Our Vows

I spent Australia day writing our wedding ceremony.
I had a document on my laptop with like 5 scripts. I started a NEW document on Ri's computer and just typed and I think they turned out ok (It's the whole ceremony, not just the vows). Bits are from the internet, including 3 readings from the non-religious sites. Here is one:

An excerpt from "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

Just over 3 months

I'm going to consider all pre-wedding thoughts normal until told otherwise.
Today was - there are SO many cool wedding ideas out there and now its to late.
I'm going to partially blame wedding sites like green wedding shoes for that.

Sure you can store all the ideas away for your friends wedding or future sister in laws wedding. But I know I just wont get the creative say that I have with ours.

Pfft Ri's sister will probably get married at the very top of a snowy mountain, overseas, in green and completely ignore any normal ideas.

Come to think of it snowy wedding photos are quite pretty.

Anyway back to what I was thinking about: I'm going over everything in my head and reminding myself that I LOVE that idea and that is why we're doing it.

The invitations are ALMOST FINISHED.
I LOVE them.
I LOVE the colours.
I LOVE my dress.
I LOVE the cake.

I LOVE that we only have to do this once.

No phone line and no internet make Tori something something

Next door has just finished building a house on their block of land. It was decided that a fence and concrete would go between the two houses. The builders putting in the concrete PULLED OUT our phone line. No phone (except mbls). No internet. No TiVo.

So that is why this blog is being neglected. We're very busy on the wedding side of things. This internet loss could not have come at a worse time!

Wedding land:

Invites: the dead line for the completion of the invites is next Friday! I'll post up some photos once everyone has gotten their invite. It all still looks like a pile of ribbon satin and paper scraps!

Dresses: The BMs had their first fitting this weekend! Considering a fellow bride to be, that is getting married in August has their BM dresses in the closet ready to go, I was feeling slack for waiting so long! But I think the timing will work out well. Fitting two is in late Feb.

Honeymoon: We've booked one hotel. For the wedding night in Brisbane. I'm trying to process all the information for the North American leg and possibly organise visa's for the European leg. Overwhelmed much?

Just play anything

So, other than the pile of to-be-constructed invitations on the dining room table, I'm doing a lot of thinking about what music to play when, again. So I might go over what I'm thinking.

For the processional, La Valse d'Amelie - thats for the bridesmaids


Processional for me: No idea, a happy instrumental song. (Maybe Portuguese theme from love actually?)

For the rest of the songs. I don't know when I might use what.

Power of love (from back to the future)- because it's so bad it's good

Open up some happiness (brought to you by Coke).

Lady Gaga - Bad romance - oh so not appropriate, but I love this song.

Don't stop believing - Because I'm a massive Gleek

Leaving on a jetplane (Is so late highschool)

The first song we danced to was at our formal in '02, but it was the Graduation song by Vitamin C. Not sure if I'll use it, might get the DJ to play it for not reason, other than reliving the moment when he whispered into my ear 'can you believe it'.

Daft Punk, around the world.

Sugar high - from Empire Records.

The song from love actually, all you need is love!

Cold Play - Yellow (this will probably be for when Yellow BM does a speech)

I also love the song by Owl City - Fireflies - Ri thinks its about drug use

There are some lovely love themes from Love Actually.

Everybody's Free- to feel good.

Chris Brown - Forever, so overused, but I like it.

Tik Tok - Keisha

Well there are some of the ideas from the last week or so. Any suggestions?

On My Way Home

I'm in a new role at work (Day Therapy - which is awesome) at my hours have changed so I get to go home at 2pm. When I finish at 4:30pm Rhys would pick me up and we drive home together. But leaving at 2pm I drive home on my own. And I take a different route. I go via the chapel we'll say I do in (its only 5 minutes out of my way). Today I just pulled over for a minute and sat and tried to picture our wedding day. I still can't believe that it's real.

I also drive over the Story Bridge and admire our reception venue.

Engagement shoot

Here are the results from the engagement shoot.

Our New Years Eve

New Years Eve was spent on the couch watching live TV, we were going to go to one of Ri's ever neglected friends house, but I got a migraine, and instead of going without me (which I told him to do repeatedly) he sat on the couch with me and we counted down to 2010 together.
I swear that boy uses girl logic because he's bought himself an entire night out to be cashed in... sometime soon I'm sure.

So what of 2009?
I think what will stand out for me is work. Learning to work, becoming a worker, after six years at UQ. Oh and money, earning some half decent money! I love my job. I see so many speechies who want to leave the profession. I hope that's not me in 3 years.

How about 2010
It's four days into 2010 and I've already forgotten my new years resolutions. 2010 is going to be a massive year for Ri and I. To the point where sometimes I forget that it is not happening to everyone around me, 2010 might be normal for some, or massive in a different way. Our wedding is LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS away and we don't get back from our honeymoon until mid November.

Ri gets cranky at me, sometimes, for telling everyone who'll listen about our honeymoon plans. I think he sees it as showing off. I've led a rather boring life in the three years we've been saving, in a way I fell like we've earned it.

My goals for 2010:
Try not to let the wedding become bigger than it is.
To remember that friends and family come first.
Not to give Ri a reason to divorce me on our honeymoon.
To come home to friends and family.
Start the Puppy Project

Happy New Year

We're getting married this year!!

YAY!