Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Dominique and Shaun - The Wedding ......

On Saturday 25th September
Dominique and Shaun were joined together in holy matrimony ......
The venue was awesome, the pastor gave a truly lovely message and the food was simply delightful....



 Yolandi and NJ
Yolandi was one of the bridesmaids
 Nelson and Chantal ...
 Yolandi and NJ
 Janine and Andy
Cute .....
 The two brothers ...
So different and yet so similar !!!!!!
 Without the smokes but still .......
 Dad and Mom du Toit
 Jonathan ... the little brother .... not so little anymore
 Mr and Mrs Alexander ...
 Dominique and Shaun have been waiting for this moment for such a very long time
and finally the day had arrived .... the vows made ...... the rings exchanged
So happy ...
 Love this one .....
 Just us ......
 And some more of us .....
 The venue ..... so lovely ...









 Mom and Daughter
 and again ....
 and again .....
 Ian, Dad and Andrew ...
Should have added Jonathan to the left and Andy to the right
would have completed the picture. 

 The couples first dance. ....
 The tear jerker dance ....
Ian and Dominique's dance to "You raise me up"
Was simply awesome - Charma had the same song, last year, for her and Norman's dance ...
But this was just so special - her second Dad's dance and it was so beautiful ......

 And Janine caught the flowers..........
 Doesn't she look good as a blond again?????????


So on Friday morning, we raised ourselves early, after only a couple of hours sleep,
attempted to put some order into our home after the 21st, lost some of the music deco and then packed and went off to Jhb for the wedding. 
Could simply not not miss the wedding.
So all in all, we had such an action packed week, never a dull moment .......
Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, but everything that was important and needed to go right - was perfect ...... and that made this crazy, hectic, eventfull week, so very worthwhile and memorable ....


Monday, September 27, 2010

Chantal turns 21


On the 22nd September Chantal turned 21!
She wanted to have a masquerade party at home ......
Lots of work later and the party was a reality ....
Little sleep, lots of food, a lovely cake ...
and here is the pics!

 Chantal and her friends dancing in my empty lounge ...
 Andy and Janine ...
 Nelson and Chantal ....
 Nanna and Lorraine .....
 It says it all ....
 It feels like I cut hundreds of these notes and maskes out ....
don't want to do that again in a hurry .....
my home is still covered in glitter......

 We wanted a cardboard arch .... but my hubby did this ....
soooo much better

 We strung hundreds of balloons and streamers accross the section that is not undercover and created a canopy .....
Just so glad that it did not rain .....
 Seated 48 people in this little area ...
 Andrew and I ......
 Dad ... making THE speech ....
turned very emotional ....
 Bugz .... listerning to her Dad
 Her 'boet' doing his speech .....
 Bugz ... doing her speech .......
 Chantal with some of her old school friends .....
 It worked so well, there was a table for the church friends, old school friends, the older friends (Andy's friends that have put up with his little sister all these years),  the 'Afrikaans' friends, the varsity and orchestra friends and then there was the table for the older folks (the Grannies, Grandpa and Aunt).  Worked out so well.
 My two .....
 On the right is Brian van Niekerk, the minister, who is also a 2nd cousin on the Beech side of the family ...... surprise, surprise .... the world is very small indeed
 I am so proud of this cake ..... I baked it, I decorated it and copied the music onto it ..........
The young one's dancing .....


Just want to say this...
last week was such a full week ...
I crashed Andrews Isuzu on Tuesday ......
I do not have a scratch on me - daily thanking the Lord for his protection,
the car was packed with the drinks for the party ...... how embarrassing ... I don't even do alcohol
Chantal turned 21 on Wednesday ...   I baked and iced the cake that evening
Spent Thursday making tons  of 'Macaroni and Cheese'
Decorating and getting everything ready ....
Don't know how we did it ....
But just going through 2 weeks of very little sleep and here I am starting to plan Andrew's 50th .....











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