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.

Hair trial

I had my hair trial last night :)

Were we like that?

I'm not in a good mood today. So who knows were this blog will go, but it's been too long since my last post that I'm just going to type.
Since my last post
- I went to Melbourne
- I 'missed' Valentines day.

Complaint Number 1. Flying
DYK that Virgin Blue has a 'two wheelchair per flight' rule? I'm going to guess no. I've been flying with them for ages (with my chair) and didn't find out until I was number 3 last week.
I called the call centre a few days before my flight and said that I was in a wheelchair. Now the only reason I do this, or so I thought, was as a courtesy to the airline. So very dang wrong. The 'lady' on the other end said, in poor English.
"Now your options are to rebook your flight at your expense"
notice the use of a plural? I'm on the other end waiting for option two... which never came.
MY FAULT. THIRD WHEELCHAIR. OWN EXPENSE.
I have not had someone talk down to me like I was an idiot for not realising this rule was in place. I actually hung up on them.
I refused to rebook the flight. Virgin Blue refused to provide any assistance. So if I had been unable to walk to the gate without help I'd have been boned. So Very Wrong.
Everyone else at Virgin Blue were nice enough, but call centre lady has landed Virgin Blue squarely on my list.

Complaint Number Two: Young Couples
We had dinner with a young couple last night.
So young that they both swear they loved that movie valentines day.
I've done some reading on the net to make sure it's not just me, this is from rotten tomatoe
Consensus: Eager to please and stuffed with stars, Valentine's Day squanders its promise with a frantic, episodic plot and an abundance of rom-com cliches.
SO TRUE.
Plus PDA. Urk.
There were five at dinner, two couples and one single, so out of common courtesy limit the PDA. Plus we're eating. Really wait one hour, it will be ok.

You see how cranky I am today? I'm all down with love.

Maybe I just need a good nap. Tomorrow we're going to the next fitting for the BMs and Ri is picking up our wedding rings tonight from Tiffany's, newly engraved.

Tori's Black Tie for women

I think heels and hair/make-up can make most dresses black tie. I tend to go out and buy a dress for each wedding I go to. But that's just me.
Does it have to be full length? I don't think so.
Here again are some visuals on the red carpet.





I'm not enjoying telling people how to dress. I thought everyone would see black tie and go sweet! a chance to dress up. I get a certain idea in my head and get stuck on it like, wouldn't it be nice for everyone to be dressed up? That's why I've labelled these blogs bridezilla.

In the end it won't really matter, as long as the people we invited are there, I don't think we'll even notice.

Tori's Black Tie for men

These are only my standards.I'm a Brisbane girl and realise that it can get hot.
I made the mistake of putting 'Black Tie' on our invitations. It's done and I don't want to undo it. But it was suppose to be fun. A chance to dress up. Not a major drama. So to start of with let's put out a minimum. Collared white shirt, black tie (does not have to be bow), black pants and nice enough shoes and a jacket would be nice.
My theory is if it can be done on a red carpet then it is black tie.
So here are some visuals.






If it were me dressing Ri. Does he have black shoes? yes. White coloured shirt? yes
Black pants? yes. Jacket? No. Either borrow one from friend or find one at Vinnies (he had one that he bought for $3 from Vinnies - I think it died, but he got some wear out of it) or buy a simple black one he can wear again. Does he have a black tie? No. Borrow from my brother who I know has one. DONE.

Do they have to be in black and white? No. It just looks classic. Like you can't go wrong with simple black and white.

This would not fly:

Just like mum

I believe that it is around now, the mid 20s. That a girl will look at her mum and go, oh dang, she's just like me.
It was my baby brothers 23rd birthday last week, and so we had dinner with my folks. I asked mum when it was that she saw Europe. Late 1979. When she was 25. Now just over 30 years later, at about the same age, I'm going too.
Here are some mum and me stats.
She meet Dad when she was a teenager, I meet Ri when I saw 16.
However she married Dad at 19, I'm marrying Ri at 25.
Dad was 20-21 when he proposed, Ri was 22.
Ri will be 24 when we get married Dad was 21.
They got married in October one day before my mum's dad's birthday. We are getting married in May one day after my dad's birthday. (We didn't know this before we set the date- well I knew about MY dads birthday, but not Pa's as he had been dead for many years).
Mum finished nursing school at age 29, 3 weeks after having her first child.
I finished university (with 2 degrees mind you) at 24, sans children.


I'm hoping to recreate some of the photos they took on their Europe trip. They went in November, so I'm going to practice looking very cold.