These two are the masters of the perfect personalised speech. Not something for everyone but I love it! Patrick and I haven't really talked about things in that much detail yet but I wish we were Apple people so we could steal these guys idea. I love it that much. I am off for the weekend but Mareike is going to be here Sunday evening and Monday and I am looking forward to having my Maid-of-Honour here with me to to do wedding things! Yay! Hope you have an awesome weekend!
Tiffany + Brook • St. Regis, Ca from VisualMasterpiece on Vimeo.
Freitag, 6. Mai 2011
Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2011
And the winner is...
Oh, you think I'll tell you right away and not waffle on about how we made the choice, what made us choose against certain places and how we finally, after much, much thought we came to choose the place we did? Well, you think wrong. You got your hot drink of choice ready? Some nice music on in the background? Your reading glasses on? Then let's dive right in!
Firstly, thank you so much for all your suggestions and offers of help. They really made thinking of the Honeymoon fun and it's great to know we have such helpful friends (I'll remember that when planning the post-wedding clean-up team!).
Up first - the south of France. This was the first place we came up with and we thought long and hard about it. I went so far as to look for holiday homes in and around Carcassonne and a few places near there. Fazit: too expensive, and also somewhere we could go later and with a family. So for a Honeymoon? Non, merci!
Next serious contender - Malta. Hot, small, relaxing, where Paul was shipwrecked, English-speaking, blue water and lagoons. Yes, yes, yes. Touristy. And we just didn't get that excited. So, good-bye Malta.
The whole Honeymoon planning really started to annoy me after ruling out Malta. I just couldn't think of places for us to go that would fulfill my need to go somewhere we may never get to ever again and cheap, clean but cheap, as foreign as we can get but... are you getting the picture?
A few months ago, Patrick mentioned where his flatmate was going on her Honeymoon. It sounded adventurous, not too expensive, far away but still clean. Patrick seemed intrigued but I never really thought that it would be where we would end up.
About a month ago, I decided to just see where we could fly to from Bremen and see if we would be interested in any of those places. Two days later our flights were booked. Without much thought, as we would find out later. We, I am excited to share with you, will be flying to Morocco!
Firstly, thank you so much for all your suggestions and offers of help. They really made thinking of the Honeymoon fun and it's great to know we have such helpful friends (I'll remember that when planning the post-wedding clean-up team!).
Up first - the south of France. This was the first place we came up with and we thought long and hard about it. I went so far as to look for holiday homes in and around Carcassonne and a few places near there. Fazit: too expensive, and also somewhere we could go later and with a family. So for a Honeymoon? Non, merci!
Next serious contender - Malta. Hot, small, relaxing, where Paul was shipwrecked, English-speaking, blue water and lagoons. Yes, yes, yes. Touristy. And we just didn't get that excited. So, good-bye Malta.
The whole Honeymoon planning really started to annoy me after ruling out Malta. I just couldn't think of places for us to go that would fulfill my need to go somewhere we may never get to ever again and cheap, clean but cheap, as foreign as we can get but... are you getting the picture?
A few months ago, Patrick mentioned where his flatmate was going on her Honeymoon. It sounded adventurous, not too expensive, far away but still clean. Patrick seemed intrigued but I never really thought that it would be where we would end up.
About a month ago, I decided to just see where we could fly to from Bremen and see if we would be interested in any of those places. Two days later our flights were booked. Without much thought, as we would find out later. We, I am excited to share with you, will be flying to Morocco!
Morocco
Morocco!
Morocco!
Morocco!
You know when you write the same word over and over again and it starts looking really weird? That just happened. But hey, I am going with the most wonderful Patrick Honsberg to Morocco! That's Africa! Africa! Africa! Where we are going exactly and why is a post for another day. Frankly, I think my Honeymoon is more interesting for me than for the rest of you, but I want to read about the planning one day when I have more laundry than I ever dreamed possible and 3 screaming kids and then I'll say 'Look at me moan about the planning process. How little I knew.' and then I'll chuckle patronisingly at the me of the past as the kids cry and Patrick writes the sermon for Sunday and I, wait a minute, hey, me of the future! Less blog reading, more work you lazy mom!
