Showing posts with label our engagment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label our engagment. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

Our Engagement Party

Im a slack ass i know - its been almost 2 months since our party & i havent shared any of the photos yet! I think its taken me that long to recover from it actually! Coming from 2 people who are kinda homebodies it was an epic night! A tonne of champagne was consumed, kilos' of baklava & macarooms eaten, gorgeous speaches made & we had a faaantastic night!


The bar and 'ham' table, my mum made all the condiments too!  (im doing a guest post on this set up over on Dizzy Wizzy Design soon)





Sneaky bottle of french bubbles before getting dressed!

The Mums

Dads....

My mum & I

I hope i look like my mum when im 54!
I think the skinny gene skipped a generation!

 Being silly with my future sister in law!
(& showing off our shoes i suspect!)

3 generations - Mum, Nanna & I

 Ben, Mum & Nanna - have to point out this was after midnight & nanna was still kicking on!

Mum, who hates speaking in public had her speach all typed out & in a plastic sleeve (very ocd - that must be where i get it from!!) And did a great job!


Not sure what mum was saying at this point....


Bens dad relaying the story of how ben told his mum and dad all those years ago that he'd just run into me down at the snow & given me a lift home (as if they belived that!) not that he'd actually asked me as our first date to go to the snow for the weekend & borrowed his dads car to impress me haha

Ben, who wasnt going to make a speach saying something extremely embarrassing, then saying some very sweet things that aparently generated a few tears around the room (even from a certain freind, you know who you are, who NEVER cries!)....awwww i have a good man!

love

Cutting our awesome 'cheese' cake! A surprise from Bens dad!

 Soon to be new family

.....annnnnd this is where the night started to get a little less civilised...ill leave it there! Lets just say there was tequila involved, some very questiobale dance moves happening and the cops did a driveby (which ben loved as you can imagine, being a policeman himself!)...and we passed out got into bed at about 5am!

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Engagement party flowers!

So i have FINALLY got all my photos onto the computer from our engagement party a few weeks ago! Thought id share them across a few posts! First up the flowers! I love flowers so any chance to get out to the markets & make up some arrangements really excites me! On the friday before the party mum picked me up at 5:30am & we headed out to Flemington! We did a quick 'reccie' & then decided we'd go for lots of different colored roses & then couldn't resist grabbing some bunches of Kale too!

Our haul in the boot!


 at home laying it all out to work out what to mix with what!

The roses i picked up ranged from $3.50 to $8 a bunch. The big pink ones on the right of this picture were the $8 ones & were stunning!


My other absolute favorites were the big fluffy pale yellow roses on the right below, can you believe these were only $3.50 a bunch! Crazy.


The $3.50 yellow roses - l.o.v.e

This was 3 bunches of Kale for the grand total of $21 all up! And we picked up the white tin bucket from one of the suppies stalls - only $9! Think ill be getting a few more of these to use at the wedding somehow! We had this bucket at the front door with big vanilla scented candles coming down the front stairs (& managed to not get a single photo of all of this set up!!! ggrrr)


After about an hour of arranging........

I think these mixes were my fav - pale yellow, pink & ivory roses!


Gorgeous!!


We then spread them out all over the house! And the day after mum & nanna both took a vase home & i took one to work! They lasted about 4-5 days before stating to look a bit shabby, but i think if i was a bit more diligent about changing the water & cutting the stems they might have lasted longer!

My Tips for the flower markets...
They are open monday/wednesday/friday & saturday.
Parking is $8 & free on saturday.
This is the same market florists buy from so get there early! The website sys its open till 9am but by 7am alot of stalls are a;ready packed up - I usually get there about 6-6:15am, but they are already well underway by then (prepare for a bit of a crowd!) 
Dont be scared to talk to the stall holders as most are really friendly & happy to give you suggestions! 
Take cash - this makes it a lot easier!
Do a bit of a walk around to get an idea of whats in season, what looks good on the day & prices, then go crazy ;)
oh & also if you feel like a great coffee or spot of breaky after your shopping there is an awesome italian place a few warehouses down...cant remember what its called but ask someone to point you in the right direction!


Friday, May 20, 2011

Flower Markets

Im off bright & early to the flower markets today with my mum to pick up a whole bunch of flowers for our party tomorrow night! Its actually 5am as i write this (im NOT  a morning person!!) I did a reccie a few months back in this post....These are the images ill be channeling as i attempt to be awake enough to make decisions at 5:30am! Ill share what we came back with next week! I have to say the first two images i am just in love with - they really derseve their own post!

The Design Depot - PERFECTION! (the lanterns...ohhhh myyyy gosh!)
and you can hire all of this from them too! check out the link!

Ranunculas - a recent discovery

Anna Spiro

Luxe Events

The Shady Fig

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Engagement party inspiration

Our Engagement party is on saturday night! Have to say im really quite excited! Only i think my choice of dress might be more suited to the middle of summer & not this freezing weather sydney is having at the moment - hopefully i dont turn into an ice block! here are a  few pictures from the inspiration folder......
haha not the sheep ;)

Style me pretty

Black & Spiro
Love the tub - my aunty has something similar which is actually a french antique & ive been lucky enough to be able to borrow it for the night!




Laura Hooper



La Boom





ooohhh eee im excited!

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