Young, broke & fabulous.

So. I’m sorry for the lack of posts. I honestly have no real excuse - I’ve just been way too busy. In between studying again, working full time, photographing in my spare time & Wedding planning, the little time I do have to myself I’d rather keep to myself - and spend it with my boys (when boy number 1 is home of course), my friends & my family. Also - I want to relax. I like to relax you guys.

Fear not, this week I’m going to try and get the ball rolling again and get a bit more motivated with my posting.

I do love you, you know, little blog.

I pretty much associate anything Wedding related with Pinterest. It is incredible for Wedding inspiration. As our planning goes along nicely, more and more things are starting to come to our attention that we need to start planning and buying/organising things for. The Wedding is still a while away, but the planning has fully commenced now.

We wrote our budget last night, and after three drafts (first draft was 15k over, second 10k, third 6k… sigh!) we are getting somewhere with that. But you know what? Budgets? Boring. And slightly intimidating. But centrepieces? They are fun. And pretty. And girly. And exactly what I’ve been planning and imagining in my bride mind the past few nights.

Last night we planned how long we want to travel and where we want to go on our Honeymoon.

I am so excited you guys.

We decided to stick with Europe (we’ve been jumping back and forth between Europe and USA) and have picked a few places we want to see during our 4 week trip. The first email has been sent to our travel agent, and now the fun begins, picking hotels, sites to see and dates for each City. We should probably find a venue first still, but you know, the world of Wedding Planning has been a bit frustrating in regards to finding a venue, so planning the fun, romantic, historic, beautiful and new places we’ll go to for our Honeymoon is just so much better. We want to go to places neither of us have been before, but I’m going to sneak a little Paris time in there. How can we not go to the City of Love on our Honeymoon?

Where did you or where do you want to go for your Honeymoon? Did you backpack? Stay in hostels? I don’t really know if the hostel scene is really for us… but it’s so expensive otherwise. We want to do a few tours so we can meet new people and get the most out of each new place we visit. I’m already planning what camera gear I want to take. We aren’t going anywhere overseas this year while we save for the Wedding. And while it’s totally worth it - I must admit I’m pretty damn excited to get on a plane for that dreaded 4000 hour flight to explore somewhere new. With my husband, too!

This year, Rick and I have jumped right into Wedding planning. We have possibly found our venue, I’ve got a few deadlines set in regards to my Wedding dress, we’ve started our designs for invites and favours, celebrant & photographer are sorted, and I’m spending a lot of my spare time researching and putting together our ideas for our special day so they can become reality.

I kind of loving Wedding planning. But maybe that’s because I love my future husband so much?

Right now, I am hoping on a plane to Sydney (actually I might have even departed by now, my flight is supposed to leave at 8.00am but who knows with Qantas).

I’m only going to be away for a few days - I’m home on Monday, but I’m pretty excited regardless. I have a super busy weekend;

Thursday: I arrive in Sydney just after lunch. By the time I get to my hotel, settle in, and then meet up with Jess, Stuart & Tornado Tiah (who are also having a mini getaway to Sydney!), I can’t imagine I’ll be doing much else.
Friday: Meet & greet with Kristine & Kevin, and a visit to the Country Club. And hopefully some shopping. Also, I really am hanging out to take a trillion photos of Tiah being adorable around Sydney. And then a delicious dinner somewhere! And thennnnnnn…
Saturday: WEDDING! My first, very own Wedding photographer job. I’ve done a few Weddings now, but as second shooter, not by myself. And not as a photographer with a business. It’s exciting and scary and… real. I might actually one day make a career out of my passion for photography. Man I hope so!
Sunday: Okay. I am going to admit it. I’m excited/nervous for Saturday. But Sunday means Harry Potter Exhibition. I am just plain flippin excited for Sunday. And I just don’t think I can contain my nerdy excitement either. The Harry Potter Exhibition. I might cry. Or wet myself. (Yes, if you haven’t noticed by now, I’m that kind of HP fan.) If Jessica let me I would totally be dressing up as Hermione.*
Monday: Early flight home with Jess & co, to my beautiful bulldog, and Christmas ready home.

You guys. YOU. GUYS. I am so nervous. And excited. And pumped!

Wish me luck.

*I wouldn’t actually dress up. I’m not that kind of fan.