Enough of this. It's late. Over and out.
Dienstag, 3. Mai 2011
... this video.
I am much to busy actually doing something for our wedding tonight to write loads so how about another video, eh? This one is from 'Life's Highlights' and I love their work. Especially this wedding. I want all my lady friends to pray for me before I walk down the aisle too, please!
I cried when I watched this. And giggled. And sighed. I'm a suck.
Oh, and you want to know what I am so busy doing? You want to know what I have cramps in my fingers from and what I am quite proud of and am just dying to show you? Well, I won't tell you and can't show you until the time is right, so you will just have to wait. Or ask and then I will crumble like a house of cards. Like I said, I'm a suck.
Kelly & Isom (West Palm) from Life's Highlights on Vimeo.
I cried when I watched this. And giggled. And sighed. I'm a suck.
Oh, and you want to know what I am so busy doing? You want to know what I have cramps in my fingers from and what I am quite proud of and am just dying to show you? Well, I won't tell you and can't show you until the time is right, so you will just have to wait. Or ask and then I will crumble like a house of cards. Like I said, I'm a suck.
Montag, 2. Mai 2011
... watching strangers get married!
I watched the wedding. I watched all the coverage we could get in Germany. From 9-3. I watched it all. I held in my need for the washroom so I wouldn't miss a moment. I loved it. I loved seeing someone else's wedding and knowing that I didn't have to pay for it. I loved talking to Mareike and squealing with her when the Princes' left for the Abbey. That's also the only moment I shed a tear. It's also when I excitedly clapped, tapped on the screen, waved and repeatedly squealed 'You're getting married today, William!' I don't think he heard me though.
Like everyone else I was wondering what Kate was going to wear. I was hoping for something quite fashion-forward, something that would maybe be unexpected. It wasn't. It was beautiful, it screamed Grace Kelly, and the more I read about the idea behind it, the more I love it. Don't get me wrong, it's gorgeous, totally appropriate for her and a Royal Wedding, but it wasn't quite the 'gasp' I was hoping for. Her veil, on the other hand, took my breath away. Wa Wa Wee Wa. And her second dress is gorgeous. Really. I think I just expected something else from the fashion house that gave us this:
Now that would have been a 'wow'.
Want to know what my all time favourite thing about the wedding was? What I loved even more than the Queen's bright yellow outfit? More than the cartwheeling priest? More than Harry fooling around with William? THIS:
Every time I saw those trees, especially from above when you got a look at the whole Abbey, it took my breath away. Stunning. So beautiful. Perfect. I will go on about these trees to all and sundry for a while yet. So if you talk to me, you best steer away from this subject or I will not shut up.
Oh. I also thought the Bishop delivered the best sermon at a wedding I have ever heard. Well done, sir, well done.
If you haven't had quite enough of the wedding round up yet, click here to read a really good summary that I couldn't really agree with more.
Tomorrow it is on again with real wedding stuff. I can't wait to tell you all about our Honeymoon plans!
Like everyone else I was wondering what Kate was going to wear. I was hoping for something quite fashion-forward, something that would maybe be unexpected. It wasn't. It was beautiful, it screamed Grace Kelly, and the more I read about the idea behind it, the more I love it. Don't get me wrong, it's gorgeous, totally appropriate for her and a Royal Wedding, but it wasn't quite the 'gasp' I was hoping for. Her veil, on the other hand, took my breath away. Wa Wa Wee Wa. And her second dress is gorgeous. Really. I think I just expected something else from the fashion house that gave us this:
Now that would have been a 'wow'.
Want to know what my all time favourite thing about the wedding was? What I loved even more than the Queen's bright yellow outfit? More than the cartwheeling priest? More than Harry fooling around with William? THIS:
Every time I saw those trees, especially from above when you got a look at the whole Abbey, it took my breath away. Stunning. So beautiful. Perfect. I will go on about these trees to all and sundry for a while yet. So if you talk to me, you best steer away from this subject or I will not shut up.
