awwww congrats :-) absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that :-) when is he home from working over there? xx

Wahooo!! Let the fun begin!!

Congratulations! I know how hard it is to live in a different country from H2B and to try and make wedding plans without actually being together. Luckily we're finding it so much easier and more fun now we're in the same country again. Just get loads of ideas together so that you can impress him with everything you've done when he comes back. Congratuations again, enjoy your planning!!

congratulations hun, my man works away in the week and only comes home at weekend for 2 days not quiet the same as u but misses him like mad hate having to let him go but love him coming back. enjoy the site and all the planning :) xxx

congratulations

i know how it feels my other half works in africa and comes home for 2-3 weeks every 12- 14 weeks last saw him 31/07/11 and he not due back until 01/10/11 and then 03/12/11 which will then be for good its been like this for the last 3 years so have planned all the wedding myself we have discussed everything but ive been the one to organise everything so i know how you feel

thank god for skype

enjoy the planning
xx

I know how you feel too, my h2b is forces and is away from now until December 2012. For the first 6 months he will be able to come home once a month but then it's a long separation. He proposed just before he left so that I can dedicate my time to planning our wedding and take my mind off missing him. I would hate to tell him that planning our wedding without him makes me miss him more. I want to make decisions with him so that it's his day too, mind you he does have some stupid ideas. I could forgive the bucking bronco idea but he got a telling off for suggesting "Highway to Hell" as our walk out music.

Hang on in there hun, October will be great. Make the most of the just engaged buzz, I've been engaged now for just under a month and the buzz still hasn't worn off. All I talk about is wedding stuff! he he!

I shouldnt complain considering what all you Forces Wifes and Brides to be have to put up with. You are the stars of this country.

My family are primarily forces but my mum and dad werent so kind of directly avoided it but still seen the hardship it caused on families.

Lala - past 2 years we have dedicated to finding a way to permanently emigrate. He was offered the contract in Feb and left in March but because we have 2 older children (nearly 14 and 11 as well as a 3 year old) we felt that it really really had to be the right decision so he went on his own to do a proper reccie as no matter how much research you do its not actually living the life. Big problem we have is 1) Oz is really really expensive at the minute and their economy is soaring and 2) because of his work we are limited to Sydney area and his work would be on a specific type of Temporary Resident Visa and the biggest drawback of that is we would need to pay for education for all 3. Plus our oldest daughter will be starting her GCSE's next year so we need to weigh up balance of messing up her education if contract is only guaranteed for 2 years.

Ultimately the way things are going I think the standard of living out there is far superior to what we can offer here and deep down we have made our minds up that as soon as we can we are off. When we are in UK he has to work in London and we all hate it (even though we live in Essex and he commutes) - lol we do have back up plans of Vancouver or Los Angeles