Check out this little video extract. Its part of the wedding video I’m currently editing for them. Please excuse the youtube quality – I’m still learning how to reduce the quality without butchering it. (any tips would be helpful). Enjoy!!!
Category: <span>Wedding</span>
This is absolute vomit. If ever there were a style of photography (esp. wedding photography) I absolutely loathe, it is this. And I did this with an action script from here! Sorry Elyce and Jess.
After mucking around with that lomo tutorial and coming up with some okay results, I found an action script of someone else’s lomo.
I got this action here.
On a less cheating note, James Burke (Or Burkie) tells me that the (pro)wedding photos are nearly ready. I am excited.
{Post especially for Rebecca Monson and may be of interest to others, I’m generalising here, but probably not the boys – so go away before you complain!}
The pattern we used to sew the bridesmaid dresses is this one: New Look 6557. We used the dress option pictured in the red/white floral but ommited the sash and shortened them up.
Adding zips turned out to be fairly difficult as we used invisible zips and this meant adding extra interfacing or something we could stiffen it up. Hems were extremely difficult with the material we used. It was shinier than I perhaps would’ve liked but I wanted that colour or an olive green and one of my bridesmaids looked like death in olive green (sorry Spanna). So that was what sat best, despite being on the shiny side – outdoors it seemed to be okay. Invisible hemming tape didn’t work as it buckled, so we tacked it. Still not the best bit of the dresses, but it did the job.
Otherwise they’re fairly simple to make for a standard size. The pattern strangely altered size-wise. The size 10’s were size 10’s, but the fit for the larger sizes needed to be tweaked and we had to make up some pieces for one, despite the pattern going to size 18 – the bridesmaids certainly weren’t and it still wasn’t good.
We had a whole lot of help from Elyce (bridesmaid) and her Mum Roslyn who put an enormous amount of work into them. There were at least two 9+ hour days involved.
If you can sew you should be right.
And four dresses cost us about the price of one you’d buy from a shop.
I’ve put some wedding photos up on Flickr. If you click here you can see them regardless of whether you have a Flickr account or not.
Images are at this stage, highly disorganised. Lucky you.
We’re attempting to get them up on geoffandbec.com however we’re still mucking around looking for a decent plugin/alternate way to mass upload images. They’re also up there if the Flickr link doesn’t work for you – although slightly less easy to navigate.
Geoff and I took communion during our wedding service. Through all the preparations on the day, the ‘supplies’ somehow got forgotten. We made use of the church’s port and sent an Uncle down to get some bread rolls. He grabbed the first bag of rolls and raced back through the checkout asking the girl to hurry up because he was in the middle of a wedding, she told him to just take them and run! Thank you Mr. Safeway (or Coles or whatever) for the free bread… that’s supposedly how it goes.
I’ve written about communion before. I find it’s a interesting thing. I’m aware somewhat of the attitude you should be in when having communion but is there a place in forcing it? Is it that important? I cannot afterall ever be completely in mindset-perfection when coming to communion – as selfish as it sounds, I just think that it is realistic.
My head was all over the place during the wedding, mostly full of excitement/adrenalin. I was, and am, incredibly grateful to God for who he is and what he has done, and I pushed to acknowledge that in my thoughts when we were taking it, but it was honestly a little bit of a stretch. Concentration low. This does however play into my still highly shaky understanding of what actually takes place at communion. What more goes on?
I am glad that God sees and celebrates with and most of all understands us.
There is too much emphasis on just look and feel and constraining to comfort levels of individuals at weddings. We did choose not to do communion as a group/invitees etc. as there were enough people there to whom it wouldn’t be relevant or true (and the logistics would’ve been horrendous) and our actions were explained to onlookers.
I’m perfectly content and okay with how we approached doing communion – to elevate the importance of God above our relationship and to demonstrate in some small way that it’s a three way thing not just the two of us in this marriage.
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ ” – Acts 17:24-28