Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Fare Thee Well!!

Will and I are off this arvo on our Honeymoon!! Tonight we fly off to the USA :) I am so excited! We are going to New York {cue JayZ and Alicia Keys}, Washington DC to see Obama (is he there at the mo?), Las Vegas- staying at Paris and the Bellagio! Ah luxury!!, Grand Canyon- that awesome hole in the ground and Disneyland {cue child's voice "Dinneyland!!"}. It has been a long time in the planning but somehow you kinda forget about the honeymoon in the midst of the Wedding day happenings so it's nice to suddenly remember on your way into the city to have your pics taken, that you will be flying out in a couple of days! Well those days have arrived and we are packed and ready to go! We have a real estate inspection while we're away though, so these last 3 days have been a flurry of present opening, present hiding around the house til I can find them real places to live and cleaning cleaning cleaning! Will is a great help and has vacuumed, cleaned the fish tank and cleaned the kitchen too! What a good husband {wink!}
So don't miss us too much in the next few weeks, stay safe and I'll leave you with some cute pics from our Engagement session with our wedding photographer Cathy Crawley of Beautiful Moments Photography. You can check em out and some others here: http://www.beautifulmoments.com.au/ she posted these pics up on her blog last week and I really like them! I love these 2 especially :) I hope the wedding pics are just as good!
:) C

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Just Married!!

Say hello to Mr & Mrs Lam!!

We had a fabulous time at our Wedding yesterday! Who would have thought 10 months of Wedding Plans would fly by so fast, and now here we are married already! It was a wonderful day, just as we had hoped and nothing went wrong (that I’ve heard about anyway!) I thought you might like to see some pics! These are all taken by my lovely sisters (and bridesmaids!) and Mum and Dad. I can’t wait to see how our professional pics look too!
We started the day nice and early at 7am when the Glam Van arrived. It was so much fun being primped and pampered in a plush girly van! They did an awesome job of both hair and make up, I totally recommend them for weddings! Both Susana who did our hair, and Christine who did our make up are lovely and so professional. I especially loved my hair, it was just how I wanted it and was topped off beautifully by the flower decoration and birdcage veil! My bother in law David kept us well stocked in brunch the whole morning, he even wore his chef’s outfit to serve us!
I just LOVE my wedding dress. It is so beautiful, I felt like a real Hollywood glamour leading lady in it. I wish I could wear it around all the time. Although it was quite heavy I loved wearing it the whole night, swishing in it’s beautiful skirt and train, hoiking it up over my arm to walk around the city and having Mum tie up the skirt so I could dance in it! I enjoyed it so much, it was so perfect for me. I really loved all the decoration on the back as well as the front, it was so beautiful. Now, do you think anyone would notice if I did my groceries in it next week? LOL!
Mum made the beautiful bridesmaid’s dresses and I am so proud that they turned out just how we wanted them! GREAT WORK MUM! {applause heard in the background} They are a beautiful colour and the dresses really set off the colours of the Hot pink and red roses, tulips and orchids in the bouquets. Aren’t my sisters so beautiful?! They were so easy to work with on the day, so laid back and gorgeous. And even with a breast fed baby and another pregnant sister we had no hitches {high five!!}
Our ceremony was just beautiful. We arrived only just a little over 5 mins late. My cousin Trav did say he was giving it til 10 mins late and if I hadn’t turned up he was taking Willy fishing. LOL! I really wanted to look around the church to see who was there while Dad and I walked down the aisle, but when I saw Will there at the end waiting for me I just looked at him the whole time with a big smile on my face! I was a little worried that Will would cry cos he got a tiny bit teary at our rehearsal while saying the vows (don’t tell him I told you that!) and then I’d probably cry when I saw him cry, but he held it together the whole time! I think he must have been too happy to cry :)
We headed into the city for some location shots around the rocks and down by the Hyatt with the Opera House in the background (well, we do need to send some pics to Hong Kong!) Felicity snapped some gorgeous ones of us having a photo shoot with our prof photographer and videographer which is awesome cos I already have these beautiful pics to share! She even already has made us a little brag book to take overseas with us so we can reminisce and show people our wedding! How cool is that? She must have gotten up so early this morning to make it for us! I love having a ready made brag book the day after our wedding, that is too cool. Oh, and if you want to see a wedding party, or say 21 wedding parties, having their pics taken, go to the rocks area on a Saturday about 3:30pm. Our wedding party counted 20 other wedding parties having their pics taken at the rocks on Sat. WHOA!! One lady stopped Felicity and said out of all the weddings they had seen that they liked our bridesmaid's dresses the best. Go Mum!!
After our location shots it was back to the reception to relax a bit before heading in and dancing the night away. We had a fantastic night, it was so much fun to share it with everyone and dance, eat, hug, kiss, chat and pour tea for our nearest and dearest. We love you all!
Now off to the honeymoon! But not before some more pics {wink!}
:) CLAM (hahahaha, Clam. That’s C. Lam, sorry!)


