The Event of the Year!

Well I'm finally getting off my rear end to blog about the Engagement Party. Oh-my-effing-goodness. I don't think it could've gone any better if we tried.

We would like to thank each and every one of you that came, sent your well wishes or even just thought about us on Friday. 

Toledo was a swish little establishment, set up for all our Engagement Party needs, a big thanks goes out to the mums and nans who helped with all the party food. You did a truly magnificent job!

The cake - My Auntie Gaye completely outdid herself with this one. It looked absolutely marvelous and we are very grateful that she took all that time out of her own busy days to make such a creation for us.

You have showered us with many gifts, goodness me I was weepy when we were reading through the cards the following morning. Thank-you cards will be shipped out to you all soon - This weekend has a whole lot of not much on so I believe that is what we shall be doing during the day.

Now our little surprise at our speeches... how did you like that? Some of you had already started to work it all out (due to my lack of consumption of alcohol) but the reaction from the crowd was still brilliant - We are having baby number two... How exciting.

Once again, thank you from Simon, Myself and Charlie - we really do know that we are very-much-so loved.

Photos are going up on the gallery page at the moment, it may take me a little while because I'm still gathering photos from different people from the night. I'll probably update some photos on this post at some point also, to make it look cooler!

Love love

xoxo

Nearly time to Pardy

People, in less than 4 hours we will be partying it up! Please be excited by this. I am!  Also please check back here tomorrow evening... I will have many wonderful photos of you all dancing and being merry up in the photo albums page.

Also a quick note, I have organised a meeting with who I hope will be my marriage celebrant. This excites me ten-fold (which today equates to a very large amount).

So yes, meeting up with Gail Eaton-Briggs next Wednesday and hopefully she will help us organise the rest of the whole shebang!

Hmm, that's it... just a quick update today. Woo!

xoxo

Oh-so-musically-inclined

So I feel I have managed to conquer the playlist for tomorrow night. The ladies may like it more than the guys... just drink a few more beers and pretend you like it if you don't OK?

It has made me realise how very difficult it is actually going to be when we get married to pick a song to get married too.  I mean I already know what our first dance will be.... but the ceremony bit? Bit scary.

Also chatting to Cara at work today (after she let me borrow her wedding DVD) I have realised so far I have been a bit lazy with my organising thus far. I seem to be in a "I'll bother with all of this next year" kind of mode but really wont be able to do that because most of the good stuff will be taken by then.

This list begins with a Marriage Celebrant. Which I have promised myself I will call tomorrow on my lunch break and make an appointment to meet her over coffee.

Anyways back to the day at hand, also today I have been an amazing Domestic Goddess and cleaned most of the house, cooked up one-hell-of-a Red Thai Chicken Curry, and managed to remove excess hair from my arms and legs so I feel as smooth as a baby's bottom. Simon doesn't know how freaking lucky he is sometimes.

 

I bet you do though,

xoxo.

E-Day. It looms.

So we are fast approaching the big Engagement Party date. I sure hope you've steam-ironed your party dresses and asked mum to remove that strange stain on your slacks that you're sure was sauce from a midnight-food-run last time you hit Hobart, because everything is in full swing.

Balloons - Organised.
Food - Organised.
Playlist - Getting there (and taking requests, if you want to hear a song - that wont make our ears bleed - please let me know and I'll consider putting it on our list!)
Bride and Groom to be - Still arguing over what we are going to wear.

So yes. If you are heading along (which we sure hope you are) we'll be doing our speeches and cutting the cake around 8.30pm (because the DJ will start at 9pm) so as long as you have your beautiful selves there before hand we wont disown you all.

Get ready to get drunk, get dancey and get all around happy-happy this Friday night (there will be NO Rebecca Black even because we party on the same nights she does).

Love love

xoxo

Engagements Galore

So this past weekend Simon and I were lucky enough to be invited to our good friends Simmone and Alex's engagement party.

Well, what a swell time we had. Drinking, Dancing and snacking away on nibbles. It's just how I imagine my own party to be... except maybe with less of Simmone and Alex's family there and more of mine and Simon's.

So congratulations Simmone and Alex. Your speeches were great, your cake was great, and Charlie really liked the left over balloons you let us take home for him!

The other big event of the weekend was Charlie's First birthday party. Wowee what a lucky little man we have. He is seriously one of the most loved people I know. People came from far and near to help us celebrate and I am very grateful to each and every one of you.

Still working the finer things out for next weekend. I hope you're all as excited as I am!

xoxo