From the category archives:

Planning

On the Day

by harvestbird4 October 2009
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This post repeats the information in a note sent by post recently, now brought to you in handy online form.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon.

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Phrasing it

by harvestbird30 September 2009
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Every wedding is a gamble of a kind, against time, health and circumstances unforeseen or unknown.  Finding ways through this  – to declare sincerely a commitment, yet not appear overconfident in the face of fortune — requires consideration.  This is not without its own challenges when, as a friend of Megan puts it, one operates [...]

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Fruiting Plans

by harvestbird20 September 2009
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Most of our big choices have been made, and planning is now mainly a case of following up errands behind the scenes.  Our lovely rings are made.  The groom and his party have been clad.  The bridal party’s fabrics are at the dressmakers, being cut as I write this.  Trade Me and other sources of [...]

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Dancing like everyone’s looking

by harvestbird6 August 2009
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The wedding aisles and reception spaces of the internet are dense with couples and wedding parties doing novelty dances.  Most of the musical sources and inspirations for these come from the childhood and teenage years of Ned and Megan.  While neither of us feels sufficiently talented or organised to coordinate such a performance at our [...]

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Giving orders, finding fabrics

by harvestbird7 June 2009
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Small bouts of organising have become much easier since I stopped consulting and started giving cold, dictatorial orders.  This of course is what a number of post-wedding friends and acquaintances told me when I first began a-plannin’, but I presumed to think I would be different: ideas politely solicited would fuel my creative thinking.  In [...]

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Metaphysical Cheeses

by harvestbird7 June 2009
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The recent proliferation of wedding-cheese-themed conversation on Twitter led one of my erudite conversationalists to make this suggestion:
@harvestbird This image [above] by Dick Frizzell may be worth considering for your wedding invitation: http://is.gd/E90J
One cannot deny its contemplative power.

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A Wedding Cheese

by harvestbird4 June 2009
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One matter to which all those involved in the wedding are amenable has been the creation of a wedding cheese, in lieu of a wedding cake.  It was in pursuit of this that we travelled to Whitestone Cheeses of Oamaru earlier this week.  Bob, the managing director brought out a variety of cheese rounds for [...]

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