Post 40 ...

Wow! I've just realised this here is going to be my 40th post ...

Yes, I just took a moment to "take that in".

Who would have thought that when I started this blog on 20 April 2009 that I would be here today blogging about my upcoming wedding! Back then things were different .... you'll have to go read it all from the beginning to catch up ... and hey, its only 40 posts (including this one) so its shorter than a magazine! LOL!

Anyway, back to the news ...

Friday evening the head of the Wonder Women Squad came to sleep over and we spent some time going through some ideas that I have and some that she found whilst browsing. OMG you've got to love these Wonder Women of mine! They are so amazing and I'm extremely happy I chose them ... and EVEN happier they said "OH HELL YEAH"!!! I love that they're keeping an eye out for little ideas and things that will really help a lot!!! You have NO idea how much that means to me...

Anyhoo, so we got up the next morning and went to one of the other Wonder Women's dedication of her child (almost like a christening ... but not, for those of you who don't know what that is). After this, we dropped the Groom at home and then dashed off to three different material shops to see if we could find exactly what we're looking for .... we didn't, but we has some options. I was then dropped back at home and then the Groom and I went to view a possible chariot ... no no no, not for the wedding ... but that's a different tale all together. We then went to meet the HWW (Head Wonder Woman) at Canal Walk with her Prince and we went to browse an store called Bride & Co. ... this was interesting indeed. Who knew wedding gowns could be THAT heavy!!! Thank god HWW was there! I would possibly have broken something ... either in the shop or on my body. Now the only drawback of this place is that all their sizes are American. And with all the big arsed people you see in that country, you'd expect them to have human sizes available in their store, but apparently there is some sort of starvation plan for brides over there that we have yet to discover. Needless to say, I will hopefully be at least half a Backstreet Boy lighter by the time I get to the Big Day.

I did see some stunning things there though and as we crammed ourselves into a spaciously small dressing room (spot the sarcasm?) with a few poofy, heavy dresses and no aircon, the reality of the fact that I'm actually trying on wedding dresses hit me. I'm getting married .... again .... (another "take it in" moment) ... and no, that's not a "omg" moment in a bad way ... that's a "sigh and smile in happiness" moment. Anyway, the dresses. Wow, who makes these things!!! As HWW held the dress open, many poofy skirts cascading over the minimal floor space, I struggled to see the carpet. Lifting my chubby thighs over the waist area of the dress while trying to get into them - all this whilst contending with the hysterical laughter from HWW - it was pointed out that once you manage to loose all the weight you want to before your Big Day, you put it all on again once you put the dress on ... yip ... they're THAT heavy! God willing I don't loose my boobs through the "minus-half-a-backstreet-boy" process, because that may be the only thing that will keep a dress like that hitched up on my body. That and perhaps some strategically placed superglue. But hey, it was a total hoot and loads of fun.

After that we toddled off to the main mall and HWW took me to a delightful material shop. And there it was. The materials. The colours. It was perfect! Some of the stuff they had in there was insanely expensive, but the material we looked at was not too bad at all! Now its just a matter of taking it with me when we go see the dress designer we have an appointment with at the end of Feb. I hope he's the one ... I just want to get it sorted out.

As for photographers, we're still having to make a final decision. One more person to see and then hopefully at the end of the week we can say "we choose you!" ... It will be a relief because I just want to get as much organized as soon as possible so that I can enjoy the smaller things like the decor and spending more time with my WW.

Anyway, the Klingon's have arrived, so I'm going to let you get back to your normality too ...

Ciao for now :)