Some people are so clever

Like my aunty for instance. This was her wedding present to us. It's so beautiful. I love it to pieces!

So clever.

Just a short post today as today was my first day back at work and I'm a bit brain dead. Oh how I wish out school had aircon.

15 days?????

Surely not? Where the hell did the last 15 go?

Can I just say that I am absolutely amazed by people who managed to blog regularly all the way up to their wedding day. Absolutely amazed!

A lot has happened in the last 15 days. It's been a bit of a roller coaster. I've had the low of saying goodbye to my beautiful grandmother next to the high of A having a pretty darn good win at poker. Although, I'd swap the money for having grandma at the wedding any day of the week. She held on long enough for me to visit and talk to her after I got home from Japan and for that I'm eternally grateful.

In the midst of that sadness we got this fantatsic RSVP from a relative (on the other side of the family) which nearly had us crying with laughter and because I have tests to mark, phone calls to make and a house to clean I'll leave you with that for today.

Roses are red

Violets are blue

On November the 6^th

We wanna party with you

P has new moccies

B, a new tatt

L has new thongs

Can’t go wrong with all that

But oh woe is us

We have to confess

We forgot to reply

Oh gosh what a mess

Please can we come

Please find us a table

To celebrate with

The new couple named ?*

Please send us a message

A “Yes” we do pray

To ensure the C family

Can share your great day

So this is the end

Of our little ditty

We certainly hope

That you’re not really shitty

* I guess you can tell that my new name is going to rhyme with 'table'!

3 Very Important People

There are 3 very important people who just because that's-the-way-life-goes wont be at our wedding in November.

Nana and Pop have both passed away in the last 3 years. Has it really been that long? It doesn't feel like it. Pop was a farmer until the end and as a friend put it at his funeral was "one of life's true gentlemen".  Nana was a great gardener, tennis player, cook, seamstress, florist - you name it and she could do it.  I have no doubt that if she were around she'd be doing our flowers, cooking our cake and they'd probably be teaching us how to dance. They loved their old-time dances and would light up when they showed us something new they had learnt. My sister and I always said we should go with them one night to see them in action but of course we never did. The definition of regret.

For them, after our first dance, the rest of the family will be getting up to do an Evening Three Step. Possibly to 'I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts' unless anyone else out there knows another evening three step song??? 

And, my other important person? Grandpa. Another avid green thumb with a garden to rival Nana's and a great sense of competition in a game of scattegories. Seriously, the debates over answers were fierce. Filled with laughter, but fierce. It is for both of them that I'm giving the bouquets a go myself. I'd like to claim to be half as talented, or even a quarter! 

So while they won't be there in person, they'll be there in our hearts and our actions in some way. And that will be enough.

Tell me what you really think!

I love my Grandma to bits. And I love that now she's nearly 90 she says exactly what she thinks without being too concerned about tact!

When I saw her last weekend she asked a lot about the wedding. But the comment that took the cake was this....keeping in mind that I had just come from a hair trial.....

"And Christie how are you going to have your hair?"
"Like this Grandma. But with a veil and a flower," I reply and spin around so she can see the back too.
"Like THAT??? It's very messy. I hope it will be neater than that!"

Thanks Grandma! You're a cracker!

After hours of trawling Etsy (oh how I wish I was a more decisive person) I'll have a flower like this from percyhandmade hopefully made with some lace from my dress if there's enough after hemming this weekend.  Yep, another trip to Melbourne. The cat won't be home alone this time though!

Getting closer

2 months to go!

After a 2.5 hour delay (thanks cheap airline with striped animal mascot) we flew to Melbourne to get some things sorted.

I got to pick up my dress. Very exciting. No crazy pre-wedding diet required, it fits perfectly.

Went to the reception venue, met the bloke in charge (and he is a bit of a bloke) but knows what he's doing. Had an early Father's Day lunch there. Good food, how do you pick a menu when you want to pick every option, particularly the desserts???

Met the pastor and had a chat about the ceremony (interesting, not entirely sure if he's going to marry us after all as he was not very approving of the fact that there will be alcohol at the reception.....it's ok though, we have a back up plan).

Went to A's 10 year high school reunion and stayed with good friends who are getting hitched just a couple of weeks after us.

Had a hair trial (but not makeup - the girl who was going to do it for me can't get off work on the wedding day so back to square one with that).

Had lunch with Grandma, who we're not sure will make it to November as she's been diagnosed with cancer in her spine, breast and possibly stomach. Really hoping she'll be there as she's my only remaining grandparent. She really wants to be there too and seemed to be well today so here's hoping!

Flew home. Flights are NOT relaxing when the pilot takes two goes to take off (thanks again, cheap airline with striped animal mascot). Really hoping we booked a different airline for the real wedding weekend!