Our wedding is going to be fairly small - approx 80 people. Church wedding followed by a cocktail party. Should be nice and intimate. Bought my dress - totally not what I pictured myself buying. It’s so pretty and traditional/romantic. I was going to go for a straight dress but went for the full skirted one. We’re having trial photography in the next couple of weeks to get a feel of being behind the camera. Also having trial make-up done on the same day to make sure it will look good in the photos.

Starting to think about invitations. Want to do them myself. Playing around with a black & white photo my bridesmaid took of a bunch flowers. I want to do something different, and since I love photography, I thought I’d try to use that.

We’ve booked our flights for our honeymoon. We fly from Brisbane (6 Oct) to New York for 3 nights. Then off to London for 3 days. From there we have a car booked to drive around England and maybe Wales for 2 weeks. Then we fly from London to Malta for 4 days. Catch a ferry to Sicily, then onto Italy. Milf has just over 3 weeks from when we get to Italy, to get ourselves to Paris so we can fly out 18 Nov. Haven’t decided on our Europe destinations as yet. So many beautiful/wonderful places to see and can’t decide.

It is extremely hot in Brisbane at the moment. It’s 11.44 pm and still around 28­°c. The weekend weather is supposed to be around 41°c. The heat itself isn’t a problem, the humidity is so high - it is just stifling and muggy. Lots of warnings on the news to be careful over the next few days.