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Some photos from the day

by harvestbird4 November 2009
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Thank you to all our family and friends for making the day so special.  It was wonderful to eat, drink and be merry with you.
There is still some minor editing to do on Mike and Sam’s photos before they are uploaded into the album associated with this site, but the images are also on display [...]

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To grow accustomed to this face

by harvestbird10 October 2009
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With a long-sighted father and a short-sighted mother, it was more likely than not that my brother and I would need glasses one day.  For both of us, that day came before childhood was out.  With great determination, I switched to contact lenses at fourteen, rejecting that large-lensed, plastic-framed spectacles that were the style at [...]

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Fittingly yours

by harvestbird3 October 2009
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The bridal party had its first fitting this week.  It was a strange but exciting feeling, to be expertly pinned in beautiful raw fabric.  Karen’s coat was all-but-complete and she was able to swish about the dressmakers in formal fashion.  Megan doffed her shoes but retained her stripey socks, all the better to experience the [...]

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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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Ringmaking by the Sea

by harvestbird4 August 2009
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Today we drove out to Southshore, to the studio of Deanna Gracie, who designed and made Megan’s engagement ring late last year.  Our happy task on this visit was to discuss the design for our wedding rings (not pictured at right!).  You can see some of the other rings Deanna has recently made on commission [...]

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Suits you, sir

by harvestbird2 August 2009
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This weekend’s venture into the wonderful world of wedding suit hire brought one thing in particular to my attention: the names by which styles of suit are known.  Most people know morning and evening tails, the dinner and lounge suit and even the Nehru, but there are other names too.  These, in general, evoke the [...]

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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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