April 17, 2009
dress
probably wont be exactly like this
May 6 will be the “dress day”. I’m flying to Melbourne to go to my dress designer’s showroom. So exciting!! I’ve already talked to her about the dress and I’ve sent her photos of the fabrics from Mom’s wedding dresses and the lace from Great Grandma Sarah that Brenda sent me. I got a super cheapo flight and thought with only 5 months left until I leave, it’s go time. Excitement!
March 10, 2009
Algonkian Park September 26, 2009
We have a venue and a date!! This blog is long overdue.
Date: Saturday Sept 26th
Reception Room
Place: Algonkian Regional Park,
Reception: Algonkian Events Center:
It’s a brand new building that all my parents think is just perfect. It’s nice, modern, clean, accessible, and close enough to DC. And one of the best features are the cottages in the park along the river to stay at to avoid transport issues.
Accomo: We wanted to do something a bit special for the week leading up to the wedding so it’s not just everything on one day, especially for the travelers making the journey from Oz, woohoo! We have reserved cottages on the river in Algonkian Park. The cottages have boat ramps for boating, fishing, they’re right on a golf course (including mini golf!), and right off Route 7 so it’ll be easy to scoot into DC for some urban action as well. All the cabins have big decks and BBQs, fireplaces, full kitchens, and some have hot tubs. We’ve already organized kayaks that we can take along the river. And dad said you could pretty much cast a fishing line from the deck, ladies I know you’re pumped about that.
I think it seems like a perfect setting and it will be beautiful in late summer.
January 19, 2009
Engagement party invite
Fiancée guys
Part 1: ring.
done.
Part 2: engagement party
venue booked, facebook invites sent.
part 3: wedding date
unofficially September 26, awaiting final confirmation for venue.
next: invitations, guest list, dress, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
December 11, 2008
Nice ice
Mike and I met with the jeweler tonight and have come up with a design that I love and I’m going to think about it for the weekend and get back to him on monday. It’s simple and classic and has a knife edge to give it a bit of funk. WHen I told him I wanted something unique and funky, he said everything has been done before. Well i don’t necessarily believe that but I do want something that will be timeless. This is what a knofe edge looks like:
knife edge
But my diamond is square – princess cut, and i’m getting a couple more diamonds set on the outsides. It’s going to be beautiful! But I want to take the weekend to think it through and make sure that’s really really really what I want. Oh and the best part – if I tell him by monday I can get it by christmas! Wow – a new engagement, a new engagement ring, a new car, and a new microwave.. I better get back to work!
December 8, 2008
the ring thing
First order of wedding business: the ring. I have an appointment with a jeweler on thursday. I want to go in and show him my sketches and photos i’ve pulled and see if he can make any practical sense of it all. There are a lot of ideas floating around this little head!
I can almost guarantee it won’t look like this:
engagement piercing
I’ll have a sparkles update after thursday’s ‘consultation’
extremely sparkly
bezel set
December 5, 2008
the happy couple…
Me and my finacée at the Earth Festival last weekend
Remember, this is still the fake ring.. I’m designing the ring now but it seems to be taking a long time b/c I don’t know exactly what I want. I want something gorgeous and timeless and not too complicated but unique.
Anyone have any input on the white gold vs. platinum debate?
Time for a skinny latte and a saturday morning surf check 🙂
November 27, 2008
Rockin it
The rock...
Here’s the amazing diamond, now I just have to design a ring! Exciting but also a bit nervous about something that’s going to be on my hand for the rest of my life.
November 26, 2008
Engaged!!!
The first day of being engaged!
Well I guess this is a good place to start fresh with a new blog… starting a new chapter of my life. It actually does feel a bit different now that Mike and I are engaged, in the best way possible.
Ok so here’s how it happened.
I organized a weekend away for Mike and I up in Noosa which is in tropical Queensland. I had heard that it was really beautiful but I wasn’t expecting it to be as nice as it was. Noosa is like a little haven of good food, wine, and shops condensed into one tiny area with miles and miles and miles of unspoiled national park all around. From the tip of the headland you could barely see any buildings, certainly no tall ones anyway.
To set the scene for you, it was our second day up there and it was already an amazing day leading up to the big event:
Fun morning surf with clean offshore wind and 1-2 foot waves, perfect for me.
Relaxing coffee at a cute cafe
Gorgeous 6km walk around the headland – lush rainforests with little carribbean-esque beaches
Swim at desterted beach in bath water temperature crystal turquoise water
Menacing clouds that made us decide to pack up and trek back
Thunderstorm that caught us walking through the woods in our bathers
Koala-spotting! A real live awake one in a tree!
And then dinner…
When we went out to dinner, mike made a call and found out the best place in town. So away we went and boy was it the local fave! We waited over an hour for them to squeeze us in which was fine b/c we were enjoying having a cocktail at the bar. The first clue that I missed was that mike ordered himself a vodka drink – some liquid courage. The second clue that zoomed overhead was when we went through my phone picking out all the contacts that he wanted including my parents’ numbers cleverly mixed in with other friends’.
After an amazing dinner, I missed the third clue which was his disappearing for a long time after grabbing his phone form my purse. “Did you make a phone call?” I said when he came back. “Oh I just checked my messages and went to the bathroom.” He thought he had blown it then but i was still completely unsuspecting.
We took a walk on the beach and found a lovely little bench to stop at. It was all so romantic but the increased level of hand-holding and general oohing and cooing wasn’t anything unusual.
Then he said “Do you know what’s in my pocket?” “Your phone?” And then it happened – the moment that has kept playing in my head over and over again. When he moved from sitting next to me to kneeling in front of me. He told me a bunch of amazing poetic things and asked me to marry him! He put a ring on my finger and explained it was a play ring and that he wanted me to be able design my own ring. Brilliant!
He had one more surprise for me back at the hotel room. He actually had already bought a DIAMOND for me for my ring. I guess I had never really looked at a diamond like that up close and it was stunning. The hardest thing in nature as a symbol of our ever-lasting love!
Oh – one funny detail was when a group of teenage boys passed by while mike was on his knees. One of them fell down in the sand right behind mike and passed out! One of his mated helped him up and they walked away but it would have been a bit of a moment-killer if mike has to give some unruly kid CPR.
CPR or no CPR it was the most amazing night of my life and I still can’t believe I found the most incredible, respectful, creative, personable, fun-loving, thoughtful partner ever. ♥ ♥
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