Wedding Update

Plans are well and truly underway!! Which is good seeing as I am getting hitched in a little over two weeks.

I picked up Mark's suit today, and have bought him a swanky new shirt ($10 down from $80 great success). Now all he needs are new shoes which means I have to drag him kicking and screaming to an actual shopping centre.





I got myself some silver sparkly ballet flats for $20 from Rubi shoes which will go beautifully with the fabulous costume jewels Mistress Jane is lending me. Also picked up very sexy bra and knickers (very important for blushing bride to have) from a factory outlet for $42.90. So I am all set costume wise.



I had to change my plans for invitations due to printing turnaround time, but managed to pick up some lovely ones in a clearance bin for $1.95 for 10 with matching envelopes! Silver printed inserts and tape to attach came to $22.00 all up so I am pretty happy with that.

The lovely Rene is doing my hair and I am seeing her at home for a cut and colour the Monday before the wedding. She is doing it for cost of colour so it will depend how outrageous we get.

My conversations with florists have been scary. One place quoted me almost $200 for an arm sheath of 10 lilies. I don't think so. I spoke to a lovely chap at the wholesalers this morning and I am collecting 20 deep purple calla lilies up from him the afternoon before the wedding for the princely sum of $40. I am pretty sure my creative talents can stretch to tying a bow around them. The ribbon was five bucks.

Manda the magnificent is making me a two tiered chocolate cake with dark choc ganache icing and toffee scrolls to feed forty. It will be a little over $100 she thinks, which is about one third of the other quotes.

I am getting ready at my friend Nyre's place and her housemate Tim is going to drive us in his swanky auto as a favour. He's even putting ribbon on it (chuckle).

Mistress Jane has her suit and shoes all organised and Nyre is doing makeup for us both. Phew.

Next (and last really, I think) is savoury fare and booze. Onwards and upwards!

Its been two years of real love

Real Love

All my little plans and schemes,
lost like some forgotten dreams.
Seems that all I really was doing
was waitin' for you.

Just like little girls and boys,
playing with their little toys.
Seems like all we really were doing
was waitin' for love.

Don't need to be alone,
No need to be alone.

It's real love, it's real,
Yes it's real love, it's real.

From this moment on I know,
exactly where my life will go.
Seems that all I really was doing
was waitin' for love.

Don't need to be afraid,
No need to be afraid.

It's real love, it's real,
Yes it's real love, it's real.

Thought I'd been in love before,
but in my heart I wanted more.
Seems like all I really was doing
was waitin' for you.

Don't to be alone,
No need to be alone.

It's real love, yeah it's real,
It's real love, it's real,
Yes, it's real love, it's real,
It's real love, it's real,
Yes it's real love, it's real,
It's real love, it's real,
Yes it's real love, it's real,
It's real love, it's real,
Yes it's real love....

My thanks to Marco for two magnificent years with many more to come...and my thanks to John for being a genius

Faith Restored

Masquerading as a wedding blog comes a little lesson from the universe that all is not lost. As per usual Mark and I have been wallowing in paperwork. This time the necessaries for the nuptials. Amazingly enough we managed to locate my birth certificate and passport, Mark's passport and our respective divorce papers. But then....

Mark's passport is not acceptable ID as its Commonwealth law to provide a birth cert when applying for a wedding license (despite the fact that you have to produce a birth cert to get a passport). So he applies for one online with no need to produce ID. Great success. But then...of course its person to person registered post and when my lovely postman with his usual dog treats on board swings by this arvo he tells me he can't hand it over to me and it will have to go back to our local post office for Mark to collect between the hours of 9am and 5pm this week. I'll admit I made a pain face...it was involuntary. I explained we needed the papers to organise our wedding and time was getting tight. Mark works full time and there is no way he can get there during that time frame. We had a discussion about options and he gave me a slip of paper with the reference number and the contact details for our local PO. I called them and was told that Mark would either have to collect his mail personally with ID or pay an extra $5.50 to have it forwarded to a PO in town where he could collect it during his lunch hour. I was cranky at this point so decided to ignore it and have a wine....

About an hour later a car pulls up the front. Its the postman in his own time asking if Mark is home from work yet. He's not so my posty says he'll come back in another hour or so to deliver the birth cert as he has a meeting to attend in our area. The man has kept the mail and made a personal commitment to make sure it ends up where it needs too...tonight. As promised he delivers the birth certificate to our door just after 7 pm. We chat with the neighbours, hang out at the front gate with the dogs and get to know one another. His name's Doug. Our neighbours have known him since he was a kid...his dad was the posty here before him. He's a delightful man and wishes us the best for our wedding and marriage in the knowledge that he will see us again. Many times.

Today thanks go our from Mark and I to Doug the posty...your letter of recommendation is in the mail.