Oh. I also thought the Bishop delivered the best sermon at a wedding I have ever heard. Well done, sir, well done.
If you haven't had quite enough of the wedding round up yet, click here to read a really good summary that I couldn't really agree with more.
Tomorrow it is on again with real wedding stuff. I can't wait to tell you all about our Honeymoon plans!
Samstag, 30. April 2011
A film to kick us off again!
I love wedding films. There is hardly anything that gets to me like a really well made wedding video. Yesterday we all watched Kate marry William. We sighed and gasped but there was something... lacking for me. It was really fun to watch, but it was missing the raw emotion I love about weddings. I wasn't surprised, it was a royal wedding, orchestrated and awesome (with a brilliant sermon from the Bishop of London) but it doesn't come close, for me, to this video I found last week.
This is what the videographer had to write about the couple:
"This is the wedding of Sara and Rob. They initially had absolutely no intention of having a wedding film and for good reason… Rob, the groom is deaf. They were introduced to our work by their photographer and decided to entertain the idea. Lucky for us, they loved our work and decided to give it a go. We came up with the idea of close captioning their film and they loved it!
From the minute we first met Sara & Rob over Skype, we knew we were going to be in for a special treat.
Mere words cannot express, what Sara and Rob share together as a couple and as best friends. It is infectious and will literally bring any one to tears...Yes even grown men! There was one moment just after they saw each other for the first time, when they literally just stopped and looked at one another... No words...because nothing needed to be said in that moment. They just knew..."
Already wonderful. Now grab a tissue and watch the beautiful video of Sara and Rob.
Now tell me that you didn't well up. I love Fiore Films work. Raw emotion, beautifully captured. There is more where this came from so stay tuned.
This is what the videographer had to write about the couple:
"This is the wedding of Sara and Rob. They initially had absolutely no intention of having a wedding film and for good reason… Rob, the groom is deaf. They were introduced to our work by their photographer and decided to entertain the idea. Lucky for us, they loved our work and decided to give it a go. We came up with the idea of close captioning their film and they loved it!
From the minute we first met Sara & Rob over Skype, we knew we were going to be in for a special treat.
Mere words cannot express, what Sara and Rob share together as a couple and as best friends. It is infectious and will literally bring any one to tears...Yes even grown men! There was one moment just after they saw each other for the first time, when they literally just stopped and looked at one another... No words...because nothing needed to be said in that moment. They just knew..."
Already wonderful. Now grab a tissue and watch the beautiful video of Sara and Rob.
Sara & Rob Emotional Teaser from Fiore Films on Vimeo.
Now tell me that you didn't well up. I love Fiore Films work. Raw emotion, beautifully captured. There is more where this came from so stay tuned.
Montag, 11. April 2011
Herzen
Donnerstag, 7. April 2011
Preparations are picking up speed
Sometimes I forget that I am getting married. That hasn't been the case recently. Not. At. All. Seriously. When I started this blog, there were still 236 days left till W-Day. Now we have smashed through the 150 mark and have landed firmly on Terra -149. I have 148 days left of being Sarah BOWLES and will become, in 149 days, Sarah HONSBERG (by the by, 'Honsberg' conjures up many things in my mind that I am not but will magically become when I take the name - tidy, able to make wordplay, German).
Getting ready to be married takes work, as we have already explored here before. But now, 5 months away from W-Day, preparation are picking up speed.
On Tuesday we had an appointment at the Standesamt (civil buro? Is that what it is called in English? Am I a Honsberg already that I don't know?!) to official register our engagement, the date of our civil ceremony and hand in all the paper work. This was something that I was really looking forward to doing with Patrick. With him being in England the whole time, it often feels like I am the one getting married and that for him it isn't really a reality. This was going to be something that we could do together and would make the wedding seem really, well, real. It didn't work out that way. Patrick can't make it here till next week, so I called and asked to move the appointment. They are fully booked. Until 21st. Of June. So there was no changing the meeting, I had to go alone. Along with many other pearls of wisdom, I was informed that the wedding would not be able to take place if one of us were missing or if one of us were unconscious. Duly noted.
