Wedding Update

Ok, so I wrote this post at the start of last week, but it wouldn't let me add pictures and I didn't want a post without pictures, so I kept trying every day until it let me! :)

I will do a life update shortly, but now that we are OFFICIALLY under the 12 month mark, I thought I would do a wedding update.

 

 

 

The dreaded 12 month mark, made me whip my bottom into action a little bit this week I think...

 

I sent out most of the save the dates, you can see here.

 

I finally got around to asking my friend Alessia to be my bridesmaid.

 

I told her to close her eyes, because I had a birthday present for her, I placed this in her hands and then told her to open. She did a double take at the card, then started to cry.. I was worried for a split second, until she started saying "OMG OMG OMG" and then squealed!hahaha

 

I spent the rest of the night speaking with her and showing her things only bridesmaid's can see e.g. my wedding dress. She was messaging me the next morning, still excited!

 

Unfortunately, Alessia has a trip planned to Italy next year for 6 months and will only get back a few days before our wedding, but this is just an awesome excuse for TWO hens parties if you ask me :)

 

I finally got around to paying the deposit for and locking in my Makeup Artist, who did my trial here.

 

We started to get a friend (travel agent) to help us plan our honeymoon, which when I originally started writing this post was going to be the carribean, but due to the time of the year.. I think it will be a lot of hassel and money, so now we are looking at the maldives... but not just the Maldives, because I want a year off so we are looking at also going to Malyasia, Macau,  Dubai and either Beijing or Singapore, as well as either Laos, Sri Lanka or somewhere lol.

What do you think? Do you have any tips about any of these places? I'd love to know!

 

And last, but not least we picked our wedding band.

 

We decided to go with Vibe wedding band, they had great reviews on wedding websites, sound good, have a good selection of songs and most importantly they promised they have never ever played celebration! haha A and I are not the corny wedding music type at all.

 

A is pretty happy now that all he has left to "decide" on is the wedding cars, cake, rings and his attire. The rest I am pretty sure he will be happy to let me take care of.

 

I know this year will fly and I am excited, nervous and in full wedding planning mode! 

Wedding Makeup Trial

As the title suggests, I had my wedding makeup trial on Saturday and for someone who keeps getting told she is very organised, I was not very well prepared at all.

I hadn't gone to the trial with any inspirational photos (it didn't cross my mind funnily enough) and I hadn't had my eyebrows done for probably over a month (my friend who does my eyebrows recently had spinal surgery).

Luckily, Susie Ayoub is a true professional, with a tonne of experience and she could make me look amazing regardless...

When she asked what looks I liked, the only one I could thing of was this one from her Facebook. She said browns were used in that look, which surprised me because it looks so smokey and I always thought I wanted a grey smokey look, but I decided to give it a go.

Let me apologise now for the not so great photos... it is so hard to take photos of your own makeup, especially when you are trying to put a costume on and your fiancee and friends are trying to rush you out the door to go to a party~!!

I really wish I could have gotten some in natural light as well. Ah well.

Here is me prior, no makeup and no smile :P

The trial was in Susie's studio in Enfield, which is amazzinngg and beautiful, with plush red carpet and globes all around the mirrors in the room.

Susie, like a few others I am lucky to work with for my wedding, is an absolute doll. She is gorgeous, bubbly and oozing with positivity... she will be a good person to have around when I have my last minute wedding stress, the morning off. LOL.

So the look....

I like this photo because I can kind of see how it would look against white.

I love how my skin looks so clear and flawless in this pictures, because it was anything but!! I had hormone skin this day, with pimples and redness!

I have 3 sets of lashes on - insane!

huge fan of this pink lip

Susie concentrated on the eyes for the trial and I must say I love her work. She really opened up my eyes and made them look elongated.. when I first looked in the mirror I couldn't believe how amazing they looked. 

She also stayed away from doing too much with my eyebrows because of their disgusting state (my words not hers lol) I think when my eyebrows are looking a lot better, I would like a bit more highlighting along the brow bone.

stunned mullet

I told Susie I wanted to look like I was wearing makeup, that I liked a smokey, glamorous look and I wanted to look a bit WOW :)

sorry I am bombarding you with selfies, but I couldn't stop looking at it and trying to get a photo that really did the makeup justice! I was stressing about it for a while at the party, because I wanted to remember how it looked lol.

I love this baby pink lipstick on me and I will have to buy one for the wedding day to keep it up.

seeing it with my hair pulled back

My mum thinks the makeup looks too dark in the below pic for bridal, but I think that might have something to do with the lighting in our elevator - it doesn't look too dark in other photos.

 So what do you think of the look Susie created for me?

2:30am, after a smoke machine and drunken antics - eyes look exactly the same

I really do value your opinion, because I tend to be an over thinker and drive myself crazy ALL THE TIME! It's actually why I started this blog... to give A a break from that.

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Wedding deliveries

I have had a few wedding related deliveries this past week.. I have also had a few comments from people about how organised I am in planning the wedding well ahead of time - I swear planning is my middle name

 - A is not surprised at all.

So what did I receive?

My shoes arrived from netaporter, packed so sweetly....

Unfortunately they are toooo small. They are a size 40 and fit my girl who is usually a 37/38. Back to the shoe searching I continue...

Any suggestions are more than welcome!!

I also received my garters from NanaRoseDesigns - one throw away and one keepsake.

They were such a good price at only $27USD for both.

The pink is a little darker than I expected, but I love them nonetheless. There was also some "Hollywood tape" in the bag to ensure the garter doesn't slip - if I continue to lose weight this will be very important!

I also received some sample invites from Ink and Love.

I previously thought that I had decided what style I would like and it would be like this one I posted, but then I laid my eyes on these beautiful lace beauties...

They are all around the $5mark, which I don't think is too bad at all.

Mum, I and Zoe from Big Apple Red are currently playing around with the idea of using black lace throughout the styling and these invitations will go perfectly. I love the glamour black lace can bring to an event.

What do you think of black lace styling? Have you been to a wedding with it or seen any inspirational photos along that theme? I need all the help I can get!!!

On the topic of all things wedding.... my makeup artist (trial next Saturday eeeep!) Susie Ayoub has been posting many "before and afte"r shots on her Facebook recently..

I think they look great and really showcase her talent!

I looove this look above!

 I can't wait for my own transformation next week!!