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Matt and Rose

A little bit of stating the obvious but we are Matt and Rose (or Rosie).


We live in South Leicestershire and certainly don't think of ourselves as "ideas people" or "influencers", but enough people ask how and where we get ideas from for days out and home improvements that we thought that maybe we should pull those parts of our lives together into a single online space so you can take a look, too.


Feel free to comment on any posts and we'll do our best to reply.


Enjoy!

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Things we learned about getting married

Well... a mere 622 days after getting on bended knee and popping the question, our wedding day actually arrived. For so long our evenings...

Easter 50 Challenge

In September 2021, we headed to Eastbourne to walk 57km along the south coast. Almost 13 hours later we finished the South Coast...

A year of exercise

In December 2021, I set myself the challenge of doing exercise every day of the year in 2022. A friend of mine had done it the year...

Less than a year to go and we're almost there...

It seems likes it's been a while since we provided an update but it feels like we’re almost at the point where we’re just about ready to...

Another weekend, another wedding show...

But this one was far more useful in terms of information gathered than the previous three combined! The first one (the big one – the...

Where in the world?....

As some respite from researching the less fun parts of the wedding and the ever escalating costs, we've turned our attentions to the the...

Photographers....

Now the venue is booked and the registrars have been contacted, we’ve turned our attentions to the other date critical suppliers –...

The venue is chosen!

We have a winner! After more than three months of researching, browsing brochures and visiting potential venues, we’ve not only whittled...

...hello 2022!

And what, I wonder, does 2022 have in store for us? We usually enter a new year with the excitement of knowing that we have this holiday...

So long, 2021...

So, how was the end to your year? After not spending Christmas with my family for the last two years - once through choice as Rosie and I...

10 days at the Dreams Natura resort, Mexico

Dreams Natura is on the Maya Riviera, a 20-minute transfer from Cancun airport. It's a bit of a standalone hotel, in that it's not along...

Another angle to consider...

We've made a decision!* *And by decision I mean that if we go with the single venue approach our 10 finalists (the ones we thought were...

Is our search racing towards a conclusion?....

In short..... no. We have now visited 10 different venues, and looked at another 20 different brochures and immediately disregarded at...

Five weeks on...

...and we're still none the wiser, other than our budget seems to have crept north of where we thought it would be! A couple of weekends...

And we're off!

It’s been quite an intense first couple of weeks of our engagement but with an upcoming trip to Cheltenham we’ve seized the opportunity...

Where to even start??

In our announcement post I said that it had opened a can of worms of questions and it really has! And each seems more expensive than the...

Who saw that coming?!

Well... I did, for one. And *poof*, just like that, our little blog became a wedding planning story board, charting our journey from...

My best ever marathon

It seems fitting today, as I watch thousands of incredible people take on possibly their greatest challenge, to re-visit the last time I...

The next challenge...

So... a little over two months ago I ticked off an item from my bucket list, being to run an ultra marathon. Of the options available to...

South Coast Challenge 2021

I woke up in a Premier Inn bedroom with an unusual feeling of excitement and nervousness, today was the day of my first ever endurance...

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