6 Weeks & 6 Days!

The wedding has taken a back seat the past couple of weeks as I have been busy with work. This year I am the AST coordinator at my school. The AST is the ACT Scaling Test and it is completed by all year 12 students in the ACT to help with their final scaling of results before they are issued with an ATAR (the special number that then allows them to be accepted in different university courses).  We had a trial this week just gone and as it was my first time doing this solo, I focused all my time and energy on it.

Well, it went off without too many hitches and now I am back to focusing on the wedding...

Which is only 6 weeks and 6 days away.

YAY!!

We paid off the wedding cake the other night. It was nice to have paid off something in full! We are getting our cake from Cakes of your Dreams! We visited there back in October and were blown away by how awesome the cakes were. I had had a quick peek at their website before hand and was very impressed but seeing the display cakes up close and personal was enough to make us order a cake before we walked out of there. The exact cake we are getting is not up on their website but it is a conglomeration of a few cakes that they have photos of.

I've been working on my craft items. The error I made in the magnets has been corrected and I have successfully completed 47! I am about to order more magnets so I can finish the rest.

A heap of organza bags arrived in the mail all ready to have sweet treats placed in them just before the big day!  I will be adding small embelishments to the bags so as to tie them in with the theme.  I will do this when the magnets are done.

Dave has got his suit. He modeled his jacket for me the other day and he looked spunky!  We need to sort out the ties for the groom and the best man, and their cufflinks.

Emma and I have our hair trial on the 31st of March which just happens to be the same day as the hen's night. We will have awesome hair when we hit the town!

Dave, Rob and Ken have been busily planning the buck's night. I don't know much about it but they had a meeting yesterday whilst enjoying Grill'd for lunch and as far as I know, things are starting to roll. The buck's night is on the 24th of March (same day as Emma's baby shower!)

So it is all systems go and I am getting more and more excited each day!!

Wedding Admin...

I've spent this afternoon doing wedding admin. It has kind of reminded me of some of my past jobs where I had to plan big events. All I have to say is that I bloody well hope this event goes better than some of the others I organised! Not that I am a bad organiser - it was always another party that didn't do their bit or failed to produce a product to what I would call 'acceptable standards'.

Anyway, I've put more money on the wedding dress and changed all my fitting dates (as I don't have Friday afternoons off work this year thanks to only being able to teach chemistry on a line that sees me teach a class at 3pm on a Friday afternoon!). I've emailed the cake people to ask if we can put down some more money on the cake and I am waiting on a response from the people we have hired to set up chairs, etc, at the ceremony location.  I have also emailed my makeup artist to try and line up a time for the trial and tomorrow, assuming she is back in the country (she has been posting lovely photos of her holiday in Fiji on FB! Jealous!), I'll call my lovely hairdresser and book Emma and myself in for a hair trial.  Must start looking at styles.

I have also been filling out all the details in my 'MyWed' planner. This thing is so cool! It has checklists, hints, supplier pages, pockets where I keep dress fabric samples and invoices/recipts, etc. If you are getting married, or know someone who is, I recommend this thing! Check it out here: http://www.mywed.com.au/

it will make a nice wedding keepsake. I'll be able to look back in 20 years when the pages are all yellow and see what I did to make my own day special. I am thinking of adding photos to it of different things as we get closer to the day.

It's only 80 days away!

I also ordered some magnets today. What for I hear you ask? Ahhh... small spoiler... there will be handmade magnets as part of the bombonierre! Dave is excited about the magnets. He chose them and I gave him permission to get a $20 magnet sample pack! I love how he is so geeky and how these things excite him!

Also visited Spotlight... again... got some more ribbon to finish the project I posted about the other day. I'll finish it tomorrow! YAY!

A Plug For...

There are so many different people and companies are involved in putting together our wedding. Without them I would be walking down the aisle wearing something out of my wardrobe, having the reception in our backyard and serving CostCo muffins as our wedding cake (not that there is anything wrong with CostCo muffins... they are awesomely yum!).

So, I have decided to give each a little 'plug' here on the blog.

Where to start...

Let's start with the dress (which, as far as Dave is concerned is pink with purple stripes!).

My dress is being made by the lovely Anita at Anita J Bridal Couture. Anita is awesome! When I first went and saw her back in August I only had a vague idea of what I wanted. Through me telling her what I would like, and her suggestions, she has designed a beautiful (pink and purple Dave, it's pink and purple) dress! I have my first proper fitting next month and I can't wait!

I will be wearing it FOR REAL in less than 100 days! YAY!!

Anita is also making the dress for my bridesmaid (I sometimes refer to her as my Best Woman!), Emma. I was going to get Emma something off the rack for the day but she kind of got pregnant and will be close to popping by the time the wedding rolls around.  I will be having serious talks to her unborn child in the weeks leading up to the wedding so he/she is aware of the consequences of arriving before the due date. :)

So, if you are planning on getting married, or need a dress made for whatever reason, pop over to Anita's website, take a look, and give her a call :)