We have decided not to pay someone to video our wedding. This is a subject which frustrates Has, he studied Video Production at University and doesn’t feel right paying someone to do a job he could do himself. Obviously he’s not going to be able to stand at the alter with a video camera, but we’re going to set up a few cameras and leave them running to capture certain parts of the day, like our wedding vows.
We’re going to ask a few close family members to bring along their video cameras and ask them to record their version of the day. Then once we’ve come back down to earth from the wedding and honeymoon Has can start editing the videos and create the Has and Laura Movie!
I came across this video today which would be perfect for us to do. The couple set up a video recorder and let it run for the duration of the evening. The play back is sped up so you get this lovely 2 minute video of the evening celebrations.
Something like this would be incredibly easy for Has to set up and leave and it would be so much fun watching it back!
When I wrote this post, Look after yourself I was suffering with a terrible cold. I took my own advice and started having a hot honey and lemon drink every morning with my breakfast. By the end of that week my cold had pretty much disappeared.
I’m still drinking a hot honey and lemon every morning and whilst everyone around me is coming down with colds I haven’t had a sniffle since!
I’d like to lose a bit more before Christmas, I don’t want to deny myself any treats and I don’t want to feel like I’m on a diet. Obviously I won’t go crazy, but it would be nice to lose a bit more so if I do put weight on it doesn’t seem so bad!
Seeing my success the girls in the office have all asked me about the diet. I’m not getting asked how many syns are in certain food and what counts as healthy extras! It’s nice because I feel like I have support at work now. Everyone is doing really well!
Suzie’s bridesmaid dresses, the one I’ll be wearing in 87 days!
We went and got fitted a few months ago, the less I say about that the better but why do bridesmaids and wedding dresses come up smaller?! I was not happy about ordering a size 16 dress when I’m normally a 12! I just hope it has to be taken in a hell of a lot!! (Sorry Suzie! I know it’s more money but I think alterations are unavoidable!)
So here is the dress I’ll be wearing, it’s number 6537 by Alfred Angelo in Blue Frost
This weekend with Hayley’s help I managed to complete the Save the Dates.
We started by cutting out all the invites and the A4 pearlescent purple card into quarters. Hayley then embossed a heart on the back of the card, whilst I stuck down the invites. We put the magnets in little envelopes and wrote “Remember, Remember the Fifth of November…” on the front. It only took us a few hours once we go into the swing of it.
Sounds a little crazy doesn’t it? A perfume you buy especially for your wedding day…? The idea is in years to come you’ll wear the same perfume and the smell will remind you of your wonderful day. Also photographing the perfume bottle on the morning of the wedding is now almost always a given!
I like the idea, but I don’t necessarily think I need to go in search of the perfect perfume if I already have one I love.
Earlier this year I found Love by Nina Ricci. I absolutely adore this perfume and applied it liberally every day, that was until I found out it was a limited edition scent and has now disappeared from the shelves! The problem being I was fully intending to wear this on our wedding day. Even Has commented on how much he liked it!
I’m now down to my last few squirts with no way of buying a new bottle… trust me Suzie and I have looked! Suzie is even dreaming out it!
“I was on a mission to find you a bottle of the nina perfume you wanted and I’d been everywhere…I flew to NY and still couldn’t find it so I was about to give up and come home when I went into Boots (?!) and happened to ask there and they said “hummm… we don’t have any of the normal saleable bottles left but we have a sample – you could have it if you like?” So I was like ohhhhh yes yes yes!!! They went into the back and brought out this cola bottle size VAT of perfume!! It was in a horrible huge glass bottle but it was the nina perfume you wanted and I was like great! this will last her FOREVER!!”
I had my hair done this weekend and got onto the conversation of perfumes with my hairdresser Jo, she told me Nina Ricci has brought out a new perfume… “I can’t remember what it’s called” she said “But it’s in a purple bottle”
Perfect! It still a limited edition, and I haven’t smelt it…. but did you hear what I said! It’s purple!!
Introducing Nina Precious Swarovski Edition by Nina Ricci. Isn’t she pretty!
As my lastfew posts would suggest I’ve been thinking a lot about what the Bridesmaids will look like. I’m not keen on the matchy samey look and have been looking into ways to get round this.
Something that seems to becoming more and more popular is Bridesmaids wearing similar dresses in different colours or same colours different styles.
I have thought about getting the girls’ dresses made. If this were the case I could choose the same style dress in slightly different shades of purple and berry.
Friday night me, Hayley, Suzie and Mom queued up with hoards of screaming teenage girls to watch the new Twilight film, New Moon.
We’re all a little bit obsessed with the Twilight Saga. We’ve read the books, got the T shirt (and calendars, bags and hoodies) and declared ourselves “Team Edward” (although after seeing the film I’m on the fence!)
We knew it would be chaotic but I don’t think any of us could have predicted the scene at the cinema!
The queues of girls waiting to see New Moon
We had to queue for about 40 minutes with hyper hormone charged teenage girls. Girls wearing T shirts declaring which team they were on (Edward or Jacob) some had either taken to writing it all over their faces?! As the showing before us ended girls spilled out stating that New Moon was “Sssssooo Ammmmazing!” (Seriously they exaggerated their “S’s” and “M’s”) Once they allowed us to go in, elbows at the ready we swarmed in with the other screaming girls. As the lights went down, they screamed. When the words “New Moon” appeared on the screen, they screamed. When we first saw Edward, they screamed. When Jacob took off his shirt, they – well actually, I think I screamed a little bit then too!
I really enjoyed the film and I’d love to go see it again when the hype has died down. One things is for sure I will NOT being seeing Eclipse on the day it opens next June unless I can hire out the entire cinema for just me and my other obsessed friends!
