Viral Greek Wedding

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.

Photography

SMS sent to Kathleen and Lulu...

“ We met Jenny the photographer! She’s so cool! We’re going to have a food fight!”


Food fight?!? Hehe We’ll get to that later

Jenny was referred to us by a close friend, we hadn't picked a photographer as we were unsure of what we wanted and frankly the price was giving us heebee-jeebies.

Jenny's blog and website were intriguing and we liked what we saw, her entries were unique and conveyed her personality, - energetic, passionate, exciting. And to our delight when we met her, she is exactly that!

I think I need someone like that behinds the lens, otherwise I’ll freak out. Its important when you are going to let someone into the most vulnerable day of your life that you pick someone that you can trust and isn’t jaded and even better if they can help infect you with energy and excitement.

We had a quick lunch at Bar Quattro, a busy café restaurant which you can find on top of St James station. We chatted about how we met and how things were going with the plans, the location, what we wanted. Then we told her about the trash the dress shoot we were planning. (at this point her eyes did light up with glee ;) I told her that I had organised for us to go to Moore Park Stables for an hour to shoot photos on/around a horse and in the stables too. Then I informed her that we could do pretty much anything. Jen at that point suggested a food fight. (then my eyes lit up with glee!) So as described - Tomato sauce bottles at 20 paces! Bring it on!

A few people have looked at me with horror, about trashing my dress. The dress isn’t what makes the day, it’s the friends that share the day with you, all the funny strange moments that come up, touching, quirky, funny, teary. That’s what makes a wedding special. I’m really looking forward to those moments. (and the food fight too) 

Dramatic Chinese Music

I bought a wedding music album last night. Perfect Autumn Wedding CD Yeah.ok. WeddingInWinter. but It was on Special. I needed it because I'm still trying to pick bridal prcessional music! I would like to have something unique. I've already posted the proposition of Carl Orff - O Fortuna and Bach - Fugue. So much Fun! *grin*

But then I thought what would the chinese use? The first song that comes to mind starts with "Loong Bun! " Loong Lau"...

With the Power of google, the song is called "Shang Hai Tan", and it was famous around the time of Roman Tam, who is a famous male opera singer of Hong Kong and has done many songs that are opening themes of famous classical TVB chinese series. Hehehe Hope you know where im heading with this *grin*

So here are a list of Dramatic Chinese Songs that we could walk down the aisle to. There is the formentioned 上海灘 and then there is 小李飛刀 or even 铁血丹心 ! Arent they great! Ahh! sure bring back memories!

Edmund popped his head out of his room just as i was listening to these songs. I asked what his opinion was if we used these sort of songs to walk down the asile to... His reply was "If you use these songs, we can wire you up so you can fly down the asile!" Why not? Lol! If you want drama baby! Let's go the full hog! So Picture this.


Steph and Andrew


My Dad


Eva in this...


doing this down the aisle


While Gpa sits in the Corner

The Guest List that keeps growing

Note to all future brides.

Do not let your parents out of the country prior to your wedding... you may end up with more guests than you had otherwise planned.

Not that I really mind... Most of the people that are coming are old waiters and waitresses and kitchen hands that worked for Mum and Dad, and hence I grew up with them as older siblings.

I suppose it shows how well regarding my parents are, and how many Malaysian and Singaporean Students they have raised over the 20+ years in Hobart.

But at this rate Sydney will need to prepare for a population boost in August 09.

Extra Guests: 14

its coming off

Okay we are approaching a milestone.

I have nearly lost 10kgs! I'm 800g away!

I'm aiming for a size 14, so another 15kilos or so to go!!!

Style Sirens

I adore fashion. Some styles are just pure class. Being able to dress, to accentuate your assets, to empower and flatter. To bring out the sex kitten but be untouchable at the same time.

Think of the styles of Audrey Hepburn (who doesn't adore THAT black and white), Sophie Loren, Greta Garbo, Rita Hayworth, some of the more modern people, Scarlett Johansson, Miranda Kerr, Claudia Schiffer...

Sadly most fashion these days is just about bring out the slut, and removing all the fences. Girls! Youre making it too damn easy! Last Saturday we went to the Verandah Bar, after a birthday party. The girls there were young and more undressed than dress! I suppose in this competitive age where a girl need to get the attention of MORE than one boy, to be noticed you need to focus appeal on a baser nature.

Anyway in the SMH Essential was an excellent article about dressing as a Style Siren.

Maybe 2009 will bring back the aloof sirens...

One can only hope.

LATER: I know its unrealistic but some manga artists do draw some amazingly stylish girls.

