Follow the Bride #Part 1: Let's Meet the Bride

Introducing part 1 of 'Follow the Bride', our latest round of blog updates where we follow one excited bride right up until the big day. What better choice for our first bride than the very future Mrs Shropshire Petals herself! Yes, presenting Follow the Bride...

• Introduce yourself to our blog?  I'm Jess Robertson, a 27 year old Harper Adams graduate born and raised in Yorkshire as a Doctor's daughter.  But I love farming hence studying at Harper Adams, and that's where I met Jim! 

• What's your job at SP? I look after all of the customer orders and enquiries making sure they are dispatched on time and perfectly presented as I'd like to receive, and trust me I have a love for internet shopping - especially now I'm a Bride myself!  I also look after the crop through the growing season, especially the trial area where we grow lots of new flowers for the petal range.

• Describe Yourself?  Not a morning person and quite disorganised!  But I'm outdoorsie and a little eccentric.

• 3 Likes and 3 dislikes Please...? Likes: Cake (and cups of tea), hats (especially woolly bobble hats), country pursuits, making chutney, Sunday morning lie ins, bunting... Oh sorry did you say 3! Dislikes: early mornings, having photos taken, the colour teal!  

• Who's the Groom?  Jim Bubb.  Jim's Mum and Dad set up the flower business years ago and saw the development from the dried flowers to the confetti business, Jim took over the flower side of the business last year.  A keen engineer and farmer he's always out and about in the fields, or in the workshop.

• Come on the Jess, working in the confetti business Jim's got to have some romance in him, how did he pop the question? It was at Lake Semerwater in Rayale in Wensleydale Yorkshire near my home, we were going to stay with my sister in Coverdale.  A few years ago we stopped here for a drink when off-roading and I jokingly said 'this would be a good place to propose!'  Jim obviously remembered!

• Awww, did he have a ring?  No, my brother Tom Robertson is making it! Jim designed it with Tom's help, I don't know what it's like. 

• Did he get down on one knee? Well actually, Jim let the dogs out of the Discovery and they promptly started chasing the ducks- they thought they could out swim them! It was very cold and I refused to get out of the Disco.  So Jim opened the door and said, close your eyes so I did and he put a haribo sweetie ring on my finger and said "Will you marry me?"  My response was 'are you joking or is this actually a proposal?  He said Yes and so I did! (Of course I ate the ring, followed by several more!)

• Have you set a date? Yes, 6th July 2013.

• Wow, that's soon, you must have lots to do?  What's planned so far? Well the church is booked, as is the marquee and the band of course! We're just about to book the caterers and I'm taking the bridesmaid's dress shopping this weekend! It's been a busy Christmas but the farm is fairly quiet in the winter so I've had lots of time to prep!

• How are you enjoying all the preparations? Any Bridezilla moments yet? Planning a wedding is easy, it's other people who make it hard.

• Very wise words there Jess, definitely a good top tip! So of course we are dying to ask, is there going to be confetti? OF COURSE! In fact, we are going to use some of the confetti names for our tables.

Thanks for part 1 Jess, huge Congratulations to you and Jim, we look forward to hearing all about Bridesmaid dress shopping and the next item to tick off the list in part 2 of follow the Bride. 

Love as always SP x x