…except maybe Ryan Gosling ;)
Debs
‘Beautiful love’ posts
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012Lifelong love
Monday, February 13th, 2012
Shoot it Yourself are a brilliant, British, company that arm friends and family of the wedding couple with video cameras and know-how to capture their big day. And then they edit it into an awesome film! They’re definitely well worth checking out! But, today’s post is about a side project they’ve organised. And that is to help Britain’s oldest married couple tweet relationship advice on Valentine’s day!
Lionel, 99, and Ellen Buxton, 100, met in March 1930 and married in July 1936. Their marriage has outlasted 15 Prime Ministers, a World War and this summer will see them celebrate 76 years of wedded bliss!
Recalling the first time he met his wife Lionel, from Dover, Kent said: “She was lovely. I always looked forward to when she needed help from me. We got on so well, and went on a few dates together and then became a couple.”
Ellen, who jokes that her husband is her toy-boy, says “We have never been apart really and have never wanted anyone else. We have been married happily because we have been good friends as well as husband and wife.”
That’s just one little insight into their relationship but if you want to hear more advice, or ask them a question yourself, then find them on Twitter tomorrow! Their Twitter page is twitter.com/lionelandellen or you can follow them: @lionelandellen
I think it’s such a lovely idea and I’m looking forward to reading their tweets as well as wishing them a wonderful Valentine’s Day together :)
Debs
Love Ever After
Thursday, February 9th, 2012Have you ever heard of Kickstarter? If not I recommend you check it out! It’s an inspiring site full of projects by people that are incredibly creative but lack the funding to make their idea a reality. You can back projects by donating money in return for something: usually related to the project itself.
This week, one particular Kickstarter project moved me enough to want to blog about it…
I love love. I’m very soppy. I daydream about the kind of love that lasts a lifetime. So I couldn’t help but fall for Lauren’s project Love Ever After that will “share the love stories of couples who have been married for at least 50 years. Inspired by a letter my grandfather wrote to my grandmother during World War II (and rediscovered after he passed away in 2007), I began photographing and interviewing couples in the New York area as a way to preserve their stories and to illuminate our universal experience of love…”
Kickstarter projects only go ahead if they receive all the funding they require by a given date so if you like the look of this project please back it and help it happen :) Make sure you check out all the other projects too… the site’s constantly being updated and I’m sure you’ll find something you love the look of. I just need to decide on my own Kickstarter project now… because I also daydream about making a beautiful book :)
Debs
Drawing love
Thursday, January 26th, 2012I still feel like that little girl daydreaming…
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.
Debs
Love. Actually.
Monday, December 19th, 2011
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there – fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge – they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.
The above paragraph is the opening to my favourite Christmas movie, Love Actually. I’ve formed a bit of a tradition in that I have to watch this movie at least once every Christmas. I am a sucker for romance (hence the wedding blog) and this movie is full of lovely moments that give me that warm fuzzy feeling!
The airport scene at the start moves me the most. Showing real life people embracing their loved ones in the airport perfectly highlights what Christmas is all about. In the run up to Christmas, amidst the stress of writing cards, buying presents, deciding on dinner and shopping for it all, decorating the house and affording the whole lot it can be easy to forget about the very best bit… spending time with those you love.
Around the time this post goes on the blog I’ll be landing at Manchester airport and whilst there’ll be no emotional reunion there (we’re hiring a car and driving home) it will only be a couple more hours before I get to see my mum and start a packed two weeks full of seeing friends and family that I absolutely adore. I know how incredibly lucky I am to be home for Christmas, surrounded by those I love and that makes the fact I still have Christmas cards to write, blog posts to schedule and toys to crochet not seem so stressful. Besides, I can do all those jobs with a mug of mulled wine and Love Actually on the telly :)
Awesome image credit: Rebecca Spencer
I hope you too get to enjoy the run up to Christmas rather than resent it… because the people that matter won’t care if you sent their Christmas card late, forgot the stuffing or bought them the wrong-sized sweater :)
Debs
