David and I have to go to The Landing for a meet and greet with our coordinator on that date!!!
I will have to reschedule but I don't know to when at this point. I kind of want to put it off until I have a better idea of what I am looking for and where I want to get it from.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Reception Venue - The Landing Dockside
We are putting our deposit down this week! It should be beautiful!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wedding Dress of the Moment
STUNNING!
Retails for $86,000 *frowny face*
But it is on Duosheng! Dont know how much they charge for it yet though, am waiting for a quote :)
Retails for $86,000 *frowny face*
But it is on Duosheng! Dont know how much they charge for it yet though, am waiting for a quote :)
Saturday!!!
So I heard back from the photographer, Amelia and she is happy to meet us early on Saturday so we have time to get to the Landing at 11.30am.
So we have a meeting with a potential Photographer, a meeting with a potential Venue and our Engagement party on Saturday!
I better reconfirm the restaurant for Saturday! Plus we need to get some balloons and table scatters!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Maybe 3 cakes?
Instead of cupcakes, or a 2 or 3 tiered cake, I was thinking what about 3 single layered cakes on pretty cake stands?!
Then I get to keep the cake stands (think "oh this is one of the cake stands we used at our wedding!!!")
Please note: this is an just an idea and not fo' shizzal :P
Then I get to keep the cake stands (think "oh this is one of the cake stands we used at our wedding!!!")
Please note: this is an just an idea and not fo' shizzal :P
Monday, February 14, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Dress Shopping - Excursion 1 - Exploring Different Styles
Today’s announcement: the first day out looking at dresses will be March the 5th!
Just Me, Mum, Linell and Lauren if she wants to come :)
We will go to that place at Slacks Creek first (where Anne got her dress… Luv Bridal?) They were good because they just left us to it.
There was also the other place, called “After 5 Bridal and Formal” at 28 Compton Road
We won’t try to fit too many different stores in on day one, it can get a bit under-whelming. I would like to try on a couple of each kind of dress: Ball Gown, Mermaid, A-Line, etc, to see what looks best on me.
I would like a sweetheart neckline at this point but will have a look at others.
I will start collecting and posting pictures of what I like over the weekend!
Also once I decide on the style I like (or even the exact dress if it’s a Maggies Sottero or other leading brand) to order from China, the company names Duosheng is supposed to be very, very good, I have read many of girls raving about them on Australian Brides Forum and Vogue and some other places, here is the website: http://www.duosheng.cn/fen/index1.html They are around $400 a pop for the highest quality (you can order Standard Quality, or Highest Quality and that changes the price).
They are based in China
I am not going to order my dress until around 6 months before the wedding (so end of October/beginning of November).
I think bridesmaid dresses will be in emerald green?
YAY!!!
Venue - The Landing at Dockside
So we are now seriously considering the Landing at Dockside, we checked it out a couple of weeks ago and we really loved it there but at the time we were thinking about a Saturday it was ruled out because they had a minimum of 80 people for a Riverview room.
But I heard back from them and they don’t have a minimum number for a Sunday reception, and so once again they are our biggest contender. Its great news that we can get a river view room on a Sunday, its a spectacular location and everything is included and they are very close to the Chapel!!!
We have put a non refundable deposit down for the chapel now so its locked in!
We are meeting up with the people at the landing to go through specifics on the 19th of Feb.
But I heard back from them and they don’t have a minimum number for a Sunday reception, and so once again they are our biggest contender. Its great news that we can get a river view room on a Sunday, its a spectacular location and everything is included and they are very close to the Chapel!!!
We have put a non refundable deposit down for the chapel now so its locked in!
We are meeting up with the people at the landing to go through specifics on the 19th of Feb.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Baguette
We visited Baguette on the weekend for dinner. So after having a couple of days to think about it, honestly it was a very pretty venue but a couple of issues that I have is there was no vegetarian main (they actually turned one of the entree's into a main for vegetarian guests – and had only one option that they would do that with, so they only had one vegetarian main dish on the entire menu). I know that they can tweek the menu for me at my wedding, but I don’t feel very accommodated by the fact that they have to do that. I might like to come back there to eat one day, and I don’t want to eat Gnocchi when I do :P
And I don’t think it was $6000 better than Sassafras (after working out what we would need by way of alcohol it worked out to actually be $6000 less expensive to hold it at sassafras), but David doesn’t like Sassafras. So we are back to the drawing board.
