The wedding planning is over and we’re well on board the maiden voyage on the good ship Newlywed.
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Just two weeks on, and our wedding is already feeling like a somewhat hazy and distant memory… I have to admit it makes me a little sad, so many months of preparation, the last few days of craziness and the whirlwind of hours which made up the day itself – now just like ‘that’ its all done and time to start the next chapter of our lives together.
Don’t get me wrong people – I LOVE being married; especially newly married, there’s a certain thrill in throwing the word ‘husband’ into the occasional sentence and it gives me the warm and fuzzies every time. However, even though many Brides who had gone before me had warned of how fast the day flies by, I had never really quite believed them. On reflection though, I think its not the pace at which the day shot past, but the feeling that it was all so sort of surreal that it was finally happening that looking back now its hard to remember enough individual details to be sure I felt truly “present”. Certain moments I vividly remember, which ground me to the fact that, yes, I was there, we did say “I do”, people laughed, cried and danced the night away, and we ran off into the night to the cheers and congratulations of our nearest and dearest.
The best decision we made in the last weeks leading up to the wedding? To get it filmed and be able to edit the video myself… a project I am heartily looking forward to as I await many hours of footage to arrive next week so that I can truly ‘re-live’ the day and see all those little moments and details which I was too distracted, scatterbrained or unfocussed to see when I was actually there!
Stay tuned, there will be lots more to come later this week as we get our pro pics and video back and ready for editing!
Well hello my lovelies! Have you missed me? Well, I’m back…. and we’re MARRIED!!!!
The weeks (ok, ok, months!) before our wedding turned out to be somewhat busier than I really anticipated – its true when Brides tell you that time seems to shrink and race away at light-speed… so I kinda fell off the blogging bandwagon. For those of you who were following along – I’m sorry! For those of you just joining, welcome, you’ve just arrived in time for the fun to begin!
Our wedding day was the most amazing, beautiful and perfectly “us” day – I’m so thrilled with how everything turned out and I can’t wait to get back to blogging and share it with you all. It may be a few days yet as I’m awaiting our professional photos… but here’s one to whet your appitite – our photographer posted this as a teaser a couple of days after the wedding.
Until the next time, signing off as a MRS! xx
Holla! Sorry for the extended Holiday-hiatus folks; before Christmas rolled around I was having a bit of a bridal-brain-block; I wasn’t sure I was coping with my to-do list, I was having second thoughts about some aspects of the wedding/decor and I was sick as a dog to boot… but now I’m back and boy do I have projects to share with y’all!
The Christmas holiday gave me an excellent (and the last before ‘wedding week’) opportunity to take time off my day-job, knuckle down and spend a few days slaving over some of my DIY projects; mainly our invitations which will be mailed out very soon, as well as a getting to grips with our ceremony program, our placecards, favour bags and making progress with gifts for our bridal party. I’ve got lots to share, and there will be lots of yummy pictures to come soon, so stay tuned – but in the meantime here’s a sneaky peek at how things are shaping up:
Peony bouquet; candy buffet; yellow bouquet; blue poms; tux; dress; cake
all other pictures are personal photos
Did you use the Holiday period to crack on with any projects?
…with our wedding. Seriously folks, sometimes even I get annoyed with eating, breathing, sleeping and dreaming about our wedding. Don’t get me wrong; I’m also wholeheartedly in LOVE – with both our wedding, and with my wonderful Mister – but being engaged is exhausting!
Things I did to entertain myself before getting engaged:
- Go out salsa dancing with the Mister
- Movies with my friends (not just the Mister)
- Dressmaking / crafting / card-making / baking / house-decorating (any many other ‘crafty’ things besides)
- Eating out for the sake of enjoying the food – not just because there is no food in the house
- Sneakily read a couple of wedding blogs “just in case the inspiration would be useful someday”
Things I do under the context of ‘entertaining myself’ now we’re engaged:
- Only salsa dance when the Mister and I practice at home, while I wear my wedding shoes and a mock-ballgown skirt (yes, we really do this!)
