Butter or Vanilla, Mint and Salmon

I've gone and decided on an impossible colour scheme. Yesterday we found so many beautiful dresses that either came in one or none of our colours.
Common Colours:
Black, Red, Blue (royal or Tiffany's), Chocolate, Purple, Lavender and a dark shade of pink.
I probably should have started looking sooner before getting attached. There is one brand great for having lots of colour choices "Alfred Angelo."

The most beautiful dress I saw was at Anne Marie and Mr John by "Angeline" it only came in mint. I almost considered putting all the girls in the same colour.

We looked at: BBO (Brisbane Bridal Outlet)
http://www.queenslandbrides.com.au/planning/directory/profile/?cpid=1540

Hills on Hollywood
http://www.hillsinhollywood.com/

Anne Marie and Mr Jonn
http://www.annamarieandmrjohn.com/

Casars Elegance
http://www.casarelegance.com.au/

and The bridal centre
http://www.thebridalcentre.com.au/

At the bridal centre we found a beautiful dress that has two layers, an under layer and an over layer of lace (and you can decide the colour of both). Hard to explain/do justice but I liked it alot, but it's very girly and I'm not sure if it'll suit all the beautiful bridesmaids.
My second favourite is a concept, a floor length chiffon dress with a sweet heart neckline.
There are four below, the short one is the one I tried to explain and the other three is my third favourite in our three impossible colours.

Bridesmaids Dress

Rhys and I spent the day in Chermside and the city looking for the ideal bridesmaid dress. Here are some of the best ones I found in the Brissy region. xoxo.

Read this for your Bridesmaids.

The book is called, Bad Bridesmaid and the Author is Siri Agrell, my FMIL bought it for my birthday a couple of years ago. I love this book. I was reading it today and I just cannot put it down, although as a bride to be, it's almost offensive that The Bride is always an evil character. Almost. But some of the things people will do to be part of someones big day. I love how it questions the role. Really, read it! It's so funny, you may end up laughing at yourself.

http://www.badbridesmaid.com/

Colours

The wedding colours are pastal green, yellow and pink. Each of the bridesmaids have their own colour, but each will wear (hopefully) the same dress. Unless we cannot find a dress they all look fab in. We are having 3 bridesmaids and 3 groomsmen.

Expanding on the engagement party

Like I was saying in my previous post we did somethings that I hadn't seen at past engagement parties.

The best man election 08

Ri has two very good friends and couldn't decide who would be the best man. So we decided, without exactly telling his friends, that there would have to be an election. So my FMIL (that's future mother in law) called for everyone's attention and spoke about Ri's friendship with them both and decided that they each had to make a one minute speech saying why they should be best man. Once the speeches were done (one of them sculling the rest of his bundy and then spoke, hehe) we passed around a ballot box and each person at the party voted for one or the other. We had a winner by ONE vote, when we counted the votes that night, it was good fun, was exciting to see how our own bridal party would turn out!

Krispy Kreme

This was a massive hit. We gave the groomsmen $100 and told them to go into the city and get us some Krispy Kreme. It took them a couple of hours but they came back with like 100 donuts. Ri put out the first 25 thinking that it would take people a while to eat. He turned his back and they were all gone. He ended up putting all of them out and we had none left within minutes. It was a great novelty since the store had only opened here in Brisbane this year.

Our Engagement Painting

We set up a massive canvas (see photo) and set out paint and told people to paint! It was good fun as we watched the painting be created, there was always a group of people standing around watching who ever was painting. We're adding some finishing touches. When its 100% complete I'll post a picture. I love it, it's in our kitchen and always makes me smile.