48 Days To Go

With 48 days to go, we have received some great news.

More family members are expected to join us for the wedding!!! How cool is that?

We originally weren't expecting so many family members to be joining us - as it stands, there are 10 coming from Jonathan's side of the family, all from New Zealand - and we were only really expecting to see his parents! We will now be seeing Jonathan's parents Malcolm & Robin, Jonthan's grandmothers Gran & Nana, Jonathan's Uncle Mike & Aunt Heather, and Jonathan's younger brother David, sister-in-law Jolie and their girls Alyssa & Tammi.

My Uncle Henry and Aunty Karen surprised us by telling us they wanted to be part of the celebrations. As they live in Cupertino (about an hour south of San Francisco), and they'd never been to Sydney before, it was a wonderful wonderful surprise. We can't wait to see my "fun uncle and fun aunty" - we had such a great time when they hosted me and my folks for a week a few years ago.

Yesterday, Mum told me that we can now expect 3 more overseas guests. My Aunt Magdalen, always one to do things in a rather unconventional way, told Mum she'd booked tickets to come to Sydney from San Francisco for the wedding! I don't think even my mother was expecting Aunt Magdalen to come to the wedding, considering she'd already said that she wasn't available in August when we had to change the wedding date.

Also arriving in Sydney for the wedding are Uncle Charles and his daughter Carolyn, from Hong Kong. Now this was a huge surprise!!! They had been adamant that they were't able to come due to work commitments, and now, they will be here after all!!! Uncle Charles is a well known dentist in HK, and he is always busy and well booked up in advance. Carolyn is a high flying HR director - a workaholic, her schedule is always mad. So for these two to make it to the wedding - well, it's just made our day even more special.

Quick update from our meeting with Father Coleman. Firstly, Mina was so perfectly behaved, we almost forgot she was in the room with us! Father Coleman took us through the motions of the ceremony, and gave us loads of readings and other people's Orders of Service to glean ideas from. We are now narrowing down the music we are going to be using for the church and the ceremony - which is fun, as I'm picking the songs, and Jonathan is either agreeing or screwing up his nose. Now, you tell me, what's wrong with walking down the aisle to "Somewhere Out There" from Disney's An American Tail???

Speaking of Mina being on her best behaviour, we've now told her she can definitely be a flower girl because she was so perfect during our meeting (and in fact, she's been perfect all weekend this sleepover weekend, extended due to today being a public holiday). We dressed her up in her flower girl garb yesterday and she looked so gorgeous! Can't wait to see the other little girls in their matching dresses.

We've bought Jonathan's wedding ring. The ring will be ready in a couple of weeks, with the engraving to be completed in 2 weeks after the ring is ready. Just in time!!!

We still need to work out a time for Kiran to go to the formal attire hire section of Myer to get him measured for his suit. But we still have a little bit of time.

I still need to talk to Jennie at Merci Bouquet about the flowers for the church and the reception, and I also need to add a few more things to our order - a button hole for Uncle Charles, and corsages / lapel arrangements for Aunt Magdalen and Carolyn. We've decided not to go with any more flowers for the reception, but we definitely need something for the church. We'll work something out with Jennie.

Less than 7 weeks to go!!!