Married,
for little over two weeks by now. We didn´t have our honeymoon yet, but it
still feels like a honeymoon. I have found myself just going around with a
silly happy smile on my face. I have been looking at pictures over and over
again. I have been anxiously waiting for pictures from our own wedding
photographer and most of all, I have been enjoying the company of my husband.
Since I tend
to write long texts. I thought I would split my blog into smaller topics. I
have lots of pictures to show and alot to say. I shall start by telling about
the wedding morning.
For you who
were our guests at the wedding, we have a picture album I shall share thrue email
and Facebook. Please, thouse of you who will get the link during this week, share the knowledge with others, since I might not have everyones
email. So, you guests will get to see all the wonderful captures from
the day already.
Wedding morning
My two
bridesmaids and personal assistant arrived at my home roughly around 8 am.
Darling mr J left to spend the morning with his family and brothers in the
hotel at the center. Bridesmaids had bought some delicious breakfast and
sparkling wine to go with it. We started off easily, talking, eating and
drinking. Then my bridesmaid miss A started with my makeup. She is a self-learned
makeup professional. So she has watched a lot of tutorials and done a bridal
makeup for her friend the previous summer and mostly for herself. I had
originally planned to have a professional do it, but they failed to convince me
of their talents in the testing makeup, so we came up with a perfect solution.
She made me a dazzling natural looking makeup.
Next was my
other personal assistant miss H, who came to make me a hairstyle for the
wedding day. She has a hairdresser’s degree and experience from that line. So,
no wonder the hair became really wonderful and all in just over an hour. While
I was being pampered, my bridesmaids were taking care of themselves and of
course we enjoyed our sparkling wine.
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Lucky kiss from Siwa the cat |
Also Leo
got a little grooming. My maid of Honor miss R got her boyfriend to help with
transporting Leo from the wedding spot. This had been actually a thing
bothering till the very last week. What to do with Leo? From the very beginning
I had played with an idea to have Leo be part of the wedding. It would be so nice
to have him as our ring carrier, maybe instead of stealing the bride it would
be stealing the dog and of course to get some pictures with Leo for our own
album. But having a dog at a wedding isn`t that simple. Have to think about who
takes care of him during the day. Who makes sure he gets food, who makes sure he
doesn´t poop in the wrong places. Would we keep him free in the wedding place
or on a leash?
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kuva: Juha Kauppinen |
There was a problem
We (me and
mr J) had given the groomsmen one task. Their clothing. And even with that task
I had tried to be flexible. We wanted them to have green. Originally we hoped
for green vests and a green tie, but nowhere could the vest be found. We even
searched from Finland. So, next option was to have white shirt and green tie or
even green shirt and green tie. Simple right? The least they needed to do, was
to get a green tie. Later we had heard that they had bought a shirt and it came
with a black tie. We said DEFINITELY NO to the black tie. It did not fit with
our vision of the wedding. Black is for funerals and disco style. This was a
summer wedding.
What did we
find out on the wedding morning? They had not gotten anything that we had
asked. They had blueish shirts and the black ties. Seriously. This was infuriating.
It might seem like a small thing. But still, it was the one and only thing
asked to do. When planning a wedding, often there is some colors for the
wedding, and now they had decided to not care what the couple wanted and gone
with their own colors. I must say, it did not make me happy. And it did not
make mr J happy. It was really sad, that at the wedding morning mr J had to go
around the city center, looking for ties for the grooms. He ended up buying
white ties, since it would match at least abit with our colors. Ties were expensive.
If we had known from the beginning, that they had not found ties to match the colors,
we could have found good ties for 5 euros. Now mr J had to pay 45 euros for
each tie.
All in all,
the clothing problem was not taken lightly, but the end result was nice.
Groomsmen helped with the programs, mr F even gave a short speech and luckily
the morning episode didn´t seem to effect the days atmosphere.
Next blog
will be mostlikely about the wedding ceremony, photoshoot and some of the
program. And the final part is about the wedding dance, evening program and about
the band.