Update in Pictures: The wedding - Clothes

The A’s Suit: Myer; The A’s Shoes: David Jones

The dress: www.dressofyourdreams.com

And yes, since I last wrote on the blog we have moved to a bigger better place! Loved losing the crappy grey carpet and gaining some nice wooden floor boards.

Update in Pictures: The wedding - Invitations

Invitation inspiration

Just a collection of invitations found on the web that have inspired what I plan to do:

 

(from Weddingbee Miss Beagle)

Our Save the Dates

Hello! It’s me! I’ve been intending to write this post for a while but I had an 11 hour day on Tuesday and it’s knocked me out for the rest of the week. But in celebration of the coming weekend I thought I might do a wedding related post.

The A sent out our save the dates last week so it should be safe for me to post about them. As our wedding is going to be a ‘destination wedding’ (the only people who are actually where we are going to get married is us) so we decided to buy various Perth postcards.

For the text I found a font that we both liked and printed out enough of them to stick onto the postcards, addressed them and sent them!

A really drama free save the date that didn’t cost the earth.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Ring saga

I love my E ring and I try and take good care of it. I take it off when showering, doing the washing up and while doing anything that might damage it.

Which is why I was more than a little peeved off when I noticed that on the bottom of it I could see the crack from the re-sizing and that on the inside bottom of it I could see something that looked suspiciously like plastic. The ring is now back at the jewelers where they tried to tell The A that white gold wears off really quickly and that the seller has to re-coat her rings every 3 months (WHAT?!) In the mean time I’m wearing a ring that I inherited with the jewelry box I got from my mother, it feels funny not to wear anything on my finger now!

Smug Alert weddings

First of all watch this South Park Clip

These days I’m finding it hard to read what a lot of people write in forums, be it on Ravelry or on general wedding websites (Weddingbee being the exception funnily enough) While I agree that spending the cost of a house on a wedding is ridiculous and completely insane I also think that having a budget, DIY, eco friendly wedding just for the sake of saying that you had one (cue fart smelling and Smug alert) is also insane.

A lot of forum posts are becoming a type of brag ‘look at what I managed to make out of lace, card and my oh so expensive Gocco machine!’ (and yes I realise that I post a lot of my wedding craft on here, but it’s mainly to show my mum who is in Europe) There are some genuine people out there who are doing their wedding their own way; be it DIY or big and expensive and they don’t apologize for it. But these genuine people seem to getting shot down, ignored and pointed at (and not in a friendly way) and even getting ‘shouted’ over with long paragraphs of their own stuff by the Smug brides in forums.

I left a group that had a lot of these Smug brides where I saw a lot of this behavior (I’d like to point out that it wasn’t towards me!) and no one said anything about it. A lot of them might not think that they had even done anything wrong… but that might just be cause they can’t see through the smug! They aren’t that interested in what you have to say, they just want the opportunity and audience to talk about themselves. I thought it would be a great opportunity to share some resources, ideas and DIY information but I was wrong.

Have any of you seen this type of behavior? What do you think about it?

I’m posting a lot today, sorry about that!

Wedding Craft Sunday

I'm not religious so on Sundays I do something else and when The A is away it's Craft Sunday!! Woo!! Can you tell I'm excited? In advance I apologise for the crap phone camera pictures, The A took his good camera up north with him in the hopes of doing some experimental photography (with exposure and the like)

Today I thought I would show you my progress of the paper flowers and felt leaves. So far I have a boutonniere prototype that I'm loving (no one else has seen it)

Would you buy something like this if it was on Etsy and it could be made into your own Weddng colours? I'd really like to know so please leave a comment about it.

The main flowers and big leaves are looking good too, though am thinking that it looked better without the red.

Here's my messy table with all my stuff on it. It will need to be tidied before Tuesday!

A gratuitous shot of my new reading/knitting/computer glasses that I got for $10 (yay for KMart!) It was the best out of about 15 I took, nothing like no make up and messy hair on a Sunday morning! The lighting makes me look like my chin flows right into my neck.... dear god!

And look how nice it is outside!!

NOTE: This post was going to be a lot longer, it took me less than 10 mins to write the long version but have spent almost an hour fixing all the blogger formatting probelms with spacing and paragraphing. I am seriously thinking of moving to Wordpress. ARGG!!!

Happy Weekend

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend, we had a busy but fun one. On Saturday we went into Fremantle for the morning, I ended up having a ham cheese and mushroom crepe again and found the new Interwaeve Knits Spring 09 which has some great patterns in it. The Archaeologist and I agreed that the 1 male pattern in there wasn't anything special and would need some mods to make it look less blah.

Yesterday we went to check out wedding locations in Kings Park. I wore shoes for the first time in months and I advise people not to wear flip flops for 4 months solid, my feet still hurt from the shoes! We walked around and took loads of pictures. The Archaeologist was really involved and full of ideas which was great. I had thought that talking wedding stuff would bore him and he wouldn't be interested, but he pointed out that he also wanted a day which he would remember and could be involved in.

It was a Sunday so the Park was quite busy and I will be going back there on Thrusday at the time we think the ceremony will be at to see how many busy it is on a weekday. Out of the 10 locations there were really only 3 that we really liked:

Rotunda 2

Water Garden Pavillion

Beedawong Meeting Place

Looking through the photos you can tell we really liked the Beedawong Meeting Place:

We loved the 'old' feel about it, it wasn't anywhere near Fraser's Avenue (which has cars on it), there is only one path to and from it, we would buy some seat cushions from Ikea or even Bunnings for people to sit on, and it's shaded. We still need to look at some other locations, one near Cottesloe and some others around Fremantle but so far this is the fave.

