I'm changing my surname as well from Kelly to Howell!

Michelle, it is still the same number that you have, I promise! It was changed back before I gave it to you.

I just had the yummiest lunch... mmm... am going to watch Harry Potter at 6.30 tonight!

I'm not going to tell Glenn! he he - he's playing business houses bowles tonight.

Hi Girls,

Sorry I've been a slacka$$ and haven't been in to say hello for over a week! I had 7 pages to catch up on. You girls have all been so busy!

Laurette - How are your golf clubs going? Jase plays as well and I've had a few lessons and do want to get some more, but I just don't hae time atm. I'm pretty bad too, so I think I'll be needing lots and lots of help

Chloe - I love your invites. They look very elegant and professionally done. You clever thing. I read your post about getting the Brazilian. I have been thinking of doing this for the wedding (never had it done before - only standard bikini line and scissor trims). If you don't mind me asking, does it get itchy when it grows back??

Michelle - only one day of work to go for you. Tomorrow we can all have huge Happy Dances with you I love your invites too. You look very simple and elegant. Great choice of colours

Kathy - Amanda sounds soooo organised. Every time you give us an update on things ticked off, I hide further behind my pillow. I was thinking about your present to her, how about a locket with a picture of you and your Mum in it? And then when she passes it down, she can put a picture of herself in it (so her daughter has her Mum and Grandmum in it). I have a locket with pic's of my little brother and sister in it and I treasure it.

Beck - congrats on your new TV and booking your Honeymoon. It all makes it that much more real doesn't it. You new honeymoon ticker is very cute.

Rochelle - your flowergirl dress is very cute! She is going to look adorable. I went flowerdress/junior BM shopping with my little sister on the weekend (she is 10). I had a look on ebay, but my sister has got a little belly and short body, so I was worried I'd get something that doesn't fit/suit her. I figured it was safer to take her shopping and buy something. We found a gorgeous dress that will look lovely on her, so I've paid a deposit and it comes in around Jan/Feb. But boy, do those bridal shops charge a fortune. Ridiculous. It cost more money than most of the dress (formal included) in my wardrobe

Laurette and Chloe, I had to laugh about your recent dreams (boys cheating/weddings being called off etc). I had a dream last week too that Jase suddenly called off the wedding with no explanation. I kept asking him the whole next day - are you sure you want this wedding, do you really want to marry me He just kept shaking his head at me and saying 'bloody i-do' as we suspect it's because of all the break-ups that have been happening around here lately.

I picked up my BM dresses last Thursday and am feeling very pi$$ed off with them. To cut a long story short, when I ordered one of the dresses we ordered it as a size 10 but with an extra 1" added to the pattern, as my Mum (who is MOH) fit the size 10 but was worried it might be too tight if she put on a bit of weight, but the size 12 would have been way to big. Anyway, my friend came with me to pick up the dresses (as my Mum is back in Perth) and as she is size 10, I got her to try on the store 10 and then my Mum's 10 (which was supposed be with an extra 1 inch). She did and my Mum's dress was, if anything, tighter than the store 10. I complained and they were trying to tell me "oh, but the store dresses stretch a bit from girls trying them on" - what, a whole extra inch!!! I don't think so! They are now sending it back to the manufacturer to check against the pattern. Also, last night, one of my other BM's - who ordered an 8 - which fit perfectly when trying on 8 in the store - tried on her dress last night and it is too small. She swears she hasn't put on any weight (and it doesn't look like she has), so I have to speak to them about that one as well. I'm not happy Jan. The dresses are $450 each, so they are not cheap and the attitude was very much "it's your problems, not ours", which really got me mad. If they ring me up and tell me that my Mum's dress is the right size, Jase will go in and chuck some scary lawyer words their way.

Oops, I've just seen how long this post is. Sorry girls. That's what happens when you miss a week!

I'll pop in again later,

Jo.

Hi,

Jo,

I was thinking about a locket with photos in it like you said.

Stick to your guns about bm's dresses and dont let the shop/dressmaker get away with not making them in the right size.

kathyxxx

Hey Jo good to see you No good about the BM dresses I hope it can be sorted out.

I got a pic of the flower that will be in my bm bouquet - I am in love. I am so confident that sue will do a wonderful job. I told her to just go for it and make what she likes, I dont have any real preferance and I trust her 110%

A bit happy And I have a bottle of wine chilling ahh does it get any better?

Kathy I PMed you my mobile number.

Before Ali got my flowergirl dress I looked at some shops and they so expensive aren't they?

Jo and Chloe... speaking of, I had mine done tonight... plus my eyebrows, and dare I say it, my upper lip. It was the first time that I have had that done, and geez it makes a difference.

