"Trick" Photography

A few of my friends and I are really into photography and we thought we would put to test a few things we've learnt and the results are amazing. Here are two of my favourite photos:

OTD/NOTD

Because I haven't posted either in a while..

After a visit to the hairdresser.. A fresh colour & trim is the best.

Necklace is Lovisa

 Me being proud of my recent weight loss.. Skinny again! Wooo..

Skirt & Top both from Supre.

OPI Baby It's Coal Outside.

I adore the shimmer in this polish!

Is there really a way to make your wedding individual?

So the weekend just been the fiancé and I attended the wedding of his friend..

And it was absolutely beautiful.

They have fantastic taste.. in fact it's exactly like my own.

The songs they had for the ceremony we were going to have for ours..

Their wedding cake? Again, like ours. Though we are having our first name initials not our surname. 

Do we still go ahead with what we had planned or do I change it? 

They will be at our wedding, and a lot of the same group of friends. I don't want to seem like we copied, when I had these ideas forever ago.. Or will they even remember?

I purposely have kept our plans secret in the hopes to surprise guests and so no one else would steal the ideas. It never occurred to me someone else would think of the same things!

Has anyone had this happen to them before? And if so what did you do?

Recent Bits of Shopping..

You have to love when Jeanswest have a sale and then have 50% off their sales stock..

Bargains were collected!

This one was about $20

 I got this cute little top for $15

This dress was also about $15

 

And these two weren't on sale, but I love the 15% off Gold Member discount and couldn't resist! (Photos are all from the Jeanswest Website)

Crisis Averted!

Sorry about the delay with this post, but seriously I have never been so stressed that I haven't slept before. Until now. The whole loss of a wedding venue and trying to get our deposit back from the first was a nightmare!

The fiancé and I visited so many places, I made so many calls and sent so many emails trying to find a new venue and thankfully that work paid off. We have a new reception venue!

As it turns out the resort is having one of it's function rooms renovated (by my work none the less) and it will be ready in plenty of time to spare, so we've booked that and deposit is down. Now this means I can't quite plan/sort of any decorations properly until I've seen it again but hell, I can wait!

The people there are so lovely and as it turns out live near the fiancé's sister and absolutely adore her so we are getting a few specials there and as part of our booking we get a free hotel room for the wedding night. That solves our question of whether to get one or not.

Before we booked this one though we had some people not even want to talk to us - so the place was in new management and not "officially" open yet, it doesn't mean you have to be so rude. A simple, we're not having weddings/functions would have sufficed.

And then getting our deposit back!? Gah. First we were told it would be arranged and they would let us know how they would get it back to us. They didn't until I emailed. I was told a cheque would be posted on the Monday. It wasn't. By Wednesday it should have been there so I called and emailed. I got no response until I went straight to the manager. Oh he says, the cheque was done and posted on Monday. Let me know if you don't get it tomorrow (the Thursday). When did the cheque arrive? FRIDAY. When was the post mark? THURSDAY! So basically they lied, which I was so mad about. I made a point of commenting on the post mark when I let them know it did arrive (no response, surprise, surprise). But the cheque has cleared and we have our money back. The only positive is that the wedding coordinator whom we had been dealing with rang to make sure we got the refund okay - it wasn't her department and she was away, which was nice of her and she still felt horrible.

That said I'm still not impressed, there was no sorry note, no nothing with the cheque. Just the cheque in an envelope. I hope they realise how well word of mouth works, because nothing nice has been said about them by us or our families since that whole issue. 

But yes, things are finally back on track and I can sleep again!

Mini Heart Attack

So when you get a rather cryptic email from the Function Coordinator at the venue you booked for your reception you start to panic. Suddenly asking to meet within a few days is never good. 

Thus I did what any bride would do, reply and constantly refresh my emails like a maniac. Until my lunch break. Then I make the call.

Well my panic wasn't for nothing. 

The function room at the venue is closing in March. 

They couldn't get a lease renewal or something.

On the plus side we have been offered the whole restaurant for the same price. 

BUT I don't know if it will suit? The fiancé and I have to go there on Saturday to have a look and see what we think.

My thoughts right now? There goes all my plans!

The restaurant is an entirely different shape so I'm going to have to sit down with the decorators and go through all of that again. Re-make so many choices, re-invisage the whole look I had planned in my head for the wedding.

If it doesn't suit I will have to look for somewhere else, but the odds of this happening 8 months out? I'm not sure luck is in my favour on that one.

And there I was thinking I had everything under control!

Lord Forrest Wedding Expo

Today my mother dearest and I ventured out to a wedding expo at the Lord Forrest hotel. We had a good time looking around. I was able to show Mum what I had picked for our decorations, which thankfully, she loved and had a chat with the videographer we had booked.

It turned out to be a great day because the videographer made us realise we may need an extra hours coverage or so to get in the speeches if we want the getting ready time included as well. So think we will be spending a bit extra there.. Mum is adamant she wants the getting ready footage and is volunteering to pay the extra for it too! So I won't be complaining. She missed out on some video footage at her wedding as the friend who was supposed to be shooting apparently forgot to charge their video camera! Horrible.

Mum was also amusing about her thoughts on how "unnecessary" a lot of the decorations are these days compared to how things were when she got married. Bless. Thankfully she is respecting that yes, I will be having chair covers at my bridal table!

Annnddd we had a look at the photo booths which was actually quite fun, so I'm now going to discuss that option with the fiancé.

We also checked out a cake makers booth and wow that was disappointing. I swear the chocolate mud cake tasted burnt. It was gross.

As usual we got some freebies and the token bridal magazine. All in all it was a good day, we went shopping and out for lunch after which was lovely.