You know when you look back at your life and wonder at each crossroad whether you made the right decisions. I feel I have, I am happy with the choices I made that led me to my husband and having my two boys. Life might be a bit challenging at times but it’s a tired kind of happiness that I love.  Although it was a love story in fast forward so I missed out on certain things like a hen party.

Our Love Story

The only thing perhaps that would have been good was to take it a bit slower.  I practically raced down the aisle at 4 months pregnant.  I didn’t even have time for the all important hen party. We literally had our first date, were engaged a month later and married after six months. When you have been in a dead end relationship for eight years you kind of don’t want to continue at a snail’s pace to further commitment.  My husband and I were both ready, my ex still had other priorities at the time, mainly drinking with his mates whereas I was ready for something else. I am not quite sure it was changing nappies quite so quickly but we are still together 10 years later.  So we must be doing something right.

I had been a bride and had a baby all in our first year of being together.  The only thing I would change is to squeeze in that hen weekend.  I was looking at the Stag and Hen Experience and part of me feels I missed a rite of passage! It’s not to say I won’t drag my closest girlfriends to something like this a few years down the line.  Let’s be honest I am still due one, right? Who says you can’t take your time about having your hen party.  I can make my own rules.

Top destinations for a Hen Party

I was looking at the top ten destinations on the site and a few from the list surprised me.  Bournemouth who knew?!? Blackpool and Dublin I would have thought would be the main contenders, but I guess I never got to the planning stages and saw the wider list of destinations available. I wouldn’t have had a drinking weekend anyway given the bump but I could have enjoyed a more sedate time – afternoon tea and a bit of a spa or a sight seeing tour. But the main thing is its only one small detail the hen party really, yes I grumble I missed out but it’s more important that I found the right man for me.

Yes one day a hen party possibly just before we renew our vows. Mind you who knows hubbie would probably prefer focusing on the house renovation now so that ship might well have sailed! We shall see what else our love story will include! I am quite keen to go to Vegas for a wedding renewal anyway.