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Rings, Flowers & Suits

Wedding planning had basically stalled because of dramas with the invite list, family and friends and their ideas and demands. Every time I thought about it I would get annoyed. But thankfully these shiny beauties cheered me up by providing a welcome distraction.

 My wedder with my e-ring.. I may have ordered an eternity band also.. 

My e-ring is rather loose and since I can't have it made smaller (and the wedded didnt do much to help) I figured an eternity ring would keep it in place!

And this is M's titanium ring, on my finger obviously. He's excited to wear it, which makes me even more excited!

And my flowers arrived. Since we're going to attempt making a brooch bouquet ourselves I decided upon getting silk flowers. Unless you hold them up close you can't tell they aren't real and they were literally a quarter of the price of quotes I had recieved for the real deal. Win all round if you ask me!

This is the photo from the companies website.. I've opted for bright white silk roses since my dress will be that colour..

My bouquet will have a string of brooches through the centre. This is us mucking about trying to plan an order with the brooches I've collected.

The centre one in blue is a gift from one of my bridesmaids. Something old and blue in one!

And the bridesmaids get some bling in their bouquets too. I'm thinking I will need to add an extra rose in since the insert of the brooch leaves a little gap, but that is easy fixed.

The fiance and I went to look at suits the other week and it was the most insanely easy thing to do. We walked into Roger David and within the first three minutes (no joke!) he had fallen in love with a suit. 

He wants to match with his groomsmen in the suit so the staff there have been so helpful as we send in each GM to try on a suit. We've only got the Best Man to go and he lives in QLD so we're hoping he can make it in to the local store to try on the same style suit there. 

Now the only dilemma is whether he wants suspenders or vests!

"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!