date, church and venue are booked, photographer booked, my dress sorted, bridesmaids dresses sorted, colours sorted (top secret), this wedding malarkey is easy (I’ll eat my words later). Now I’ve just got the next 11 months to make make make! This will certainly be a hand made wedding. Next job is to tell the Bridesmaids as I know they are dying to know, I’ve got them a bauble each for Christmas with a little note attached to ask them, they’ll find out on Christmas day.

Now, the most important question; have you thought about confetti?!

Is it really bad if I say that’s the only thing I’m struggling on… I can’t decide. Plenty of time though to have a good old play with the SP Pick & Mix of course.

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Congratulations Graham and Katie! 

How are you and Graham enjoying all of the preperations?

Well we’ve done all the major things to do for now so we’re just going to sit back this month and enjoy December and have a wonderful Christmas, after all, it’s the the most wonderful time of the year…

Have a very merry Christmas everyone! 

Love as always, Katie - SP x x 

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