Fun: "Here comes the Bride. Everybody hide."

"BRIDEZILLA"

"Here comes the Bride. Everybody hide."

 This could make a great movie title and catch phrase, LOL. 

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #80 days 

#26: FAV THINGS TO DO ON A SUNDAY

The 25th May-Photo-A-Day-in-June: 

"FAV THINGS TO DO ON A SUNDAY"

Sunday's are possibly my most favourite day after my Birthday Day of course as it is a day filled with all of my favourite things like:

• Spending the whole day with Te
• Adventuring around Jozi
• Trying out new places
• Drinking lots of coffee
• Visiting our families
• Watching a series or two - right now We are loving Downton Abby
• Catching up on design work

And this Sunday was pretty spectacular as it just happens to be the day before my favourite kind of day! 

Today Te and I spent the day making and drinking coffee from our new Bialati  and frother set that we received from my mom for a joint birthday present and multi-tasked between working on the edit and grade of an Orpen Film Making Co. wedding video and our super fun wedding invitation. 

The Bialati 4 cup and frother is probably one of the most awesome and useful gift I have ever been given! We made an early morning coffee stop at 4th Avenue Roasters to purchase and grind our beans and then hurried home to test out our new toy.. 

The coffee was delicious and the 4 cup Bialati is perfect for us as Te prefers a stronger, shorter styled drink with little milk and more foam, where I am a classic single-shot cuppacino but picky on the foam kind of girl. The frother works wonderfully and creates the most silky smooth froth, just the way I like it! 

Bialati and Frother from: Bean There

Handsome Roasters Coffee from LA: read more here.

Ceramic Robot and Owls: Citizenship Linden

 Since tomorrow I reach the half way to 50 mark and no one at work believes that the Mom-boss can be domesticated and find her way around the kitchen, she decided to make me cupcakes and banana bread like she did when we were younger for the office tomorrow. We spent a fun afternoon in the kitchen baking, reminicing and of course there was wedding talk. I even received a baking wound: cooling rack + high shelf = what goes up must come down... onto my eye. I now have a lovely bruise forming around my eye.

These look just like they did when we were kids.

It was so worth it as the cupcakes are scrumptious and I love how home made try look. I decided to experiment and baked Te and I each a special cupcake - a hidden jelly baby in the middle.   

My lovely MOH and her fiancé came for a visit, a cup cake and to see my expression when I opened my pressebt just to see if I Really liked it - and I did! And that is why she is my MOH! Thank-you Chlo and Kerim, so very spoilt! 

(They have mastered my famous deer caught in the head light look - as seen below!)

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #84 days 

# 30: TOOLS

The 30th May-Photo-A-Day-In-June: "TOOL'S"

There is nothing better than tools, except when they don't work - especially tools that haven been around for centuries like Postal Services. 

The internet has opened the world to us and now when you dying for a taste of Handsome Roasters Coffee but can't afford an air ticket to LA. "POOF"! Two packets of delicious freshly roasted coffee beans and one custom designed Reg Barber Handsome Roaster Tamper arrived just in time to spoil the then-boyfriend-now-fiance for an anniversary... and that is why he is making me his wife - "POOF!" and all his hearts desires come true. 

What about all my awesome wedding app's that are helping me keep track of all my tasks and notes, helped me create our wedding website and app as well as has become my trusty countdown (you can read more here) so when people ask: "When is the big day?", I am able to respond in the appropriate fashion, like a cool-excited-wedding-nerd should:  "88 Days, 0 Hours & 37 Minutes!"


Now according to WikiAnswers - I left that specific encyclopedia at home this morning.. The first postal service was the Royal Mail, founded in 1516 by Henry VIII and the first post offices would have been very informal, and probably associated with coach houses. The General Post Office was introduced by Charles II in 1660. 

So... if the Royal Mail has been around for 497 years... how can they not have managed to co-ordinate the simple delivery of my three bridesmaid dresses to South Africa safely??? The world at our finger tips but someone else's finger tips are now probably holding my lovely dresses. Let's hope that the next attempt will be more successful - thank goodness online stores are aware of this 497 year old hindrance and will kindly replace the missing dresses.

Holding thumbs!

