Wedding dress shopping halting foraging

Okay, so now I am beginning to learn that shopping for a wedding dress is quite difficult. Dresses are beautiful, wedding dresses make you feel like an absolute princess. I have been to two shops so far, and have found it an incredible challenge. Although, the first dress I tried on was lovely, absolutely me, it seems to hold beauty and nature if that is at all possible, but the prices of wedding dresses are crazy, the wedding dress I like is £633. Now it has lace and detail and everything you associate with expensive, but I still feel like that is a lot of money to spend on a dress, and that isn't even including having it altered. So at the moment foraging seems to have halted, the cold weather has been part of that, Brandon's had a few days of work, the only thing we have done foraging wise is siphon the wine into different containers before we siphon them into bottles. So it has been very quiet on the foraging front. We are off to Bristol to do some winter shopping today, I am not usually a fan of shopping, but I like shopping for jumpers and jackets, that I find fun. So, so far, shopping for a dress, fun, but hard work, foraging, standing a bit still in it's tracks. I am realising preparing for a wedding and doing your passions can be two very hard things to balance.

Getting married and picking raspberries

This post will conclude that even me, someone I view as pretty laid back, can freak out about wedding plans, since Brandon proposed to me in August I have been pretty laid back about it all, flicking through a magazine here and there throwing out mad and wild ideas of how I see the whole event in full swing, I think it was only yesterday it really occurred to me, weddings cost money, in fact if you are buying anything remotely attached to the word wedding people will try and charge you as much as they possibly can for it. So yes I started to freak out about marriage plans, I don't want an extravagant wedding, we have decided on a bring a dish theme, hopefully a marquee in a field with all our family and friends around us. But there are a few things I'd like, some bridesmaids, a pretty dress, a suit for my handsome groom and his best man, flowers, a cake, we need tables and chairs, maybe someone to keep track of the food, a portal loo, table cloths, glasses, cutlery and I am sure I am missing a few essentials. With us now starting up a company and neither of us earning a regular or very substantial wage you can imagine our budget isn't massive. So yes I freak out, it took quite a while for my lovely fiancee to calm me down and help me remember the real reason I am getting married (yes, I can sometimes be utterly selfish and materialistic, something I don't to often like to admit) but picking raspberries yesterday did cheer me up somewhat, we went to the farmhouse where Brandon used to lodge to lend a ladder to a house mate, and it was there we were pointed to a delectable bush of raspberries growing nearby, I have never seen such huge raspberries in my life. We were hoping to pick some plums from a nearby tree which is usually weighed down by plums at this time of year, but unfortunately it would appear the weather throughout the summer has had a pretty bad result on the plum tree, there wasn't a single one to be seen. I hope that isn't the case for all plum trees this coming autumn.

Beginning to Blog and Forage

As I am new to blogging and foraging this will definitely be a learning process which I am eager to pursue. I have been itching to get my hands 'dirty' and get going with this whole foraging scene for a while. But what really began to motivate me was when my man Brandon Pheiffer proposed to me. Getting married feels me with an unending amount of excitement, and while discussing wedding plans we stumbled on a beauty of a plan, home brewing. Making alcohol to have at the wedding, now this poses a few problems, one being we have never made our own before and we could easily do something wrong, another being we actually have no idea what we are doing, so these next few months will I'm sure as well as happiness, fun and excitement, bring some frustration, annoyance and possibly some disagreements (lets hope not). So far we have had an immense amount of fun and I have some film clips I would like to share in the near future and some pictures of us the happy couple. We are based in Calne and have been foraging in Lacock, stockley and the surrounding areas. As we are on the road quite often working in construction  (PheifferPropertyServices) it has given us ample time to scope out some new foraging sites. So please, take a walk with us as we delve into this new world of blogging and foraging.