:: Wedding Details - My Dress ::

Thank you all so much for your comments on my last post! Being a Mrs has been fantastic! I'm enjoying living with Mr LG and making a life for ourselves in our little house. I thought I would show you some more phoos of my wedding gown, our drivers for the day were each armed with a camera and I have a few photos from their cameras to show you.

This photo was taken by my sister-in-law in my parents living room. I love the floaty lines of my dress and the flower embellishments. Working with my dress maker was a dream, every time I went to see her she had a new idea or concept that had randomly come to her and I loved every single one. The dress evolved so much during the months - from singlet straps to off-the-shoulder straps, from no flowers to lots of flowers, and my favourite - from all white to hints of a colour called ice which shone purple in some lights, green in some, and grey in others (three of my favourite colours - perfect!). The ice fabric was initially going to be an under layer and at the very last minute my dress maker had a brilliant creative moment and placed some of the fabric on the top. I also love that my Mum kept her Christmas tree up so I could have it in the background of some of my photos.

The back of my dress (please ignore my swimmers tan!). I never thought I'd go for such a low back, but I love the way it looks.

This photo was taken near the end of our photography session. My hair is all bedraggled because it rained so much throughout the day. In fact, some of you may have seen it on the news, but Brisbane flooded two days after our wedding. Our photo venue went under water as well as part of our reception venue, so we were very lucky. By the time the photos were done my dress had soaked up water to my waist line! I rang my Mum on the way to the reception venue and begged for someone to bring me a hair dryer! We ran inside the reception venue and into the toilets and began to blow dry my dress layer by layer (and then my hair)!

I have so many photos I'd love to show you, but I will leave them for another day. This afternoon Mr LG and I are going to our photographers to view our professional photos, we are so excited!

Much love!

:: Mrs Lavender ::

Hello!

I am back from the most wonderful wedding and honeymoon I could've imagined! I can't wait to share all my favourite parts from the past few weeks with you all.

Our wedding was absolutely perfect, it was so amazing to see all our family and friends in one place together to celebrate our special day. Even though it rained all day, for one beautiful hour is stopped raining - the exact time we needed to have our photos taken - how lucky were we? We were blessed with beautiful grey skies and a wonderful old building for the backdrop for our photos and I can't wait to see the final products!

Our day started around 7am and didn't finish 'til midnight. I had so much fun all day and somehow managed not to cry throughout the ceremony. I have cried at every other wedding I've been too, so I thought for sure I'd cry at my own - but I was busy having too much fun! The waterworks came during speeches later, speeches always get me.

I have hundreds of photos to sort through, but I wanted to share with you my favourite photo from the various happy-snappers during the day. This photo was taken by my older brother while he was juggling a large umbrella and various other items. I think the blur makes it perfect.

Much love to you all!

:: Happy New Year! ::

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and a fabulous New Year! Christmas was a huge day for Mr LG and I. We started the day by opening our presents from each other (he gave me a box filled with crafty things - stamps, ribbons, pens, stickers ... I was in Heaven!) and then headed to his brother's place to spend time with him before going to my parents place for the rest of the day (and night!). We were truly spoilt by our family and friends and our day was filled with love and laughter - what more could we have asked for?

We spent New Years playing Nintendo monopoly with my sister and her boyfriend. I lost ... big time! But, I still had a tonne of fun! I have officially started my holidays and yet, I still feel so busy! My days are filled with wedding crafts and errands while trying to move out of my room. Have any of you tried to move after 17 years of accumulating stuff? Wow, it's a huge task! I'm not generally a hoarder, I'm actually quite good at throwing away/donating things I don't need or use anymore. And yet, I still have SO much stuff! My room currently looks like a bomb has hit it!

It is my 28th birthday in a few days (the 6th) and I can't even begin to think about a way to celebrate it while my wedding 'to do' list still has so many items on it. None of them are huge tasks, but some do take time. My latest project has been stamping cute little brown paper bags for guests to put lollies from our lolly table in.

