Posts Tagged ‘Wedding’

Wedding album

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Merry Christmas and Happy 2010 everyone!

I feel so bad that I’ve neglected this blog of ours for so long since we tied the knot. But all is good, I’m back - hopefully on a more regular basis going forward.

So what has been happening? Well, a lot and not much. Life has treated us well and after we got back from the November trip, we bogged down to prepare for the huge Christmas retail season, which was, BUSY! Then, just when I thought we could relax, our wedding photographer kindly reminded us that we needed to pick photos for our wedding album. How hard can it be right? HOW WRONG!!

At first, I was an optimist, looking at the photos on the lappie and jotting down the ones I liked, my faves and must haves, before deciding that choosing every other photo when I should really only go for 60-70 was a no go! And after going only half way through and already chosen 150 or so photos, I thought there has got to be a better way. THERE HAD TO BE!

img_9507

So what did I do? I went and printed out over 400 photos (after editing out another few hundred) and split them into the different segments of the day and worked from there. As you can see from the photo, it was one mammoth task and it took me a good 3-4 days to get through it.. you must think I’m crazy right? Well, maybe. But you’d be pleased to know, I am done!! Yay!! And I will slowly group the photos and give them out to guests - hit two birds with one stone huh. Yes, smart JJ! Ha!

Since then, Trish has sent back the designed album so now I just need to sit Ben down to get his ok. It’s not over till the fat lady sings…..

x

Tags: , ,
Posted in Blah blah blah, Wedding | 1 Comment »

Almost there…

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Golly, I just realised I’ve not updated the blog for three weeks! First, let’s start the post with a greeting to those family and friends whom I’ve not had the pleasure to chat to recently. Howdy!

I can’t really update you on much though. Let’s see… we are currently battling to get the invitations printed, having two versions have their complications but we hope to get them out to you soon!

Otherwise, we have finalised our church program, doing it was not easy. We needed to come up with the Processional, Recessional, Signing of the Register music, the readings and secure the readers… I for one, am glad that is out of the way.

What else? Mmm, we’ve got a whole bunch of info from our DJ supplier. Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t realise we need to organise songs for the entrance of the bridal party, the song for bouquet throwing, song for the first dance, song for cake cutting, songs for dinner, songs for this, songs for that… fortunately, their lists are very comprehensive and split into recommendations for specific events, eg the garter or bouquet throwing as well as another that is split by era, eg if you prefer music from the 50’s and 60’s, there is a list full of artists and songs that may suit etc. I didn’t realise it was so involved!! That pack has been left on the side as we could not face doing it right now, seems so daunting!

Oh… my dresses are all being taken up now so things are tracking well on that front. I’m still at two minds about accessories, sighs!

And now, I’m off to book our tickets back to Taipei.

Almost there.. almost…
x

Tags: , ,
Posted in Blah blah blah, Wedding | No Comments »

zoom zoom zoom

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

No, we are not getting Mazdas (and you will probably only get that if you live (or have lived) in Australia.. ;p) Anyways, cars. What can I say about cars? To be honest, given my level of interest in cars, probably nothing at all, but alas, a wedding needs cars to transport all the important people so I guess, it’s a must.

My colleagues actually offered a really good suggestion early on. Instead of spending thousands on vintage cars, which look fantastic and very romantic (but without air cons and travel at 30km an hour…) why not hire a few BMWs or Merc convertibles and have a bit of a play. We even thought about having one for each couple (ie one per bridesmaid and groomsmen) but alas, two of the groomsmen are from overseas and to be fair, who would want to be responsible for returning cars after a night of ‘drinking’. Ah yes, we understand, we do!

Irene & I at Joyce's wedding in front of a beautiful vintage car

Irene & I at Joyce's wedding in front of a beautiful vintage car

So having had no interest in cars to begin with and our first idea blown out the water, I simply had no motivation to look into cars… so, please don’t expect too much from our cars, it’s ultra boring and well, put it this way, when we booked it, there was only one thing on our minds - practicality! There you have it, practical is the word I would use to describe our wedding car. Alalala lalalaa.. hoohoo wor… …. yeah, it’s that kind of a day.

x

Tags: , ,
Posted in Wedding | No Comments »