You make me wanna pick up a guitar and celebrate the myriad ways that I love you.

You know, when it rains in ITALY, it’s still warm, so really not that bad. Unlike you, ENGLAND. With your constant drizzle and your coldness and did NO ONE TELL YOU IT WAS JUNE? I am choosing to believe this horrific weather is just to get all the rain out of the clouds (yeah, I totally understand how science works) before Glastonbury. RIGHT?

Basically the only day it didn’t rain at all in Tuscany was, fortuitously, the day my friend got married! (Seriously – thunderstorms and torrential rain on Friday. Thunderstorms and torrential rain on Sunday. Saturday? Blazing sunshine. Thank you, Mother Nature!)

It was one of my favourite ever weddings – partly because it went on for three days (on the Sunday, we all met up in the afternoon and played drinking games and then went swimming at midnight) – but also because it was really small and intimate, so we all got to spend loads of time with the bride. And didn’t she look beautiful?

I was kept busy at the wedding – not only did Jo ask me to take photographs (figuring, sensibly, that I’d be doing this anyway, as would our friend Russell who is way better at this type of thing than I am) but I also did her hair. Which meant I didn’t have very much time to sort myself out – luckily I’d planned what I was going to wear and do with my hair in advance, really! And I wore… THIS!

Dress – Warehouse

Shoes – Matalan

Jewellery – 21st birthday present!

It’s a silk dress from Warehouse (seriously, I have developed such a Warehouse habit without even realising it – almost all my favourites are from there!) and it’s been languishing in my wardrobe for two years, with the tags on. I adore it – I think the colours are incredible - but it’s always been snug, and there was quite a lengthy, pre-Where Are My Knees period where I couldn’t do it up (I’m pretty sure that in the post-Italy period, this also stands). It fit well, but was ever so small on top, yet again!

The dress was a good option for a hot-weather wedding because it was so strappy and light, but by the time the wedding was over, and we’d eaten our five course, four hour lunch, it was feeling an awful lot tighter and I was dying to get it off. But as we had an hour to rest before the wedding reception, my friends and I had an outfit change. I love an outfit change! But you, my friends, will have to wait for that until next week (and it’s not from Warehouse!).