Posts Tagged ‘wedding’
Hello Naomi, Cupcake Noice-ities
Full on weekend for Rish’s brother’s wedding – I’ll get to the pics and the posts when I get a chance!
But just quickly, I wanted to write up a post for the first week of Noice-ities…
If skill/talent was no object, what do you want to make?
I know it’s meant to be a craft answer, but how can I go past making beautiful cupcakes, like the ones Naomi made for the wedding, and the billions of other awesome ones she’s got photos up on on her Flickr Stream?
This is from the dessert table she did for the engagement party last yer. Completely awesome! And something I’ll never be skilled enough to do ;)
Naomi’s cupcake business is Hello Naomi, and she also is involved with scissors.paper.cake, a party-styling business. Enjoy! :)
A Trilingual Wedding
How do you incorporate a Polish groom, a Japanese bride, their family and friend into an Australian wedding?
(Peace fingers!)
For starters, the service was at a Polish Catholic church, in English and Polish.
At one stage all five Japanese girls were snapping away.
The bridesmaids wore Kimonos.
(Then the Polish relatives feed the guests up on cakes.)
The you head up to the top of red hill to On Red, with its gorgeous view of Canberra, provide Sake on the table, serve Polish vodka through the night, do all the speeches in English and Japanese. Oh and serve New Zealand wine. Cos that’s the Australian thing to do ;) (Australia loves its Marlborough Sav Blancs)
But what am I going to wear? ;)
The invitation for Rish’s brother’s wedding came this morning, complete with butterflies, ribbons, and a “dress formal – black tie” note after the RSVP information.
I’m told each invitation is different, and saw some of the photos of them last weekend.
I still have to figure out what to wear to the wedding I’m going to tomorrow before I can worry about this one!
Something I Ate
One of those nights where you get home and suddenly it’s “change of plans”… ugh.
Anyway. It’s a good excuse to have a relaxing night, get my book finished (I’m reading “The hour I first believed” by Wally Lamb), and drink a heap of peppermint tea. I love peppermint tea :) Best herbal tea EVER!
:p
Full on weekend. Went to Newcastle for an engagement party, too many people packed into such a short time.
Question time: What’s the purpose of an engagement party?
I’m still gathering my thoughts on this one. Plus, what’s the “deal” with engagement presents? From what I saw on Saturday night, they seem to be the same as wedding presents. Only half the people will be also going to the wedding and will have to think of something else to buy in 12 months. And how to people go about choosing them, particularly as couples are often living together anyway if they’re getting married, and in some cases appear to have a fully stocked house already…
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I just don’t ‘get’ a lot of the things to do with engagements, weddings and marriage in general.
Maybe.
…
So I’m resting up tonight – we have a friend coming to stay from Wed – Monday, so that’s going to be full on – Canberra, possibly the coast and/or the mountains. Fun fun fun. But I need to be healthy, hey? :D
Hardy like a cactus (or my bamboo)
Andrew’s wedding on the weekend was lovely… it was great to catch up with people again, just like when the stray person heads down our way you remember how much you love the people you’ve left behind. Caught up with our families for breakfast on Saturday – it’s funny how Canberra is just that little bit too far and too cold for people.
Had a fun night – too it upon myself to dance with the flower girl for ages. Plus, they gave us little cactii as bonboniere! The type with soft “leaves”, potted and wrapped in pink. :) Mine’s sitting on my desk ast work – hopefully it will have as long a good a life as the bamboo I got when I left the early childhood team – it was about 20cm then, and now it’s probably a metre tall. I’m planning on (when i get around to it) chopping it and trying to see if I can sprout the cuttings. It won’t harm the originial, I just don’t know if I’ll succeed with the growing.
Organising my flights to Greece this week – the daughter of someone at work is a travel agent, so I have her giving me quotes today, hopefully they’ll be in my email by the time I get to work (staying home for a bit for the plumber to come) and then I can feel much more organised.
So looking forward to a holiday – 2 months to go! :p
Think you can dance?
YOu know how at weddings and other events, the dancefloor can be empty, except for a few little kids bopping away? well, at Jen’s wedding, there were times when there were just four of us out there: Me, Kate (another bridesmaid) and two little brothers. They certainly were showing us the moves:
Reality tv, here I come!
(just wait until the Macarena, Nutbush, Chicken Dance, and the Grease medly pics turn up! *dies*)
Wedding Photos!
More, and full sized, pics over here!
Somebody’s Sister-in-Law
Well, it’s done. My little sister got married, I didn’t cause any deities that may have been out there enough grief to destroy the cathedral over the weekend, and I managed to stay (relatively) sane over the weekend. All things considered, of course.
First question you will have is “PHOTOS!!!?!?!! WHERE ARE THEY?!!?!!” Mine are on my camera which bis on this desk. But Windows 2000 may be my problem. I will have them (probably) this evening, after Rish gets home and I can use his magical new laptop to get them off the camera, and then upload them to my Facebook account. And others will likely start to appear also. If there is good tagging done, I will manage to stumble across these, and will of course steal the good ones :)
It will be easier to do commentary with the photos. :) So I’ll hold off.
Families are great, but sometimes it’s good that they’re a distance away! Who wants some breathing space? :D
Out with the old
Mum and I thought that my sister might need a lacy blue garter for her wedding. We’re nice like that! Also spent hours looking for a bag for Mum… Long day so far… I’m also thrown out so much CRAP that was horded in my old room at my parents place, and am sniffling like mad with the cat fur and dust that I stirred up. But it was a good old clean! :)
Some Mutterings:
- Booze :: booze bus
- Counter :: counterstrike
- Action :: busses
- Trial :: by numbers
- Wheelchair :: clinic
- 1-800 :: reverse
- Chop :: sticks
- Relatives :: table settings. argh!
- Bed sheets :: silk
- Funnel :: fennel
So forgot about Muse
The idea of Muse having the top song in the Hottest 100 did not occur to me whatsoever. heh. But if you lok a the list, not much of the top ten was in my area… Like that damn Soko, and Daft Punk getting in wiht a live version of a seven year old song. Ooh that’s it, just re-realease your hits as live versions and it’s like they’re new again!
I did vote for Karnivool’s vesion of Gotye’s The only way. I love it. At least that’s a cover, not the same song by the some band!
Spent the morning yesterday in the car – had a good run, except for being stopped on teh F3 heading out of Sydney for a bit. Crawling. But, it’s just an expected part of a long-weekend drive there. I had estimated I’d get in around 12:15, and I pulled into my parents’ driveway at 12:12pm, according to my clock :p
Spent the afternoon at a friend’s place listening to the countdown and catching up with people. Nice day. Plenty of opinions about what should and shouldn’t be in the Hottest 100 :) and exclamations of “I don’t know this song!”
Had dinner with the family, wiht my sister too. Still some wedding-y stuff to sort out, but it seems ot be pulling together hehe. And she said I can wear the shoes with the silver heel :)
Okay, need to figure out what I’m doing today – I can’t shower yet because there’s a burst pipe in th front yard and the water’s off… I need to catch Rish’s parents at some point – because it’s a nice thing to do, and because they have a monitor for Rish heh. Also give me a chance to get away from my family. i love them, they just drive me crazy…
