Stationery - image motif ideas

Helloooo... 

I've been a bit bored at going roundabout with venues and whatnot this week, so I decided to start thinking a little about stationery - you know, those wonderful pieces of paper lovingly designed and assembled that people will look at once and perhaps 1/100 will save as a memento? Lol

Well, it also happens to be a relatively safe topic to talk to Grant about, because I can use pictures of others to show exactly what I'm talking about - it seems girl descriptions and boy descriptions differ in their interpretation in the brain... 

Anyways. During one ad break of Survivors - Heroes v Villains (that's been very interesting actually) where I had negotiated Grant's full attention for the 2-3 minutes, we were discussing the merits of Letterpress. You should remember the invitations from Wiggs & Dave's wedding in a previous post, if not click here and/or here. So I was showing Grant the first picture, and lo and behold I got a positive response :D His constructive criticism was that he didn't like the birds or the honey-bees&wheat combo previously mentioned. The conversation continued something like this:

Videography

Well. To be honest I wasn't considering videography at all. However, Mum made the very good point about - what about those overseas or who can't make it? And it's likely there will be some even in NZ who can't/don't make it because it's going to be a small wedding. Like really small. As in even some family members will be invited to help us celebrate the next day... 

Anyhoo, so that got me thinking about videography. I always thought of it as silly - who actually watches the video of their wedding after the fact? Too many TV shows/movies have someone "accidentally" taping over it, being forced to watch it on anniversaries, when they're older showing it to their children... Come to think of it, that sounds kinda cool, except the first one. 

So, here are some videographers I've found and an example of their work:

Inspiring weddings

OML. I'm totally getting in trouble once it's found out how much time I spent on the interweb today... :|

But anyhoo, inspiring weddings. Before I forget about them:

Elizabeth and Dave - I found their wedding in a few different places: From their photographer, Yvonne Wong; Mammoth blogger, GreyLikesWeddings; and Elizabeth's own super-mammoth blog, the Beholder including an awesome post of blogs and advice for new brides - which I assume she means new-brides-to-be? ... Which is me!!! :D Ahem, sorry. But, look at the AWESOME shoes her bridemaids had here. 

I especially love the stationery at their wedding by AtlasandCampbell - view the post about the full suite here but here's a sneaky pic (hopefully I don't get stung for copyright or anything...):

And I love her hair and the photography and the colours and the overall feel that I get from the wedding... *swoon*

John and Sherry - Their wedding album is on their website, YoungHouseLove, but here is the wedding album. I like the DIY, home-style, personalised feel of their wedding. I've always liked the idea of an outdoor garden wedding/reception (although it looks like that might not happen... ah well). And they had a photobooth too, which is high on my serious Wish List. Oh! And they used yellow (including lemons and limes on the tables) as a colour, and had bees on their invitations - which as the previous post detailed, they're my new theme idea. And it was so cheap! 

And of course, the wedding that inspired me before i was even engaged: Grace and Aaron. I found their wedding on Grace's blog, Design*Sponge. Here's the first part, and there should be links at the bottom of that to the other 4 parts. Her wedding was so awesome, it was featured on that Holy Grail of weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings.

I'm sure there are more, but that's enough for now. Must. Work... 

*love love love love love*
Kiwa.

Honeymoon ideas

Watching Getaway last night, and with Grant seeing some of the awesome holidays/tours there are, been thinking a bit about the honeymoon. Last night they had an awesome segment on Africa, in particular a Chobe Safari. The guy went from Botswana to Zambia over the Zambezi river - "the only place on earth where four countries meet: Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia", to which Grant said something along the lines of "Suck on that Argentina! 3 countries? Africa's got 4!" ... Please allow for innacuracies in my quoting - I often pay attention to the overall sentiment rather than the actual words ;)

In terms of a honeymoon destination, I'm torn between wanting a lazy 'laxing by the beach honeymoon (preferably in an island like Samoa, or maybe even Greece ;) hehe) and an adventure honeymoon like an African Safari! In one of the segments last night, there were all these elephants fighting and playing in the water... it would be awesome to see them and lions, don't you think?

