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.

Celeb wedding 8: H is for Heidi

Tivo had been taping The Hills for me. I've only seen the first season or so and CANNOT BELIEVE that Heidi ends up with Spencer. Really?

From Zimbio

Valentines day run away

Last year Ri booked us this beautiful 3 night stay at a place in the gold coast hinterlands -O'Reileys I believe. It was perfect, no tv, no phones, just the two of us.

So this year I've decided to do the only thing a good wife to be would do on the valentines day before our wedding. Exactly 11 weeks before our big day. 77 days.

I'm leaving Ri in Brisbane and going down to Melbourne for four days with my cousin, for shopping, make-up trials, eating and shopping. Heck yeah.

I did ask him before I booked the flight. I still felt a mild bit of guilt as I booked the flight. THEN EXCITEMENT.

We agreed to change the date of valentines day to the 7th. We've shown each other the gifts we bought. And we have decided on where to eat. Doesn't sound very romantic, but I don't care, we're going to Paris and Venice this year... we can catch up on the romance there.