Dress arrived!!!

OMG I casually called the shop today to enquire about my dress and it is here! Fantabulous! I can't wait to go pick it up and try it on again! how can I survive till Sat?

Our new home

So the new doors got delivered yesterday and we are choosing the paint for the outside of the house. I've lived there a full week by now.

It's starting to glow a little... mainly because my future father in law has been painting the hallway white. a little bit each day. When I come home, I always go around the place to see what has been done. I feel terrible that we are not helping out though and I wish we could do more and be more responsible about it.

But my fiance is not a handyman. I have to live with that. I cannot expect him to be who he isn't. My brother is selfish and spoiled and so I cannot rely on him either. I will have to help FFIL if I really want things to be done.

Anyways, I have fully unpacked my own room by now and I can see where things sort of belong. I am also liking the closer distance between the new place and the city than my old place. Which I certainly would not admit to anyone else, cause I was such an advocate of the trains and my previous suburb before, and also because, I didn't (at one point in time) see the point of hauling my life out of my little apartment which I took so much pains to make my home.

Now it is our home... not just mine. I have to be less liberal with the peonies decals and the blingy decorations. He's allowed me flowers and paintings... but I will steer away from the Ballerinas and princesses too I think. I bought the day bed without consulting him though and whilst I love it... it's got two massive love hearts wrought into the iron and I am not sure what he thinks of it yet... I guess we'll find out soon enough :P

New month new beginnings

We've moved! And we've got a joint account now! Things are so different for me; starting to think like this is really happening! We are a couple! Mind you there were fights and tears and lots of short tantrums from my end. But in the time of winter when people are sluggish and falling sick, we’ve been blessed enough to have so much to keep us busy and motivated. We have also discussed and decided to use my wedding dowry to renovate the house. Which means I don’t have to slum it out! Yippeee!!!!

New Bathroom and a kitchen that I will design myself, new doors, new floors and a new coat of paint inside and outside and that is all my moolah gone but one handsome place to live in after we’re married! How exciting! I wonder if people usually do put all their savings into the marriage plans what with the reception, the honeymoon, the new home... we are cash poor now...but so rich in blessings.

I can’t wait till July when all the major renos should be finished and then I can just unpack things from their boxes and really start making the place feel like a home.

Cake Stand: Bought!

Purchased today: 1 Dan Samuels - Grand Victorian Silver Plated Cake Pedestal at 25% of its original price.

And I love it!!!! Yippeee!

Fingers crossed for the reception dress

I just came back from Cabramatta where I had gone to pay a visit to the seamstress in Paris Bridal Boutique. I was told that they were not bad. I left feeling really excited. They are able to lengthen my dress! And fix the dress up so that it sits much better on me.

Even in flats the dress was too short

These are the shoes that I'd really like to be wearing with the dress

I am looking forward to the day I get my dress now. I know there are heaps of other things that will need to happen before then so hopefully I will be kept busy and won't be too nervous about waiting for it. Essentially I have asked for it to be lengthen with tulle, so that it ends up looking like this dress:

 Ingenious eh? Fingers crossed that it looks nice!