Tiny update...

Our dice arrived this week, and they are perfect. The colour I asked for turned out to be (in the flesh) different shades of deep red swirled together with gold. So beautiful that it's a shame they're only little plastic dice and not some kind of gorgeous ornamental glassware!

Secondly, we hired a cake maker this week from the website I've already referred to. The cake I've ordered is (copying and pasting from the invoice):

2 tier (10" and 7") chocolate and caramel mudcake, decorated with white fondant, diamond embossed pattern with edible gold cachous, dark red ribbon, dark red sugar roses, fondant covered board with ribbon trim.

The cake on her website which provided me with inspiration is below. Basically it's the same cake, only round, without butterflies, with red ribbon instead of black, and gold cachous instead of silver.

So can you picture that? I think it will be nice and simple, incorporate my colour theme without overdoing it... but most of all, be stupendously delicious, with the bottom tier chocolate and the top caramel. I might have to try and sneak a piece of both on the night!

I'm still here...

I just have nothing new to report right now! But I did pay off the balance for the bridesmaids' dresses today, so that was awesome. And my wonderful fiance renewed his membership to Jenny Craig with the wedding in mind as a weight loss goal, so that's pretty great too. It's up to me to help him stick to it, and to motivate him to exercise and so forth. Which in recent times has been a challenge for me too. I've kind of helped myself by joining the gym, but I've been so busy at work that I don't get to go as often as I'd like; my membership is off-peak, which means I can only go between 6am - 8am (impossible) or 12pm - 4pm (only possible when I finish work on the dot of 3, which hasn't happened as much lately). But I couldn't justify paying heaps more for a full membership, even with the added perks of being able to use it any time, plus the pool and classes. Maybe I'll upgrade it in the future when we're "rich", but right now I have my own little cardio routine that's fine for me: 2km on the treadmill walking on an incline, 5km on the bike with level 10 resistance, 2km on the rower, and 2km on the cross trainer.

Should keep me fit enough to maintain my current weight, if not lose any. I'd like to lose about 5kg, but I know my main priority is just to be healthy.

Anyway, I now have names and numbers for hair and make-up possibilities thanks to my ever-helpful Matron of Honour, plus the email and website for a cake possibility courtesy of a girl from primary school who I haven't even seen since the last day of Year 7. She saw me saying something about the wedding on facebook, and sent me a private message to tell me about her friends' cake business. Very nice work; the company/website is called Sweet and Simple .

I'm yet to contact any of these people, mainly because I keep forgetting, and perhaps a little because I'm concerned about it being too early. But I guess in the wedding planning field these days nothing can be booked too early (unless it's something you might change your mind on), so I guess I'd better get on it! I don't want to contact the cake lady just yet though, as my old schoolmate told me that she's going on six weeks' maternity leave as of this month, so I may just leave it for another couple of weeks before I start emailing her.

Other than that, everything is same old same old. I do have the occasional "moment" however, when I'm looking at my ring or talking about the wedding to someone, when I just think, "I can't really believe this is happening". Not in a "Squeeeeee!! I'm so excited I can't believe it!!" way, but more "This isn't actually real". It's weird, I spent so long dreaming about the time leading up to getting married, but because now I'm here, I feel like it's not real, so I rarely get properly excited. If that makes sense.

I kind of feel like I won't truly be excited until the actual day (or maybe for a week or so before). But I do know that when I walk down that red carpet and see my sweet boy at the other end, it will be one of the most amazing moments of my life. :)