Autumn Wedding Ideas
Ooooh I just love autumn weddings… The rich warm colours. There are so many ways you can play around with themes to make the perfect Autumn wedding.
Here’s some of our favourite bits.
If you’ve been inspired. Check out the Autumn range from Creative Invites
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James and Tom – 7th October 2011
Everyone at RealWeddings.ie would like to wish James and Tom the very best of luck tomorrow for their big day.
We’ve read the highs, the lows, the fun and the feathers, thank you for sharing it with us all.
We hope you have a fabulous day and a wonderful life together.
Bridal Hair & Makeup Ideas
The Powder Room Girls are known country-wide for their skills in creating the most fabulous hair and make-up styles for your big day.
So if you’re stuck for ideas, check out their bridal shoots for various Irish Bridal Magazines.
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Glass bottles as wedding decor
Cheap and very cheerful! It doesn’t take long to gather together some different shapes and styles of bottle or jars, and pop your favourite flower in them and they look great. You can have them on your main tables, or even side tables scattered through your venue.
Here are some lovely examples:
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Beware the toast black hole of doooooom
Well as one best man arrives in from South Africa (He lives in S.A with his husband), the other best man heads away on vacation!
To celebrate the arrival of said B.M we had a “few” drinks last night, needless to say getting up at 6am for work was just torture! But I did have a chuckle when I got in to work, total dizzy fool I am ! Oh my I was so embarrassed.
I was standing in the cafeteria and I was putting some bread in the toaster to make toast. It’s one of those machines with a belt on the inside like a converyer belt, anyways, the bread went in.. but no bread came out. So I’m thinking maybe the bread is stuck in the machine, so I put more bread in…
No bread came out.
I was thinking is this the Bermuda Triangle of Bread or what !
So after 5 slices of bread went in to the toast black hole to try and push any toast that was stuck, I discovered the little slide shute thing wasn’t pushed far back in enough to catch the bread…and there was all the bread behind the machine like a little bread mountain.
MORTO so I am!
So today I’m feeling a little tired and humble at my sillyness.
It’s like an episode of Blue Peter around these parts of late.
I’ve searched high and low for some Asian-esque decorations so I’ve decided I’m going to make some bunting myself. For this I will need
- Various different colored cards that you can print on to.
- Colored ribbon.
- A Printer.
- Chinese / Japaneese symbols which you can easily get of the web.
- Patience.
- A best man / minion to do the work.
- sand
- picture frames
- buddhas
- stones
- lucky bamboo
- and yoga
Sweet Temptation….
After all the stress of late, I decided to splash out a little. Go wild on a whim!!! So I was meandering around town and I just happened to pass www.thesweetemporium.ie on Duke Street just of Grafton street, and I decided to get some treats for our guests for the big day. I’m sure they will all be very thankful.
NOW, It’s got flip all to do with theme of the day which could be best described as 1) erratic and mainly 2) Asian.
But sure it’ll be a nice treat for our guests on the day when they go to sit down at the din din tables. I asked for her to go to town and use her creative streak – so I’m sure it’ll be a surprise to me when I see it all.
Anyways I blabble, the shop is in town, it’s dead central, they did me a great deal and ask for Audrey she’s a legend and I’m she’ll look after you – tell her James sent ya! (that reminds me I should have asked for sample’s for myself – d’oh!)
Rant Alert ! Read at your peril!
I was seeing red yesterday. To start off with Sunday drivers irate me to no end. I mean cars have gears, introduce yourself people to 3rd and 4th gears ! Then husbear to be was driving all over the place in to the city center, I mean how difficult is it to go in to the center of town and find a car park space… well the other half was experiencing some sort of Krypton Factor challenge yesterday, I was only short of doing a Hyacinth Bucket passenger seat act of telling him HOW he should drive. You’ve no idea how much I was biting my lip at this stage adn the real sagas had yet to begin.
To start with I didn’t get a good vibe from the lady on the till. I didn’t get the feeling that she really understood what she needed to do. She herself was Irish so we didn’t have a language barrier – but she kept complaining about having to fix someone else’s mess.
She voided and refunded my card, and I asked her there and then how long the refund would take, only earlier that morning I transferred€500 on to my card to pay for it all, her reply was she wasn’t sure….. I can’t hear a collective sigh of ugh ohh from you all at this point.
Back to the scanning of EVERYTYHING again, and applying the 20% discount.. and we have the same issue back to €354.01 – basically we got one shirt of €54 off the total, no 20% to be seen.
Everything was voided again and re-scanned and still the same issue, no discount. A manger was summoned… no sign of manager… At this stage I’m there an hour now, other half had gone to do the food shop.
What’s that in the distance, at last the manager appeared. He got the low down, and made the AMAZING discovery of voided the shirt for €0.01 and low and behold the discount went on to everything. So the grand total came to €266. So payment time now… BUT I know what you’re thinking.. the refund. We’ve all been there and we all know that refunds take time. Oh yes they can take the money out of your account lightening fast but for some reason they are a tad slower to do the refund. Sure enough those two words… card declined appeared on the screen of the machine. The very intelligent manager asked if I wanted to put some items back and just get what I really needed (the 20% discount was only for Sunday by the way!) and still my card was declined.
Right – time for plan B.
I had to get the items put on lay away, march, no stomp down to the other half, buy our food rations, bring them back to the car park, make another trip back to Marks, and on the way consult the hole in the wall for available funds. SO between me and himself, we had to do the half on cash and half on a pre paid credit card. Two hours of my life I will never get back !
Damn you M&S !! Sure it’s no wonder I’ve the tension headaches and body that is one massive knot! Worn out so I am!
On the bright side we did save over €100
I’m Liza with a Z, not Lisa with an S…
If the title of this rant is puzzling you, skip on to the end.
I’ve got a real problem with one vendor for the wedding (yes I’m calling it a wedding because I’m in one of those moods and can’t be arsed saying Civil Partnership any more because it’s the same family woes, same stress, same bills, same R.S.V.P C.R.A.P It’s a wedding so deal with it !)
SHE KEEPS GETTING MY NAME WRONG! (and yes I am aware I am typing in upper case which could be deemed as shouting but ya know what I’m spending a lot of money on my big day so beatch get my name ROIGHT!)
I’m not sure if it’s the fact that it’s harder for her to remember two grooms names, or if it’s the fact that people say we kinda look alike, but I am not impressed at all, and I don’t even think we look at like at all !
I am spending a lot of money, she is getting on my tits! It doesn’t bode well if a vendor who is suppose to remember all the little details doesn’t even get my name right!
Not Impressed Dot Com !
But on the bright side it does remind me of this little number… Liza with Z - trust this gay to use a song with dramatic effect to show the importance of getting names right !
If you care to see “how alike” we are cast your eyes here!
