| QUOTE (Amanda Williamson @ Mar 5 2006, 07:40 AM) |
| I do know the poor bride was up til 2am this morning doing OOS, and was up late all week doing placecards etc. Man am I glad that I am organised. THe poor girl must have been sooo stressed! Overall, I think it looked pretty slapped together, Anyway, sorry if I seem really bitchy or critical, but I'm just telling it how I saw it. There were some good ideas to nab, and some suggestions for avoiding issues on our day. |
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| Hi girls Well, I had my kitchen tea and hens night last night – it was great! I was blown away and so humbled by the generosity and spirit of all my friends over the day and night. I got some great photos with my BM’s and I will certainly be doing something about getting them printed up. We started out with a Tupperware party for my kitchen tea, which was good. We made Baileys with the demonstrator lady, and there was total sales of over $1500, so that’s an awesome amount. Means that I get lots of free stuff too! I look forward to playing with all my new stuff when we get home from our honeymoon! I also got some great presents, which were totally unnecessary, but very much appreciated, and gorgeous! We then went to a local pub for dinner, which was fantastic – we had booked out the whole beer garden area, so we just had heaps of room to do what we wanted. I had a lovely tiara and wand to use, which was gorgeous. We had the theme ‘a little bit of sparkle’ which I loved, everyone had gorgeous glittery tops on, which was fantastic. I actually wore a new sleeveless top – I haven’t worn anything sleeveless for at least 5 years. Must have been my tan trial that gave me the confidence! We had lolly bracelets and for the skinny people, they were necklaces! Most of us got various people to eat them off us throughout the night, but because it’s such a small town, everyone who was sucking at my wrist was someone that I knew, so it was OK! My MOH made me a pińata, which was in a ‘phallic’ shape… so much fun. It kept on falling down from the beam where she had hung it, but we got there eventually. And man was it strong! It didn’t want to break. Everything in it was a melted and crushed up by the time that we got it open, There was also a lot of sparkle stars in it, which was great fun. They kept me entertained for at least an hour and everyone ended up with coloured stars in their hair. We also had a mask with feathers in it, and if you said the word ‘hen’ then you had to wear it until someone else said it. Was very good value. We then went on to another pub and met up with the boys. Glenn was about a million times drunker than I was, although still coherent, which was good – though he was swaying about a bit! I was happy to see that he still had all his hair and eyebrows. We kicked on to one more pub and I saw some people that I hadn’t for a long time, which was really good. Allison (one of my BMs) and I got a taxi home when they called last drinks at 3am, so avoid the crush and I fell into bed about 3.30am. Glenn was home and snoring so loud that the walls were moving, and one of our GM stayed with us too. We have had a bit of a slow day today, cooking greasies for breakfast and laying around watching movies all day, and Marc has only just gone home now. I took a lot of photos, and I love them all. Which is rare for me! I hope that you all love them as much as I do – I think that they show the mood of the night pretty well! The wedding is speeding up on us and I really need to finalise our OOS booklets – I have had trouble deciding on music… so I need to do that now and get it up to the Minister ASAP. I was a little worried about Glenn not being excited about the wedding, but since he got through his bucks night (well, whole bucks DAY) unscathed, he has loosened up and admitted that he was worried about it – and now he’s been talking about wedding stuff all day with Marc and I, so it’s great to hear him excited about the actual wedding. Love, Miss Chapman |
Not long now 
| QUOTE (ellerson82 @ Mar 4 2006, 11:27 PM) |
| Yes you heard right, my parcel FINALLY arrived 4 weeks later, it was sitting in the mail centre for 4 weeks even tough i went in to chase it up 2 weeks ago  oh well it was a happy ending so cant be toooo mad. |
). I am so happy. This is perfect timing as it means I will be period-free on the wedding day, pmt free next week leading up to the wedding, and it won't affect my honeymoon birthday celebrations in Paris either! Also, my skin breaks out just before it arrives (which it did last week) and then clears up nicely for a couple of weeks which is perfect timing. 