I have just unpacked all my golf sticks... they are so pretty. I will have to take a photo of them... off to do that now...

MICHELLE YOU GET TO QUIT YOUR JOB TODAY!

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!

Thankyou all for looking at my pictures - I am sure that you are all SO interested in my golf sticks.

Glenn also got a new bag - it's l ike a 'stand bag' where you carry it on your shoulders like a backpack and then unclip it to take your shot, and it stands up on it's own, you dont have to pull a buggy around.

Please excuse all the mess in the background - we had lots of ebay parcels arrive and tomorrow is clean up day

Morning girls,

Rochelle got your number and ive pm'd mine to you.

Laurette,

Nice clubs ive only ever played golf once had trouble hitting the ball

I dont have a good hand eye coordination so didnt play again

Have fun with them.


Michelle,

Today's the day you get to quit yeah!!!!!!!

kathyxxx

Nice sticks laurette!

Oh, shucks - thanks Michelle!

YOU GET TO QUIT YOUR JOB TODAY

Hooray for Michelle!!!!!!!!!!

I wish i could quit my job today.........that would be sweet, not having to go through yet another xmas of screaming kiddies, angry parents and all the rest of the crap that goes along with it!!

Ah well! i'm sure we'll win the lotto or something one day and then i can quit!

An update on the invite saga. Mum has posted the only interstate one a few days ago and she is apparently posting all the invites for the people who live really far away (but still in victoria) today. Apparently the rest of them are getting posted on Monday

I think i forgot to mention it somewhere along the line, but my RSVP date is 27th January, which is our 3yr anniverary. This still gives us approx. two weeks to chase up any straglers.

Beck

I so want to go home… I am not liking today at all.

Only half an hour more until lunch, and I am going home to have a lie down. My head hurts… I have taken Panadol and drunk some water and got up and had a walk around, and all the rest of it… but my body is doing strange things. I have a shocking headache and my legs are aching…

Do you ever have that feeling where you just feel so shithouse you just feel like bursting into tears? That’s me right now.

And I was so looking forward to the weekend, and now it turns out that I will have to work some of it, which I am NOT looking forward to at all.

I just had to have a whinge to someone, so thanks for reading if you managed to get through the first 4 paragraphs of crap.

*Sook*

Michelle, how many hours to go now?

Hi girls,


Beck,

Congratulations on starting to get your invites out.


kathyxxx

Laurette your clubs are beautiful. When it comes to balls, I'm as uncoordinated as you can get Golf or otherwise Hope you feel better soon!

CONGRATULATIONS MICHELLE ON YOUR LAST DAY AT WORK!!!!


I'm distraught. Last night, I was on the computer (as usual) and spilt curry all over the keyboard. This is a keyboard I've had for over 8 years now. Sniff. And it died. And I bought a crappy one today that is CRAPPY. can't type properly and keep having to go back and retype things. Problems is they only make crappy keyboards nowadays.

Good news is that I've bought all my stamps for the invitations. I bough these gorgeous rose stamps - did you know they actually booklets of wedding stamps? I didn't get those cos the roses were pretty. So, I have the materials, the stamps. Just need to make the invitations now...

Love Chloe.xoxo
(i couldn't even type my name properly, had to go back and retype it)

Oh bugger Chloe – no good at all!

I am sure that you will (maybe) get used to it? In time, you will adapt, yes? If not, go and splurge on a good one!

I only have a laptop at home, and it’s got a great keyboard, although I find it hard being at work all day and having the big keyboard, and then only having a little one at home.

I am feeling better this afternoon, thanks Chloe. I went home and had a nanna nap at lunch time and it fixed me up!

It is raining here pretty hard… and lots of it! It’s bad because now I cant go and play golf tonight, and we’re in harvest, so it’s bad for the crops, but it’s good because now I don’t have to work tomorrow (no harvest when it’s raining!) I feel horrible saying that though, because we really don’t want the rain.

I guess that I will just have to practice putting in the loungeroom!

Michelle, how did the resignation go>

Glad to hear you're feeling better Laurette!

Ok. This will be brave of me, but here goes! We've done up a website for RSVPs and also for ppl - especially those from overseas - to get details of the wedding and learn abit more about us as a couple.

Here's the link:
Wedding Website

Would love to hear from you lovely ladies what you think

Hi Girls,

Laurette,

Glad to hear your feeling better after your nanna nap.


Chloe,

Going to check your website out now will let you know.


kathyxxx

I just went and checked out your site - it's fantastic! I signed the guestbook too

Chloe,

Well done I love it!!!!!!!

