Wedding Dress: dress for wedding

This week has been frantic. Today I did 8 hours of training and about 4 hours of report writing. And then after I was exhausted and totally over it - I went shopping. Because our weekend is already fully booked (dance card is full boys and girls) we had no option but to shop for my outfit for the wedding next Saturday tonight.

I started at Maiocchi as per Ness's instructions. (Thanks for the tip Ness - I really like the store) I thought I was on a winner with this dress..... but it wasn't quite right. I did find another couple of tops that I really liked but in the interest of getting an outfit in time for the wedding I shelved them and moved on.

My next stop was Cue which really only seemed to have very picked over sale stock in styles that didn't appeal anyway. At this stage Tom joined me and we contemplated giving up and going home - what stamina we have :) . But instead we had a bite or two to eat in Queens Plaza which gave us renewed energy.

Then we started fresh at David Jones. I went straight to the Veronica Maine area and found a great dress. I tried it on and it was a really great very flattering and very much my style - plain and classic. Now if I was a guy I would probably have bought it straight away but I am not so I proceeded to search the entire of David Jones to see if there was a better option. Needless to say an hour of my patient husband's time later, which included a trip to lingerie, hosiery, shoes and menswear, we concluded that in fact the dress I found first was the best in the entire shop. So we bought it. And now I just have to pray that no one else who is going to the wedding buys it too....

Travel

Finally I got Gold Status on my Qantas Frequent Flyer. Now I just have to try and maintain it. ..hmmm.

I am doing a lot of travel at the moment. I am leaving for Sydney tomorrow and am there until Wednesday night. Then on Friday I am doing a flying visit of Townsville - going up in the morning, running a training session and then coming back after work. Then next week I am going up on Monday night and back Tuesday afternoon and then ditto the week after. And then two weeks after that I am in Canberra for a project management course for two days.

Travel makes me tired. But it is always nice to come home.......

Proposal

Andrew and Kat's recent engagement has got me thinking about when Tom and I became engaged. It was such a special day. Tom put so much effort, money and planning into making sure it was really special for us.

It really all started on my 21st Birthday when my grandfather passed away. It was a very sad day for me and left a bit of a sadness associated with the day. Two years later on my 23rd Birthday Tom picked me up from my apartment at Toowong to spend my birthday together. Little did I know what he had in mind....

My first surprise was that Tom had hired a beautiful black BMW Z3 Roadster. At this stage I had no idea that anything was happening. I just thought it was for my Birthday. We drove the Roadster up to the Sunshine Coast hinterland - it is such a nice area up there.

Tom drove us to my favorite picnic spot behind the church at the top of the hill in Montville. We both got out of the car to go over and look at the view as we had so many times before. We have had lunch there a lot over the years - so much in fact that I had a local artist paint a picture of the beautiful scene for Tom's birthday one year.

Overlooking the picturesque north coast hinterland Tom got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I am not sure if I actually said "yes". I think I may have said "of course". Followed by an Elaine style "get out" and happy tears. I was so thrilled.

Following the proposal we drove to Noosa and had lunch at the Sheraton to celebrate. That night we saw my parents and Tom's parents to tell them the happy news.

It was a great day and I think about it often. It was really special and just perfect. Having such a special event happen on my Birthday helped me distance the grief from my grandfather's death from my Birthday and made it a day for celebration again - just as it should be.

Congratulations Andrew and Kat

Andrew finally popped the question to Kat (Congratulations guys!) so it seems that I will be going to a wedding in December. Time for a new outfit....