The Wedding Files: Wise words

"The grass is always greener where you water it."

This little quote was kindly shared with us by our wedding photographer a few months ago. From memory, she had heard it from an older gentleman while working on a photography project about relationships and commitment.

I think it's a wonderful thought to consider for marriage.

Photo from my 365 day project.

saturday-to-saturday

It's been a wonderful week of little moments that I don't ever want to forget.

Birthday picnic for Steffany.
New yellow shoes, newly weds, and an endless supply of chips.




Enjoying the river and the sunshine after work. Others ran, we took it slow.




Hilarious, snort-laughter-inducing moments.
The tarago-driving poodle and a City Cat and rubber ducky stand off.



Taking on Ikea very late one night... and winning!
Hand-picked flowers from our garden and having coffee on the new kitchen trolley the next morning.



Being in the office, and also being out.



There are so many little moments in each week that deserve to be remembered. If I don't have my camera out, I often find myself taking a mental photograph and storing it away in the back of my mind. The last seven days have been drenched in amazing, full, rich moments with people I love. Here are a few of the mental photographs I don't want to forget:

• The ocean spray and coming around the top end of Moreton Island
  
• Holding hands in traffic and animatedly discussing our work day
• Being overwhelmed by wedding prep, having a good sob on Will's shoulder, and feeling like all was well with the world again after
• Watching 'Into the Wild' on the very noisy bean bags
• Eating copious amounts of sticky rice at Thai Wi Rat
• Making our living room look amazing with new lamps and cushions
• Riding a golf buggy through aisles of trees
• A very sleepy Will making very silly jokes about BoBo and Lola
• Finding a $600 tie while looking for groomsmen's attire
• Counting down days until we are married - 40 sleeps left
  

Life is so very wonderful.

detour

A couple of weeks ago, we made a spontaneous detour on our way home from work - a detour that including a trip to Max Brenner, dress shopping, and a movie date at Southbank.

I gotta be honest, those kind of detours are my favourite.

And we can now wholeheartedly recommend the White Shake (lychee and coconut) and the Yellow Granita (fresh mint and lemon). Seriously yummo.

little moments

On Friday after work, we had picnic in our backyard. There's nothing like lying on the grass under a big blue sky. We listened to Angus and Julia Stone's 'Mango Tree', ate an entire packet of corn chips and laughed the afternoon away.

The Wedding Files: 66 days

66 days, or 9 weeks and 3 days, or 2 months and 5 days, or 1584 hours until we are getting married.

Here's my new favourite photo of my future husband and I, to celebrate the countdown!

Photo credit: Jess Greenwood

Ending August

We've just finished a very busy, very crazy month. Our little blog has been kinda quiet, but not because life has been dull. There's been lots of work meetings, a bit of travel, countless training presentations, pre-marriage counselling sessions, a wedding, birthday parties, decking out Casa del Smurf, family dinners, wedding ring shopping, coffee dates, gift registry set up and waay too much time spent in traffic. Life has been FULL.

But we managed to sneak in a lunch date last week and finally visited Jam Jar. Yay!

The outdoor courtyard is hidden from view on the street, and decked out with cool artwork from local artists. It feels a little bit like a Melbourne alleyway cafe! I had a yummy chicken and chorizo gumbo and Will enjoyed potato pancakes. The servings were a little on the small side, and neither of us really liked the music choice, but aside from that, it's a pretty cool little West End cafe.

And here's to a *fingers crossed* quieter, calmer September!

The Wedding Files: Blacker and Val

We were so honoured to witness and celebrate our dear friends' marriage on Saturday. Blacker and Val are one of our favourite couples and it was so special to stand under those big old fig trees and hear them say their vows. Val was absolutely radiant and hearing Blacker share why he wanted to marry her made me cry. And Groomsman #4, what a handsome man.

And that renegade chicken? I will be asking Val where she hired him from and seeing if we can sneak some feathered friends into the church come Nov 19.

I'm joking, of course. Apparently llamas, not chickens, are where it's at. Oh world of weddings, you are a crazy, crazy place.