Wedding Plans

End of the Wedding Plans

2009-09-15T13:29:00.001+10:00

its done!

2009-08-06T13:22:00.002+10:00

Collected Red dress, still doesnt meet the floor -_- But I found a qun kwa! For rent! so cool. Limited movement but hey don't care! get to wear the fancy pajama sequin/pearl set!
Carisbrook house - Terry is so nice, he going to do heaps for us! Err... didn't realize they had a memory stone plaque placed in the courtyard in memory of the house founder... Umm need to hide it on the day. Buying some Brush Fencing to wrap around it.
Lillian - total scream! Must remember not to use wry humor on the day or everything will be delayed while we're all cracking up.
Kam Fook - Thank God I have Christine. I understood 20% of what was coming out of Simon's mouth. We had a moment when I called out and got Chris to come over. Simon immediately called one of his "langs" to join forces with him to level out the playing field. Christine has been promoted to Operations Manager :P

So what needs to be done.

Purchase Brush Fence for GStone in Carisbrook House
Confirm Monkey Bar Food Order
Confirm peoples assistance
Wash Vases
String Bind Bamboos
Paint, Gloss and Cut out Fish
Polish white slippers || & Red Shoes
Decide on a necklace for Red Dress or not.
Table Allocations || Write Guest Names on tags || Finish Tag Clips || Clip collate the bookmarks
Find Ceremony Music || Music compiling || Burn CDs of Music
Wedding Dress Alterations - hand stitch lace back on.
Kathleen's Dress Alterations - still to do. Finalize that on Saturday
Mum's dress alternations - Pick up Monday - Need to find her a silver stole
Chairs - To be reglued
Picture books - Pick up from Pep
Stuff Favours
Collate Kids Drawing book

Phew! That and the copy i have to do for restaurants, handover project + normal day work + stuff for Mum and Dad! Glad i still have time to blog!

This Weekend

2009-07-31T09:20:00.002+10:00

Print off Chair Decals
Collect Red Dress
Collect Mum
Visit Carisbrook House - check fountain/flowers/chair Storage
Meet Lillian - pay money/talk action plan/goss about Phuket & CaramelloK with Wrinkles
Have Yum Cha at KFC (Kam Fook Chatswood) - cant believe I only came up with that today!!!!
Talk to Simon Restaurant Manager about numbers and seating arrangements

Only 4 weekends to go.

Tiny Brides

2009-07-31T09:17:00.005+10:00

I know Chinese girls are small (I'm the exception)

but really are they this small???

Something alarming about these photos...

A Bruno like wedding

2009-07-31T08:38:00.001+10:00

Actually I thought the green tights were hilarious, and thought it would be fun to freak out Steph... but then I continued scrolling with horror and disbelief.
A wedding best to be forgotten

What I fear

2009-07-31T08:34:00.002+10:00

Too much brown
Too much fish
Too much cutesy
Too much... "theme"

The garden chairs waiting for the day

2009-07-30T21:57:00.000+10:00

Eva
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The stuffing of favours

2009-07-30T21:56:00.000+10:00

Eva
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Epitome of temptation

2009-07-14T17:45:00.002+10:00

3kg of Ferrero Rocher... and the aroma is quite enticing.

Solder On

2009-07-13T12:51:00.003+10:00

Steph has turn out to be a bit of a sparkie!

He has borrowed Denzil's soldering iron and turned the replaced the amber with the white ones we bought off Ebay.

I have made heaps of errors on these and ive listed for all to see

Lesson Learnt: Amber LED doesnt mean Warm white it means BRIGHT ORANGE.
Other Lesson Learnt: Warm White LED's use a lot of battery life
Other Other Lesson Learnt: There is a price fix on Coin Cell Batteries in Australia
Other Other Other Lesson Learnt: Jay Car is a Rip-off!
Lesson Learnt from Other People: Buy Diffused LEDS or youll end up with beams of lights

30 Umbrellas Collected!

2009-07-13T12:50:00.001+10:00

Done! after nearly 6months of collecting, I have enough umbrellas for the wedding ceremony.

These are the just in case, as its pretty miserable standing in the rain... if it rains... but of course it wont rain. its my wedding day right? *fingers crossed*

Tacky Weddings

2009-07-13T12:49:00.000+10:00

I wont host the images here, but here is a site game enough to post photos of OTT weddings.

One reader posted a comment that when she's stress out with planning her wedding she goes to the site to have a laugh and I agree, it reassures me that I'm not going OTT.

Printing the leftovers

2009-07-10T14:39:00.001+10:00

I reckon I have the best wedding artwork EVER! *grins broadly*

Thanks Pep!

Who has also helped me out with the signage and various other pieces of art.

But printing isn't cheap :( Even in bulk! So we are doing it the DIY.

Today I grabbed labels for the garden chairs, and the wine labels. And I found some really cute tags which are much better sized for the umbrellas. (And don't look like body tags you tie to the end of dead toes).