These girls won't be able to make it to the wedding in Perth and I'm really touched by the effort they went to.
I'm the same as you with my dress. It fits perfectly now, but only just. If I loose any weight at all, it will be too big, so I too am trying to make sure I keep the eating up! How is Mark feeling? I can't believe he has Bronchitis the poor thing. Did he go out on the weekend? Congrats also on making your placecards. It feels nice to have made something personally for your wedding doesn't it. How's the kitty going? How is your dress going? Have you heard anything from the dressmaker or do you just wait until you get up there? Well done on also getting your OOS done . I've only finished 15 covers Although I did start on the placecards on the weekend so I haven't been completely slack.
I'm thinking of you and hope it goes quickly The wedding you went to sounded a bit disorganised. Hopefully the Bride was on too much of a high to notice the hiccups (and bad food) and enjoyed herself anyway. I think my Mum will also claim my flowers on the night. She does beautiful work, but boy does she charge for it, ouch! Oh well, I'm only getting married once He's spoken to the seniors, but they've basically said sorry, but no. He is second in command on the boat, so if he's not there, the boat basically can't go anywhere. Bloody Navy Jase is really disappointed as he has known the BM since school and they've always been close. I'll have to give him big hugs tonight. Beck and Laurette, hope you both have great lead-up weeks! I'm so glad you had a beautiful day and that everything went well. I'll be looking out for the photo's when you get back! Have a fantastic honeymoon and we'll read all about it soon ! (It wasn't from too much Penis cake on the weekend was it 
). Make sure that doctor gives you some nice strong drugs to make you better before Saturday. I'm glad to hear Mark is getting better though. Jase was racking his brains last night trying to work out who to ask instead. The funny thing (well, not ha-ha funny ) is that I also lost a Bridesmaid a few months ago. One of my BM's fell pregnant and decided to pull out. We knew when I asked her to be BM that she was planning to get pregnant, but she fell quicker than she expected and was going to be over 7 mths pregnant at the wedding. She has also developed Sciatia (sp??) (back problem), so just didn't think she would be up to being a BM on the day. So, now we have each lost a person - course its your day too) but seriously its YOUR day!!! Sending all my get better fast vibes your way - luckily you're closer so they'll reach you faster than when you were in Sydney. I hope we get to see pictures soon!!! Have a fantastic honeymoon!!!
Im booked for a facial tonight after work and eye brow wax, time for a bit of work on the old girl. I am staying late at work to scan I dont think we will get it all done by friday night I think we will be having a very late night on friday trying to complete the cd bon bons and music for ceremony and the slidershow etc before we leave as mums computer is crap.
Who else cant wait til the wedding is over??!!
That was a bit annoying at the time.. But I've decided that I really want the audience to have something as a few of them are getting pretty deaf and I know visual clues will help them follow what's going on.. If only we could put up surtitles like they often have at the opera!
The next worry I have is getting it onto a plane.. I've been before and they've hung up jackets/suits for me, but I don't know what they'd say about the dress.. Have others (BecK?) lugged a wedding dress on the plane? I've done so with a bridesmaid dress, but I was told that they don't hang up stuff for passengers anymore...???
| QUOTE (Kathy W @ Mar 8 2006, 08:25 PM) |
| Ask chloe she is the big traveller on planes. |
Wow, it really is all happening now. At least you can have plenty of bed rest after Saturday - probably not kind the doctor had in mind Take care of yourself and try to rest as much as possible. And I'm pretseling for you to have a much cooler day than 33o!! Any chance of some shoe pic's??? I can't wait to hear about what you have got Amanda for her hen's. Amanda, I would be feeling very afraid Jason has now asked one of the other Groomsmen to be Best Man, and has also asked another friend to be a Groomsmen. So we are back to even numbers again. We just need to get him measured up for the suit etc. Hopefully I won't have to come in on the weekend or next week. I cant understand why she dosent want her parents there presentation tomorrow )