Have I really not updated this for nearly 2 months?! Blimey!
I had my trial for my hair and make-up yesterday, with my 2 bridesmaids/maids of honour, and my mum. I was a little worried at first that she put too much make-up on me, but when I looked in the mirror it looked good! My hair turned out so well too! She set it in heated rollers, then let it out, and pinned back bits at the front, so that it's still down and curly round the sides and underneath, but off of my face. And it's sort of wavy-curly too, rather than tight crazy curls.
My mum just had her hair lifted and styled- like her normal style but nicer, and my 2 bridesmaids had their hair set in rollers, then pinned low at one side in a curly bun-type thing, it looks so pretty!
She's coming to the cottage to start on us at 7am on the morning of the wedding- ugh! Soooo early!
I pulled the pins out and loosened the curls a bit before I got home so Steve could sort-of see how it would look but not the finished thing. He approved :biggrin2:
We have also decided not to have a DJ- we've found a company nearby that hires out jukeboxes! We can get a digital jukebox that has programmed into it, every single song that has been released since the charts began! It's delivered, set up, and collected by the company, and they rig it up to a lighting system as well. It can be set to free-play so people can go up and select songs all night without having to pay either
We're just waiting to find out if we can load a couple of songs of our own on it- a couple of album tracks from random bands etc so we can make sure that the special songs get played as well. It sounds like a great alternative to a cheesy DJ- that's been our biggest fear!
Steve saw in one of my magazines while we were on holiday an idea of placecards using scrabble pieces! Get enough stands and letters to spell out everybody's names with! My bridesmaids loved the idea and could imagine everyone having fun using the letters to play their own mini-games of scrabble once seated. We're looking for mass-supplies of scrabble letters now!
Still looking for those purple tealight holders. Still need shoes! And jewellry! And underwear! :shock: But I can go shopping with the girls for those things.
We still haven't got a honeymoon either. We're thinking that if we can afford one (not sure right now or not), we'll just go for the one place, and keep our American dream-trip for another time- maybe next year or something. We're looking at places in St Lucia, Antigua, Mauritus, and basically anywhere hot and nice!
Our wedding website should be live soon as well! Steve is sooooo busy with work that it's taken him months to get round to building it :rollseyes He did a bit whilst we were away but couldn't get much internet access so it was difficult (although a good thing in a way lol, or else he would have spent the week working!). It's going to have all the details of the venue, accommodation, etc as well as pictures of us, the venue, and how guests can donate to our honeymoon fund via PayPal if they want to! And we'll post our wedding pictures on there after the date. :biggrin2:
Phew! That's one big wedding-planning update!
