Blogging has been light this week for one, perhaps excusable, reason.

A week from today we'll be exchanging vows and Miss Aileen Meldrum will become Mrs Stuart Hughes.

Neither of us can quite believe it's finally going to happen. An event that's been a distant prospect for so long is now just days away.

I'm treating the preparations as I would a foreign assignment, making lists of all the jobs I need to do before the big day, checking and then double checking everything.

Clothing, rings, venue, catering, entertainment -- all the main elemnts are taken care of. The small stuff can take care of itself.

We're both surprisingly relaxed about the whole thing.

Our main wish is for the day to be as informal and fun as possible -- and that's not going to happen if we're both wound up in advance like clock springs.

So if Kate Winslet or Angelina Jolie are reading this -- you've got a week to come forward. After that, you're both out of luck.