Random iPhone Photos

I have so many photos on my iPhone that I take with the intentions of blogging, but just never get around to it so I need to start doing more random iPhone Photo Posts.

These were taken last weekend before we stayed at The Hotel Windsor, we went for a quick bite at the European which we hadn’t been back to for breakfast since I ate a really hard slice of toast and sliced my gum open. I know, how is that possible? What sort of novice eater am I?

Whilst strolling down Bourke Street I noticed an Ice Cream café called Thomas Turtle.

I’ll be honest, I only went in there because it had Turtle in the name.

The Husband is an absolute ice cream freak. If I buy a big tub of ice cream on a Saturday morning, it is guaranteed to be empty by Saturday evening. I don’t know how he does it but the thought makes me sick. Plus, I have sensitive teeth.

Anyway, I got these 10 cubes for $11 and literally ran them all the way to The Hotel Windsor to get them to him before the begun to melt from the heat of my hands holding the box. When I got back to the room he was dressed and leaving for the gym, but clearly I had something better on offer.

How can anyone turn down ice cream, especially ice cream with warm melted chocolate sauce? Oh yeah. 

I’m sorry but I just don’t get sparkling water. I hate it. I hate the bubbles so much.

The Husband loves the stuff, and I must admit that I did find this bottle with Dita on it quite cute indeed.

We went out for brunch last Sunday at some crap café on Swanston Street which will remain nameless as I don’t like to name and shame, but if I wanted small, dry, shitty pancakes, I would have made them at home.

How can they even call this a ‘Cherry Ripe Stack’. Please.

After that crap breakfast, where I then polished of the rest of The Husbands big brekky, and left him hungry, I put him on a tram (just like a parent) so that he could go and pick up our car from his work and went shopping at Tokuya where everything is $2.80!!!! I KNOW!! IT IS AWESOME!!!

I love this place and dead set spend over an hour in there every time. I know that I am likely to walk out with a bunch of crap that I don’t even need and will never use but I cannot help it. 

Stuff that I bought: 

Eyelashes. I’ve been buying a lot lately, I just love them.

As some one who has no talent at applying eye shadow, they are the perfect addition to a night time face. 

Lipstick holder

Hair Glove to help dry hair.... 

I've actually used this, and like it!

False Lash Containers

More lashes

Nail Art Gems

Something to hang my belts from.

I need to go to Daiso. I would spend all day in there. 

I also had a little bit of fun at Priceline.

That place is like the devil. You know that you cannot leave empty handed, even if you don’t need anything.

I decided to try the Garnier Beauty Balm, purely because it was on sale and I am sick of everyone raving about it.

Okay, its just tinted moisturizer right? The medium shade is perfect for me, but it is too ‘dewy’ (read: oily) for an already oily person like myself.

I will stick to my Jane Iredale Pressed Powder. 

The MAC liner (Magenta) which I got to wear under my MAC Girl About Town lipstick makes it too purple so I got this Australis lip liner (Kiss Me Quick) and it the perfect pink for underneath! They are practically a dupe, and it only cost $8.

The girls on twitter never lead me astray. I put the call out for which is the best dry shampoo as I have been using a Tresemme one and it was just awful. The verdict was Batiste, just over Klorane and I decided to get the brunette one and it is amazing!!

Best.

Some more lashes.

I cant help but think that human hair lashes are creepy.

I had some issues with the Kerastase Bain Divalent shampoo, even though it did it’s clarifying job, it gave me terrible scalp issues so I have changed over to the Bain Vital Dermo-Calm which is fantastic so far.

After seeing Gabby from Utter Shambles do a blog post on how to use the Kevin Murphy Color.Bug I rushed out to get it, with the hairdresser assuring me that purple would show up in my dark hair if I used hairspray first and was promptly let down.

I was left with a purple basin, purple face, purple hands and brown hair.

Gabby’s ever so awesome bf Daniel (hiya) put the pink/red one in my hair and that worked but I want purple damn it. Or blue. Gah.

The Husband was happy that it didn’t work. Boo. 

I trekked with this damn slice of cake on public transport, out to dinner and then to Gabby’s house with the intentions of taking it home for The Husband but then I left it in Gab’s fridge and she ate it.

Gah. Lots of people on the train commented on it though. Quite the conversation started, who would have thought.  

OPI – In My Pocket

The name of this makes me laugh seeing as The Husband bought it for me. We have a joke where he calls me BPM.

It stands for Back Pocket Mezzy, as in – I am never very far behind him. Works well. 

This dress has done me well over the years. I must have had it for nearly 3 years and despite me just throwing it in the washer and drier, it still has its shape and is perfect.

Thank you Jane Lamerton. I can always count on you. 

Kitty and I went out on Friday to celebrate her birthday and after a few drinks at the office I attempted to put my lipstick on but drew one lip bigger than the other. Not clever. Must do before a few champagnes.

We had a good night, but every where we went was dead. Don’t people go out on a Friday any more?

Kitty looks sleepy and I look crazy eyed. That's how we roll. 

The next day I woke up and as I had just taken my make up off with a remover wipe and not bothered to do it properly, or look in the mirror, I discovered that I had pink liner on still and it would not come off.

I seriously spent the day with pink lips despite trying eye make up remover, baby oil and all things possible. At least we know that Australis make their liner to last. 

Yesterday was our slava, which is a Saint Day. Our Saint is Saint George.

I made this cake for the lunch and everyone was so impressed, I was surprised. The Father in Law was deeply touched that I made it in the colors of the Serbian flag (even if my white was not really white). So sweet. 

My Mother in Law made this fantastic bread and as per tradition, The Husband cut it and then we both picked it up and broke it for luck. 

