Centrepiece Love

I stumbled across an AWESOME online wedding magazine (which Polka Dot Bride linked to): http://www.nonpareilmag.com/

I'm so glad I clicked on that link because I found my centrepiece.

 

I got so excited I started singing stupid little songs to the Boy...until I realised I was a complete ditz and it was an American website. The problem with that being I can't located cake stands for $5 on any Australia sites and I'm having a hard time finding spanish moss (although I have found other fake moss on florist sites).

I think instead of a cake stand I may just use a plate and an upside down cup/mug spray painted gold. This wedding is certainly turning me into a crazy arts and crafts lady.

I won't be using white birds but I have found some adorable coloured mushroom birds and they suit our favour boxes as well.

 

Isn't it fantastic when something for the wedding just falls into place!

Button Bouquet

Apparently it looks extravagent (words of the boy)...maybe that means I should go easy on the feathers haha. I will post a photo when I finally finish. At the moment I'm just fiddling. But I must say it is so much fun having something unique to DiY!

And on a non-wedding related note. Our house (my mum's house) has sold and she's bought this awesome French/NYC apartment that's so gorgeous. We've nicknamed it the Poodle Palace and I'm definitely getting ready there for the wedding. I can't wait to sit on the balcony and eat croissants and berries YUMMY!

Unfortunately this means we'll probably have to live with the in-laws for a month most likely longer :( I just want to be out before the wedding! I'll miss all my animals the most though. At the moment we have 3 dogs (the youngest is ours) and 2 cats (both mine). Mum will take 2 of the dogs and the cats because the in-laws hate cats.

 

This is our baby Loki when he was a puppy. He's otherwise known as the Gremlin!

 

Lola (cat) and Riley (dog) - Riley is neurotic and Mum's baby and Lola thinks she's a dog and sometimes goes on walks with us.

 

This is Bella our 12 year old grandma. She really struggles with her back legs :(

 

Last but not least...Lady also an old Grandma but she doesn't look it. I couldn't think of a name for her so Mum picked this one. She's otherwise known as the bribe cat because Mum gave her to me so I'd be nice to her asshole boyfriend (who she dumped a few months later!).

I haven't heard re: the wedding assistant job but things are progressing with my HR job that I interviewed for. It's with an engineering company so that's great news for the boy when he graduates haha. But there's a second round of interviews I have to get into and hopefully I hear about that tomorrow.

Dresses

I am a horrible blogger, I don't blog enough so I will make that a resolution!

So as a present (and to apologise for not blogging enough) here is a photo of my dress. Obviously without me in it because I'm no model...even though I am drop dead gorgeous ;)

(Sophia Tolli Design)

It's so pretty right, complete opposite of what I was wanting (I wanted something frou-frou and frothy but as the soon to be SIL is getting married in a dress like that I wanted to distance myself). I feel like a princess in the dress and I look stunning in it because I have a body made for wedding dresses and no doubt hips for birthing babies haha. I called myself squishy last night to the boy and he disagreed but I meant it in a nice way!


So I was most recently on a holiday in Bali with my little sister. We both had a great time and whilst lunching in Ubud came across a really cute dress in this shop window. We decided to go and fill our tummies and then I dragged her in there preparing to be disappointed but just to have fun with it. I walked out with 4 dresses! They're dark blue and convertible which is exactly what I wanted. The material is that plasticky kind - not in a gross way but you know not cotton or satin... The tops are strapless but have 2 long thick bits of material off to one side so that each girl can have a different style top. The bottom is even more gorgeous. The girls can have it bustled so that it's short or undo the ties and have a longer dress. I will post photos when I find my camera cable.


So now I have bridesmaid dress problem solved and I can get to work on their button bouquets! I also found the cutest diy boutonnieres:
http://www.mydiyweddingday.com/2010/01/april-and-matts-awesome-diy-wedding-part-2.html 


And the boy loved them so that looks like the go-ahead for the moment, except I want to incorporate the Aussie & Danish flag in there somehow. I'll probably get rid of the love heart & bird and put the flags there or maybe even wrap red and white ribbon around the wire instead of twine. Decisions, decisions hahaha but I love it.

My Box

So I got my box of goodies from www.feather.com.au YAY!

3 different kinds of tulle (2 ivory (one with those spots) and 1 black), an ivory flower for my hair, 2 brooches 1 of which I'm not too fussed on cos it's a gross gold but looked prettier on the site and FEATHERS!!! I wish I'd ordered more feathers because my button bouquet really needs that something extra.

In other sad news the boy failed one of his exams. Luckily he can do summer school but I always get scared when stuff like that happens because our whole future is based on him doing awesome. Then I feel evil because I'm a woman I can be independent and bring home the bacon. But all I really want is to have lots of babies and then when they get to school hopefully figure out what the hell I want to do career wise!

Hopefully the trip to Bali in January is still on because we need to get away but if it's not we can always go somewhere later on in the year. Plus we have the Vietnam honeymoon to look forward to YAY.

On a more wedding side note: people have already started talking wedding registries with me and it's weird...I have no idea what I want let alone if I even want one. The one thing I do know is I want a gun to pick stuff out with, I blame American movies for that!