Got to love taking a "break" from work to check my RSS feeds. Just found the most gorgeous collection of luggage courtesy of Design*Sponge (see the full post here): Steamline Luggage. In particular, their Editor and Aviator series:

Preeeetty.... :D I like how they look kinda retro, '50's old school when travelling was a big deal and you'd hear of people going on their Great Tour of Europe or whatever..

Until later my lovelies.

*love love love love love*
Kiwa.

Theme

Helloooooo!!

Yes, there has been a slight stall in the proceedings as Grant and I work out the final budget. Happily, Grant's job at Flight Centre is going well (he's actually got a job he's enjoying!) and I'm due for a promotion to an AO4 starting next Monday 22 March, for at least 2 months (and hopefully longer...) so some extra money is now coming in - Yay! Thanks to Mum and Dad and Mum who have kindly offered some assistance as well :)

Anyways, this post is about a theme. I think we all now what colours I want - if not, you're not my friend anymore... nah just kidding, you must need to come visit us though ;) So yeah, colour palette at the moment is

• Yellow
• Ivory
• Black
• Gold? 

As you might have guessed and probably know, I've been looking at a lot of websites for inspiration, including Martha Stewart Weddings, The Knot (US and Australia), Design Sponge and Style Me Pretty (which unfortunately is blocked at work - grrrr).With the colours selected, I thought it might be a good idea to have an overall theme. Obviously Grant needs to agree, but... yeah... I can't imagine him really caring ;)

I've found a GORGEOUS theme on MSW - Honey and Wheat. See the slideshow of images here. It includes my colours - yellow, gold (they have more of a burnt gold/copper), ivory and has super cute ideas like little bumble bees (which I imagine like the bees in all the Disney Winnie the Pooh pictures) and honey (which conjures up totally corny quote ideas like "For my honey" and "Bee mine" and so on...). Thinking about how I could use it, could include cute little bees and wheat on the stationery, favours, table settings, beeswax candles...

I really like the symbolism of both bees and wheat. *Warning: soppiness ensues... Feel free to skip the next few paragraphs*

Honey is the only food that is created by preserving all forms of life - perhaps the idea that we can create one life together without sacrificing our identities? Honey is also the only food that doesn't spoil - and hopefully neither will our marriage. 

Bees symbolise hope, diligence and wisdom - all good things to take into a marriage. (For more, see http://www.godisnowhereonline.info/missy/blessedbee.html).

Wheat symbolises a "successful harvest", fertility - which is all good :D

Anyways, that's enough for today I think.

*love love love love love*
Kiwa.

Venue - almost decided?

Helloooooo.... 

So I've think we've pretty much decided on Erskine as a venue. Been sent their info pack and details. 

Before we sign up though, I wonder if someone might be able to go and check it out properly, have a meet with the events lady? I know that you (Lydia) know someone who had their wedding there, and I've seen some photos of other weddings (they put the photos up in the public, not me...). But it would be good to actually go and see it, have a look at it from our wedding point of view. I might ask Mum, but she seems to be quite busy at the moment. So, if anyone is free/keen/has an opinion, let me know? I'll try find my list of questions/thoughts/things to look out for and pass it on...

On another note, bought some cheap whiteboards off Catchoftheday and finally arrived - yay! Means I can plan and re-plan all I want all over the walls (they're sticky and removeable :D)...

That's all for now.

*love love love love love*
Kiwa.

Thank you!

To Sarah and Lydia, thanks! 

Mum arrived in Brisbane this morning, and with her 2 NZ bridal magazines and one wonderful (and entertaining) package from Sarah and Lydi. Love the comments on the brocures, you guys crack me up!

So, the plan tonight is to have a look over everything while Grant watched the NRL All Stars vs Indigenous All Stars (*yawn*)... 

*love love love love love*
Kiwa.