Birthday Brunching

I recently turned 21, and I decided that for my birthday, I wanted to get all of my favourite people together to celebrate, as it's the last excuse I have to do it until my wedding really! Having divorced parents, there's people from either side of my family who haven't seen each other in almost 20 years at this point, so I was quite nervous about how it would be, especially with friends from all corners of my life there too, but it was such a lovely day.

Turning 19!

* not actually my cake, photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39551170@N02/15270339206

I feel like the majority of posts on this blog relate to personal things happening in my life and they're usually quite well received, so I thought I'd come out of my blogging rut to do a post all about my 19th birthday on Friday.

If I'm honest, I'm not particularly major about birthdays. If you've read my post about what I did on my 18th birthday, that may come as a bit of a surprise to you as that one was a pretty big spectacle! But aside from milestone birthdays where my darling mum has a tendency to go a bit OTT, most birthdays tend to go by relatively quietly with this year being not much of an exception.

My 18th Birthday!

Recently, it was my 18th birthday and it was honestly one of the most memorable days of my life so far! I'd just like to start off this post with a little thank you to all of my wonderful friends and family members who made it a day I will always remember fondly, as it was full of lovely people and lots of laughter! I was absolutely spoiled for my birthday this year - everyone went above and beyond to show their love for me and there were many times throughout the day where I just sat quietly with a massive grin on my face, unable to get over how special I felt. I really did feel like the birthday princess!!  I'm not really going to go into the materialistic/presents side of the day in this post because that can often come off as sounding like bragging, or showing off how much money someone has. My family are fortunate enough to be able to have enough money to make days like this really special and I know that if we weren't as 'fortunate' (although I do really hate that word!) as we are, then most of this won't have been possible, although I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain my gratitude with this post, so let's just get on with a rundown of the day, shall we?