Sure we are nearly there. Sorry I’ve not blogged in a long time, but sure life is life and we have to try and get as much done. As you can imagine if i can go wrong it has gone wrong, big breath in and here we go ….
I picked up the wedding cake toppers on Saturday, they are brilliant, Bernadette is magic ! We are so chuffed by them. Once we are done with them I need to get them put in to a glass or plastic container.
We sorted the cakes out, so we are getting 8 dozen cup cakes with different colors representing the different flavors. We have a top rainbow layer for us to cut – sure we may as make it a little gayer!!! We had such fun when Anna from www.gigglecakes.com came over and we sampled lots of her cup cakes, mum of course had to come over and try the samples too. We couldn’t decide on a specific flavor so we got em all ! Greedy gays!
My suit is to die for – a Marks and Spencer’s special – a lovely cousin of mine has bought it for me as my wedding gift. Score or what ! Now I just got to accessorize myself, I need some shiny shoes and a daper belt, and 2 or 3 shirts for the day itself – need to allow for any perspiration. Which reminds me in-case you don’t know Anhydrol Forte topical roll on helps combat sweating. It’s a must ! I use it from time to time – but you have to follow the instructions otherwise you can seriously do damage to those arm pits, it’s available at nearly all chemists.
We are using www.rosiedays.ie for other floral bits. We are going for lucky bamboo, orchids, lillies, birds of paradise… can’t wait. We are keeping a little bit of the old traditions, Mum is getting herself a corsage (not sure if that’s how it’s spelled). I’m going to try make my frozen Buddha’s again – this time I’m going to color the water and see what it comes out as, maybe Sinead can use them as part of the arrangements.
We also were in Berlin last weekend and picked ourselves up a few decorative items to use in the hotel. We found this cool Asian store in Der Mitte near Alexander Platz with these cool hanging lanterns all at €5 each, and also these decorative wind flags – also €5 – we managed to get pretty much all bar violet from the Rainbow flag. Either the place will look like a drag queen exploded or it will look pretty authentic - minus the Asian people!
Also got our wedding guest book today – need to get it mounted – it’s certainly something different that other people will never have seen before.
Of course it’s not been all good – we’ve had some other logistical issues. We discovered that the hotel have changed bar/event managers three times, and when you are called to a meeting at the hotel where there you are as the lovely couple wanting to spend your hard earned money and opposite you is the event manager and fiancial controller – it’s a bit daunting !
Turns out the guy who initially booked us in, well he’s not there any more! Apparently the quotes we were given were/are very low, and they would not normally be that low. Begs the question what on earth would they be charging otherwise. So we’ve had to compromise on a few things, such as the budget. Some items are going to cost a bit more because our guest list has increased which impacts on oh… well everything !!!!
My plan is to have either a name label tag around the punch / wine glass to tell people what table they are at or we will maybe call people by either the color of the Buddha I put in the arrangements, or we will put different color lillies in the table center pieces that will be on the tables. I’m sure I will come up with something creative closer to the day.
So we were going to have 80 people but now that’s increased to 94, so we will have to go over the seating plans and work out how we can get more people in to a smaller space. On top of this there is another 70 to 90 people coming to the afters. So that food part of the budget is creeping up too!
We’ve had some music issues too – our original singer was double booked, the person she recommended was in my opinion not as good. Then we had found another fantastic guy called Sean Boland – and was priced at a great rate. But turns out he was also double booked. Now we had a bit of a mad dash to find a singer who can sing some Jazzy numbers for about an hour. We did find this great 2 piece band called Floozy and Bluesey – check them out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJwlxmjZPtA - who are going to sing a few numbers. Thankfully it’s a wedding where there are no kids because they do sing some risky numbers, they are normally a Burlesque band.
For the moment I’ll avoid the family talk – because that’s a whole book in and of itself. but lord above what is it about weddings that brings out the worst and best of some people ! Families eh!
I know there’s more than I’m forgetting to mention … there’s way too much to try and remember.
Now where did I put that Valium?