I have also been doing lots of crafting. Ok, maybe lots is exaggerated but I have started doing one of the many DIY projects that I have set as goals to help make our day more special, personal and hand-made. I am really enjoying doing it, except that because I am currently not watching TV, I was crafting to the sounds of a Dan Brown audiobook. I have discovered that Dan Brown and I are not a good match. I can't take him. I won't get into this here, it's too upsetting and this is a happy wedding blog.
I also was blessed to be able to have a short stop-over visit with my brother and sister-in-law who is baker, make-up artist, and hairdresser at my wedding. We practiced make-up and boy did I look good! It was so exciting to test out what I am going to look like and what style we are heading towards etc. I think it's pretty awesome being a girl.
On a side note, well not really cause shoes have to do with being a girl, right? My lovely Starbucks barista Felix has offered to buy my wedding shoes. He has also asked if he can be my flower girl and wear a tutu. I said thank you and yes to both those ideas. Sadly, I don't think he is serious about them. Well, maybe about the flower girl one.
Back to what we are up to: Patrick comes on Sunday and the next week will be full of wedding prep. We are going to jewelers to look at rings, we will be continuing with the plans for our Honeymoon (yes, we know where we are going and I will blog about this soon!), and we will be going to the party venue to chat about the details. This has been under new management since the beginning of April so I am hoping and praying that they will not suddenly want to paint everything orange. You can pray with me.
I am so excited to show you all the little DIY projects I am working on. I won't, obviously, until the wedding is over, I don't want to spoil it for those coming, but as soon as it is done and we are back in normal life I will show you all of them!
Getting ready to be married takes work, as we have already explored here before. But now, 5 months away from W-Day, preparation are picking up speed.
On Tuesday we had an appointment at the Standesamt (civil buro? Is that what it is called in English? Am I a Honsberg already that I don't know?!) to official register our engagement, the date of our civil ceremony and hand in all the paper work. This was something that I was really looking forward to doing with Patrick. With him being in England the whole time, it often feels like I am the one getting married and that for him it isn't really a reality. This was going to be something that we could do together and would make the wedding seem really, well, real. It didn't work out that way. Patrick can't make it here till next week, so I called and asked to move the appointment. They are fully booked. Until 21st. Of June. So there was no changing the meeting, I had to go alone. Along with many other pearls of wisdom, I was informed that the wedding would not be able to take place if one of us were missing or if one of us were unconscious. Duly noted.
I have also been doing lots of crafting. Ok, maybe lots is exaggerated but I have started doing one of the many DIY projects that I have set as goals to help make our day more special, personal and hand-made. I am really enjoying doing it, except that because I am currently not watching TV, I was crafting to the sounds of a Dan Brown audiobook. I have discovered that Dan Brown and I are not a good match. I can't take him. I won't get into this here, it's too upsetting and this is a happy wedding blog.
I also was blessed to be able to have a short stop-over visit with my brother and sister-in-law who is baker, make-up artist, and hairdresser at my wedding. We practiced make-up and boy did I look good! It was so exciting to test out what I am going to look like and what style we are heading towards etc. I think it's pretty awesome being a girl.
On a side note, well not really cause shoes have to do with being a girl, right? My lovely Starbucks barista Felix has offered to buy my wedding shoes. He has also asked if he can be my flower girl and wear a tutu. I said thank you and yes to both those ideas. Sadly, I don't think he is serious about them. Well, maybe about the flower girl one.
Back to what we are up to: Patrick comes on Sunday and the next week will be full of wedding prep. We are going to jewelers to look at rings, we will be continuing with the plans for our Honeymoon (yes, we know where we are going and I will blog about this soon!), and we will be going to the party venue to chat about the details. This has been under new management since the beginning of April so I am hoping and praying that they will not suddenly want to paint everything orange. You can pray with me.
I am so excited to show you all the little DIY projects I am working on. I won't, obviously, until the wedding is over, I don't want to spoil it for those coming, but as soon as it is done and we are back in normal life I will show you all of them!
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