Honestly, Baguette seems like a wonderful place for meat eaters. But not really for me *le sigh*
A bit disappointing but oh welly.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Reading Idea
From "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Our Celebrant! Jennifer Cram
in Brisbane Queensland Australia
She officiated at Linell and Ryan's wedding in 2010 and we were very impressed with how personal the service turned out to be.
ABIA Accredited - Finalist Australian Bridal Industry Academy Awards 2009,
2010 (rated 99.62% overall by couples she married/united in 2009-2010, )
Baci Ceremony Wedding Ritual
As part of our wedding ceremony we would like to include a Traditional Laotian Baci Ceremony.
Lao people believe that a human being is a union of thirty-two organs, each has a spirit or khuan (Lao word for spirit) to protect them. These spirits often wander outside the body causing unbalance of the soul which might lead to an illness or bad luck. The tying of the white string represents tying of the 32 spirits to the body putting them back in harmony as well as bringing good luck and prosperity.
The baci ceremony is held for happy occasions like weddings, welcoming guests, Lao New Year, house warmings, home comings and other such occasions. A mother and her new born baby are given a baci, after the mother has recovered, to welcome the baby as well as to call back the spirits of the mother’s that might be wandering away through the child baring.
Basically we would need:
A parent to bless us and open the ceremony
Scarfes for the bridal party and parents
A Pha Khuan
Lots and lots of white cotton threads/wrist bands
A dish full of candy, money, food and fruit
4 candles
A handful of rice
Then after the parent has opened the ceremony, by inviting wishes of happiness, wealth, health and love, they then put some friut, money and the candles in one of each of our hands and brush our other hands with the white threads repeating "Good luck swept in, bad luck swept out" and then asks "will any roaming spirits from this couple please now return to them" while tying a piece of cotton around our each of our wrists (signifying tying the spirits to our bodies), then everyone at the wedding is invited up to tie the little cotton bands to our wrists and the wrists of the bridal party and parents, and then to each other while saying wishes to each person they tie one to of happiness, wealth, health and love.
I will write out exactly what happens sometime today :)
Lao people believe that a human being is a union of thirty-two organs, each has a spirit or khuan (Lao word for spirit) to protect them. These spirits often wander outside the body causing unbalance of the soul which might lead to an illness or bad luck. The tying of the white string represents tying of the 32 spirits to the body putting them back in harmony as well as bringing good luck and prosperity.
The baci ceremony is held for happy occasions like weddings, welcoming guests, Lao New Year, house warmings, home comings and other such occasions. A mother and her new born baby are given a baci, after the mother has recovered, to welcome the baby as well as to call back the spirits of the mother’s that might be wandering away through the child baring.
Basically we would need:
A parent to bless us and open the ceremony
Scarfes for the bridal party and parents
A Pha Khuan
Lots and lots of white cotton threads/wrist bands
A dish full of candy, money, food and fruit
4 candles
A handful of rice
Then after the parent has opened the ceremony, by inviting wishes of happiness, wealth, health and love, they then put some friut, money and the candles in one of each of our hands and brush our other hands with the white threads repeating "Good luck swept in, bad luck swept out" and then asks "will any roaming spirits from this couple please now return to them" while tying a piece of cotton around our each of our wrists (signifying tying the spirits to our bodies), then everyone at the wedding is invited up to tie the little cotton bands to our wrists and the wrists of the bridal party and parents, and then to each other while saying wishes to each person they tie one to of happiness, wealth, health and love.
I will write out exactly what happens sometime today :)
Friday, February 4, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
A fabric... "Doily"...?
I have been thinking that it would be nice to take some pretty nature themed fabric from Ikea and make some nice themed circle mats to go under the table centres at the reception. I was googling around and the only similar thing I can seem to come up with is a doily, but what I am thinking of is not a crocheted white thing from the 1800’s.
Somehow I will have to work out how to make a perfect circle.
We could use them at home too after the wedding, if I did a decent enough job at them.
Also, I guess at this point, I am assuming it will be white flowers in the table centres?
Anyhow I will explore fabric options tonight.
We're going to the Chapel!
David emailed James to confirm the booking at Broadway Chapel on Sunday 6th May 2012 at 2:30pm. (The day before Labour Day 2012!)
Even if we dont book Baguette as the reception venue, we will be keeping this date and the Chapel.
Even if we dont book Baguette as the reception venue, we will be keeping this date and the Chapel.
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