So with 9 days to go, everything is starting to feel very surreal. Tomorrow I’m taking the 3 hour journey to pick up my parents in Barrydale for the wedding. Along with that, I’m moving out of Karina’s parents place – the place I have called home for the past 5 years.

Our home

My parents will be staying with me in our new home for the build up to the wedding. There are a number of things my dad will be helping out with in our house – building cupboards in our room, replacing the stove and sink, chopping some of the kitchen cupboards to fit the oven and a few other odds and ends. Once some of these changes are done, it will definitely start to feel like OUR home.

Along with me going to fetch my parents, its the church rehersal on Friday too. All the bestmen and bridesmaids will be there finding out where to stand, when to walk etc. I can see myself getting very nervous going over everything we will be doing on our wedding day.

I think with my parents around next week, the wedding is going to come very very quickly!

Yes, can you believe that it is only 2 months until Karina and I will be married! When I stop and actually think about that, its pretty overwhelming (in a good way, of course!).

With so little time left, the todo list is looking pretty huge. Suits for the bestmen didn’t go to well this past weekend – the suit hire place we went to in Somerset West didn’t have the greatest quality suits and the service wasn’t really all the good either. Off to Cape Town it is.

The house

We finally have the keys to our home! It’s one big empty space, has no electricity, the garden needs some TLC, but all that counts is its ours! My parents came to visit on Monday, so I took my Dad to show him all the things I would like him to work on in December when they come and stay with me – new stove top installed, builtin cupboards need building, kitchen cupboards need cutting and a few other minor things. I can’t actually wait to move in…

Dancing

Last, but not least, Karina and I have started dance classes at the Arthur Murray dance studio in Durbanville. I was pretty nervous and excited this evening as I’m not the greatest dancer, but overall, both Karina and I had tons of fun.

So thats a quick update from the soon to be Mr and Mrs Bagley!

Karina kicked my butt this weekend into updating this site with photos as well as finishing up my post on how I proposed to her!

The photos are of some of the people that are going to play a part in the wedding – bridesmaids, bestmen, God parents etc. So go have a look!

And if you want to, you can now read the full story on how I proposed to Karina.

I’m almost finished designing the blog. As you can see, most of the site now has the same look and feel as the home page. So what do you all think?

Secondly, wedding plans have pretty much come to a standstill as we haven’t had much time for any of it, what we me changing jobs and also organising the purchase of our house.

Lastly, Karina and I are going away on a marriage encounter weekend to Constantia in the middle of August. Its a Catholic organised thing, and its for all couples thinking about and planning to get married. I am really looking forward to it, as we haven’t been away since December!

That’s it for now!

Glad you could make it to our website and blog – jasonandkarina.co.za.

I started this blog to document my entire wedding experience here, mostly for memories, but also to keep everyone in the loop on how things are progressing. Oh, not just that, information about how to go about organising a wedding is valuable information, I tell you! I have a couple of friends that I’m sure need some tips etc.

I’m hoping I can convince Karina to blog here soon, so stay tuned for that!