For my whole get up for the wedding I am extremely proud to say that I spent less on everything put together than what many brides spend on their pair of shoes. I loved having given myself this challenge to give myself the look I wanted on such a tight budget. The Dress When I…
Matrimonial blessings from afar
As well as all the amazing cards, emails and Facebook messages we ended up having some very very very important blessings comes through for our marriage. You are not going to believeeeee this! 1. Eddie McGuire I kid you not. Bill arranged this for me as a wedding gift. Back in early September he wrote…
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1999 – In Austria. Salzburg to be exact. If you were wondering why I was just a little bit excited in this photo, go to the 4.04 mark in the video below.
Jenelle’s Lebanese Kitchen
Today I set about cooking a Lebanese feast of food in our little kitchen and it was so relaxing. It is nice to mix up normal midweek meals and being home at the moment means I can do things like this… LOVE IT! In case you didn’t know, from mum’s side of the family I…
Pic of the day
I love the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Back in 2007 I had a experienced an amazing week where I saw three of their concerts in five days. It was also that week that I found out my name had been picked out in the Green Card lottery. I took this photo when I was slammed…
The reception
Having our reception at a restaurant was just awesome. The Carolina House has an amazing bar so we were able to have a full open bar and we were able to give our guests the choice of four main meals which meant people could really get a meal they would want rather than the ‘fish/beef’…
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Back in 1999 I was backpacking through Europe and Fiona and I stopped for a few days in Nice. When you are on the beach, people come along selling huge wedges of watermelon. I can still taste it now. Nothing beats sand on beaches though… rocks are just not right.
Wedding playlist and song
We are getting back to the wedding content as there is so much to post…! As we had no dancing at the reception, we opted to borrow Best Man Dan’s Bose iPod Dock and create our own playlist. This part was so much fun, but also so time consuming. You just hope that your guests…
One reason I am happy that Christmas is over…
Hopefully we will no longer be subjected to these… the worst ads ever that made me scream every time they come on the TV. I know I am doing what they want by posting these but seriously these are the most annoying ads ever and they have been totally overplayed this holiday season so I…
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I cannot put into words what I would do to see this right now. I miss seeing Mark/Deez/James Reyne so much! This is for you Frannie… memories! 🙂 Mark Seymour & James Reyne, Corner Hotel, May 30, 2008