Weddingbee Blog

(me and Mr Lightning celebrating the opening match with our friends)

My dearest hive, oh how I have missed you! It seems every time I’d sit down to write, or comment after reading another bee’s wonderful post, everything comes hurtling towards me. In the time I have been absent I renovated a run down old cottage for me and Mr Lightning with the help of my Dad, a retired architect, moved all of our belongings to this wonderful new place we now call home… and perhaps the biggest reason for my absence… there was a little bit of World Cup madness in my very own city!

(Mr Lightning taking a drink from a Drinkuzela… a vuvuzela that converts into a draft glass for beer… as we watched SA vs Uruguay)

To all the readers I had told I would try and write about what to see and do here, I truly apologise. We decided on a whim to rebuild our cottage in the 6 weeks that fell right before the World Cup. And with me at the building site all day it left my evenings to catch up on work. And the weeks before? I was showing our little flat and frantically looking for a new place to live. Before I knew it, the tourists had arrived, the vuvuzelas were blowing and the games had begun.

(a sneak peak at our ridiculous 6-week renovation of a 2 bedroom house to include an extension, 2 new bathrooms and a kitchen - and we made it on time!)

But now we are all settled, getting used to living in a larger space and the tourists have already started leaving our wintery shores for their homes across the world. It’s certainly been a whirlwind few months of festivities and big changes for us and the country we live in.

While I felt I still had so much to share, I see each and every new bee share more exciting and innovative ideas and I feel I can hardly compete. After reading Mrs Cowboy Boot’s last post I felt perhaps it was time to be honest and realise my time amongst the hive is almost up.

However before I say goodbye for good, I will make good on my promise and do a Honeymoon in My Hometown: Cape Town edition and finally share a little something me and Mr Lightning have planned to celebrate our first anniversary together.

‘Til then I’ll leave you with my final wedding recap pictures…

(wedding photos by Lauren Kriedemann Photography)