Wedding February 2009

**feeb** · March 11th, 2008, 10:46 PM

Wedding day was perfect as i wanted it all!!

I stayed night before at a gorgeous place with my parents and 1 of my brothers and cousin from scotland and my bridesmaids.

I arrived at wedding in a horse and carriage which was gorgeous!

Wedding and reception were all at 1 place a cute place in sherbrooke forest in teh dandenong ranges!! Gorgeous little chapel.

I loved shopping for my dress and the girls dresses!

Flowers were hard.

cake was yummy but hard to pic!!

Photogarher was hard to find a good onw with good prices.

I got invites and place cards printed and i then made them all up and thank you's to put on favours.

Dh went to get guys suits and left at home material samples from my dress and girls to match shirts and cravtates to so i had to take them in a week later but at least they all got meausred!

Dh did help with song choices for aisle and bridal waltz and i picked songs that my brother sang during ceremony!

Dh helped with honeymoon and he did ALL BY HIMSELF book our wedding night accom and night after and had roses and choccies for me there!!

Pretty much i organised all and i was so happy with way it all ran if you have any qns please ask.

**lisa.** · March 11th, 2008, 11:00 PM

You had a beautiful wedding. Our wedding cake going to be a chocolate mud cake shape in a heart or butterfly with chocolate cupcakes around it yummy, my flowers are maybe going to been Lillie's i go told it hard to get roses on V day. Invited are going to be in pink and place card are in blue and purple i making them myself i don't know how to make things so i not sure what to do. Do you think so far i got the main things done? i not sure

Lisa

**feeb** · March 11th, 2008, 11:11 PM

sounds nice!!

I think u have all the main bits done well teh next thing to do is your dress as u want to do that early so that u will have time to get it altered etc and get girls dressed picked as mine took 12 weeks to come in!

Make sure that anyone travelling a long distance knows date etc well in advance so they can book accom etc as so many people go away for valantines day that acoom may be tight and flights willbe cheaper the earlier they book.

My flowers were roses 2 diff colours singapore orchids and symbidium orchids.

Since alll the main things booked its now time for u to relax for a bit and think about little bits eg gift registry? (we did myers abnd flight centre) as some peope want u to have something to keep and others are hapy to put towrads honeymoon!
The gifts for guest we had rock from SUGA with our names written in it in cute jars (colors matched the theme of girls dress colour and chair covers and serveitte colour)

**Mel A** · March 12th, 2008, 02:56 PM

This is sooo cool.
Feeb yours sounds wonderful. My house backs onto Sherbrooke forrest so I'm instantly impressed.

Lisa, just to check you have done the following.
Reception
vidiographer
Celebrant
Picked the girl side of the bridal party
Cake

Let me know if you've added to that.

Have you picked the colours of your wedding, eg. Mine were Dusty pink, olive Green with a base of cream.

It is great to pick a base color, black white, silver, cream etc.
Then add two to three colors that match. This will ensure everything will look beautiful and won't just be a hotchpotch. I picked my colours because I really wanted Protea's as my flowers so i built around that.
It can also work the other way and can be built around a theme or your fav colour.

Once you have that you need to look at three things. The ceremony, the reception and you.

You
Be beautiful during this time, Pick a dress that makes you look like a princess, and that your comfortable in. Don't let people influencce you with their opinion based only on what they like. It is about you. Then think Hair (Get as many trials as it takes and don't accept it if you don't like it), Makeup(Get a good makeup artisit, then ask questions about a balance between Photo and live make up. Things like dark red lipstick will look black in the B&W photo's ), Nails and skin. The skin preperation is a great reason to get a facial and a back scrub every month from now on ;o)

Ceremony and the Reception, I'll do when I get home as I soo must do work now.

**feeb** · March 12th, 2008, 03:24 PM

Mel wedding was at lyrebird falls in kallista most gorgeous place!!
Stayed the night before at Briserinia gardens in the patch.
Wedding night and next night at Lochiel tree tops in Olinda!

You live in a lovely area!!

I had a burgandy colour called CERISE for girls dresses and chair covers etc.

**Aimz** · March 12th, 2008, 03:24 PM

I got married in the Greek Islands last September. It took 2 years to plan but I will go through the steps I took in preparing:

-Set a date
-Find and hire a wedding planner (this was essential for me as I was planning a -wedding in another country and needed a little more support than most!)
-Book Venue
-Book Reception
-Decide on Guest List
-Send out Save The Date cards to inform everyone to keep that date free (I did this 12 months in advance but most would do it within 3-6 months)
-Hire Photographer
-Hire Videographer
-Decide on wedding dress (mine was a custom so it took 9 months to make)
-Decide on BM dresses (again they were custom so they took 4 months)
-Send out Invitations (Usually 6-8 weeks before)
-Decide on a menu
-Decide on a cake
-Decide on entertainment (DJ, Live Band etc)
-Pick wedding songs (Entrance, Father Daughter, Bridal Waltz, Cake Cutting etc)
-Choose flowers
-Choose wedding favours (gifts for the guests)
-Choose who will be giving speeches and inform them of the order, length etc
-Choose how you want your hair/makeup and start your trials 6 months before to make sure you get something you love

I can't think of much else at the moment - let me know if you need anymore advice - I am freshly married so I remember it all vividly!!