Can you believe I get married next weekend?! Everything is starting to feel more and more real as we do things like final dress fittings and finalising menus. I can't wait to share the actual day with you all via what will probably be multitudes of photos!

I hope you are all having a fanastic break over the new year!

:: And the winner is ... ::

A big thank you to everyone who entered my Christmas giveaway! Ladies (and gentlemen?) we have our winners!

The winner of this adorable spotty make up bag/pencil case and goodies is Gracie from GracieBellaButterfly!

The winner of the cute tartan make up bag/pencil case is Chloe from Chloe in Reality!

Congratulations ladies! I'll be sending you an email shortly to get your postal addresses.

Thank you all for your generous comments on my wedding invitations. I'm glad you all like them as much as we do! We are currently working on our Orders of Service and a survey for our guests to fill out about us!

:: Wedding Inspiration - Vintage Books ::

I love books. The love the smell of them. I love the feel of them. One day I hope to have a library in our house with floor to ceiling books. Luckily, I am marrying someone who also loves book - old books in particular.

So, what do old books and our wedding have in common? I've been so excited to share this with you, but I had to wait! Now I can finally show you our vintage book invitations!

Time was running out on our invitations and we still hadn't settled on a style we liked. We both love simple, clean looking things and we both love old books. It was actually my younger sister who came up with the idea to join the two together and create a fantastic book themed wedding invitation!

They have been a hit with our guests and we couldn't be happier with them!

Who doesn't love a brown paper package tied up with string?

The countdown is officially on now - 24 days 'til we get married!

PS. Don't forget to enter my Christmas giveaway!

:: And so this is Christmas ... ::

So, I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but Christmas has crept up on us quite quickly once again! Mr LG and I put up our Christmas tree a few weekends ago and I think it's quite cute. We chose red as our accent colour this year, but we plan to change the accent colour every few years. This weekend we will start wrapping our presents! I can't believe that in two weeks time Christmas will be here!

To celebrate Christmas I have decided to have another giveaway. This time there are two prizes up for grabs!

Giveaway number one is a cute spotty make up bag/pencil case, some gel pens, an assortment of sticker seals, a pearl and glass bead bracelet and a shimmery lip shine!

Giveaway number two is a cute tartan make up bag/pencil case, a little notebook, an oversized paper clip, an eraser, some lip shine and some hand repair creme.

Here are the rules as to how you could win one of these prizes:

♥ The give away will end Friday 17th of December

♥ The give away is open internationally

♥ I will be selecting the winner using a random number generator

Mandatory Entry:

♥ Follow my blog and leave me a comment containing your email address and tell me what your favourite part about Christmas is.

Optional Entry:
♥ Blog about this give away and leave me a separate comment with the link.

To top it off, each prize will also contain a little surprise from Gracie's adorable etsy shop!

Good luck!

PS. Isn't my Mum's Christmas tree to die for?

:: Wedding Inspiration - Engagement Photos ::

Just in case you're not totally over me talking about wedding information, I can finally share with you some of our engagement photos! Mr LG and I woke up early and headed to the Storey Bridge, which is across from Brisbane City. We bought Mr LG's vintage bike with us, as well as my vintage inspired bike. Our photographer was the incredibly talented Troy Hansen.

This shot was taken while we were on our way under the bridge, so some action shots could be taken of us riding along it.

While I don't like having my photo taken, I do like this photo. My dress is dark blue with tiny white love heart polka 'dots' on it. Seriously cute dress.

In the end, this is the photo we decided on. I love Mr LG's old bike in the corner. The only touch ups I insisted on were to remove my underwear lines! I love the slightly vintage feel of this photo.

If you could have a photo shoot, what kind of feel/look would you go for?

It is my Hens weekend this weekend. We are planning on enjoying pedicures/massages, dessert for dinner, Harry Potter and a photo-based scavenger hunt! I can't wait to share it with you.

I hope your weekend is fabulous!