Our Wedding Ceremony

THE WEDDING CEREMONY!!!




Now, it is quite difficult to do these posts as I only have guests facebook photos to use! Oh well, I am sure I will be flooding you with many more photos in the upcoming months...




After the church hall, I got changed into my ceremony gown, which took far longer than expected. Apparently they started the bells, and we were no where to be seen, so they stopped the bells and hung out for a little while until we finally started our trek!



Walking in Big Bertha is no small task, believe me. As we started walking to the church the bells started ringing and it was mentioned that it was like the royal wedding, with bells. Ashleigh-Rose was confused by this and asked me if I was a princess now!!
This would have been a fab pic if it was not blurry!


There will be more photos of my bridal party etc etc as I get access to more.




Geefa and I hanging out, waiting to enter. Right now my stomach is full of butterflies, and full of excitement.


Geefa: "How do I hold your hand, your veil is in my way?!?!"


I also needed help stepping up the steps, that was not fun!




I was really scared about walking up the aisle in front of everyone, but to be honest, when I walked in I did not notice one person to the left and right of me.






Geefa was prompting me - "Walk slow. Take your time. Here we go".


Here I come!!!





As I walked into the church, I kept trying to look for S but he was blocked by the priest. When we did make it up to him, Dad gave him 3 kisses which drew chuckles from the crowd, and S as they had discussed that they would just go for the handshake as Geefa was new to the whole 3 kisses shebang.




Move out of the way peepz, my dress is coming through!!





At this point, Ashleigh-Rose asked Cat "Is Poppet the Queen now!!??" haha killing me with cuteness.




When Pop Boro put the crown on S's head, he smooshed down half of his hair on to his forehead, much to the amusement of his groomsmen who know how fussy he is about his hair.


Pop Sipovac put my crown on so gently, fussing with it to make sure it looked perfect!


During the ceremony we have to walk around the alter 3 times, and I attempted to move with my dress but there was no way I was moving on my own. Cat had to come out and carry it around for me, and after the first time she dropped it. A lady told her that she had 2 more laps to go, and prompted her each time!!




When it came time to kiss, we had hecklers yelling out "Kiss again!!!" so we kissed, and then it happened again 3 times. You know, you gotta give the people what they want!! We had been warned not to do anything too pash like though, but we didn't practice our kiss in the lead up so am glad we had a few kisses!







After the ceremony, we had a receiving line and had everyone file through for 3 kisses and well wishes, which took a while. My cheek was pretty numb from all the kisses and cheek banging!




Did you notice Greg? He was our Aussie flag bearer, and chief negotiator at the buying of the bride.




Yipppeee!!


We are Husband & Wife!!!!





Apparently most of our flower petal cones blew away in the wind, but it was still fun to have some thrown on us as we exited the church!





The sky was threatening to go insane and open up from the heavens.





I love this photo of the back of my dress, I think I liked it more from the back than the front!!!







Here I am saying "Come on, hurry the fek up" to our slow family members who were not coming over for family photos when called. We were so behind schedule, I think I was giving Adrian, our photographer a hernia!!






It was so hard to get Max, Thomas and Raina into the shot!!! Raina had her back to the camera crying, Thomas was crying so Liz ended up in the shot. It will make a funny photo!




When people say that your wedding is one of the best days of your life, you don't realise how true this is until you are married. It honestly was the best day of my life.


I have never felt so in love, and happy before.




I can't wait until I have more, decent, photos to share with you but I hope that these will be fine for the time being!!


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Pre Ceremony Traditions

I don't have many photos to share with you as yet, but thought that I would start with some photos from our pre-ceremony traditions that were held in the hall next to the church..



The weather held up all morning, and then as our limo pulled up at the doors, it started to rain. Luckily our gracious groomsman Ab, and the chauffeur were quick as a flash to get the umbrella for me.



We were running behind schedule, and S had to leave the hall when we were 5 minutes away and wait in the church the entire time so that he would see me.



I love this photo of me entering the hall with Geefa. We had not discussed how we were going to do this, but Geefa grabbed my hand and walked me in.



I was so nervous, I could feel my heart pounding all over my body. When I walked in, everyone turned and looked at me and I just waved and said "yo" when I was standing on the steps, hahaha, such a loser.



As you can see, I added a pink Alannah Hill sash to my dress for this part of the day, so that guests would think this was my dress, and then they were surprised when I entered the ceremony in big bertha.
My gorgeous flower girl, Ashleigh-Rose!



When we walked in, the first person I saw was my friend Sam and I was so greatful that she was standing there as I rushed up and gave her a kiss, instead of standing there with all these people staring at me.



When I finally saw my Mother in Law, I was ushered to a seat on the long table, and told to just sit there, eat, and smile for the photos.



All of the guests got up and were just taking photos of me, without saying anything to me, I was so awkward I just kept grinning and saying "hi!!".



I was too nervous to eat or drink, but there was an amazing spread put out.



Cristina & I


Me asking my kum what I should do, and she told me to just sit there and enjoy, which we did. She has been so much help to me!


My Mum and my Mother in Law.







After we had sat down for a while, and photos had been taken it was time for me to be taken up on stage and the buying of the bride commenced.



My brothers really let the power go to their heads, and were playing it up like there was no tomorrow. It was a lot of fun.



After that was done, our groomsman told me he had 2 missed calls from S, and that we need to move over to the church...



I had all the guests move to the church, and then I got changed into my Ceremony dress....



To be Continued...


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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!!




I hope that everyone had a lovely weekend!




S and I went for 'rehab' in Geelong which consisted of Church, sleep, Sopranos Season 1 and way too much food.




Poor Thomas. I am in the process of pulling his jumper over his head to make him blind for a moment. He did not like it. It was funny to watch though.



Liz, Thomas, Jo and I.




Massive glare was occurring during this photo, in case you can't tell by my squinty face.




When in Geelong for Easter we decorate the eggs with S's Mum. I love doing it, but seriously suck.




The eggs are boiled in onion peel which creates the natural brown colour.



Parsley (I think) is wet, placed on the egg and then pantiehose is wrapped around it and tied with cotton before placing in the onion peel with water, whilst simmering.











Once the colour is set, we shine them with oil.



Taaa DAAAAAAA!







I took this egg home for Thomas, and he had fun breaking it and scattering bits of boiled egg around the house.




Now, on to eggs of the best variety - Chocolate.




This bunny, once wore a lovely foil suit. He looked so comfortable in it, and then this little baby came along and stripped him of his modesty, and proceeded to eat him.


Did I mention it was MY bunny?!



I saved him, minus one ear.



Kid likes chocolate.



Aunty had fun cleanng him up.



Love the Maxi Kinder Surprise that S got me!




I got this Lindt Easter Collection tin, purely for the tin, to share with my siblings at our Easter Lunch.
















I don't care what anyone says. Lindt chocolate is the bomb diggity.



Nearly too cute to eat.


(Nearly)





Clearly an umbrella masquerading as a carrott.



We always get Cacao chocolate at Easter from Geefa and Bet (who went overseas for the Easter break and left us to fend for ourselves) as they own a plastics company, and the Cacao chocolate comes in their plastic!


I feel like I am in a food coma.


I have a food baby in my belly.


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