Greetings fellow affiliates!  What do you mean “who are you?”  It’s me - Kirsty!!!

Well, after darned near losing my mind (as all brides to be seem to manage) I have to say that Duncan and I had the best day of our entire lives. The ceremony was amazing, the bridesmaids were beautiful, the champagne flowed… and get this… the sun shone.

We had a beautiful holiday straight afterwards in gorgeous surroundings which we both REALLY needed,  thanks to Kieron’s Kindness and Chris from Sunshine.co.uk.  From the bottom of our newlywed hearts, thanks to both of them for really being very topping blokes - it made an already special time simply perfect.

I’ll be back blogging and generally getting affiliate things back on track from today onwards, so I hope to be able to get some decent posts filtering through once again.  I feel so “out of touch” when I leave the blog to it’s own devices.

Next stop for us is the most excellent A4U Expo… can’t wait to see old and new faces there.

In the meantime, I shall let these pictures do the talking as I gently float down from the cloud I’ve been perched upon for the last 9 days.  It’s all a beautiful, beautiful blur!!

Signing the register, and before anyone asks the soft toy was knitted by my beloved Grannie.  It’s a lucky sweep, and a family tradition!!

The most beautiful bridesmaids in all the world - am I just paranoid or are they laughing at me?

Shit… does anyone know how to reverse park this thing?

Always at my happiest surrounded by men in kilts. Woo hoo!!

Didn’t take long for the groom and best man to start acting up, did it?

I take care of my own drinks service… Note BLUE SKIES and SUNSHINE in Scotland!!

Wow… it’s all looking very dignified, isn’t it? Want to see what happened after Duncs and I drank many glasses of champagne and a few whiskies?

I had a funny feeling you would!!

What a perfectly matched pair!

Hello Folks, well I had hoped to still have time to chuck out some well reasoned blog posts when I was in the run up to my wedding.  Hah!  I’m sure those of you who have already taken the plunge will realise the delusional nature of that belief.

And I thought coming home was going to be fun?  Oh deary, deary me… it’s not been dull.

I have always been someone who suffers from stress, but this really is something else.  I have chest pains, I can’t concentrate, and although I haven’t yet lost my temper about anything it gets harder to maintain my composure each and every day!

So what’s going to set me off in the end?  It’ll be one of the following: -

• None of my carefully procured undies fit me. This has led to the discovery that I am now sporting a stupidly rare bra size after losing weight.  My beautiful lacy (and comfortable) bridal bra and knickers had to be replaced with the one bra in Debenhams that would fit.  Horrible?  Of course!  An instrument of torture in the comfort department?  You betcha!!  This is a bra more suited to a female Gestapo officer than a lovely bride.
• My wedding dress is a different colour to the one I tried on in the shop. It transpires this is a common thing to happen as the display dresses tend to get “warmer” in colour due to being touched a lot, tried on, and generally getting a little grubby.  Before I ordered it would have been the time to find that one out!
• My shoes don’t match my dress. This means I had to buy another pair (for the third time).  That brings my tally to 1 x pair hideously uncomfy, 1 x wrong colour, and a grand total of £95 on bloody shoes I’ll never wear.
• I’ve just been informed I can’t dance backwards in my wedding dress. What?  I can’t what?  How am I going to get out of people’s way?  How can we do our first dance??? What if someone takes me out to the dancefloor and knocks me over simply by trying to give me a bit of a twirl?  The dress shop told me you could get hoops to go underneath a wedding dress. Advised me one might make me look too short in my rather flouncy number. Did they tell me why it might be a good idea from a personal mobility point of view?  No!!!  Not until it was too late to rig something up so that a simple step backwards didn’t result in me being on Funnyest Home Videos for the next 15 chuffing years!!!!!
• It won’t stop raining - At this rate we will need to buy a small ark to ferry our guests between the lavvy and our marquee.  Please, please, please, can someone turn the water sprinkler system off in Scotland?!?!
• My hen night - I know absolutely nothing about this.  I don’t know where it is.  I don’t know who is coming.  Is not knowing fun?  Unfortunately, it isn’t.  It should be exciting, but alas the old stress levels are too high.  That said, just about anything will stress me out right now, so I’ll probably really enjoy it at the time.

Anyhoo, I’m going to stop my list right there.  I can assure you that is just the start.  The in-laws begin to arrive in the area from Monday on so more fun will ensue.

