West Aussie Wedding

wedding diet

1st of September tomorrow.

The start of Spring, otherwise known as the end of winter. (hooray)

Time to start my Wedding Diet. (boo)

I'm usually pretty much always on some sort of diet, so the wedding day isn't really getting any special treatment.. but I am hoping that the thought of the honeymoon bikini will  give me some extra willpower.

  

dolores on the dotted line

I've got over 6 months to lose 4 kilos, which is harder than it sounds because I'm not prepared to give up going out for dinner or binge drinking. Or Christmas. And this time I don't just want to get skinny I want to get toned as well. Especially my arms. So I'll be exercising hard as well.

I know if I do it slowly and be sensible and healthy about it then it wont feel as traumatic and I am more likely to keep it off. And the last thing I want to be doing is The Soup Diet, the week before the wedding.

heavenly headwear

Why Hello!

What a gorgeous headgear specimen! I love it!

Something like this would be decent consolation for not wearing a veil.. (if say, you happened to have your heart set on a dress that maybe did not really suit the veil you wanted..)  

Truly beautiful!

  

image via Barcelona Bridal Week

I wonder if you could get something like this made? I'd love to see a colourful version of this..

(And as if her headwear is not adorable enough, if you look closely at the pdf brochure you will see those are perspex wings strapped to her back!!)

bon bon yeahs

Another cute idea from Martha Stewart. These favour boxes look so effective- each unique, yet working with the colour scheme.

It does look rather involved.. especially if you are having say 150 guests.

But if you were organised and crafty (which I am not) it would be totally worth it.

image from Martha Stewart Weddings

But the big question remains... what to put in the boxes..?

Sugared almonds? chocolates? cake? scratchies?

I don't actually think we'll do bonfavs. Not just for the sake of it, anyway.. Only if I come across something too good to resist

short story

Kaviar Gauche

Emanual Ungaro

Chris Bracewell

All images from Brides Magazine

I really truly love short dresses. 

I'm not actually considering a short dress for myself. Mainly because I have a tattoo on my leg that I'd rather hide..  (Oh the stupidity of youth!) I'm getting it removed one of these days.. It doesn't stop me from wearing short dresses normally.. but I don't particularly want it in any of my wedding photos.

My friend will be wearing a short dress at her wedding, so I'm living my short wedding dress fantasies through her.. 

It is a short white strapless number and she has a colourful funky necklace to wear and she is looking around for some bright red heels to wear with it. And she wants to wear a short funky veil, which I think will look so rad!

Just Married

A sweet twist on a modern tradition

 

image via 100 layer cake

photo by Elizabeth Messina, via Santa Barbara Wedding Chic

image via givers log

To Love is Not to Possess

by James Kavanaugh

 

To love is not to possess,

To own or imprison,

Nor to lose one's self in another.

Love is to join and separate,

To walk alone and together,

To find a laughing freedom

That lonely isolation does not permit.

It is finally to be able

To be who we really are

No longer clinging in childish dependency

Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,

It is to be perfectly one's self

And perfectly joined in permanent commitment

To another--and to one's inner self.

Love only endures when it moves like waves,

Receding and returning gently or passionately,

Or moving lovingly like the tide

In the moon's own predictable harmony,

Because finally, despite a child's scars

Or an adult's deepest wounds,

They are openly free to be

Who they really are--and always secretly were,

In the very core of their being

Where true and lasting love can alone abide

 

This is the reading one of my friends had at her wedding a few years ago, and it has always stuck in my mind

 

 

vivid florals

I like these

via fffound!

They remind me somewhat of this wedding. 

backstage bridesmaids

Some more inspiration from behind the scenes.. for the Bridesmaids this time...

 

All photos by Jason Lloyd-Evans, via Wallpaper

1^st row: Louis Vuitton

2^nd row: Giorgio Armani, Dior

3^rd row:  Sophia Kokosalaki

4^th row: Dior, Marc Jacobs

5^th row: Marc Jacobs

6^th row:  Thakoon, Valentino

7^th row: Jil Sander

8^th row: Diane Von Furstenberg

9^th row: Giambatasttia Valli, Dior

 

Marquee Magic

I think this marquee has been decorated beautifully.

 image via Brides Magazine

I love the woven fans and glass lanterns hanging from the ceiling. The small centrepieces in wicker pots look fantastic. It looks so rustic and inviting

the little tackers

The decision whether or not to invite kids to the wedding turned out to be a toughie

image via Cores do Aquario

I didn't really want to invite kids to our wedding. I like adult parties.

The Mr, on the other hand was all for it. He really likes kids. He couldnt really understand why you wouldn't invite them.

Because they are noisy, because they are demanding, because they distract their parents from the partying at hand, I told him.

So what? he said.

Then over the last 6 months a significant number of my friends/family members fell pregnant. It's spreading.

I have done the sums and there will be quite a few newborns by the time the wedding rolls around.. I wouldn't expect anyone to leave a small baby at home, and it felt a bit mean deciding yes that kid can come but no that kid can't.. then there is the issue of people travelling from interstate and OS how would they get a sitter anyway.?. so I have given in, what the hell, if we are having a few we might as well have them all.

So the kids will be welcome, but I'm secretly hoping that most people opt to have a night off and leave the little tackers at home. And if not I hope they are on their best behaviour!

2tone gem rings

I love these two-tone gemstone rings from Percy Marks. Like really love!

Especially that green one! I have no info on how much these bad boys cost or what the gemstones are.. but I'd love to own one.

The Forecast

This crappy wintery weather we've been having lately has got me thinking.. about how much I hate crap weather. And how much it would suck to have wind, rain or hail on our wedding day. We are relatively unsheltered (have a roof but no walls) and I just generally don't like the cold much.

  

So I succumed. I paid $7 or something to get a long range weather prediction for our wedding next year.

I'm happy to see the prediction is for near perfect weather, and let me say I never realised $7 could buy so much reassurance. I'm allowing myself to believe it is accurate and reliable! I don't want to hear otherwise!

  

Report from Event Weather, they can generate any reports for any major Australian city for up to 12 months in advance.