Snatches-of-Bliss-and-Are-You-Freaking-Out-Yet?

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* Welcome *

Changed da house,
Changed da look.

BTW, my bathrobe's usually pink
and we don't have a fireplace.
Other than that,
it's pretty accurate...

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Sunday, December 26, 2004

~ Mrs Velle Logs On ~

I'm presently in my now-familiar pink bathrobe, seated in front of my new husband's computer screen and making full opportunity of his unusually early retirement to bed to blog to what's left of my faithful audience.

Yes, we actually went and did it! We're now Dr and Mrs Tony H. No matter how many times people have winked and called us that, it still sounds rather foreign. But in a good way.

As silly questions go, there haven't been too many because we'd just floated back from our honeymoon. The most frequently asked rhetorical question has got to be, "SOooo... how's Married Life?" There can be very few intelligent and enlightening comebacks to that rather unfair question. Here's a few angles:

Honest >>>
We really can't say. We've only been married 1/2/3/4/5/6 days.

Brutally Honest >>>
We really can't say. We've only been married 1/2/3/4/5/6 days. That was a really dumb question. I can't believe you didn't think this through.

Honest and Helpful >>>
We really can't say. We've only been married 1/2/3/4/5/6 days, during which most of it was spent on a honeymoon, which frankly isn't accurate Married Life. Ask us again in 6 months when reality hits us.

Too Honest >>>
Being allowed to have nookie is GREAT!

Fairytale-fulfilling >>>
Wonderful. I couldn't have envisioned a better time. Tony's been the perfect husband.
(After which the question-asker is sure to snort in derision and privately think, "Yeah right. Give it 6 months when reality hits you, you poor naive newlywed...")

But I digress.

I'm not too sure how to start. I am aware, of course, that there has been a HUGE silence on my end, ever since I moved to Aileen's. So much has been happening then, the crux of the wedding blog should have really been a chronicle of the final few weeks before the wedding. HOWEVER, as previously discussed, I didn't have a steady internet connection, my worldly possessions laid strewn across two houses (and two continents, one might add) and it was hard to find the time and the solitude to conjure the day in pretty colours and convert to blog.

I think if I were to do a brain-dump on this entry, it'd be such a pain for all of us. So here's what I think I'll do: I'll try and back track between this entry, and my last one which was the 26th of November. Hopefully I'll be able to give a short but insightful (and hopefully accurate) rendition of the madness that was, and in that way I won't kick myself for never having a record of all this.

Meanwhile, here's a peek at the Wedding Ceremony on the 18th. Click on pic to get a closer look at stuff:

Top: Exchange of rings, Signing of Marriage Certificate
Middle: Demonstration on Proper Wedding Smooches. None of this demure peck-on-the-cheek rubbish.
Bottom: The Wedding Party (from left: Andrea, Gail, Me, Tony, Anthony Whalen), Tony and my mum

# posted by Velle | 9:49 pm

3 Comments:

hey sweetie!!!
you both look absolutely gorgeous!!! you're such a beautiful bride!!!! i feel so so so bad that i couldn't be there (for myself of course..would've loved to have seen u, all dressed up, in person!)
anyways, send me photos if u can?

take care and email when u can! i'll call u when i get back to nz in a month!

luv, priyanca

By Priyanca, at 4:42 am
Hey Velle! Finally some news and pics of your big day. Congradulations and you look great in that gown. Of course 5 pics on your blog won't do i want more pics! Catch up with you online sometime when you're more available. :)

PS : Darcy's coming to visit in April. Yippeeess!

By kabluey, at 4:16 am
Thanks you guys! Yes, I will try and get the rest of the photos posted up somewhere... but I don't have too many myself at the mo, so it's a waiting game, really.

Stay tuned for more updates. I'll try to be good.

By Velle, at 11:17 pm