I also signed the guest book.


kathyxxx

PS:Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Well it has come to an end. In the end I was a bit sad to leave the people, they were ok, just the conditions weren't very good. Its always sad saying goodbye, this is the second job Ive had to leave this year (First in May when we moved to melb from Pucka) Im a bit over packing up and moving.

When I got home the boss called and asked if I would like to work a few days next week - as they hadn't found anyone to replace me They have known since Aug when I first started that I would be leaving in dec. Hmm...

They bought me this today - the card is huge!



Chloe I signed your guestbook too - its such a great webpage, I love the way Alex described meeting you!

Yes, i also loved reading Alex's story.. was entertaining!

that's a lovely card Michelle!

hey Chloe did you manage to stay awake during the movie last night? Hope you enjoyed it!

hello Michelle

Yes, Chloe, how did you go at the movies?

Michelle, she's probably still asleep and dreaming about cleaning!

*Lodges eyes open with toothpicks*
*Reluctantly takes out the vaccuum cleaner*
*sigh*

Movie was great! Luckily it was very suspensful - don't think I would have stayed awake during another movie. I can't do this late night thing anymore...

I was err.. confused at the end - I won't spoil it for anyone - I'll wait to analyse the movie with Laurette over msn!

Thanks guys for your lovely messages on the webpage! I've posted them all up:) The RSVP password is... wait for it..."RSVP". Original huh? Anyway, I've put the following line at the bottom of my invitations:

Please RSVP via our website at www.march18.yevent.com with password "RSVP"

I have the choice to have my own domain - which of the following do you think is better?

www.marcheighteen.com
www.chloeandalex.com

or should I leave it as www.march18.myevent.com?
march18.com was already taken

Hope everyone's having a lovely weekend!!!

Glad to hear you enjoyed it.

My mate and I (her man is away with mine at the moment) are going to the movies tonight, but she doesnt want to see Harry Potter without her fiance because she promised him, and I dont want to see it without finishing the book (Im oh so close though) so we are seeing something different. We are seeing Prime, Ive never heard of it, even though we are both hanging out to see HP.

Hi Girls

Congratulations on finishing work Michelle I had one of those days at work yesterday, so couldn't pop in to Happy Dance with you, but I had a little jig for you last night You must be so happy to be outta that place!

Laurette, love the golf clubs. Very smart!! Did you have a chance to play with them today or was it raining again?

Chloe, I love your webpage. I posted in the guestbook as well Alex's story was so cute. Have you decided on the domain? I like chloeandalex.com I think that would be easily remembered by the guests if they didn't have their invitation with them.

We booked our cake and paid deposit. One more tick off the list! It is like this one except ours will have red grapes, pale pink phaleonopsis orchids and a few pale pink rose buds in it. We are having cherry ripe mud, white mud and banana mud as our flavours! Yummo!! One more tick off the list

I have also started making my invitations - well actually, I did some on one night then haven't touched them since . It took me one night to do @10 of them - and that is just the front cover. It doesn't include the actual printing on the inside or any of the inserts. Something tells me, I better get a move on!

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Jo.
xx

Jo, just the sound of your cake had me drooling. It looks beautiful. Well done on crossing another thing off your list.

Well I just got home from the cinema, we saw a chick flick and of course it was a bit romantic in some places, it made me really miss N. I hope he is home tomorrow.

Today my neice came over and tried on the flowergirl dress. It fits perfect . She loved the dress and she didn't want to take it off !!! She looked adorable in it. She now all excited!

Aww Rochelle how cute!!

Sunday boring Sunday nothing exciting just popped by and say hi!

Good news - my boy is back

Laurette - re: the ribbon sorry it took me so long, but we are having 65cm/ invite

More good news. I asked N about posting a pic of him and getting trouble for doing so with his work, he reckons thats crap so I will get to post pics afterall

Elle thats great news your boy back

Um 9 days time we leave, yet I still havent got boxes. Might have to give the removalist company a call today.

Man the first night back with someone else in my bed was horrible. He hogged the bed all night and breathed really loudly. I am so tired, between him, and the cat wanting to get up early and play, the cordless phone beeping all night, and his noisy computer being left on, I didnt get much sleep.

Oh well. Im off for a facial today, I so need it my skin has gone feral with stress its broken out a bit. I have to stop by the shops and buy some shoes and a brown bikini top to wear under the brown dress I recently bought for N's March out parade on Wed. Because Ive lost weight (thru stress) my boobs have shrunken so much I need a bikini top under the dress as my strapless bra doesnt fit anymore!

Ah girls, you have all been so busy! I am feeling very very slack!

Michelle, great news that you got Neil home, that’s fantastic, although I feel for you not being able to sleep – I was the same last night. Glenn was hot, so he’s stretched out, the fan was going, so I was cold, his mobile was going flat, so it was beeping and then the damn alarm went off at 6am… it all went too quickly!

