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! 

Oodles of Noodles!

First of all, thank you for all your suggestions about Zombie makeup. I will let you know how I go.

Last Friday night was date night with A.

We started our date night off with me running late (as usual), because I was finishing off my 12 PAGE job application! I kid you not, it was 12pages! Writing Government job applications is like being back at uni again, but I had to make myself do it. I'm not going to lie I struggled and I needed my flat mate to force me, but i'm glad I did it! Fingers crossed.

After I finally left the office, A and I headed to Genghis Khan Mongolian BBQ in Darling Harbour.

I know I am probably one in a handful of people that hadn't been there before, but I hadn't even heard of it! A said the words "all you can eat noodles" to me and I was sold.

Hot, fattening and delicious entrees.

 I devoured many of these chicken wing thingies.

At Genghis Khan they provide a few trays of hot entrees and soup and then mutliple bay marines of meats, noodles and vegies for you to make your own noodle stir fry. You then choose your sauce and put it in the window for the chef to cook, 1 minute later you have the noodles you created hot and ready to eat! I was so excited about the concept and couldn't wait to get started...

Meat first

Vegetables

Sauces

our first round (raw)

Unfortunately, it was pretty busy on Friday night, so we a while for the chefs, but I didn't mind - you can't help these things.

Lining up for the Chef

The Chefs

Genghis Khan are currently celebrating their 30th birthday, so they are doing buy one get one drinks from 6-7pm. I may have downed a few of these little bottles...

They are also giving customers FREE dessert when you spend more than $25 per person. The Mongolian BBQ (aka all you can eat) is $26.80 per person so it is easy to score the free dessert.

The fried icecream was da bomb!

All in all I loved the food and the concept at Genghis Khan. I think it would be a fun place to go with a big group of people.

After we stuffed ourselves silly, we headed to Tokio Hotel for the reason we headed out - to see our potential wedding band perform live.

We saw Soul Nights perform about a year ago at the same venue, but since then the singers have changed, so we wanted to watch them again.

We think the female singer is a lot stronger than the male singer, but either way they were fantastic!! The crowd loved them and I was grooving in my seat. A thought they were good, but in the set we watched they played a lot of Reggae music, which A says makes him want to sleep. Hmmph- I LOVED it.

I tried to take a video, not sure how good it is. Just ignore the picture and listen I guess.

What do you think?

Does anyone have any band suggestions for Sydney? I'm open to check out heaps more, it's fun! :)