engagement party

This is going to be a very long and very picture heavy post.
On Saturday March 10, Nick and I had our engagement party.
It was held at my parents house and was very laid back.
[I'm saving all the fancy stuff for the wedding.]
I hired a photographer and I have to say, totally worth it.
She got some fantastic shots.
I won't post all of the photo's as I don't want to intrude on all my guests privacy and some faces might be blanked out for the same reason.
I also threw in some of the edited photos.
Oh, and the photos are in a completely random order for some reason.

Enjoy!

 James, Lauren & myself chugging down some water.
I was a very good girl. I had 2 vodka cranberries then went non-alcoholic for the rest of the night.
The same cannot be said about all the guests though that's for sure!

 James & Lauren again.

 Amanda & myself.
Those aren't crows feet [yet!], they are my smile creases.

 Having a chat to my dad.
Excuse the excessive boobage, I was leaning over to talk to him and didn't realise I was putting on a show! 

 The following five photos are probably my favourite.
I had been telling Louise earlier that week how high my brother can lift me and she didn't believe me, so I had to prove my point.

 Slippery dress

 Me saying 'See? I told you!'

"I'm flying Jack, I'm flying!"

 Time for the dismount

 If this photo was taken 0.001 of a second earlier, you would see my underwear.
In hindsight, I should have realised my dress would catch the wind.
Oh well.

 Don't ask, because I have no clue what's going on here.

 Mum: 'There's something on your boob'

 Me: 'Oh there is too! It won't come off!'
Mum: 'I'll do it'

 Myself & Louise, before everyone showed up.

 My cousin Melanie, my Nan and myself.
Mum wanted a nice photo of us so I go to lean in and somehow completely stumble in to my Nan, and nearly spill my drink everywhere.
Total action shot.

 Laughing about how uncoordinated I am. 

 In case you're wondering, this photo isn't posed.
I've had a couple of people question that, which is a pity as it's one of my favourites.

As you can see, Louise bought me my wedding night lingerie.
Sexy!

 Louise defending the honour of her goon bag.

 Excuse Nick's blanked out face.
This is my 'ohh I see' face.
Easily confused with my 'What the hell is going on?' face or my 'Huh?' face.

 Damn my huge cheeks! Damn them to hell!

 The bridesmaids & myself
[L-R] Amanda, Louise, myself, Melanie & Lauren.

My family <3
 Myself, Ryan, Mum, Dad & Jordan.

 I absolutely adore this photo, it's so silly but so us.
My 2 big brothers, Ryan & Jordan.

Louise, myself & Melanie.

There are a lot more photos but my computer kept freezing and this is as far as I got with the picture uploads so this is all I'm doing.

Overall it was a fantastic night.
There were a few inappropriate comments but if that's the worst thing that happened then I'm a pretty happy girl.
I may or may not do a post going in to further detail about the night, but I'm not sure. 

Would any of you be interested in reading that?

The specifics;
Dress; Sophia [Bought at a local boutique]
Shoes; Windsor Smith
Make up; Pout Cosmetics
MUA; Tara @ Pout Cosmetics
Hair; Myself [Can't you tell? haha]
Necklace; Michael Hill
Nail polish; OPI Divine Swine
Photographer; Chelsea @ Proof of Life Photography

Just a side note; I know that my bra is WAY to visible. I actually had the perfect bra laid out to take with me to my parents house [I got ready there] but I totally forgot to take it and by the time I realised it was too late.


ETA; I just looked over all the photos and have realised that all the photos feature maybe 10 people.
We had about 100 guests but I really don't want to invade their privacy as I don't know how they'd feel about being featured on my blog.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the photos!
x

update

I received all my engagement party photos today! I'm so excited to do a post featuring them but at the moment I am dying to watch the season finale of Pretty Little Liars, as we have been promised that A will be revealed.

I will post the photos after I've watched

x

quick engagement party update

So, my engagement party was on Saturday night.
It went surprisingly well, except for a few minor hiccups.
I'll do a proper post once I get all the photos back from the photographer.
x

stress & love

My engagement party is this Saturday.

It is a lot more stressful than I had anticipated;

With everything from family drama to people not rsvping.

I've been so on edge lately that I needed to remind myself of why there is even an engagement party in the first place.

I found some pretty pictures that have calmed me down and made me get a little bit of perspective so I thought I would share them with you all & this way I can always look back on them.

all images courtesy of we heart it

Stay tuned for what I'm anticipating to be a disaster of an engagement party.

x

i'm back!

Well, it has officially been FOREVER since I have last blogged. I've really missed blogging but I have just been so busy lately that I can barely spare a second to write a post.

What I've been up to since my last blog;
I've been in crazy wedding mode.
- I went dress shopping with my mum and best friend yesterday and I tried on some amazing dresses. You're not supposed to take photos in a bridal store for copyright reasons but Louise managed to get a few on the sly. I'm undecided about whether to post them or not.
- The whole guest list thing is driving me insane and I am only up to the engagement party!
Nick's parents had a very bitter divorce about 10 years ago and the two sides of his family hold a lot of animosity towards each other and there are a few family members that are not afraid to cause a scene. Throw some alcohol in to the mix and the situation will quickly escalate.
I am quite literally scared of my own engagement party for this reason.
- Nick and I have decided to do all our wedding invitations, engagment invitations, place cards, rsvp cards etc ourselves so that we can get exactly what we want and not spend a fortune.
I made up some save the date cards and engagement invitations yesterday and they look really nice if I do say so myself but printing them is turning out to be an issue so we went and bought a printer today. Way to save money, hey?

Other than wedding stuff, there has been a fair amout drama going on in my life. I won't go in to any detail as it's highly personal but it's the main reason I've been MIA on the blog front.

I finally recieved my certificate for the course I finished last September (about time!) so will hopefully have a new job very soon!

I'm going to go back and study this year, I've got my sights set on pathology.

I did a post a few months back about Demi, my future brother-in-law's cat that we took in, yeah well, she's still here.
I got so attached to her and Nick's brother said that because she settled in with us then it would be cruel to move her again.
She is absolutely beautiful, her wound has healed perfectly and she is very well behaved.
She follows me around like a dog and likes to chew on all our electrical cords, which is proving to be very hard to deal with lol but we are saving lots of energy by turning everything off at the powerpoint now!
Demi gets along incredibly well with our other cat and they always snooze together on the foot of our bed.

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And that's my update for now.
I will post again soon.
xx