Sunday 29 June 2008

20th April, Perth, WA

Last night we turned up at the Sheraton Hotel without the following - wallet, purse, credit cards and both of our phones. It was a rookie error!

Rich picked us up and we headed to the Bluewater Grill to pick up our pressies and flowers.

That afternoon, we had a BBQ. All of my family was over from Victoria at the one time, it was pretty sweet. Tim did a great job on the tongs.
Tan was quite wrapped with all the lovely presents.

19th April, Heathcoate, Western Australia

The biggest and best adventure of them all. Our wedding. The day was everything that we wanted it to be with those that we wanted to share it with us. Perfect!

12th April, Perth, Western Australia

We are back writing. It has taken some time to get the momentum back up. We have been busy!
The 12th of April was our Bucks / Hen's night...

From my side Azza picked up Kinga and I and then grabbed Will and Timbo and we hit the Swan River with tins and fishing rods. We dropped our lines in and we got a call from Renae. The girls were already on the way up the river on their lunch/wine cruise when Renae found out they weren't going to float past where we were fishing.

We quickly packed up and hit Bassendean under the Tonkin Highway Bridge. We had a solid plan!! We had just arrived and hadn't got our fishing lines in the water when the girls boat approached. Us fellas dropped our strides, stood proudly there fishing in our jocks!
The girls were impressed and the captain gave us a blast on the horn! A solid plan executed well. Anyway we waited for about 45 minutes in our jocks fishing and prepared for the next passing of the boat. The boat come past, we stood proudly in jocks and got plenty of shouts and another toot of the horn from the boat. Well, Kinga and I just had a stubby holder covering our private parts and our jocks around our ankles.

We thought the girls were a bit quite, so we got kit back on and walked back to the car park. As we got to the car park, another Swan River wine cruise went past. I took my chance and dropped my strides this time to the right boat!

We all got in the car and took off to Azza's and we could not believe we spent all this time preparing for the girls and we ended up stripping off for the wrong boat!!

Back Azza's we played cards, drank beer, had a barbie and had some entertainment. A good night in all.
From the girls perspective, we boarded onto a boat up the Swan River for lunch and wine tasting and then onto the 'Lucky Shag' for a few drinks and then into Northbridge. I was dressed in two wedding veils, a checklist of items I had to complete for the evening and various umm, items, pinned on me or around my neck, and a number of games to participate in. The girls had a rollicking great night, ending up in a kebab bar in the early hours of the morning in Northbridge providing a fascinating demonstration to the staff. Without going into too much detail, a good night was had by all.

9th April, Perth, Western Australia

At some point well before your wedding you are meant to have what is referred to as 'engagement photo's' with your photographer. As we had been out of the country for so long we only had the opportunity to do ours ten days before our wedding.

These photo's are meant to be an opportunity to for us to get familiar with the photographer and having our photo taken. We felt slightly awkward hanging around Hyde Park pretending to look very natural. We were however, happy with the results. A plug to the photographer http://www.ericaserena.com/