wedding flowers in oranges & greens.

We would like to thank the following people for their very kind offers for our Support Our Soldiers Wedding Competition .

Our bride & her attendants will have their make up & nails manicured by Miss Charmaine Cooke.

Home James Chauffeur Service, will provide our bride with the pick of the fleet for her wedding car. www.homejamescars.com

Mrs Margaret Croucher  has very kindly offered to play background music for our couple at their drinks reception & wedding breakfast. Her son Lance Corporal Matt Croucher received the George Cross for bravery in 2008. We are proud to have you on board Margaret.  www.m4music.org

Also, CLARE’S FLOWERS of Northfield, Birmingham have very kindly offered to provide our couple with the following:

The Brides Bouquet, 3 Bridesmaids Bouquet’s, button hole for our main wedding party, Corsages for our Mums, Top table arrangement, all of our table centre pieces, venue dressing & if that is not enough, they will provide chair covers should they be required.  www.claresflowers.com

We thank all our suppliers for their support with our competition.

Thanks to Mark Williams of the Bridge 102.5fm who had me on the radio today. They had phone calls from some listeners to say they enjoyed the slot about me talking about the competition today. Glad they enjoyed it as much as i did.

yours truly & Maria of SOS with Nick Owen & Suzanne Verdi

Chocorococo & Maria from SOShad a fabulous time at BBC Midland last night, when we went live to launch our wedding competition to find our Chocorococo hero,  Nick Owen & Suzanne Verdi were absolutely charming, they put us at ease immediately, we were miked up had a few rehearsals, then before we knew it we were on air…brilliant.

Thank you also to Peter Wilson for the drink afterwards, Sarah Falkland for her very kind words & Satnam Rana for dealing with the updates. We look forward to doing it all again when we find our winner. (c) chocorococo

Well, we have  returned, tired but have some lasting memories of a wonderful day attending a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. We arrived early to avoid the crowds attending,and were slowly let through the gates at approx 2.15, as we walked across the gravel drive through the archway to the main Palace grounds we were filled with pride & anticipation, upon arrival into the main court yard we were confronted by some naval helicopters, to mark the event no doubt, then after handing in our passes were shown into the Palace……. up the red carpeted steps we all went & you are then confronted by the most beautiful ornate ceilings & walls, with paintings of the late kings & queens etc…Big chandeliers throw out this lovely bright light which shows off the gilted walls, and very long pink sofas.

You then walk through into another room with again more paintings on the walls,  which have cabinets with lots of china plates in,  huge glass doors  were open  to show the beautifully manicured garden, with lots of table & chairs set out for us all, amongst the tents with all the tea & stickies in.

A Marine band played through out the whole afternoon to keep everyone entertained, at 4pm a flight pass with 6 Naval Helicopters flew over the Palace, then the National anthem played to signify the arrival of the Royal family, everyone wanted to get a glimpse of the Royals, who could we see…….

Well we got to see, Princess Anne, who i thought was shorter in real life than what i originally thought, but she is so slim, and her skin is flawless, she looked lovely in her Naval Uniform. Also saw Prince Edward again very smart in his Naval uniform, and handsome too… last of all Prince Michael, with his very white beard, but all of them were very charming. Only got to see Prince Andrew from a distance.

What was very unusual was The Queen ordered Champagne to be served as it was a celebration to mark 100 years of Naval Aviation, this went down a treat with everyone as you could imagine, the iced coffee was lovely but the Champers was even better, it went down a treat with the delightfully proportioned cakes & sandwiches, before we knew it the National anthem played again and the Royals bid their farewells and disappeared. All in all fantastic day and one to tell the grand kids about, no doubt. (c) chocorococo