Kings Park also has a great Restaurant that has function rooms and a private dining room for groups of 32 people or under. They have a functions package that looked great (food and price wise) but they have a different one for the private dining room that I will have to ask for.

180

On Monday evening I had just finished talking to my mum on Skype when there was a loud knock on the door, which freaked me out as the post man had already come in the morning, so I ran to the door and checked the peep hole. Standing there was the Archaeologist! He was back a day early as the people he works with had to leave a day early dues to an emergency and they can't work without them. Was so shocked and happy!

He had the day off yesterday and we got to discuss some wedding stuff. I showed him some other invites that I made thanks to iDiy and he likes them a lot more than the red swirly ones (hence the title 180 - opposite direction!). I won't show them until after they are finalised and sent out (which will be in November, hahaha!) We also looked at suits in some magazines I have and we settled on a 'sort of ' style that we both like and think would look great on him. I browsed online to find some examples:

Suits from Banana Republic and J Crew

We think that getting a nice suit that fits really well (even if it needs alterations) is a good investment, not only for the wedding but in the future. He does work outside and has little need for suits at the moment, but you never know in the future. We both also vetoed the 'monkey suit' option, we would have to rent one and the rented ones are often ill fitting and the material could look shiny.

We also went to the library yesterday and I got out a Photoshop book, Jamie's Italy cookbook and the financial freedom book that the Archaeologist has been reading for 6 weeks. I love going to the library and because of the turnaround, there are often books there that I hadn't seen before. Going there is often better than going to a bookstore. Which is something that we both used to do in the UK, spending an hour or so in Borders on a Saturday just browsing and not buying anything, then having a hot cornish pastie for lunch (even in the summer!). It never got old.

On the knitting front I almost finished the Talia vest, I have done the edging of the two armholes but found out I bound off too tightly so it needs re-doing. :( Cobblestone will be picked up again when the Archaeologist goes away again and it's getting cooler so it's easier to have on my lap.

Hair

I'm not one of those people who knows what to do with their hair. Ponytail or down is all I know how to do really. You can give me a curling iron and I'll curl but after that I have no clue.


Being so simple in the hair department I don't want to go the total opposite on 'the day' and not look like myself. No tiaras, curly princess updo's for me (think blonde bridezilla) Here's a few that I thought were me.








Which do you prefer?

Rawwr Bridezilla!

A show called Bridezillas was on last night and I couldn't help myself, I had to watch it! The clip below isn't what I watched but it's so funny I had to post it!

Afternoon craft

Productivity is high today.

Photo post!

I realised that my last few posts have been photo-less (how boring of me) and I know from reading other blogs that I don't tend to pay much attention when there aren't photos!

Currently:

Wedding planning with coffee (I made the full amount in our coffee machine, that's 10 cups. I don't know if that was a good or bad idea!). That is my wedding planner folder and one of our 'engagement mugs' (we bought 2 in Margaret River on the day the Archaeologist proposed, I love them and use them all the time)

Here's the inside, I put our colours on the front page. I did go to the Spotlight sale (BUSY) and managed to score the loot below for only $25. I already had the white and red fabric (I put it in there for those interested) I bought 1 m of the blue fabric ($3), some flower arranging wire stuff and a pinking rotary cutter. I'm going to use these for the fabric flowers.

Close up:

On a different yet exciting note I found this today:

If you can't read the label that's Fontina cheese (I have never seen it with a wax but maybe they do that when shipping it) I might use it in a risotto or in a lunchtime quesadilla with pastrami (yes I have weird taste in lunch meats! I also like corned beef and once ate a pack of 10 slices on it's own)

I was out by 10 degrees

I half listened to the news last night and thought it was going to be 22 today, it was 32.

I had to treck to our estate agents to pay the rent. They decided to close down their bank account and insted use an online Priority Card that will cost us $3 a month to use. Hmmm... we aren't so happy (the Archaeologist is going to write a letter) but we need to pay today and as the card didn't come through in time I had to get there. Apparently they are on a stretch of the Canning Highway that is bad to get to by bus. I got two buses which took nearly and hour and walked for 20 mins to get there and my body decided to remain sweat free right until I got to the office where I proceeded to 'glow' and look a mess. The receptionist remembered me (do I always look a mess?) all it took was 3 mins to pay and get out of there. Harrumph!

I caught a bus into the city afterwards and had sushi for lunch, I also got something which I claimed in a previous post I wouldn't get. A wedding planner folder. In my defense it only cost $26 and has lots of paper and pastic envelope sheets to put cut outs in. The table was getting messy with stuff so this will keep me organised. And don't look at me like that.... the explanation above totally justifies the buy. I can also empty it and pass it onto anyone else who needs it. I will probably also need to organise one of the boxes in the spare room to house all the Wedding diy I'm accumulating. Lastest of which is stuff to do this for my bouquet with, not that they take up much room, I just need it all to be in one place.

Before I left this morning I went bookmarking crazy after I found a great listings site for WA. I bookmarked photographers, celebrants, hair and make up people and a few parks for back up. One I found is the Cottesloe Civic Centre that has beautiful views of the ocean.

Listening to RHCP to relax (song starts from 1:24)

White or white

It kind of bugs me that the traditional wedding shoes is white, satin, and in a grandma style. If you wear and love fun and colourful shoes, why not wear some on your wedding day?

Here are some of the ones that I have been saving for inspiration.

I found all the shoes on Zappos.com.

Wedding DIY of the week

I've been loving these DIY ring pillows by Llubav. They have already been featured in many places online as well as in Martha Stewart Wedding Winter 09. Unfortunately for the designer though the bride claimed it as her own :(