d e m k e w e d d i n g

it's finally happened. after the last thirty-five days of crazy planning, we pulled it off and bryan and dominique got married today! who knew it was possible? but... to be honest, all it's done is make me realise what i am capable of if i have more than a month haha

dominique looked so beautiful in her dress and as you can see, was blissfully happy, so it made all the hard work worth it ♥

it is such a blessing to know that our marriages as members of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints are for not only this life, but for the life to come and will last throughout the eternities. that being said, i'm glad that niques has made a good choice in marrying bryan. he is great fun and has fitted into our family perfectly, as though he has always been here, we kind of like him a lot.

the complete kendall family!

the best man and i, showing up to grace the wedding as the maid of honour. i love love love the suits and ties the boys ended up choosing (from roger david) and my dress was ordered from asos... i was so thrilled with it, took a chance on the size and it arrived during the peak christmas period from london, in just four days! hooray for asos!

my favourite father in law and husband

dominique and i. how lucky i felt to be beside her on the biggest day of her life. i love you girl!

niques and her mum. i love this photo, it made me crazy happy.

the pinkall crew outside the temple after the sealing. i love this shot too. there are some people that become family, and this right here, is family. ♥

it was the most perfect day for it, it had been so hot over the last few weeks, and then all of a sudden it died down today and after a disgusting start to the week, we had a beautiful 26 degrees!

my beautiful friend jamie-lee took over my camera and snapped these gorgeous pictures for me while i played bridesmaid, it was a nice change to being behind the camera for once.

our little family. how i love them!

and my little flowergirl, in a dress lovingly made for madeline by her insanely clever nanna. who also spent hours adding sleeves to dominiques dress. we are so lucky to have her.

such a beautiful girl, so glad her day was perfect!

we are waiting on professional pics, but will try to wait calmly while they are done... i will certainly report back once we have them, with pics of the decor and reception venue etc. but these will have to do for now. but it's done! she's married...

congratulations mr & mrs demke 

♥

final touches

wedding is tomorrow... and we are all sorted! we have just delivered this awesome seating chart to the venue, which i spent a few hours stamping names onto yesterday. it's a blackboard that hangs on our wall, which until last week still had the menu from my friends wedding printed onto it from the last time i loaned it out. with some chalkboard pegs attached with a little blu-tack and some pieces of scrap booking paper cut in half, we were ready to go. easy as!

a close up... simple yet effective!

and our "wishing well" or in this case, a bird cage to put cards for the love birds. as you'll see eventually, there are a lot of bird cages going to be used at the reception, so it fitted in perfectly with the theme.

i am so excited to see it all set up and ready to go... one more sleep and it is wedding time!

♥

wedding favours

warning, wedding sneak peek! if you are lucky enough to have been invited to the wedding of the year (haha) and don't want to know what the wedding favours are going to be, then look away now!

i wanted to make the place cards and the favours one thing, so had settled on these gorgeous natural card boxes available here, which were conveniently located locally, so we were able to collect them (a necessity with our short time frame!) and as we received each rsvp, i hand stamped them with my alphabet stamp set (available here) and tied them off with navy ribbon from spotlight. easy done!

only thing is, with just days to go until the wedding, my plan of making brownies and cutting a large piece for each box fell by the wayside, when i sat watching our household devour a box of coles ultimate white chocolate chip cookies, to which i suggested having those in the boxes might be a better idea? it was met with such enthusiasm that i called the local coles, who were only too happy to make us a bulk order, which we collected the next day and boxed up ready for the wedding. coles for the win!! seriously, our local is amazing!

so there you have it, favours complete, and the countdown is on! 

p.s. if you live in australia and haven't tried these cookies yet, do yourself a favour and get into coles asap and try them, you will not be disappointed!

countdown is on

these monkeys are counting down the days until aunty's wedding, especially miss maddie who absolutely can't wait to get into her flowergirl dress! 

preparations are going full steam ahead in the kendall house, with vases, flowers and seating charts in a pile ready to go... we are all very excited.

i sat and beaded the sleeves on the dress this evening, here's a sneak peek... shhhh.

it looks amazing on her and i cannot wait to see her rocking it in just a few days! ♥

aveley pirate park

just last year, a new park in aveley opened (this is not huge news, as there are hundreds of parks throughout ellenbrook/aveley) but this one was a park with a difference, as it is pirate themed and fully gated, making it safe for kids who have a tendency to do a runner... although this isn't an issue for my kids, i was still keen to check it out and see what it had to offer and then forgot to take pictures of the actual park because i am useless, but did snap this cute pic of madeline and her friend brooklyn as they played about and had a great time, however, you can check out someone elses pics in an online review here. 

it's a great park, with lots of soft areas to play on, foam whales, starfish, a plank to walk, seesaws, swings, a pirate flag on a pole and even a treasure chest! we will definitely be going back, it's so cute! 

☠ located on cashman avenue ☠

wedding invitations ♥

now seems as good a time as ever to show off these amazing wedding invitations i managed to get for bryan and dominiques wedding, which is inching closer by the day! obviously we were on a pretty tight schedule time wise, so i needed to find something that was ready to go, could be personalised quickly and that we could print ourselves. dominique and i had a look on etsy in the hopes we ccould find something we were happy with and came across something that was absolutely perfect, right here. 

a few tweaks to make it exactly what we wanted and we had this by the following lunchtime, ready to print and send off! we were so thrilled with how quickly the girl was able to have them done for us.

as they were from an american etsy seller, they were set up to be printed front and back, with the invite and the striped page, but as things here don't work like that, i had an idea do them a little differently and print the striped page on sheer paper so that it was a top sheet... and it looked exactly how i hoped it would!

and as an awesome added bonus, we were able to have the rsvp cards changed to an invite to attend the temple . winner!

they are so perfect and we are so thrilled with them. long live etsy and officeworks with their print while you wait option! 

singin' in the rain

i received a wonderful birthday present from doug this year, that i got to cash in today, when we attended the stage production of singin' in the rain at the crown theatre. i have loved the movie for years and was absolutely chuffed when i opened my birthday gift...

he had even gone above and beyond and invited my parents to attend with us! it was such an awesome show and so much fun to watch, it even rained on stage!!!! there was a downpour at the end of the first and second acts and watching the cast dance and sing about in it as the first few rows got drenched with it flying around in the "splash zone" was hilarious. 

i loved it so much, if you are in perth and have a chance to get tickets, then go for sure!!