My only comfort?  My stress levels are teeny compared to those being shouldered by my dear old Scottish Mammy, who looks like she’ll need a triple bypass any day now.

So… Normal Service Will Resume…

After I’m back from honeymoon!

See you all then for me talking sense instead of all that bridal nonsense.

Cheerio for now folks.

xxx

Well folks. We’re off to the airport in Brisbane in a few hours, ready to come back home and get married!

To say that Duncan and I are nervous is a bit of an understatement. All I can say is I’m not surprised brides are famous for losing lots of weight just before the big day. I’m in a permanent state of terror and there are still 19 days to go.

The good news is that we moved into our new pad 5 days ago and it is absolutely amazing. The former owners left the place positively gleaming and even came back yesterday to fix a leaky tap they’d discovered just as they moved out. And they say there are no nice people left in the world. Michael, the former owner, even gave Duncan a free lesson in how to change a tap washer!

If you haven’t seen pics of the new place, I posted them here a while back.

The Only Downside To The New House Is…

We’re gonna spend a LOT of time sweeping up leaves.

As you can see, Duncan is a big fan of occupational health and safety. Note the extremely safe bar stool (which has a swivel top) he used to get himself up onto the roof. I wonder if now is a good time for a life insurance policy? Hmmm…..

On the plus side, I love the view from my new office. I think I’m really going to love working in this space!

So for now guys, this is Au Revoir. I don’t arrive in the UK until Friday and there will be jetlag followed by frantic bridal preparations. I’ll try to blog, but I’m sure you will all forgive me if it ends up being a rant about colour schemes, tiaras or anything else that gets under my skin. I’ll try to retain my common sense, but who knows? Better people than me have turned into Bridezilla in the week or two before their big day!

Cheerio guys!

I was intrigued to read about the super-duper James Bond style “Top Secret Project” which Sunshine.co.uk announced would be launched at this year’s A4U Expo.

Of course I am a woman and therefore incredibly nosey, so after I challenged Chris to an arm wrestling match in a bid to find out, he immediately gave in and let me see the goodies. I am very scary when my nose is bothering me, so Chris mustn’t feel bad about being picked on by a 5ft 3 affiliate girl.

So What is This Vast Secret?

Well, I might have been scary enough to get Chris to let me in on the secret, but he’s managed to persuade me not to let the cat out of the bag. It would be unsportsmanlike after all the hard work these guys have put into the new concept they are launching.

I’m not allowed to give anything away, but here are some reasons you absolutely should be at their launch:-

• To get the jump on everyone else who’ll rush to join the Sunshine.co.uk affiliate programme – this really is that good!
• If you don’t think you can do a travel site or make it work for whatever reason – you can now. Trust me on this.
• It’s simply, totally, completely gosh darned exciting for our industry. If you want to see the future of affiliate marketing programmes it will be right there in the Platinum Room for you to see.

Want To Be Among The First To Know? Don’t Have an Expo Ticket?

Sunshine are that mad keen for as many people to be at the unveiling of their amazing top secret project that they’ve agreed to send one of my readers to the Expo on the 14th & 15th of October to find out!

Yep, that’s right. If you wanted to go to the Expo but just couldn’t come up with the moolah then now is your big chance!

Sunshine.co.uk are giving one lucky winner: -

• A full conference pass which includes all the amazing after parties.
• 3 nights accommodation in a double room at Novotel – right in the heart of the conference action.

Worried About Going On Your Own?

Don’t. You’ll also have the opportunity to hang out with little old me for general affiliate chat, Q & A, or beer and nonsense. Whatever you like. If you’re shy or don’t know anyone I’ll make sure that you’re not left standing in a corner on your own at any stage of the event (which you wouldn’t be anyway – but I’m giving you my personal guarantee!).

Want To Win This Great Prize? Here’s How!

Just drop me a line via my contact form with “Expo Entry” as the subject line. Tell me in 50 words or less why you want to go and how getting access to all the great info at this year’s conference will help your affiliate career.

More information on this year’s programme here: -

http://www.a4uexpo.com/london/

It goes without saying – but affiliates only are eligible to enter!!

Winner will be selected on Monday October 6th and informed by e-mail that their luck is in. Competition entries close on Sunday 5th.

If you want to be amongst the first to get in on Sunshine’s announcement, don’t delay… enter this amazing contest today!