While I was off work today I was watching daytime tv and there was a home makeover show about decorating a baby room – in fact twin babies – and the mum was ex Silver Fern netballer.
Apparently her pregnancy was whirlwind just like her wedding – and her romance.
And her fairytale romance all started in a bar on Ponsomby Road!!! So there is hope for the single girl after all!!!
But that’s not all, there were a few coincidences leading up to it!
If you’re thinking of an Easter wedding check out this inspiration – such pretty pastels and I just love the yellow and bright pink combo!!!
When I married my cute couple on the weekend, when Chanel, our Bride held her hand out for the ring exchange I was really taken with her cool nail art.
Chanel got her cool nails done by Art of Nails in Albany. Not only did they do a creative job, they treated her and her bridal party like princesses – closing the shop exclusively for them and plying them with bubbly. What better way to celebrate your pre-wedding pamper session making for a really special girls day out!
I finally got around to reading one of the Dalai Lama’s books and just reading it gave me a sense of calmness. (I know that sounds dumb but it’s true!)
In comparison most of us can only hope to reach a minuscule state of serenity and level of happiness – but the point is to keep trying!
The book is based on interviews with His Holiness and goes like this:
Journalist: Let’s not talk about difficult things like nirvana or enlightenment. But what do you want to achieve?
The Dalai Lama: To be happy. My practise helps me lead a useful life. If I can give some short moment of happiness to others, then I feel that my life has achieved some purpose. This gives me deep mental satisfaction – this feeling always comes if you serve others. So, when I help others, I feel happy. For me, the most important thing is human compassion, a sense of caring for one another.
Then it dawned on me – this is why I became a Marriage Celebrant!! So I feel helpful to others (and hopefully add a little value for them during a major life event) and has the added bonus that it makes me happy! And it’s alot of fun, as you can see from this photo (taken after I performed my official duties, of course!)
What could be a more incredibly rewarding ‘job’ than this?!
My stunning couple had equally stunning weather for their wedding day at Castaways, on the cliff top with a majestic view of the expansive ocean.
Striking an incredible contrast with the blue backdrop of the sea were the glamorous bridesmaids dressed in strapless floor length gowns in the most vibrant shade of bright fuschia.
But no-one was more breathtaking than our Bride who had a timeless elegance in every way and her dapper Groom.
Most impressive was our Groom, who is a bit of a rough diamond – he wrote his own heartfelt vows and even managed to memorise most of them!
They are a match made in heaven as they say and they had an out of this world wedding day to start their married life off in style!
I came across this research by the University of Toronto and thought it would make for good reading!
Obviously when you’re newlyweds still in the honeymoon phase I’m sure you’ll be having more sex than the recommended dose! ; )
Click here first to watch the ‘scandalous’ trailer: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/mary-the-making-of-a-princess–love-story-just-doesnt-ring-true-20151116-gkyjys.html
There’s a new telemovie out Mary: The Making of a Princess. This is the story of a fateful encounter and the life changing choices that led to one of Australia’s and the world’s most recognisable and romantic love stories.
Being fitted for her designer wedding dress, Mary Donaldson (Emma Hamilton), hardy middle-class daughter of Tasmania about to marry Denmark’s Crown Prince, Frederik (Ryan O’Kane), wonders if her story is propagating the “Princess Myth”, the fantasy packaged to young girls of being magically elevated into royalty.
Apparently Mary’s stylist – reassures her by saying that any time two people find their true love it’s a fairytale.
One reviewer says the film-makers do take a few moments to explore the less savoury aspects of Mary’s fairytale romance – loss of identity, the vagaries of royal life, giving up her Australian citizenship, the ever-present paparazzi – but for the most part Mary is surrounded by friendly courtiers, including a hairdresser (“We are going to be best friends!”) and a stylist who are so conspicuously nice that if this were a Disney film they’d be Mary’s animal friends turned by magic into humans.