If only I had the figure...

Is that...

...a flower on your lapel?

or a cabbage
on your shoulder?




ponders...
I wonder if it comes in broccoli? I like broccoli.

HEY there's a thought! Brocolli as the bouquets! hahaha!
Cheaper than roses, it will be in season - And you can stir-fry afterwards. How Practical!

Found the Lace

Woohoo! Ive purchased the lace for the dresses. its a beautiful off white with delicate beading. Just gorgeous! And only at $45/mtr. Thanks to Hurstville Fabric Shop on Forest Road :) But theres more!

I know my daughter/cousins/ nieces will never make use of my wedding dress. But it would be nice to pass something down to them. So I've been looking at making my own veil. And I did find the fabric i was going to purchase. But at $170/mtr and it would still require stitcing so I was having second thoughts... then i found this...

Wow! its perfect, the silver thread adding highlights. there's a very faint pink in the lace and the beading is just beautiful! Totally adored it. And best thing? it was only $13/mtr! Add 1.5 mtrs of tulle, and some small stitching and hooray a unique veil to pass onto the next generation.

A Pearl of an idea

With the leftover pearls, from making the bridesmaid's necklaces and earrings.

I'll make a bunch of earrings drops for the Aunties and close girlfriends

Funny Memories

Its funny when memories spring back... A conversation I had with a Greek cabbie. The conversation turned to nationality, and I answered that my fianacee was a Gwai Loh...

"Bah! you need to find yourself a nice European!"

Which popped a lid on an old memory. Of a time when I was first going out with Steph, Dad's good friend Taki had popped by and was chatting with Dad, when the topic of my dating came up. Taki said to me "Go to Greece, you will meet a nice Greek Boy"

I remember frowning and thinking "What am I going to do with one of those????"

Well Taki I'm glad to say I've found my boy - there's not a spot of Greek in him, but he's lovely and very "nice". He looks after me, laughs with me, and shares with me.

And I love him as he is.

Cap Sleeves

Note to self: Cap sleeves make great headbands. And I have one spare!

Experiment: Update 12th May

Looks like the Experiment will be shipped this Friday! That means I should get it in time for Steamboat!

On another note, last night i had another dream! (I don't think I'm going to get good sleep for a while) This time I dreamt the wedding was going to be next week!

OMG! The panic.

Invitations hadn't been sent out. The bloody dress hadn't even arrived. Thankfully, I didn't dream about the lack of a reception venue, or I would have woken up in a pool of sweat!

I was trying to get to the computer to inform my Ebay Seller of the need to get the dress to be sent over urgently, but i was constantly waylaid by people who wanted to chat! Talk about frustrating! I have work to do!

Then I woke up rather abruptly at 5am. And after some thinking, decided i was being ridiculous and talked myself back to sleep.

Wedding or House?

Sometimes I'm quite torn about what to do.

I know I should be looking at buying a house. Property Market is getting quite scary, and we are balancing on a fine line. but at the same time I need to plan and pay for a wedding!

Paying for the wedding is sometimes questionable.

I've already minimised costs, I have the experiment coming along. The girls dresses are very simple and I should be able to get them made very cheaply in China. I have a Kwah to worry about. The boys need to be frocked up. Ceremony will be a garden one, so only just some ribbon on some stakes will be needed. Flowers to order, Cake to order, Cars to Book, Celebrant? how much are those?

All so much money! I was moaning to Steph about it and brainstormed some of the silly ideas below:

• I have a red satin strapless dress (everyone has seen me in it) - Im thinking of embellishing and beading it to turn it into one of my spare dresses (or paint a dragon on it and use it as a Kwah.
• Civil and BBQ Reception (Marti approves of this idea!)
• Flowers - Ive seen one girl use origami flowers. An Option?
  

I doubt Dad will let me have a BBQ and hopefully he wont pick the most expensive banquet in town!

I guess I'll find out in August when he comes up.

Trashing the Dress

This might be an option for the day after the wedding.

Trash the Dress

Not sure about setting the thing on fire... That might happen before the wedding!

But I think it would be cool to go to Luna Park and have some silly photos there.

Here's another website

Wedding Games

You are to help the bride Jenny find her stuff. And make her day special.

But the wedding music can get annoying to use the Mute option.
To Play

Those who like it a bit more hectic try Wedding Dash. You can play this game through Facebook Too

Chinese Wedding Picture Book

I this this would be a pretty cool book to have on the shelf

Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding
by Leonre Look

Might make the explaining a bit easier...

Taking your Favourite Label to the Next Step

A Louis Vitton Wedding.