P.S. The Candy Bar was a massive hit! I don't have many pics of it at the moment, just this one, but as soon as I have more I'll show you! Anyone want to rent out some glass jars? They're cool!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Less Than One Week til Our Wedding!! WOW!!

6 sleeps and counting!! {giggles excitedly!} Can you believe it?! How quickly it has rushed up! I have both Mum and Dad staying at the moment, Mum is here all week until the big day which is good for me. It's nice having a PA for the week! LOL! They brought my dress up on Friday but I haven't had the chance to give it a whirl yet, we've been just so busy! Actually not today, but it was a "bum around the house" day and I didn't get out of my jammies til it was time for Church tonight {wink!} Isn't one of my jobs to relax before the wedding? Tick that off!
Here's a page I did recently about Will's Lotus. Will's Mum has heaps of lotus plants out the back (hello cliche- Asian/Lotus!) and there is a special one she told me about in January. She said she got it when Will was born and it had never flowered, not in 25 years, then in the last 2 years it has flowered over and over! I pointed out to will it co-incides with about the time I came around, so the lotus must like me! I was amazed by it's massive green leaves and giant white blooms! So beautiful!
Hope you had a Happy Easter! HE is Risen!
:)C

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Scrappin with like a million photos.

It's been a long time since I scrapped a page with lots of pics. I have been leaning toward the single photo or just a couple of pics pages for while, then I did these 2 pages lately and broke back into my many-pics-to-a-page mould! This first page is of an outing Will and I took together to The Entrance. I'd never been to The Entrance before but Will goes there fishing all the time. We had coffee and cake then fish and chips sitting beside the lagoon. Afterwards I layed on a rug reading my book as Will did some fishing. He only caught tiny bream but did have a major effort of hooking 2 small bream at once! It was fun to get out of Sydney for a while and have some time chatting and relaxing by the water. I hope we get more time to do that after the wedding is over (it's a little hectic at the moment!)
The second page is all about my new Cupcake book and having fun making some cupcakes from it (BTW Mr Puffy and friends are making a cacophany of Kookaburra laughs outside at the moment! He makes me happy!) These cupcakes are much bigger than the recipes in the Woman's Weekly Cupcake Book which I also love and there are also different flavours. I love baking and I wanted to capture that on a page, but I had to include that ridiculous pic of me with the icing gun! Hillarious.
The great thing about these 2 pages is using up the old papers before I go to the US! I'm on a scrapping roll at the moment, I did another page yesterday! I think it's a great outlet during the busy-ness of Wedding plans!
It's my last day of work today for almost 5 weeks! Hooray! I'm so looking forward to it. I've only had 2 annual leave days since we went to Japan in May last year so I'm in desperate need of some time off! Luckily Mum is coming to stay for the week before the wedding, hopefully she makes sure I don't wear myself out before the big day!
:) C