Well, we’ve seen the last of one of our two Best Men – Martin – until the day before the wedding now, which is a bit of a strange thing to realise as it makes the wedding seem much sooner than it is! He’s off back to America soon and his next plane back to the UK lands early in the morning on 2 September.

Yesterday went pretty smoothly, with he and Mark getting measured up in Burton, Bluewater, for their light grey suits. They weren’t used to people placing orders so far in advance but we explained about Martin so they understood :)

The unfashionable state of the colours we wanted, which I mentioned in my previous post, is in danger of defeating us. We’re starting to contemplate swapping the colours over, so the bridesmaids are in my-suit-purple blouses and the best men are in Edith’s-dress-blue shirts, but we’ll make our final decision on that this weekend, depending on what we find during our bridesmaids’ shopping trip in Aberdeen. We noted Mark and Martin’s shirt sizes (why are they given in neck circumferences? surely there have to be more important measurements, like chest girth or stomach bulge?), so we can just buy them whatever shirts necessary ourselves now.

So, who will end up in which colour? I’m sure you’re all on the edges of your computer seats, fingers poised over the Refresh buttons, just waiting for an update. It may not be a cliffhanger quite on the scale of Who Killed Mr. Burns?, but I’m sure I’ve seen worse on Neighbours, and I believe this dlog has a similar audience size to the current EastEnders one, so it’ll do for now.