Florist

I am so organised for this wedding. So far we have finalised the location for ceremony and reception, got the bridesmaid dresses, found my dress, and now I have the florist. I found her in an unconventional way, one of my friends Tina on facebook joined her fan page Emma Valentine flowers so I decided to contact her. Tina just had a beautiful baby girl named Olivia and is in the same mothers group as Emma.

I gave her a call and she came around Tuesday night. She was absolutely lovely and really knew what she was talking about. She used to have a store on Unley Road but closed shop to have a baby and now is starting her floral business from home. We went through all the options. I really wanted peonies for the wedding but they only flower for 3 weeks of the year. So she suggested other alternatives. Aisha and I are both going to have flowers in our hair, and the family members who are female are going to have corsages. She is also doing our centre pieces. I think she will do a great job and I'm looking forward to seeing the result.

Bridesmaid dress shopping...

Aisha and I have been looking for dresses for about 3 weeks on and off. I have also been doing ALOT of research on the internet. I found some really great dresses at Nordstroms online but it's hard to know what it would look like once you put it on. We starting off the search a few weeks ago in Rundle Mall. We tried Myer and there was a nice purple dress there that was on sale reduced to $80, however it had a stain on it so we didn't buy it. We also tried DJ's, Showies, City Collections, Whistles, and Pilgrim and found nothing. Yesterday we headed to King William Road to Wild Child which I thought would be a sure thing, but we couldn't find one thing for Aisha to try on, everything was so over the top and trashy.

Next stop Melbourne St, we headed to Inta Mode, and George. We tried on a couple dresses at both places and even though the Matthew Eager dress was really nice on Aisha it was also out of my budget. Last stop of the day was In Dubbio which is solely a bridesmaid dress shop. Aisha tried on about 6 dresses and with her figure everything looks great on her. But the last dress I picked up from the rack was the one we went with and it was within my budget! It is a lovely chiffon material that is very flowly and it's a maxi, perfect for a garden wedding. The staff at In Dubbio were very helpful I would recommend them.

We have had alot of fun discussing the colour, it is in the purple family. But it isn't violet because I don't like that colour, it has a tinge of pink in it, but is more purple than anything, very hard to explain.

So now I have the colour scheme of our wedding I can start working on the invites and flowers. I'm starting to get very excited because I can see it all coming together.