Well this weekend was rather fruitful, we chose not to go and look at dresses or rings, this weekend was all about getting down to the nitty and gritty!! An arduous task but nevertheless an important one!
So I sat down on Saturday night in front of the telly with my beloved and began probing - as you know this can be difficult getting anything out of Mr W, he has tendencies to switch off or go off into moments of rambles about other less important things like motorbikes!
I therefore cunningly placed a large bar of Dairy Milk Chocolate to encapsulate and tantalise his taste buds! It worked for a while that is until the bar ran out.............
Anyway as you may know Perth is the luscious destination for our forthcoming nuptials- a sunny and warm place, in fact roasting at times. But hey that does not put me off, in fact its comforting to know that the chance of raining on our special day will be minimal! (hope i haven't spoke to soon, quick where is the wood!)
Anyway yes so Perth is the place, in terms of venue, well that becomes rather complicated. We had toyed with the idea of a beautiful and romantic wedding on the beach (I know too much watching Baywatch). The sun pounding down and Mr W arriving on a white stallion, the gentle wind providing a nice breeze! (naturally i have been reading too many romantic novels at this point)
Whilst it sounded nice in theory.....the practicalities are another thing.........I ant imagine anything worse than walking in sand in high heels, the pelting sun meting my make -up, and killing my bouquet - naturally a bride does not want wilting flowers on her wedding day! The guests arriving and sitting on uncomfortable beach chairs and wind sweeping sand in their eyes ..mm you see when we thought about this plus Nana B would struggle to come out in the heat, so all in all whilst it was a nice idea, we have rejected it.
Our next option was having a ceremony at Wesley College where Mr W studied,,, a nice little chapel, with symbolism but some bad memories for Mr W so this is still a.....gray area ?.
The next obvious choice for the ceremony has to be in some pretty gardens somewhere, my ears prompt up when he suggested this..mmmm well I could get use to that, so off I went and started looking at venues that had nice gardens...this is the hard part, my search has not been as fruitful as expected, I stumbled upon Caversham House which has englishesque heritage features and stunning gardens ..well that is from what I can see from the pictures!
I began the calculations and contacted them only to find nothing was available on 31st March 2012 , the impending date! Bugger.. Mrs W had been kind enough to check some venues out for us so i must peruse these details in case there is something here.
To sum up what we want would be: romantic fairytale that has everyone smiling and laughing!
We will have 50 guests (based on this weekends estimate) the date is 31st March, we are thinking of a ceremony around 1/2pm then a fabulous reception from about 6.30 - 11pm. Ideally we would prefer to do our own catering and have buffet option but in WA things are slightly different. So a sit down meal may be an alternative though I struggle with the idea of this, for those of you who have been to Indian weddings, its all about having a good time, by that i mean a good boogie!! and food comes after!! Mind you I don't want you to think I would leave my guests starving, no sirree!!
So although we have a date in mind and guests on a list we are still no closer to booking a venue............
but stay in touch to see what enfolds over the next few weeks as I'm sure with all the Watson family help we will find something,,, who needs a wedding planner when I have such delightful support from within!!Until next time..... cheerio
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