Dresses are blurred and colourless purposefully ;)

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #88 days || 0 hours

# 31: FOUR THINGS

The 31st May-Photo-A-Day-in-June-the-12th-to-be-exact: "FOUR THINGS"

Thing #1 (Most Favourite Thing):

Last week we reached the 100 Day mark to becoming Mrs Orpen! Officially in the double digits with 94 days to go!

iphone App (AppyCouple): Countdown Timer 

iphone App (WedHappy): Task List & Countdown

Thing #2:

I cannot live with out my to-do lists (plural) and calendar reminders as I have the memory span of a gold fish! Right now I have 3 notebooks assigned to certain aspects in my life: Day Job, Wedding and Freelance.  

Due to sleepless nights I have now combined every wedding note and task scribbled in each of these books into one gigantic and detailed spreadsheet. Each task is noted, then briefly described, given a task status, a due date and then highlighted in pink if it is a DIY task and if it is completed.

Thing #3:

I have always wanted a cow-shaped milk jug, with the cows nose/mouth as the pouring spout. I haven't been able to find one...

 Until now at the Entrepo in Sandton City! But this cute little jug was not declared in the bride-to-be budget for the month so I hope he will hold out until July..   

Thing #4:

It was Te's birthday yesterday and for the first time we got to celebrate it together in the same province, city, suburb, street and home which was a real treat as I LOVE BIRTHDAYS! It happens to be my most favourite kind of day. 

We had decided that we weren't going to gift presents this year as our wedding day will be the gigantic belated present. So I found the most awesome card for Te instead. Normally the good part of the card is inside but this was not the case - the good part could be found on the back of the card... as it is because of the birthday boy that I get to experience the "love like they do in power ballads, you know like on a cliff with the wind in your hair and your eyes shut, knowning you'll never love another like this...". 

I laughed so much as I recreated the picture in my mind and the reaction one would have to the "watch out" part.

I couldn't help not gift the handsome something on his special day but I knew we made a promise of no birthday presents - instead I "treated our house" to these floating glass and black frames from Country Road and printed two of our favourite photo's from the Orpen Film Making Co. website shoot.

Lad & Lass Wedding Photography: Double Exposure layered faces || Symmetrical Bridge.

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #94 days 

TFMO: Wed-edia

TheFutureMrsOrpen AKA TFMO

Presents Wed-edia: Our World of Wedding in Social Media

Jeepers! June snuck up on me... 3rd of June already - I fell right behind on the May-Photo-A-Day posts and have a lot to catch up which I will do in due course but for now let me begin a new series of posts about my most favourite topic...

We now have #103days until #TeMarriesDe: 

Some of you may be asking as to why I end off each post with the strange hashtag countdown as well as why I have given our nuptials the hashtag name? It all has to do with the forever evolving technology and social media that allows us to document and share our special day with everyone beginning with Instagram. 

Instagram is photo sharing application the can be downloaded to any android and iPhone device as well as can be viewed on your PC, where the purpose of the hashtag (#) is to categorize the images and make them searchable therefore we created the #TeMarriesDe title to preserve our wedding build up and the actual event in the land of social media forever. 

#TEMARRIESDE

Follow me on Instagram: webelieve11TFMO

Follow me on Twitter: DerrynSmithTFMO

Next in the #TeMarriesDe we have decided to use the easiest, most cost effective and tree saving way to communicate with our guests. 

Our DIY Save the Date has already been emailed to our guests:

 Save The Date

Our invitation will also be emailed along with a link to our wedding website. Our guest will be able to RSVP as well as be kept up to date via our wedding website we created using "Appy Couple" - we did pay a small sign up fee but this was the preferred option as we get both a wedding website and a matching wedding app our guest and us can download to our phones. 

 Wedding Website: #TEMARRIESDE

 iPhone App: #TEMARRIESDE

There are plenty of free wedding websites you could use instead - I have tried both of these: Wedding planning with You & Your Wedding, Official Wedding Website App - mywedding.com

They are both pretty awesome as they are not only a wedding website but a great planning tool. They are able to monitor RSVP responses,  give a breakdown of important details such as meal requirements as well as provide charts to assist you when formatting the seating arrangements. There are so many great tools, sites and apps that can make planning and sharing a breeze these days. 

Do you have any tools, sites and apps that have helped you?

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #103 days