Matron of Honour in Training

the countdown's on…

Re-start # 1,000,001

Filed under: Exercise,Goals,Weight Loss — Cheryl at 3:26 pm on Friday, April 20, 2012  Tagged , , , , ,

I’ve started..again. My starting weight is now 84kg!!!! Easter didn’t help but it’s not the only reason for me going up. My eating has just been all over the show. It’s not down to lots of takeaways or anything like that it’s down to not eating proper breakfasts and resorting to energy drinks full of […]

Weigh In Monday & first of the wedding shows

Filed under: Exercise,Wedding Planning,Weight Loss — Cheryl at 8:14 pm on Monday, April 2, 2012  Tagged , , , , , , , ,

I seem to be gaining and losing the sameĀ  100 – 200 grams and I’m sick of it! Eating wise today ( I was at a product launch for work for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea) – Hot Cross bun with Olivani, green tea, 2 cups of tea with 1 x sugar and trim […]

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 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 […]

Weekend fail

Filed under: Wedding Planning,Weight Loss — Cheryl at 9:59 pm on Saturday, January 28, 2012  Tagged ,

You know that feeling when you think you really really want something but then after you have it you just feel sick? I just had one of these;                     Yep, a McDonalds hot fudge sundae. And now I feel like guzzling a bottle of water. I […]

Duties of a Matron of Honour

Filed under: Matron of Honour,Wedding Planning — Cheryl at 7:05 pm on Friday, January 27, 2012  Tagged ,

So in case you’re wondering, I was, here is a description of what the Matron of Honour should be doing in the lead up to the wedding and on the wedding day itself. In the lead up to the day Assist the Bride-to-be in her planning. Attend wedding shows and venue/supplier visits, help plan the […]

Wedding venues and invitation designing!

Filed under: Matron of Honour,Wedding Planning — Cheryl at 9:49 pm on Friday, January 20, 2012  Tagged , , ,

So this week we’ve been playing around with invitation designs and today we are trekking up to Markovina and Kumeu Valley Estate, one of which is set up for a wedding today which will be cool! The weather is beautiful too On Tuesday night we looked at the papers she had found and the invitation […]