Matron of Honour in Training

the countdown's on…

Girl’s Night In

We went dress shopping yesterday. We all headed to Forever New to try on this dress The lovely bride-to-be wore it for the engagement party and later that night she mentioned it would make a good bridal party dress with the addition of a green sash on the bodice. We all tried it on although […]

Wedding party mini drama

Filed under: Matron of Honour — Cheryl at 10:30 pm on Monday, March 5, 2012  Tagged , , , , , , , ,

So, seeing as I’m in update mode I should tell you about a bit of drama that occurred during and after the engagement party. There are 4 of us in the wedding party; Me – Matron of Honour “Eva” – Maid of Honour “Brie” – Bridesmaid “Brooke” – Bridesmaid The idea behind asking Eva to […]

The Engagement Party: The Decorations

Filed under: Wedding Planning — Cheryl at 9:34 pm on Monday, March 5, 2012  Tagged ,

Green, white and more green! With dashes of blue and pink Taken the morning after sorry! Green tablecloths and green & white lanterns (again taken after everyone had left!)

Checking in

Filed under: Exercise,Weight Loss — Cheryl at 9:30 pm on Wednesday, February 29, 2012  Tagged , , ,

I haven’t weighed myself in a couple of weeks but I have a new battery for the scales now so I will see how I’m doing in the morning. Eating has been average this week. Went to the gym on Tuesday night and am going to go again on Friday night. I’ve been quite tired […]

The Engagement Party: The Cake

Filed under: Matron of Honour,Wedding Planning — Cheryl at 7:06 pm on Monday, February 20, 2012  Tagged , , , ,

So, back here I told you about the cake that I was making for the engagement party and here is the final result…duh duh da daaaaa So, what do you think? Serena absolutely LOVED it and so did the Groom so YAY for me :), I was nervous but she did a little dance about […]

The Engagement Cake

Filed under: Matron of Honour,Wedding Planning — Cheryl at 4:34 pm on Friday, February 10, 2012  Tagged , , , , , ,

Today I am making the cake for the engagement party. Why so early you ask? Well I’m using a fantastic recipe from the KiwiCake‘s forum which tastes better if you bake it in advance and then freeze it for about a week. I used this recipe to make this cake Well, the ball is the […]

Wedding Update

Filed under: Matron of Honour,Wedding Planning — Cheryl at 1:44 pm on Friday, February 10, 2012  Tagged , , , ,

I haven’t posted an update about the wedding for a while – shocking! So..the engagement party is next weekend (18th) and the invitations got finished on Tuesday night, yep bit short notice huh? We looked at Footbridge in Bombay on the Monday, it was okay. Would be fantastic for a casual, country/vintage type theme but […]