Supporting Martha

I just wanted to say that I've bought my first copy of Martha Stewart Weddings because I had money to burn, and I need ideas for flowers and because I need to support Martha's various wedding related enterprises:

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That's all I wanted to say this time.

Wedding dress disaster (literally)

Ages ago (well, who am I kidding, I do it all the time) I used to search through the internet looking for funny things, and ages ago I also loved the movie Titanic, so one day I found this funny website called etiquettehell.com, which I can't access anymore, but the story I want has moved to another website: KissTheBride.com.au - where it can be found here in its entirety:

Titanic Wedding Disaster

But in a nutshell, the bride wanted her bridesmaids to wear dresses like Rose Dewitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) does in Titanic and her mother-in-law said she'd make them. The dresses looked like this:

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except she wanted them with a blue underskirt (not coral). After a while, the mother of the bride realised that it was a month before the wedding and the mother-in-law hadn't done anything towards making the dresses.
The on the wedding day with the bridesmaids, junior bridesmaid and flowergirls waiting at the church for the dresses to arrive. Apparently they did arrive, shortly before the wedding ceremony was due to start. This is what they looked like:

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Isn't it beautiful?

Dress drama

Check me out! I'm blogging from my iPhone. Only took me four years to realise there was an app to use Blogger and I didn't have to do it via Safari. I'm so clever!
*cough* hmmm.
Was half-listening to the news tonight and heard something about a wedding gown shop going into liquidation and hundreds of brides being thrown into limbo.
And guess what?
The shop was one of the shops I went to, to try on wedding gowns. I actually tried on three but none fit and made my ladies (my boobs FYI) look flat. And they are anything but flat because at the time my bub was still booby-fed and well, yeah. They were definitely not flat. And because I was so cut that I had to try on size 54 wedding gowns, I decided trying on wedding gowns was not my favourite thing to do and refused to try on another for six months.
And to think, had the assistant pandered to my ego (which I thought they were MEANT to do), I could have been in the same boat as these brides who are FREAKING out that they have no dress to wear to their weddings.

Airy fairy (lights)

Recap:
The other day I was having a stress because I didn't know how I was going to decorate a huge mega space in which I can't stick things to walls (and rightly so because it is a veeeery old building) and I threw up a few options of what I (*cough* me and the Man) can do to decorate it to make it seem less like a massive room and more interesting. And I feel better about the decoration side - I think I'll be spending all my spare dollars (and time) begging, borrowing and stealing fairy lights and I'll figure out some way to hook them up to make an effect like this:

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The above picture was on another post of mine - Decorating a huge mega space without really knowing how... - which had a lot of my decorating ideas on it BUT the original picture comes from another blog called West Aussie Wedding. I am trying to be good in crediting where I have borrowed (stolen) my pictures from.

This photo was taken outdoors. Our reception will be indoors with the windows open as I suspect that it might be a bit warm. But then again, just because its the beginning of December doesn't mean it will be summery.

But I am getting beside the point.

Today I was thinking that I was almost certainly positive that I wanted fairy lights as the main decoration. Then I realised I had no idea of the dimensions of the reception space, so I had no idea of how many fairy lights I'd need. D'oh!

So as ours is a 'destination wedding' where its not in the same town as we live in, I was wondering how in fact I'd find out this information without having to drive to the reception space with a tape measure. I spent all day racking my brains, then thought 'Ah! I'll ring the people who hire it out! Brilliant'. And so I found my rental agreement form with their phone number and rang them up and the lady on the other end said she wasn't sure. Then she said 'Oh! It's on the agreement form!' and went to get one to look at it.

Then I looked at the piece of paper in my hand.

Which had a floor plan of the hall on it COMPLETE with dimensions.

I felt a bit stupid for wasting my time wondering.

Oh well!