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Thank You David!

Mum and Grace found a lovely dress for Grace to wear as bridesmaid while I was still out in France, but that did mean that we were left with four younger bridesmaids to sort out.

So, Mum and I have been hunting high and low to find suitable fabric to make the dresses but without success... until we visited David Misan's premises in Great Titchfield Street. There we found a beautiful fabric for the girls that complements Grace's dress beautifully. And to top it all off I was given it as a wedding present by David. Fantastic!

Home for Christmas!

Today Chris booked our flights to come home for Christmas. I will be starting onboard Gaia on 15 December in Palma but we will be flying back on the 21 December to spend Christmas with my Mum and Dad before heading up to Marsden for a few days. We then jet back off on the 30th to spend New Year in Palma.

Wedding Prep

Well, number one big hurdle has been overcome. I have got my dress (thank you Mum and Dad). And when I say I have got my dress, I actually have got it. It's on a hanger in my wardrobe (well, on the outside to be precise because it's a bit long). It fits perfectly without any adjustment and so we took it away there and then. What a perfect solution to the predicament that I will be flying out of the country next month and working abroad until the month of the wedding! I absolutely love it, and I can't wait to show it to everyone...but I will have to as it is a secret until the big day!

Katie x

Location Update

I finished working onboard MY Perla Blu this month and flew home on Saturday. Meanwhile Chris was on his way to rejoin SY Gaia in Palma on tender to Gaia. Chris will be spending the winter in Palma supervising the works to be carried out on the yacht. I will be staying with Mum and Dad until just after Christmas

I will be joining Chris on Gaia around New Year to support him in his new role as Captain when our first sailing adventure together begins (teaching me to manoeuvre a yacht backwards in a river doesn't count!)

Katie x

Thank you!

We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone that gave us a present for our engagement.

Notes of our appreciation have been popped in the post but seeing as I have sent them from France and the fact that there is a postal strike in the UK means that they might take a while to land on each doormat!

Katie x

Engagement Party

I couldn’t begin this post without saying an enormous thank you to Mum and Dad for organising and hosting the celebration of our engagement this weekend. It was lovely to see such a large number of our family and friends together and we both had an amazing time. There were also a number of helpers that we would like to thank including Grace, Henry, Marian, Kath & Witty.

We both appreciate the effort that was made by everybody in order to come to the party and so another thank you to all that came to truly make it the success that it was.

I have posted the photos that I have from the party into an album on the Photos page and would love anyone else that has photos to add them by emailing them to uswiggyandsprout.guests@picasaweb.com If you put “Engagement Party” in the subject then they will be added to the same album.

Katie x

Upcoming Engagement Party

In 10 days, Mum and Dad will be hosting a party to celebrate our Engagement. We are looking forward to seeing (and meeting in some cases) all of our family and friends that can make it.

Chris will have finished working on Gaia by this time and will be taking some well deserved time out. I will be back for 4 days (from late Thursday to Monday afternoon) before flying back to Nice and rejoining Perla Blu.

By the end of the weekend we might (fingers crossed) have a venue booked and a date set!

Katie x

The Proposal

Katie's version:

I flew back to Gatwick on the Friday night and Chris picked me up from the airport. We hadn't seen each other for 3 months! He told me that the next day he had arranged a boat on the Thames for the day. A picnic was packed (with enough food to feed 10 at least! He knows me well...) and we picked the boat up at 9am. We were having a leisurely cruise around the river with the sun shining in the morning. We stopped by a green for lunch and as I looked up from my Pork Pie (yes, very romantic) Chris had dropped down onto one knee and had the most beautiful diamond ring in his hand. I flung my arms around his neck (nearly knocking the ring out of his hands apparently) and of course said yes. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

The Proposal