We were asked if we would continue to celebrate these traditions when we have our own little family and the answer is, definitely.

Happy Monday! 

Our Wedding Ceremony

THE WEDDING CEREMONY!!!

Now, it is quite difficult to do these posts as I only have guests facebook photos to use! Oh well, I am sure I will be flooding you with many more photos in the upcoming months...

After the church hall, I got changed into my ceremony gown, which took far longer than expected. Apparently they started the bells, and we were no where to be seen, so they stopped the bells and hung out for a little while until we finally started our trek!

Walking in Big Bertha is no small task, believe me. As we started walking to the church the bells started ringing and it was mentioned that it was like the royal wedding, with bells. Ashleigh-Rose was confused by this and asked me if I was a princess now!!
This would have been a fab pic if it was not blurry!

There will be more photos of my bridal party etc etc as I get access to more.

Geefa and I hanging out, waiting to enter. Right now my stomach is full of butterflies, and full of excitement.

Geefa: "How do I hold your hand, your veil is in my way?!?!"

I also needed help stepping up the steps, that was not fun!

I was really scared about walking up the aisle in front of everyone, but to be honest, when I walked in I did not notice one person to the left and right of me.

Geefa was prompting me - "Walk slow. Take your time. Here we go".

Here I come!!!

As I walked into the church, I kept trying to look for S but he was blocked by the priest. When we did make it up to him, Dad gave him 3 kisses which drew chuckles from the crowd, and S as they had discussed that they would just go for the handshake as Geefa was new to the whole 3 kisses shebang.

Move out of the way peepz, my dress is coming through!!

At this point, Ashleigh-Rose asked Cat "Is Poppet the Queen now!!??" haha killing me with cuteness.

When Pop Boro put the crown on S's head, he smooshed down half of his hair on to his forehead, much to the amusement of his groomsmen who know how fussy he is about his hair.

Pop Sipovac put my crown on so gently, fussing with it to make sure it looked perfect!

During the ceremony we have to walk around the alter 3 times, and I attempted to move with my dress but there was no way I was moving on my own. Cat had to come out and carry it around for me, and after the first time she dropped it. A lady told her that she had 2 more laps to go, and prompted her each time!!

When it came time to kiss, we had hecklers yelling out "Kiss again!!!" so we kissed, and then it happened again 3 times. You know, you gotta give the people what they want!! We had been warned not to do anything too pash like though, but we didn't practice our kiss in the lead up so am glad we had a few kisses!

After the ceremony, we had a receiving line and had everyone file through for 3 kisses and well wishes, which took a while. My cheek was pretty numb from all the kisses and cheek banging!

Did you notice Greg? He was our Aussie flag bearer, and chief negotiator at the buying of the bride.

Yipppeee!!

We are Husband & Wife!!!!

Apparently most of our flower petal cones blew away in the wind, but it was still fun to have some thrown on us as we exited the church!

The sky was threatening to go insane and open up from the heavens.

I love this photo of the back of my dress, I think I liked it more from the back than the front!!!

Here I am saying "Come on, hurry the fek up" to our slow family members who were not coming over for family photos when called. We were so behind schedule, I think I was giving Adrian, our photographer a hernia!!

It was so hard to get Max, Thomas and Raina into the shot!!! Raina had her back to the camera crying, Thomas was crying so Liz ended up in the shot. It will make a funny photo!

When people say that your wedding is one of the best days of your life, you don't realise how true this is until you are married. It honestly was the best day of my life.

I have never felt so in love, and happy before.

I can't wait until I have more, decent, photos to share with you but I hope that these will be fine for the time being!!

Pre Ceremony Traditions

I don't have many photos to share with you as yet, but thought that I would start with some photos from our pre-ceremony traditions that were held in the hall next to the church..

The weather held up all morning, and then as our limo pulled up at the doors, it started to rain. Luckily our gracious groomsman Ab, and the chauffeur were quick as a flash to get the umbrella for me.

We were running behind schedule, and S had to leave the hall when we were 5 minutes away and wait in the church the entire time so that he would see me.

I love this photo of me entering the hall with Geefa. We had not discussed how we were going to do this, but Geefa grabbed my hand and walked me in.

I was so nervous, I could feel my heart pounding all over my body. When I walked in, everyone turned and looked at me and I just waved and said "yo" when I was standing on the steps, hahaha, such a loser.

As you can see, I added a pink Alannah Hill sash to my dress for this part of the day, so that guests would think this was my dress, and then they were surprised when I entered the ceremony in big bertha.
My gorgeous flower girl, Ashleigh-Rose!

When we walked in, the first person I saw was my friend Sam and I was so greatful that she was standing there as I rushed up and gave her a kiss, instead of standing there with all these people staring at me.

When I finally saw my Mother in Law, I was ushered to a seat on the long table, and told to just sit there, eat, and smile for the photos.

All of the guests got up and were just taking photos of me, without saying anything to me, I was so awkward I just kept grinning and saying "hi!!".

I was too nervous to eat or drink, but there was an amazing spread put out.

Cristina & I

Me asking my kum what I should do, and she told me to just sit there and enjoy, which we did. She has been so much help to me!

My Mum and my Mother in Law.

After we had sat down for a while, and photos had been taken it was time for me to be taken up on stage and the buying of the bride commenced.

My brothers really let the power go to their heads, and were playing it up like there was no tomorrow. It was a lot of fun.

After that was done, our groomsman told me he had 2 missed calls from S, and that we need to move over to the church...

I had all the guests move to the church, and then I got changed into my Ceremony dress....

To be Continued...