12 Days and Counting

As requested I am doing an update. In the lead up to the wedding I found myself looking at this blog and asking whether or not I wanted to continue. I'm definitely not as interesting as those other bloggers out there who are awesome and regularly update and incoporate photos :( But I always wanted to use this as something to look back on when the whole thing is over so onwards and upwards!

The Hen's night was awesome but also involved bitching between the family side and the friend side which did my head in. I'm the kind of person that wants everyone to be happy and trying to maintain the peace with 11 people was not easy. But it was still a great time. We all got dressed up to the theme of Alice in Wonderland and had a fun time going on a boozy wine tour.

Today was spent trying to finish off button bouquets with the help of one of my awesome uni friends. Below are some photos of the end results (we still haven't completed them):

Once we forced ourselves to just do it and stop worrying about possibly screwing it up they turned out really well.

After the honeymoon I'd like to post a tutorial about how I did them all. It was really easy (in the end and with a bit of help!) and much better than forking out 100s of dollars for someone else to do it.

We've finally decided on our reception music as well and we'll be walking in to 99 Luftaballoons...not really a great love/wedding song but it's OUR song. I got annoyed trying to think of a nice one that would suit and wedding and decided that it's about us and should reflect us. What I would love to do is walk in with a bunch of balloons to kick around (a la Scrubs) but sadly the reception venue won't allow that due to fire issues :(

So it's now in the final stretch. I have one more week of work and then I get to devote a whole week to our wedding. It's scary to think how much needs to be done in such a short period of time but thankfully most of it is in the hands of professionals!

The one thing that has caught me off guard is that my Mum is doing my head in! She keeps wanting to take over/help with everything and if I say no to her or anything other than silence she gets really angry with me. She took over the table planning, she's trying to take over the rehearsal dinner and she's doing my head in! Thankfully the Boy is keeping me grounded but I feel worse for him because he's right in the middle of exams with all this going on. I've put my sister on keep Mum under control duty at the wedding because I think (surprisingly) she will be the one to cause me the most stress that day!

Practice Hens

So Saturday night was the night to let my hair down (for the first time in ages...I am a Nana)! We were celebrating the soon to be SiL's Hens Night. As a bridesmaid I can say the day of was a bit of an ARGH moment. With no one really knowing what was going on but we managed to pull it together beautifully (even if we went over budget, next time I'm being in charge of the $$$).

I did learn an incredibly valuable lesson though, do not feed tiny bride-to-bes (who haven't partied since getting pregnant with their first child over 2 years ago) mass amounts of booze in the space of an hour. Unfortunately this Hens Night lost it's bride after only 1.5 hours and not even leaving the house!

The night did go on though and we had heaps and heaps of fun. We came up with a fake bride and then I took over for a bit (obviously being the next one in the running). I wound up out and about sporting a statue of liberty hat, bright pink veil, bride to be sash and a sign saying Deep Excavation (which was inappropriate after I thought about it haha so I gave it to some Pommy boys).

We didn't leave until around 2am (I love my boy for first going to the wrong suburb and then coming and picking us up!) which may be a new record for me! I didn't complete all my dare cards except for doing I'm a little teapot but it was lots of fun. I really enjoyed being out with a bunch of girls I only barely knew celebrating a hen who wasn't there! Oops this sounds like I was happy she was gone, I wasn't I wish I knew she was so sick but no one told me until she'd left. Note: make sure you all keep an eye on your bride even if her mother is sitting next to her the whole night. (edit)

It's definitely provided me with some do's and don'ts for my hens night. I know drinking games are fun and I will definitely partake in some but I don't want to wind up in the bathroom until the very end of the night! I will also be having a night with the girls minus the mums because even though I love them it's way more fun without them.