Photo Friday #10

A little shot from Valentine's morning last weekend :)

10 Months To Go...the finishing touches

And last but not least, those little extras at the end!

Stationary

Half done and somewhat dusted. We've done the Save the Dates, they went out as a combination of hard copy and email a few weeks ago.

What's left is invitations, menus, programmes, table names, place names...etc?

Most of these things are being made by us on the iPad app Makr - it's pretty damn good and we get to make it look how we want and get everthing to match. We then download it from there for a very small fee and print it via an online printer - et voila!

Rings

Nearly forgot about this one. This is still a little bit up in the air, we know exactly what rings we want, bother plain platinum bands. But where to buy them, not sue yet!

Decorations

And this is my biggest thing yet to sort. We've got the florist, so at least I know where any flower decorations will come from. Further than that, I'm not sure yet.

I know we get a large floral arrangement included in our ceremony room booking (yeah!), and this will probably be the only large floral display we have. Although this isn't coming from the florist I've hired, but the venue's recommended one so I really hope it turns out nicely.

For tables I have a few ideas of what to have as centres, but these keep chopping and changing and I can't make up my mind at the moment.

As for other decorations, I'm not really sure what I need...the venue will have their Christmas deocrations up, which means the mantle places will have garlands on them and there will be a big tree, but I'm not sure how it'll fit in with what else I want. But at least it's some of the decoration done for me!

I want a sort of wintery, rustic yet classy look. Not too much to ask for ;)

Anyone have any good ideas? 

Now I'm pretty sure that covers all the main areas, but if you want any extra details, just let me know!

Have I forgotten something?!

Catch up on...

The Date is Set

Vendors

Outfits

Beauty

Food & Drink

My Week #2

A fairly quiet week this week, but the weekend ended up being a little more extravagant with 3 meals out!

Edit: I actually looked back at my meals last week and realised that I had 2 meals out in the week as well!
Mon: GKB, Wed: Subway, Fri: Harvester: Sun: Dim Sum & Big Easy
Oops!!

Happy Birthday Daddy

Happy Birthday to my wonderful Daddy

He was taken from us last May, far sooner than he should have been.

I love him and miss him more than anything else in the world.

A true Aussie

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day to all your love birds out there!

Me and my valentine will be having a lovely Valentine's weekend with dinner out on Sunday.

And don't worry if you haven't got someone special in your life, when I was single I used to celebrate Norm Day with my wonderful friend Clara. Named after Broadway's one and only Norm Lewis!

Norm wishes you a very Happy Norm Day!

10 Months To Go...the food & drink

Onto one of the best parts in my opinion! I know it's wedding food, and in no way as I expecting for the food or drink to be amazing, I am still super excited. And when people say 'You'll be too busy to eat anything all day and you won't want to your at the Breakfast either'...well, they clearly haven't met me and T. There is no way that we will be missing out on the food drink and cake!

Food and Drink

All included in our wonderful venue package! We got the top level one, so Champagne for all!! We have a four course breakfast with coffee and petit fours, canapes at the drinks reception and probably ore booze provided than is wise! For the drinks reception we're going to have some mulled wine and Champagne (not together obviously), then everyone gets half a bottle of wine at the Breakfast, a glass of Champagne for toasting AND the additional wine we're putting on the tables.

We've been to weddings where there were 2 bottles of wine between 8-9 people and 'sparkling wine' and we were like, what is going on here? That was one thing we knew we wanted, ample booze and for it not too be too bad quality either!

So all we really need to do is the menu tasting which isn't until a few months before the wedding, I am really looking forward to that!

Although the venue don't allow additional food and drink (except for cake!), but we managed to sway them into letting us have some extra wine on the tables. We managed to convince them on sentimental reasons - now you might think that sounds pretty stupid, but I can ensure you it's quite the opposite. We're having some wine from a region of France called Cotes de Duras, it's a place where my family have been on holiday for the past few years (we're quite a wine-y family), of course with T tagging along, he is family after all! It also happens to be the place where T proposed (good boy!) and it's also wine that my Dad loved and so I want it on the table to remember him and drink to him.

Wedding Cake

Not booked, yet. But we're all decided, of course!

Last year we went to the National Wedding Show in London, there were a few cake places there where we nabbed a few taster pieces. There was one absolute stand out place, La Papillon Patisserie, to which we kept going back to to get more cake!

When we got home I looked them up, only to find that there are in the closest town to our venue, less than a 5 minute drive away - I'm calling that one fate!

We arranged a cake tasting and chomped our way through 12 amazing flavours of delicious, moist cake!

We've picked our three falvours for our three layers and the outside decoration. Now the only thing to do is order...

The only problem is, the tasting was so long ago, I think I might need a reminder session ;)

Cheese Cake

Yes, you heard me! Now I'm not talking about a cheese cake as in the pudding, but of course a stack of cheese wheels that resembles a cake - and why not?

Both T and I love cheese, and back at the good old National Wedding Show we saw a cheese cake put together by Godminster. They let us try each of the cheeses whilst explaining what they were and I'm hooked! The cheddar they make is so yummy and the cake had a good mixture of the more 'plain' cheeses whilst having a few different once thrown in.

If it was up to me, we'd have ordered already, but T things there might be a better one out there, so we'll see.

But there will definitely be a cheese cake there!

Better than this?

[Godminster]

Still to come...

Finishing Touches

Catch up on...

The Date is Set

Vendors

Outfits

Beauty