Just over one month

I caught myself thinking on the way home about how I was looking forward to our far off wedding that was happening some time "next year."
It actually startled me when I realised we really only have a month to go.

We've just finalised the menu (YUM!) Lots of vegie and gluten free things. As I know that at least 3 guests are vegies and 1 is on a gluten free diet.
The guest list is starting to take shape with about 80 people confirmed for the reception and there are still 5 invites sitting on the table.
My hensnight is 2.5 weeks away and I'm so excited.

What has surprized me the most is that I'm not stressed (about the wedding). I'm not losing sleep over it like I was a year ago. I'm not staying up going over every decision over and over again. I keep telling mum that I'm not making a very good bride.

Monday is the two (2!!) year anniversary of Ri's proposal at Montville. :)

But you were always together

I had an awesome weekend with a friend of mine who just got back from a couple of weeks in Japan.
On the Saturday we went out for sushi for lunch, did some shopping, she got a dermal piercing (awesome!), we went and saw Alice in Wonderland. Then had some dinner.
Then we all got up at 7am on the Sunday and drove out to Googa (near Blackbutt) which was a camp that my friend and I had gone to together pretty much exactly TEN years earlier!
Ri went on the same camp 2-3 months after my group.
So there was the three of us at Googa. The camp we went on when we were 14-15 years old. 10 years ago.
The site had changed so much. No more chapel in the tree! No more low ropes, or horses, or cows, or chip heater. 2 new dorms. The menus now read "wedges" for dinners - this involves getting froozen wedges from the canteen and putting them in the over... kids these days!!

And the, then, four year old son of the man who now runs the camp, is now 14. He is no longer running around in a cape and afraid of girls, but is driving a ute and playing practical jokes on his parents with smoke machines under the engine of said ute. (it was pretty funny).

The three of us set up a picnic in Ris old dorm. Dorm 3. We had a moment there where I was saying "but we cant eat in there Stace! That's the BOYS DORM!".

We walked around down to the ding-a-ling and pamper pole and Stace and I cheered Ri on. He gave them both a go and he did pretty good for an oldie.
Most of the other ex-students there were from the 2006 and 2007 googa class. We were the 2000 googa class, and that will make you feel old. Add to that- the kids were talking about the first tat they plan to get (awww) and argueing over the lyrics to "Get low" - I tried to weigh in and add that it was in fact To the window - To the WALL (not WILD), but I felt like they were looking at me like I was as credible as Granny on this issue.


You know what was great about this weekend?
It was not about the wedding at all. We just had some fun.

We had dinner at Stace's and her mother asked, when did you start dating?
27th June 2005.
No that can't be right! He was always there, always helping you, like at Staces 18th. I think you've always been together...

Fake tan

Oh halp.
I'm on the net wasting some time as I wait for the tanning lady to arrive.

I'm stressed! I've never gotten a fake tan before! And I've always been so pale, that I figured that I would just be pale at the wedding.

But my sweet talking cousin has convinced me to give it a go and with more than 8 weeks to go, well why not hey?

YIKES! Will post the result!

happy bride-to-be

Picture not related. I just like to add a photo, I'm a visual person.

So I've been reading through my blog and have noticed that I'm either cranky or feeling apathetic towards the wedding. I guess its because being happy can sometimes come across as being, I don't know the right word, boastful perhaps? Or maybe it's because a good friend once said that "nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be."
I've found that to be very true.
Like I was looking forward to this wedding in November, and then spent the reception the the bathroom with a bucket throwing up.
Or at my 21st where I Broke My Leg.
Or at my 18th where there was a fist fight...
Ot at my Graduation from GEMS when we (my immediate family and I) didn't go out to dinner because no one could agree on a place to eat.

I feel like I'm sitting back waiting for something to go wrong.

Being Happy is tricky!

But here are some this that I'm happy about:
The reception venue. It is oh so perfect. and it's us. because it's UQ.

Our rings. We had them engraved with the date of our wedding and a little message to each other that only highschool friends will understand.

My dress and the Bridesmaids dresses.

That so many extended family members will be there!

and that I get Ri for 6 months! All to myself 24/7. hehehehe.

xoxo

Our First Dance

Music... its getting there. Here are the lyrics to our first dance.


Jack Johnson -Better together

[Verse 1:]
There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard,
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart,
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things,
Like a shoebox of photographs,
With sepiatone loving,
Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart ,
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy,
And sometimes life can be deceiving,
I'll tell you one thing, its always better when we're together

[Chorus:]
MMM, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

[Verse 2:]
And all of these moments
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone,
When the morning light sings
And brings new things,
But tomorrow night you see
That they'll be gone too,
Too many things I have to do,
But if all of these dreams might find their way
Into my day to day scene
I'll be under the impression,
I was somewhere in-between
With only two,
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do,
Or places we got to be
We'll sit beneath the mango tree now

Yeah, it's always better when we're together
MMM, We're somewhere in-between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

MmMMmm MmMMm MmMMm
I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when, and when I wake up,
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time,
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing,
We're better together

Less than two months to go

With less than two months to go, I wonder if any other bride to be got bored.
This month marks the two year anniversary of Ri's proposal.

And I think we're done.

And by that I mean all organised.

I have never felt more organised in my life. I'm even doing the seating plan as the RSVPs come in to spare the stress of doing it in a single sitting.

In the next month I've got to meet with the florist, photographer, the cake maker, the dress maker and the reception venue. But all the details are written down to be handed over to the relevant provider.

Maybe I'm jinking myself, but I can't think of a single thing left to plan or find.

So I'm left waiting.

And since there is still 2 months to go, it's too far away to be really excited.

I guess I should shift focus to the honeymoon, but with that we have the opposite issue.

O M G there is so much we could plan!!!

Here is the first leg, lets call it leg North America:
10 days in western USA
5 days in western Canada
21 Days in Eastern USA and Canada...
So far we're landing in LAX and have a flight to San Fran that day. And we've booked a place to stay in San Fran. So that still leaves us with over 3 weeks worth of accomodation to book. and small flights. and train trips. and buses.