An opinion on what will make the Wedding rock:

1. I am marrying the most stunning and awesome person on the planet besides myself.
2. The wedding has kept a chocolate brown and gold theme throughout, including the suits, dresses, invites and order of service’s. You name it, it’s themed and going to look spot on.
3. We have had our up’s and down’s with so called “friends” but have still managed to make sure that we have people to support us on the day.
4. We will have two photographers photographing every passing second of the wedding day, giving us all of the pictures so we can decide what to do with them. This eliminates copyright problems and people wanting different kinds of pictures for their albums. It does also mean of course that I can post them wherever I want, show them to distant relatives who couldn’t be there on the day.
5. The videographer has no problem with us using the video after he was authored it to DVD. People will be able to buy their own copy from him and I am free to share it with the above mentioned family members so they can see it free of charge.
6. Our wedding will take place at a lovely church which can hold hundreds of people, the good news so far is that we are on course to filling the church, so the vicar is happy with my suggestion that I could give them a few photo’s of the church looking at it’s best.
7. The vicar (a female) has been very supportive and helped us continually throughout the whole affair (I suppose she is meant to but she still deserves a mention!), helping us choose nice hymns and giving us permission to film in the church. As a thank you, I have offered to build them a website for the church.
8. Our reception will be at The Lawn in Rochford, take a look at the picture below to see how nice it will look if the weather holds out.
   
9. Nearly everyone who was invited accepted, so we have a nice mix of people at the wedding.
10. At the end of the day Katie will be Mrs Brian

I have been reading Techcrunch and various Web2.0 blogs recently bemoaning the fact that Twitter has been down so much since it’s popularity sky-rocketed. You have Michael Arrington single-handedly charting their ups and downs, telling us how Twitter can change their ways to maximise their cluster computing from Amazon.

The problem is that people are building this service up on a pedestal, making its very existence essential for them to live their lives.

I happen to have Twitter, Gmail, MSN, Yahoo and my blog as other communication mediums. When certain services are down (there have been times I am unable to connect to Gtalk and I bet they have better server management than Twitter), I have just switched to another service.

I’m stuck for things to do this Sunday afternoon and have been bombarded on Twitter and Google Reader with anti-Twitter propaganda and wanted to sound off.

Just for the record, Friendfeed is a useless service and I have no idea why people are singing its praises so much.

You Americans have no idea what a Bank Holiday is and I shalln’t tell you. All I shall tell you is that I will be relaxing a little longer than usual this weekend.

Things have been moving, I have been snowed under at work and only managing to come up for air once the clock hits 5pm. Katie has returned from holiday and got straight back to work, so we haven’t seen much of each other.

This weekend we were going to see the Moscow State Circus but when tickets came in at £27 each, I thought I could go to the zoo two times over the weekend and still pay less!

You like the new theme? I chose it and installed it all today, Twitter is catered for as well as the odd movie quote at the top.

Is this a quick, short and sharp blog post folks? Yes it is!

A clever guy named Justin Wickett with a little help from tech guys sets his Twitter account to turn off the lights in his house by sending a text message to his Twitter account.

It’s been a week by myself now with Katie off on holiday. I have spent many a night cooking for one, feeding the dog and then retiring to the sitting room to watch a few dvd’s or play some Xbox. Whilst it’s been lonely because it’s just me, it’s also been horrible in the fact that I am away from my fiancee and best friend. We are in constant contact and I think it may have offended the person she is sharing the room with but we both don’t care.

One of the most horrible parts of it is that if Katie is out at a bar or a club and has a problem, I am powerless to help her or reassure her, it’s selfish to think she can’t live without me protecting her but it’s a natural instinct that kicks in if Katie is upset or in danger.

The dog has never left my side, he follows me about the house all day everyday, the only time he isnt is when I am at work during the week. Last night he kept licking my leg and waking me up, something I was not best pleased with but just guessed that he was just as lonely as me.

Other news just in, I am flying to the US in a week, following on from the America post below. I will be meeting Katie and her family out there, I will update you as to what happens when I get back as I don’t want to jinx anything just yet.

This weekend was a sociable one and I am paying for it now.

On Friday, it was meant to be a quiet night and on the most part it was. Myself and Katie sat and watched some TV and she then decided to go to bed quite early. I wasn’t feeling tired myself so I retired to the front room and fired up the Xbox. Online was the always humorous honest_ape and his wife, a dynamic duo who politely invited me into their well formed tactical unit so we could unleash hell on the bevy of 13 year olds skulking in the hallways of Halo 3’s multiplayer.

Punishment was swift and in some cases painful. So lost in the game I was, I lost track of time, to the tune of three hours. As 12:15am in the morning rolled up, I powered down and then retreated to bed in the pitch black, feeling so weary that I was tripping up stairs and fumbling through doorways.

Waking up early 8 hours later in the morning, myself and Katie went back to my parents and checked in to see how they were. My stepdad, in the two weeks since we had been round, had managed to build decking with covering in their garden. The quality of the deck was so good I would have sworn that they had paid a team of builders to make it. We left and came back home to clean the house in preparation for guests later that evening.

The evening in question was a masonary dinner and dance. Myself and Katie arent masons (yet), but we were attending as Katie’s parents guests. Here is where the News Reporter part comes into play.

Around 5pm, we were all dolled up in our dinner suits and dresses. Photos were taken:

Take a look at the photo and then compare it to this photo:

The woman just above is a British news presenter, famed for brightening up peoples mornings when she presented Breakfast News. How alike are they?!

That night, many people commented on how beautiful she looked and I have to admit I felt so lucky to be by her side We were introduced to many people, did the smiling and nodding in all the right places and were served with a lovely three course meal.

We ran off early and we went home to get some rest for today where we went to see my brother play his first match in goal, he did very well. Later in the afternoon, we went out for lunch, watched Man Utd beat Arsenal and then watch another Katie lookalike, Katherine Heigl, in 27 Dresses (a hooky copy).

I am shattered, I shall shortly be heading to sleep!