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.