I found this old youtube video of the couples ‘Engagement Day’. Mary doesn’t even sound bloody Australian! And this real life snapshot is pretty rehearsed and dull.
If you’re a sucker for a fairytale, this is the one to watch. Based on a true love story, with lots of embellished facts straight out of Woman’s Weekly, what more could you want on a girls night in!! Judging by the Engagement Day video I think it will probably be much more fun than the true story!
February 29th is the day women can ask men to marry them, and there is a great/bad romcom called Leap Year that is all about a Leap Year proposal
“I’m not going to die without getting engaged!” shrieks Amy Adams during a turbulent flight in the 2010 geographically challenged rom-com Leap Year. Adams’s character Anna follows her boyfriend (who hasn’t proposed yet) to a conference in Dublin, after her tipsy father tips her off about the Irish tradition of women proposing on leap year.
Due to bad weather, her plane is diverted to Wales where Anna then gets a ferry to Kerry where she meets the “lovable” Irish rogue Declan who ends up driving her to Dublin to catch her man in time for February 29th.
An Irish journalist who investigated the history of this odd Leap Year tradition is attributed to a deal that St Brigid of Kildare made with St Patrick in the fifth century. She contacted a number of social historians and folklore experts to confirm this, but no one could definitively tell her about any recorded references or proof of the origins of the tradition of women proposing on leap-year day.
However there was plenty of information about matchmaking and marriage in the archives, and also about the taunting of unmarried persons, whether male or female: it makes for uncomfortable reading at times, she said.
Even if you do like quirky traditions, any time of the year women have just as much right to propose as a man. If it is an equal relationship, there should be no problem with a woman proposing marriage.
What do you think?
The honeymoon is a carryover from medieval days when grooms abducted their brides from his neighbouring village. “Will you take this woman?” Well, that’s exactly what the groom did.
Through time, those abductions became fun-filled, ritualized enactments of capturing brides. Those escapades, in Norse tradition, led to a tradition in which the bride and groom went into hiding for 30 days. During each of those days, a friend or family member would bring them a cup of honey wine, so that 30 days of consumption equaled a “honeymoon.”
Luckily today honeymoons are more of an excuse to spend alone doing something you love and recovering from the wedding planning!
I often get asked how a bride should change from her maiden name to her married name. And if you’re not ‘traditional’, just deciding which way to go can be tricky!
So here are the options. When marrying brides and grooms have the right to:
♥ keep your single name
♥ use your spouse’s name
♥ double-barrel both your names
♥ if you’re straight get the groom to take your name!
If you decide to change your name there is no need to do anything official, you simply assume your new name. During your wedding ceremony you, your two witnesses and your Celebrant will sign two identical marriage documents called the Copy of Particulars of Marriage. Your Celebrant will send one copy back to the Registrar of Marriages and the other copy will be presented to you.
Both your single and married names are legal names and in theory you could use both, however Births Deaths & Marriages recommend that you choose one and stick to it (easier if you want to use your passport for id, etc.).
You will need your marriage document (Copy of Particulars of Marriage) in order to change your name on your passport, at the bank, etc., so you won’t be able to do this until after you’re married. Then you can organise the changes at your leisure.
Remember to book your honeymoon under your single name as you will most likely travel on a passport issued in your single name – and you must make sure that your tickets are issued in the same name otherwise you may have problems leaving the country!
If, later on, you decide to change the name on your passport you can present your marriage document and either have it endorsed, or apply for a new passport.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet
If you want to change your name by deed poll, get in touch with The Department of Internal Affairs. They have a good website which has plenty of information, including all of the applicable forms and fees. View their website here. However this is costly and seems a bit pointless.
Also – there is an option to order a ‘Marriage Certificate’ through the Department of Internal Affairs. I did this, expecting to get a really cool card certificate which we could frame and hang in all it’s glory – however I was most disappointed that it was just an A4 sheet of paper with typed information – info that was on your Copy of Particulars and a bit more special because it is handwritten by you and your witnesses. Saying that it can be handy to have a spare copy on file.
