Our married life together: March 2010

High tea

Outfit for the day :) Laura Ashleigh dress

My dear friend Dana took me out to high tea at the Sofitel for a nice catch up.

We both got a bit excited, because:

1. It means we get to eat, we love food.
2. We get to dress up.

3. We can say Dahhhrlingggg in an exaggerated way & will be completely normal.

Nothing like a great friend to catch up with, while eating amazing food and sipping on a cup of tea.

Headband Miss Miranda

You've always got to capture Dana naturally. Beautiful

Crepes dipped in caramel sauce. Heaven!

Can't go to High tea and not drink tea!

Note the chocolate fountain on the left, hello!

He obviously wasn't happy that I was taking this picture. Nevermind,
he played lovely music in the background :)

xx Farrah

It's wedding season! and we were delighted to be invited to Kathryn and Matt's wedding.
Can't even describe the beauty of this wedding. It was so evident how much Matt and Kath loved each other and their faith in God shined through.
The ceremony involved 3 pastors that were apart of Kath and Matt's life in some form which I thought was so special, one blessed them, one lead the ceremony message and one married them.

I loved Katheryn's natural look, her dress was satin a-line, her hair was down and curled with a flower to the side which looked divine. The bridesmaids were wearing a short strapless deep purple dress.

After the ceremony we were in awe with all the home made sweets, from cupcakes to rum balls it was the nicest afternoon tea. Wayne and I didn't know anyone at the wedding so it was nice to walk around and talk to new people.

We headed off to the Yarra Valley at the Oakridge Winery for the reception.
As you know, I have a slight obsession with wedding planning so as soon as we arrived I straight away wanted to see the table settings. The tables were dressed up fabulously with tea lights and pearls, my kind of style for sure. The placecards were adorned with lace and I was happy to see they spelt our last name right! haha. Most importantly it wasn't crammed up at all, and there was plenty of room for dancing.

The food was...amazing. We were given the choice to pick between 3 mains. I'm not normally a fan of Gnocci but apparently the chef was well known for it and I gave it a go and I'm so glad I did, theflavours were scrumcious. I think I was near to tears when I heard the speeches, all around very mushy and lovey-dovey. Matt's grandfather wrote a letter to the couple too which was read out loud by Matt's uncle, so so special.

Congratulations to Kath and Matt!

Matt and his groomsmen praying outside before the ceremony

Wayne playing guitar in the ceremony.

Wayne going through music sheet one more time before the real thing!

Outfit for the day :) Diana Ferrari dress, betts shoes on sale $20! and peacock feather head band
from the lovely Etsy seller LovMely

Afternoon tea in the church hall.

I love Kath's natural look

Best Gnocci ever!

Hearty breakfast

Nothing like an amazing hearty breakfast to start the weekend off....

Poached eggs

Hashbrowns

Bacon

Mushrooms

Grilled Tomatoes

Spinash

Sausages

You generally don't need lunch or dinner after a meal like this! lol.

Doors galore

Who would have thought that one day we'd be shopping for doors?
The world of doors, such a facinating and interesting world.

Who would have thought that there would be so many choices when it came to doors. Different styles, shapes, designs, era, make, and other sub-choices like door handles...there's a gazillion door handles!!!

I wonder, those who own these door-making businesses how they came about being involved in this industry? just wake up one morning and say HEY I wanna make doors and lots of them! Our sales man was incredibley passionate about doors, he was describing them as if to say that they are the most important part of a house...hmm. To be honest, we were standing there and trying to remember what our doors look like in our current unit. It's just something you don't really notice and remember?

So we're definitely not spending a lot of money on doors, or door handles for that matter. The handles are just as expensive as the doors! which I found quite hilarious.

I've got a few pics of some of the doors, some of the glass ones are adorable. But unfortunately we're not going for that look but if I ever build a cute cottage house I think those designs would be fab. We're going for more of a modern, french-chic look. But that could change so who knows!

Thank you cards

Can you believe I still haven't finished? but that's because I've made it a bit of a big deal. Like I do with most things, I usually like to make life a little more complicated for myself.

I've made them from scratch and I've printed personal photos for every guest. My amazing photographer took individual/couple/family photos of all our guests and I wanted to print them out and put them with the thank you cards. I've even included some dancing shots for those who were constantly on the dance floor.

It has taken me quite a while, going through 1400 photos is a hard task but I'm nearly finished and I think the wait will be worth it for our guests.

Farrah

House update!

It has been a while since we've updated you on our house. The roof is now up, the electricals are in, the windows are there and now they've nearly finished doing the bricks. It's so exciting to see it come together.

We seriously need to free up our weekends so we can start to look at tiles, bathrooms and kitchens. But every weekend we've had either a birthday, a wedding, or an engagement party. We're finding it hard to do anything these days as we are occupied with quite a few events.

How do we use our time efficiently? not sure how all you mothers out there do it!!!

xx
Farrah

Happy unbirthday to you!

Twenty Six years ago a child was born with silver hair who was cute, cuddly and careless, then puberty and a bunch of other stuff happened and now you have me the Big Friendly Giant who is also quite noisy. If you haven't caught on it's my birthday. The actual day was Sunday the 21st but Farrah made me start celebrating on Friday night (which you can read about here).

Farrah took me shopping for clothes, specifically an awesome winter jacket. We had lunch at Federation Square and had a good time chatting away, being excited celebrating our first birthday together as a married couple.
We came back home to celebrate my birthday with Farrah's family, as my family are in NSW. Farrah's Mum got me a strawberry cheesecake, I love cheesecakes! and we had dinner together made by Farrah's nana.

Really awesome goodies this year! Clothes, music cuff links, a sweeeet hat (that I can't seem to take off), vest, guitar peda, a wolf mask! and most importantly I got to hang out and spend quality time with my rad-tastic wife.

HI IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! and I get to wear a hat.

Wayne's mexican chicken burger

Notice the polkadots? another addition to the pile of polkadotted clothing items.

Chicken speghettini

Would you pay $1000 for this bright purple blazer? lol
because that's how much it is. It's the perfect Willy Wonka-wannabe outfit.

Happy Birthday to me!

Farrah's brother gave this mask to me.

Wayne.

Ben and Amelia's wedding

We had the pleasure of attending the wedding of one of my dear high school friends. It's so great to be able to witness such a milestone. It was located in the Yarra Valley. This is a beautiful area in Melbourne well known for their wineries. They had a garden ceremony overlooking the gorgeous view. My highlight of the ceremony is watching Amelia walking down the aisle with her Dad and seeing Ben's massive grin. When Amelia was given to Ben, he just couldn't wait and just gave her a kiss right then and there! haha not yet buddy. It was cute.

In the meantime, I was nervous the whole way through because I was to be involved in a Michael Jackson thriller dance later in the night. In my head I was trying to practice all the moves. I love dancing free style but for some reason I just suck at choreography.

While Amelia & Ben were taking photos, I decided I needed to find a place to practice, and what other place is perfect than the spare room where all the cleaning products are kept haha. It was well worth it because we pulled off the dance quite well and everyone loved it.

Note: this is quite important information. I found the cutest shoes ever with bows on them and was super excited that they were the same colour as the flowers on my dress. hehe!