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Weddingy goodness
Apr. 6th, 2008 12:26 pmAfter seeing Davyd's wedding post, which he managed to put up only hours after his reception had ended, I'm feeling rather slack for not having yet done the same with regards to my own wedding. Tina and I got back from our honeymoon on Friday, and things have finally slowed down enough that I've got some time to write this post.
As far as I was concerned, the day went along with just enough troubles to keep it interesting, but not so many to keep it from being an absolutely perfect day. The weather was beautiful, the photos seem to have turned out well (coming soon!), Tina looked amazingly beautiful, our friends and family were all lovely, the speeches were good, the food and drink was nice, dancing was fun, etc etc. And, of course, I got to marry Tina! It all added up to exactly the wedding I'd hoped for.
Saturday night was spent at The Duxton Hotel in the city, which was followed by the most ridiculously huge breakfast buffet I've ever seen. Sunday afternoon was set aside for present opening, which was ... just awesome. Man, I love presents. They're just mint. We were quite blown away by everyone's generosity - you'll all be getting thankyou cards in the mail as soon as we get around to writing them ;)
Monday morning we raced down to buy a digital camera before heading off on our honeymoon (would've been a shame if we'd not been able to take photos, after all). We now own a Canon Ixus 75, and it's a very spiffy little camera. I took about a hundred or so photos at Steph and Davyd's wedding, so I should probably start a flickr account or something so I can start posting some images.
The honeymoon was just wonderful. We spent five days in Busselton, staying in a luxury appartment at the Abbey Beach Resort. We had a nice big living space with a spa and a kitchen and two balconies and lots of other nifty stuff. The complex had three pools (we only bothered with the heated one), and opened out onto the beach at the back. We spent lots of time shopping and eating and watching movies, which was all very relaxing. We seem to have gone a bit crazy with the shopping bit - for the first time ever, Tina and I are a two-income unit without a huge thing on the horizon that involves saving all our spare money. We've been a bit spendy. It's fun!
A definite highlight of the time in Busselton was our winery tour. We booked a chauffuered tour, which involved spending four hours being driven around in a Mercedes Benz to wineries of our choice. We had tastings, took lots of photos, had a delicious lunch at Driftwood Estate, had some very pleasant conversation with out guide/chauffuer and ended up buying about a dozen bottles of wine from the six or seven wineries we visited. It was a fantastic day out - I highly recommend it :)
Friday we left quite early, and were back in Perth in the early afternoon to be greeted by our somewhat displeased cat (she hates it when we're away). The there was Steph and Davyd's (really lovely) wedding, and that pretty much brings us up to now! Gah, I have to go to work tomorrow :P
Anyway, another big thankyou to everyone who came along and made our wedding such a wonderful experience. You're all most awesometacular indeed.
As far as I was concerned, the day went along with just enough troubles to keep it interesting, but not so many to keep it from being an absolutely perfect day. The weather was beautiful, the photos seem to have turned out well (coming soon!), Tina looked amazingly beautiful, our friends and family were all lovely, the speeches were good, the food and drink was nice, dancing was fun, etc etc. And, of course, I got to marry Tina! It all added up to exactly the wedding I'd hoped for.
Saturday night was spent at The Duxton Hotel in the city, which was followed by the most ridiculously huge breakfast buffet I've ever seen. Sunday afternoon was set aside for present opening, which was ... just awesome. Man, I love presents. They're just mint. We were quite blown away by everyone's generosity - you'll all be getting thankyou cards in the mail as soon as we get around to writing them ;)
Monday morning we raced down to buy a digital camera before heading off on our honeymoon (would've been a shame if we'd not been able to take photos, after all). We now own a Canon Ixus 75, and it's a very spiffy little camera. I took about a hundred or so photos at Steph and Davyd's wedding, so I should probably start a flickr account or something so I can start posting some images.
The honeymoon was just wonderful. We spent five days in Busselton, staying in a luxury appartment at the Abbey Beach Resort. We had a nice big living space with a spa and a kitchen and two balconies and lots of other nifty stuff. The complex had three pools (we only bothered with the heated one), and opened out onto the beach at the back. We spent lots of time shopping and eating and watching movies, which was all very relaxing. We seem to have gone a bit crazy with the shopping bit - for the first time ever, Tina and I are a two-income unit without a huge thing on the horizon that involves saving all our spare money. We've been a bit spendy. It's fun!
A definite highlight of the time in Busselton was our winery tour. We booked a chauffuered tour, which involved spending four hours being driven around in a Mercedes Benz to wineries of our choice. We had tastings, took lots of photos, had a delicious lunch at Driftwood Estate, had some very pleasant conversation with out guide/chauffuer and ended up buying about a dozen bottles of wine from the six or seven wineries we visited. It was a fantastic day out - I highly recommend it :)
Friday we left quite early, and were back in Perth in the early afternoon to be greeted by our somewhat displeased cat (she hates it when we're away). The there was Steph and Davyd's (really lovely) wedding, and that pretty much brings us up to now! Gah, I have to go to work tomorrow :P
Anyway, another big thankyou to everyone who came along and made our wedding such a wonderful experience. You're all most awesometacular indeed.