That means there will be STAMPING tonight!

On another thought the wine, we are only getting the red as a clean skin… And I'm REALLY glad about that! Today I realized that 6 boxes of wine means 72 bottles! And that's a lot of bottles to label!

White dress in!

2009-07-07T15:41:00.001+10:00

Picked up the white dress today... Hooray no more extra storage space. :OP
DreSs is a bit crumpled but it is to be expected after being balled up for so long
Eva
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Shawls are done and packed

2009-07-06T16:07:00.003+10:00

hooray!

I got Ed and Steph to help with stencilling and folding while we were watching CSI reruns.

And last night i fished stamping dates and tying them up with ribbons.

Woohoo!

Now only small bits and bobs left to go!

Sea of happiness

2009-07-05T04:09:00.000+10:00

Shawls waiting to dry
Eva
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Scary Weddings

2009-07-04T00:20:00.003+10:00

oh god. there are heaps

Lu sent some shocker with a fluro orange colour scheme.

But there are so many on the internet!!! Many Top 10s, and of these this is my favourite

I like the comment on number 3. I wonder if the handlers come with the dress?

Not Eva

2009-07-04T00:06:00.000+10:00

im having too much fun with this software

Cartoon Eva

2009-07-03T23:56:00.002+10:00

Eva as a stylish retro cartoon!

Okay I'm no where near that skinny. But its fun to imagine

Stencilled shawls

2009-06-30T23:18:00.000+10:00

Hooray they worked!
Eva
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QVB Locked in!

2009-06-24T20:11:00.006+10:00

Lovely Anna from the QVB management confirmed today that we have permission to shoot our wedding photos in the QVB!

How exciting!

For those who haven't been into the QVB for a while, they have repainted and refurbished the building. Now with gorgeous aqua blues, rusty reds and creamy butter yellows. There are so many colours I think Jenny is going to go Nuts! :)

One of the areas hidden from general public.

I'm even going to organise a little lunch break for the Bridal Party and photographers. I was planning on making Bento boxes. but realistically, I think the Cafe is less stressful.

We will have to get Jenny to slow down for 10 mins! Wish us Luck!

Viral Greek Wedding

2009-06-23T12:42:00.003+10:00

Oh my. I didn't realise this was in Australia! I thought it was American, but nevertheless the problem is the same. We got photos of this by email a few weeks ago, then last week it was shown on the Today Show on Channel 9 and now its gone Viral.

There are nasty comments made, but I reckon commenting will happen to every wedding and I reckon some of the comments were unintentionally invited.

Weddings are about a promise, to be together from today onwards. to look after each other and meld the families of the bride and groom and promise to protect and nurture the children involved/yet to come.

I think if you start focusing on other things, you will run a higher chance of getting opinionated.

I suspect I'll have my fair share of comments. In particular the Trashing of the Dress, I'll probably have complaints about the locations, the squish, the weather, the travelling, the food, the favours, the language... blah blah blah... But like Yanna, Its my wedding. So Nerr!

BUT to be on the safe side. (Lets face it, its okay for friends and family to comment but who wants a passle of strangers to comment?!?! )

Friends and Family please foward your photos to me to view before posting on the web. If you need to put them up in albums please mark your photos as unlisted and please put in your albums disclaimers to prevent the distribution.

Not long away

2009-06-23T07:37:00.002+10:00

2 months...

I don't think there's much more to plan... But today in the gym I was dreaming about the sleeves on the w.dress...
The problem is the the dress has no sleeves!

I really need to stop with these projects

Pinned in

2009-06-22T15:33:00.002+10:00

I've had a devil's own time with dress makers. One lady arrogantly wanted to charge me $450 for the dress alterations! Then Sunday they were all closed in Hurstville (and boy did that get me annoyed!) So today I packed my dress into a little suitcase, and took it to work.

I had 2 shops in mind, there was Look Smart Alternations in Myers and the other was Queens Alterations in QVB.

The service at Look Smart was so nice! I have to say it was a bit scary getting in my dress in front of Local MYER shoppers, and the tailor was male! But he put my fears aside, gave me a quote and proceeded to pin me in.

I get 2 fittings and if the 1st fitting isn't right they will redo the alterations free of charge!

Mmm.. I hope some of this loose fabric is due to the weight I have loss…

Oh and let me say Mum is pleased as PUNCH! She won't have to do any of my alterations.

And I get my points!!!!

Look Smart Alterations
Myer City Store
Level 1 (near Country Road)
436 George Street
Sydney NSW 2000
02 9238 9335
Ask for Rami

Happiness Stamp

2009-06-21T21:39:00.001+10:00

This was a quicky project
I had left over carving mat so I made a happiness stamp.

Stamp and its product || Close up of the stamp

Stamp on the cup || Stamps solo

I hope to use the stamp on the shawls and the umbrella. :) I like efficient usage.