Got the sweets in for the favours so have been wrapping chocolate with voile like a woman possessed!! They are all done though, just three sit downs to do 92 (then I ran out of ribbon) favours, that should be enough as RSVPs have started coming back and we are at something like 81 people and 13 kids (not that children aren't people but they aren't in terms of favours. They are getting their own!!) Lucky things I'm not... I want a favour!
This is actually run two of the favours as the first time we bought some lovely little edible silver leaf covered choclates.. and little they were, so we have had to bulk them out a bit, and to be honest it has made a much nicer looking gift! Hurray for mishaps that lead to creation...
In the same boxes came the disposable cameras that we are putting on each table, so peeps can take photos of the goings on. To be honest I am most looking forward to seeing the ones we get from the chldren's tables!! Embarrassing photos aplenty...
The Pipes - The Pipes!!!!!
If they are calling.... run away.
I had wanted to be piped up the aisle to Highland Cathedral, really love that song! But now it has been recommended that we get piped back down the aisle, but what to? I haven't liked anything so far, and when people keep asking you and playing songs at you over and over, at some point you have to crack....
I had wanted to be piped up the aisle to Highland Cathedral, really love that song! But now it has been recommended that we get piped back down the aisle, but what to? I haven't liked anything so far, and when people keep asking you and playing songs at you over and over, at some point you have to crack....
The Fitting - It Does!!
Well we went off for our dress fittings, as well as a crazy day the day before when Jess had a trial of her hair and we both had our make-up done!! Gillian is going to have all this to look forward to next week when she is down from Elgin!!
The hair went great, Jess looked good, we even got to spray her with spray on glitter! Sounds a bit retro but isn't, trust me, i'm a bride! It did look good though so I am wondering if I should change my hair too. I'm not 100% happy with some of the phots, quite frankly they make me look bald. hmmm....
The make up was WAY better than the first run through, very natural looking, just how I wanted it to be. The first time was just too heavy for me, particularly as I am not used to wearing make-up at all.!!
Dress fitting, I thought I wasn't going to like the woman initially, as she seemed quite brisk and official, but I guess if you are used to having to deal with scatty brides every day then you have to be a bit controlling. But soon it became obvious that i wasn't going to be like that as, apart from two stitches, my dress fitted perfectly! Nothing needing doing! Excellent! And cheap!! I tried the dress with a hoop but.... well, its ridiculous, now I know how those old knitted toliet roll dolls felt!! ANd with Jess only needing minor alterations.. good times!!
We chilled out in the afternoon with a trip to a Victorian market, where we explored the stalls and listened to a little band made entirely of people bonking bells, really pretty!
The hair went great, Jess looked good, we even got to spray her with spray on glitter! Sounds a bit retro but isn't, trust me, i'm a bride! It did look good though so I am wondering if I should change my hair too. I'm not 100% happy with some of the phots, quite frankly they make me look bald. hmmm....
The make up was WAY better than the first run through, very natural looking, just how I wanted it to be. The first time was just too heavy for me, particularly as I am not used to wearing make-up at all.!!
Dress fitting, I thought I wasn't going to like the woman initially, as she seemed quite brisk and official, but I guess if you are used to having to deal with scatty brides every day then you have to be a bit controlling. But soon it became obvious that i wasn't going to be like that as, apart from two stitches, my dress fitted perfectly! Nothing needing doing! Excellent! And cheap!! I tried the dress with a hoop but.... well, its ridiculous, now I know how those old knitted toliet roll dolls felt!! ANd with Jess only needing minor alterations.. good times!!
We chilled out in the afternoon with a trip to a Victorian market, where we explored the stalls and listened to a little band made entirely of people bonking bells, really pretty!
Prizes!!
Well, I have been much a winner this past few weeks!! Went to the Highland SHow and dragged Dave around all the stalls in the food hall entering all the prize draws!! Well, a couple of days later I came home to a big box stuffed over our back gate, all wet from the rain and wedged on the fencing we have back there. Inside.... a big fruit basket, I had won one of the prize draws!! Yum Yum!!
Then just yesterday, got the COuncil's inhouse magazine to find my name as the winner of a food hamper from the local deli! Not sure how I claim this one, haven't heard anything official yet but hurray!! More food on its way to me!!!
Then just yesterday, got the COuncil's inhouse magazine to find my name as the winner of a food hamper from the local deli! Not sure how I claim this one, haven't heard anything official yet but hurray!! More food on its way to me!!!
They are done - Oh Lord, they are done!
Finally finished the invitations which I am making myself. Did you ever start something and then half way through realise that it maybe wasn't such a great idea....
They look good though, even if I do say so myself! Just have to ship them off to M&D now and they have the equally unenviable task of mailing them all out to the guests! I have also finished the little place name tags too, they are very elegant and simple and a lot faster to make!! My uncle is using his calligraphy to write the names on them
"THANKS UNCLE NORMAN"
he is also doing some fancy work around the outside of the main table plan, i forget the posh name but its the kind of drawn patterns that monks used to put around their work... what is that called....
The insert to the invitations are causing a bit of grief, one fact being that i want to be referred to by my first and second name, not just my first. If David is getting the whole lot, first middle and last + a MR and mum and dad are getting MR & MRS 'the whole hog' why am I just Rosemary? Looks odd to me, although apparently that is how it is done. Hmm.... not on these invites me thinks...
They look good though, even if I do say so myself! Just have to ship them off to M&D now and they have the equally unenviable task of mailing them all out to the guests! I have also finished the little place name tags too, they are very elegant and simple and a lot faster to make!! My uncle is using his calligraphy to write the names on them
"THANKS UNCLE NORMAN"
he is also doing some fancy work around the outside of the main table plan, i forget the posh name but its the kind of drawn patterns that monks used to put around their work... what is that called....
The insert to the invitations are causing a bit of grief, one fact being that i want to be referred to by my first and second name, not just my first. If David is getting the whole lot, first middle and last + a MR and mum and dad are getting MR & MRS 'the whole hog' why am I just Rosemary? Looks odd to me, although apparently that is how it is done. Hmm.... not on these invites me thinks...
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