SUSANNA RICHARDSON E VERY THING ORGANI S ED
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SUSANNA RICHARDSON HAS EVERYTHING ORGANISED. . .
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Susanna is a wedding and event planner who has been responsible for some of the most talked about parties both here and abroad. A former city girl, she's swapped her heels for the Cotswolds and we're delighted that she will be sharing her musings with us each month.
Living in the Cotswolds always makes me want to eke out every last drop of the festive season. You see, I’m just not sure there’s anywhere as pretty on a dark, cold night as a cobbled Cotswold street. Decor isn’t grand or obvious, it’s just warm twinkling lights and oodles of laid back pretty, which they keep around until mid-January just to make us feel extra cosy.
When people ask where I live and they don’t know of it, I always ask, “Have you seen the movie The Holiday?” Cue sighs of “Ooooh, how fabulous” and I feel incredibly lucky to be surrounded by all this wondrous tweeness. All I need now is Kate Winslett’s bath and Cameron’s cashmere-heavy wardrobe.
This year I actually went out for NYE; a proper night out of dinner and dancing, seeing in the New Year with some of my favourite people and 9 million party poppers and balloons at midnight. Quite frankly, it was fabulous and I had to ask myself why we haven’t been out for about seven years?
You see, I’m always a bit bah humbug about NYE, it comes under the 'enforced jollity' category and I snuggle the night away on the sofa with a bottle of red and an Old Fashioned at midnight (if I'm still awake). However, I’m not ashamed to admit that I was wrong and sometimes a night of frivolous fun is good for the soul.
Then of course there’s the impending 'New Year’s resolutions'. I always have such good intentions, but then never really get round to making any, so I’m not useful enough to even break them, I don’t
Susanna Richardson Creative Director Everything Organised
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get that far. I do get thrown back into work straight away, so I have a tiny excuse for my uselessness; I seem to have an abundance of clients with January-born children, so it’s full-on kids party central from week one. I’ll admit that I'm quite scared of children en mass, so I try and take more of a backseat role and leave the actual entertaining to the experts. I’m feeling there may be a huge ‘Frozen’ revival and I’ll be surrounded by blue and glitter. To be honest my favourite frozen item is a Margarita!
Which brings me to the utter craziness of Dry January! I mean if there was ever a month where you need to drink just to make it through, that is January. I could maybe go sober for February or March, but January, not a chance. Red wine and hard liquor are the only things keeping me going. I mean, they sent St. Bernards with brandy, so surely it’s just medicinal in the cold?
Oh and asking for a friend… is it still acceptable to be drinking mulled wine in April?
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