I hope that you enjoy your facial today, I wish that I was having some pampering done, but no, as per usual, I am at work.

Now, I have Tamara’s invitation pictures to post for you all to have a look at, I will get to that in a second. I am sorry, Tamara that I didn’t do it over the weekend when you emailed me, my computer was going too slow and wouldn’t let me look at the pictures. Now that I am at work I will be able to get them up for you. Will be done by lunchtime, I promise.

Chloe, I am so glad that you liked the movie! Michelle, cant wait for you to see it so that we can all have a chat about it! I went again yesterday, and I am so in love with Harry in his dress robes… made me go all gooey… is it a bad thing to have a little itty bitty crush on a teenager, 6 years my junior? I hope not.

Chloe, I also brought that song into work this morning and am inflicting it on anyone that will listen. Michelle, I will send it to you also. A song that I have discovered, and forwarded to Chloe, will do so for you too, K?

Chloe, I like the domain name with your names in it… I do. I think that your website looks great. Make sure to keep us all updated on any changes/additions that you make, OK?

Rochelle, I am glad that your niece loved her dress! That’s so good. We would love to see a picture of her in it, if you get a chance?

My mum has started on Britt’s dress, but now with harvest happening, it’s going to be February before she does any more work on it I think.

Jo, your cake sounds divine! It made me want cake just reading about it… oh, yummo. I have never really thought about the possibility of banana mud cake. I think that I am going to have to go for a trawl through the net and see what sorts of variations I can come up with on the plain old mud cake… we were planning on having white, caramel and chocolate mud for our three tiers.. I think.. although there was talk of fruit cake there for a while too, will have to see what mummy comes up with.

Kathy? What’s going on with you? Hope you are well and that you had a good weekend.

Michelle, I am going to have to revise my ribbon then I think – we were only going to have the 50cm and tie in a knot, but I think that the bow looks much better.

I got all the sticky tape and photo mounting dots and stuff yesterday to use with making the invitations, but as I haven’t printed them yet, it’s not much use to me really. As you have all already done your invites, I guess that that isn’t much useful information…

And, can someone tell me where my weekend went? It was just gone, all of a sudden, no more weekend. Not real impressed.

Glenn has also decided that he’s gone off our first dance song… which I am not real happy about. Must give him a few more options now I guess.. Grr… Men!

I didn’t ever get to have a hit with my new sticks at all over the weekend as it was too wet and then we were in Wagga, then by the time that we got home, it was coming over cloudy and stormy again, and it was about 7pm, so it was too late. Will have to settle for putting in the lounge room, and driving practice balls against the back fence, which I am sure the neighbours are appreciative of.

Oh, we are also getting Austar back on soon (Glenn had it before we moved in together) as the units we are in already have a dish on the roof… great – more TV, more live sport and more live golf. Fantastic. Something more to look forward to!

Hi Girls,

Hope everyone had a good weekend.


Laurette,

I had a look at your gown again on the weekend LOVES IT and cant wait to see photos of you in it.


Rochelle,

Glad that your FG loved the dress so cute.


Michelle,

Glad that Neil is back home even though you didnt get any sleep.Enjoy your facial.



This weekend started packing for our move to NSW I have so much junk but its junk that I cant part with.

Amandas' Bridal Shower invitations are being sent today its on the 7th of January the weekend all her BM's are in the one place for thier dress fittings.Should be a good weekend Paddy's mum is organising it Im doing the hens party.


kathyxxx

Hi,

Just thinking about Hens/Bridal showers what are all you girls doing?????


Amandas' Bridal Shower is a Tupperware luncheon.

Her Hens night is at a Cocktail Bar and im thinking of a Body Shop party I have already spoken to the ppl at Cocktail Bar and they are happy to do different cocktails and finger food.Ive just got to come up with some ideas on what to do on the night Im under strict instructions there is to be no Strippers or putting condoms on cucumbers etc so far i have come up with:

The questionare game where the guest are given a list of questions all about the bride the one with the most right gets a small prize.

But now ive drawn a blankkkkk.

Any ideas would be great.



Are any of you having Bridal/Honeymoon Registries??????


The reason i ask this is Amanda and Paddy are having a Honeymoon Registry and with her invitations she is putting in information about it

Does this sound ok

As we have already established our home we have set up a Honeymoon Registry for you to contribute to as a gift.
This is just a suggestion and dont feel obliged to contribute.



Amanda is worried that it sounds like she is expecting people to give them something.

kathyxxx

Well, girlies - I have Tamara's wedding invitaiton pictures for you all. Took me forever to figure out the best way to resize them... once I did though, so easy! Doh! Must be Monday!