6 Weeks to plan a wedding!

As you know G proposed on my birthday at the end of February 2011 and we decided not to wait till next year to get married but jump right in and get it done!

We decided on the 16 April 2011 for our special day.

The result : 6 weeks to plan our wedding!

The first week was my companies annual golf day and since I am the organiser, I didn't get to think wedding at all I had to think golf, golf, golf!

So I was down to 5 weeks ~ YIKES!

I think the biggest hurdle is finding the perfect venue.
I was told that when you walk into a venue you will picture yourself getting married there!

The Saturday after G proposed, the ladies (aka, my mom, mom in law and sister in law) climbed into my mom's car and went venue hunting in what was possible the hottest day in Cape Town!

We looked at about 6 venues in total from Dubanville to Wellington (in Cape Town) by the time I got home I was ready to burst into tears.  I felt this pressure to chose one of these venues and although all of them were lovely they were just not the one!

The next morning, G and myself decided to do some searching...
We took a drive through to Stellenbosch, we looked at 3 venues there one being a possibility but still not that perfect one!

That afternoon I remembered this place called Die Malle Meul in Philadelphia, Cape Town.  We took a drive through there and when we walked in I started seeing colors, flowers, decor, everything ~ this was THE ONE!

It had EVERYTHING that I was looking for!  I wanted a chapel and a reception hall in the same place so that we didn't have to stress about weather.  It had loads of character with all the wooden beams and the old pieces of the flour mill left in the building it was amazing!

We booked and with 5 weeks to go started all our other preparations.

There is so much that you need to think about when planning your wedding and even though I had such a little bit of time and such a lot to do I literally had NO stress!  I was totally calm to a point that I wondered if there were things that I was forgetting because I felt that I should have been stressed and I wasn't, all thanks to God of course and my amazing mom.  My mom was my support, she booked appointments for me so that I could focus on my job during the day and make the most of my planning time in the evening, she did everything and anything that I asked her to do, she went with me to all of my appointments, didn't give any opinion until I had chosen what I liked first, she was wonderful and I know that I would not have been able to do it without her, so thanks mom ~ you are the best! ♥♥♥

It was a busy, fun experience and before it happened I was looking forward to the day and the excitement but I was also looking forward to getting my life back and not going to bed at early hours of the morning and trying to make the most of EVERY second of the day with preparations and trying to tie up everything at the office so that I could take 3 glorious weeks of leave.

In the end every second was worth it.

We had an amazing day which I will have to tell you about in a blog of it's own when I get my photo's from the photographer.

If I had to go back, I wouldn't change a thing ~ I would most definitely still chose to not wait but to have a quick wedding!

Till next time!
L