Follow the Bride #7: The Stag Do!

As promised here's part 2 of the all important stag do, 

• So Jim, did you have any idea at all what they had in line for you? I had managed to get a few bits of information from the stag party but could not manage to make it all fit together! So basically I had no idea at all! Quite impressive really!

• Where did you go / what did you do?  Well it was based on a Top Gear challenge, 4 of the group had a budget of £300 to buy a car off eBay for the event. So on the Friday morning they all turned up at the farm in what were amazingly quite respectable cars. The first challenge was to decorate the cars to a theme, ranging from a Cow to best of British.  Then the challenge began, our destination was Langholm in Scotland.

The aim of the day was to gain as many points as possible, from getting pictures of your car outside a particular pub to having your picture taken IN Lake Windermere! (It was VERY cold). That evening the scores were collected and of course the Stag’s team didn’t win, penalties were found at every conceivable option. Night one ended in the local town hall with a local Scottish band dancing the night away with the locals.  

The morning of day two was a very steady affair, however some Kayaking in a very cold lake soon sorted us out, I think more time was spent swimming rather than actually kayaking! Followed by a very scenic drive over the hills to our evening destination, Edinburgh. The night was a more normal affair with a few pubs and bars.  Over the whole weekend it was quite remarkable that not even a single bonnet had to be opened on any of the cars!



Jim- aka the landrover nut loves engines and had high expectations for the "serious" stag do! 

• Jason said this was going to be a ‘serious stag do’ did it live up to expectation? It did indeed, however as there were more single than married people in the party the singletons knew that I have a very long memory!
• Less than 2 months to go, are ‘your’ jobs complete yet and have you actually sorted the suits yet?  All of the easy jobs are done, marque, food, band. The two main jobs remaining, the most important one of all is to build the bar, and this will be a surprise, I have a good idea for this one up my sleeve! The other is the one I’m dreading – suits! I have no idea, just simple.
• Apparently “you can’t meet a more relaxed groom.” Getting closer to the day, is this still true?  Well up till now nothing has been a problem as we have been so busy on the farm doing all of the spring work, the next job is to move house then the wedding so I have a few more weeks before I only have the wedding to worry about.

Thanks Jim, sounds an eventful stag do.  Well we've lots to catch up with Jess about now so we'll be back soon with some more Follow the Bride. 

Love as always SP x x