And the planning begins...

Well, <- this is where we are getting married. The dates been set and the venue has been booked and paid for. Its all very exciting and it means we can start other plans. The venue is The Old Stone House, its a charming historical building in Cashmere, Christchurch. My Aunt got married there years ago, and it was beautiful. It is the perfect venue for us, as we can have the ceremony in their picturesque gardens and the reception inside. We can use whatever caterers etc that we like and are not bound to buy beverages from the venue. Roll on Sat 25th Sep 2010 :D

Other than that we have decided on our color scheme, black and white. Decided to only have one brides maid and groomsman. Designed an invite for and a date for our engagement party. And Ive started looking at dresses.... I never anticipated that it would be this much fun :)

Best Weekend Ever!

So to celebrate our 2 year anniversary I took my man on a surprise trip to Wanaka. We both took the Friday off work and drove down in our new car.






The car by the way is awesome, really economical and a joy to drive. I think I'm getting an awesome usb car stereo for Christmas, so very excited :)

We arrived at our hotel the Oakridge Resort and checked into our room. It was small, and the bed was huge! It was really nice and swanky with heated tiles in the bathroom. The only disappointment would be that the window was facing the wrong way for any scenery :(

I was informed that I was not to get my anniversary pressie til later that evening. So we went out to dinner. We both are quite big fans of Mexican so went to a restaurant called Amigoes. Being a Friday night and having not booked we were told that there would be an hour wait. As we were on holiday we said that was fine and went for a nice night time stroll along the lake. When we got back to the restaurant our table was set and waiting for us, the service was superb and food delicious. If you are ever in Wanaka you should totally go there. But maybe you should look at making a booking first :)

When back at the hotel I went to the bathroom and when I came out there was a large parcel on the bed. Perplexing for awhile as to how he would've fit that large box in our luggage without me noticing he demanded I sit down and read the card first. The card consisted of his usual cheesy romantic and humorous poetry. The last line being "but only if you will be my wife?" at first I thought he was just saying it, but then a ring was produced, not too dissimilar to the one pictured. And now my man is my fiance and I feel the luckiest woman in the world. The ring is nothing like the ones I have pointed out. But that almost makes it more special. He picked it out all by himself and actually put some thought into it :D

In the morning we had a delicious cooked breakfast at Kai Whakapai followed by a beautiful walk around the lake. Apparently it was raining at home, but the weather in Wanaka was perfect, we even got sunburned. After hanging out at Puzzling World for a couple of hours we went back to the hotel to soak in the hot pools. We finished our day at the Paradiso cinema. This has got to be one of the most unique and greatest "cinematic adventures" (Dane Cook) that I have ever experienced. We turned up and had delicious pizza for dinner, sat in a uber comfy couch to watch Inglorious Basterds and we could actually here the projector ticking over, very old school and awesome. We were even given an intermission, where we ate ice cream that was made on site!

Sunday we had a beautiful drive home, I am totally over the moon :D