Read this from time to time to keep up with all the latest news about the wedding preparations!

It’s been a busy few days of wedding preparations here, so a quick update is in order.

On Friday, we went (with my mum) to London Zoo to meet the latest in a long line of employees who’ve been our contact there about our wedding. It was a really productive meeting and we got lots of useful information, enabling us to solidify some of our plans, and at least make others a few steps away from gaseous and perhaps through liquification.

The upshot of this is that we then felt we had enough information to send out our invitations, safe in the knowledge that nothing much that we wanted to print on them would change a great deal in the near future. So, after a few frantic last-minute redrafts to try to make our less-than-conventional wedding arrangements easily understandable within one side of A5, last night we finally took the plunge (no, not that plunge, that’s in about six more months) and printed out 70 copies.

We posted them all off second class this lunchtime, so we reckon the most postally gifted of our guests may turn up at the web site on Tuesday (although Wednesday is probably a more realistic earliest expectation).

Of course, almost as soon as we posted them, something we’d printed on them changed a little: my Grandad put my mum in touch with an old friend with a coach company this evening and their price was very competitive, so the line on the invitation saying that we ‘hope to offer’ a coach is now out of date: we will be offering the one booked this evening!

Anyway, the title and first line of this post were designed to attract people to click through from the main zoolyweds site to this one, but this isn’t actually the first post on here, so feel free to go and catch up with the past month of preparations now.

If you’re new to this weblog business, by the way, I have two quick things to say to you:

1. Congratulations, you’ve managed to avoid the incessant media coverage of ‘blogging’ as the biggest revolution ever to hit the Western world - and you’ve done very well to avoid it.
2. The newest posts on weblogs generally appear at the top, so if you’ve just started reading an established site such as this, you’ll need to work your way up from the bottom. Computer geeks are logical like that.

(Alternatively, you can use the calendar on the right-hand side of the page to browse through the posts so far. The days which have posts on them appear in blue; clicking these will take you to a page showing all the posts made on that day.)