Can anyone believe how fast this year is flying by. Only 159 days left!! Things from now on are going to probably get a little bit hectic..now pushing the 5 month mark! How exciting!! No doubt you will hear from me some more!!!

Bit's and Pieces

So recently I have been thinking about all of the "finer" details in regards to the wedding. Unfortunately we were unable to order place cards that matched our wedding invites :( Just like any other stationery item, these little pieces of card seemed to be quite expensive. I had my eye on some really nice silver place cards located at a wedding shop in Maroochydore. While we were up there a few months back on holidays we decided to stop into the store. Unfortunately they didn't have any in stock and I was so disappointed. But not disheartened, I decided to order them from their online store. I was half expecting an email or phone call to say they didn't have any in stock, but the order went through fine. I managed to get them for a bargain price - a pack of 15 was only $2.75 :D

Just as I was leaving the drive way this morning, a courier arrived with a package. I was super excited to check to see if they had sent the correct ones! Upon opening the packet I was pretty impressed. They looked 100 times better than they had on the website- the little piccy didn't do them justice. I am very pleased with my little Internet bargain!

On another note, I had been umming and ahhing over what do to on completion of our ceremony. A lot of places these days have banned things like rice and confetti for obvious reasons, and it seems like most people are doing the rose petal thing. Don't get me wrong, the rose petal throwing is gorgeous, but I just want something different. Anyways, after doing a bit of googling, it looked like bubbles may be an option. I didn't want to get my hopes up just in case they were out of our budget. So as usual, I jumped onto good ol' eBay. Most of the results seemed to be those short stubby bottles of bubbles and they just weren't doing it for me. I kept on looking and came across "bubble tubes" - now these are more my style! eBay had pulled through yet again! I managed to score 72 tubes of bubbles for only $40 bucks including postage w00t! I even thought of tying a little bit of ribbon around the top to dress them up a little.

I popped into the local $2 shop this afternoon as I am on the hunt for something I can display the tubes in. I managed to find these great little cube vases which would look really nice with a bit of olive green ribbon tied around them! When I have a little bit more cash I will definitely be grabbing those.

I almost forgot...I must stress that all bubble blowing will not be in my face, I don't think it would be very attractive if I got a bubble in the eye!!!

I guess the point I am trying to make...eBay is a Brides Best Friend!

Just a very quick post to let you know that the invitations and wishing well cards have arrived. We are so wrapped with them, they look FANTASTIC and arrived about 17 days earlier than expected!!!

Wedding Invitations...

Recently I have been putting a lot of thought into how I wanted my wedding invitations to look. Traditionally invitations have been a keepsake that add a touch of class to your wedding. There are so many different styles of stationery available these days from something quite elaborate to something very simple. I was looking for something eye catching, that refelcted the wedding...yet simple.

After getting so many quotations it became quite evident that this was not going to be a simple and wallet friendly exercise. For some reason I could not fathom that pieces of paper were so darn expensive!! I am not a "crafty" person so the thought of putting them together myself was extreamly daunting (plus who has the time!), and I was trying to avoid it at all costs!!!

Recently my partner ordered some business cards through an online provider. After the serveral spam emails I was sent, I actually realised that they also printed invitations. For the next couple of hours I trawlled the website looking for a design that appealed to me. Believe it or not I acutally came across something that I immediately fell in love with! So with this very exciting news I decided to draft up an online proof, they looked absolutely stunning and were much better than I was expecting. So with this in mind...my partner decided that we should have a poke around the website to see if there was something else we could design for the wishing well cards. It turned out that they had a place card template that could be used.

So with both of the proofs designed, we were extreamly happy with the price. Today my partners business cards arrived, and for the price we paid they were more than perfect. Inside the box of cards there was something else that got me pretty excited...a coupon for 33% off your next purchase! At this point in time I was like I don't care how far away the wedding is...we must print this stuff. So I triple checked everything and proceeded to the checkout. We ordered 50 of the invites, and 50 of the wishing well cards, taking into account extra people, printing errors or human error. For a grand total of $69.00 we got 50 invitations and 50 wishing well cards including postage!

I cannot wait for them to arrive! I will keep you all posted!

Just so you all know, I have addded some new piccy's to the slideshow!

Time seems to be flying by so quickly, it's hard to believe we are almost mid way through August. For those of you who are interested, it is 264 days until the big day :D .....not that I am counting!!

The Veil

Over the past couple of months I have been so undecided as to what type of veil I wanted to wear. I always knew that the moment I saw it, I would know that it was the one! I was pretty sure I wasn't after a traditional veil, and with the dress having quite a lot of detail at the back, I didn't want anything covering it up. For a long time I have loved the Birdcage Veil, so this is where I started to look. After visiting a lot of bridal stores in Brisbane, I was having absolutely no luck. I started to search online, but it seemed that all of the online stores were based in the US. As usual, I ended up on eBay. It seemed like every week I was jumping on eBay praying that I would find that perfect veil. In the end my persistence paid off. I managed to find a whole store devoted to hand crafting Birdcage Veils, based in Melbourne. After trawling through pages of listings a veil caught my eye.....I think I clicked on the picture 100 times to ensure it opened super quick. I knew I had found it! (Pictured) I think I even let out a little scream.....which then made my work colleagues a little curious! After very little deliberation, I had placed the order for the veil. I couldn't even believe that even with express postage, it came $25 dollars under budget. Even better....it arrived the very next day!