- Obsessively read more wedding blogs than there is time to follow in the course of a normal day
- Stalk our wedding photographers blog
- Wish I had the energy to suggest going to the movies with my girlfriends (and NOT to watch a “Wedding” film!)
- 1001 wedding-related craft projects
- Eat too much take-out on weekends because I’ve procrastinated from grocery shopping all week by reading wedding blogs…
- Buy craft materials on a whim having been inspired by a project I saw on a wedding blog and “had to have it”
- Realise I am obsessed and need help… my brain is ‘utterly engaged with the thought of being engaged’
I think I need a time-out…
Perhaps the worst thing is that I actually spend such a silly amount of time looking at weddings on the Internet, and searching for ideas to infuse into our own day, that I’m left with not enough time in the day to tackle my own list of projects – and a perpetual feeling that I am starting to ‘compare’ our wedding to everything else out there in blog-land… when that’s not what it’s about; or what it has ever BEEN about. Sigh.
Does anyone else out there feel a bit like this at times?
We live in a relatively small town… with only two (small) shopping malls, two bowling alleys and a handful of hotels. The town we’re actually getting married in is even smaller (no mall or bowling alleys to be found in lovely Woodbridge)! So when it came to searching for somewhere in the area for the Mister and I to spend our first night of married bliss, I wasn’t sure where to start.
I made some calls… sent some emails, and got several very similar responses; “Sorry Miss, but that’s a bank holiday weekend… we can only book rooms for a minimum two-night stay.”
What the heck!? Honestly, hearing that more than four times begins to get a bit frustrating, and left me wondering if we might end up spending our first night as Man and Wife like this:
source – At least they look happy, right!
Sorry for the hiatus folks, this bride-to-be has been p-o-o-r-l-y! I am on the mend now though and will be posting again as usual very soon… in the meantime, please enjoy this delicious picture (one I hope we can recreate!):
Check back soon to hear about our latest achievements: Somewhere to stay after the wedding, and I finally found (and purchased!) a ring I like!
At last! I am nearing the half-way point of the Great Tissue Paper Pom Project, so now seems a suitable time for an update on this, my biggest DIY. Thanks to fabulous Bridesmaid, C, and various other friends and helper-elves, Friday evenings are now known as “Flower Ball Fridays” and we WILL complete this monster project in time for the wedding… somehow! Please excuse the use of mirrors in the following pictures – it makes me feel though I’ve made twice as many (it’s good for morale) 
Just a few of the tissue poms and their glass candle-stick holders
Yes, yes, I know… our wedding is still over 150 days (20-odd weeks) away, but with such a long list of “things to make and do” I decided to bite the bullet and get this one out of the way early. Besides, it made a nice change from scrunching tissue paper for our centrepieces!
The cardbox has been one of those projects which I deliberated over; crossing back and forth between trendy ideas like bird cages and just a simple wooden box without any adornments. However, both these options come with a price tag, which I sadly just can’t justify right now. But just look how cute the ‘birdcage card box’ option can be!
In the industry I work in, the ideal number of steps for a customer to complete a process is three. Most usually happen in four steps, but a “3 step process” is the holy grail. How is this in any way related to our wedding, you ask? Let me introduce you to MY 3 step process:
This is the Clinique 3 Step skincare program. I’ve never been much for ‘beauty regimes’, but it’s funny how knowing that you’re going to spend the day having your photograph taken and having people up-close-and-in-your-face can all of a sudden make you care about whether you have dry skin or visible pores! To be honest, I have always been much more of a soap-and-water, quick cleanse and slap on some cheap and cheerful moisturiser type of girl – I always get overwhelmed by the choice and the price of more ‘upmarket’ beauty products – but at the same time I’ve always been fascinated by the beauty counters in department stores; run by perfectly made-up girls with seemingly flawless skin… are they all models or does just being employed to work on one of those somehow initiate you into the secrets of How To Look Like A Model? Read the rest of this entry »
