Our *Save The Dates* {Ruby & the Swallow}

Dear wonderful ladies behind the charming blog, Ruby & the Swallow!

You have made both Farmboy and myself so very happy with your design work for the Save the Dates for our wedding. We both cannot wait to see what you come up with for our invitations (and of course all the other goodies we have put you in charge of!).

If there is anyone out there looking for a lovely, personal, and oh-so-creative duo to design something special, click here to get in touch with Ruby & the Swallow. The girls made it so easy for us to get exactly what we wanted for our wedding, and every little detail has been thought of...including the actual packaging that safely stored our envelopes!

Thank you ladies, you really are just fab!

Our Wedding Tables...

Most 'normal' people look into hiring trestle tables for their wedding, especially when they are planning on having 160 guests. But I guess you wouldn't really call me normal then. In oder to fit in with our *country style/vintage feel/farmy* wedding, we both really wanted to have genuine antique wooden tables. This was slightly ridiculous considering we would be needing 16 of them! So, Farmboy and his Dad decided to do the next best thing...make them!

My Handsome Farmboy...I'm so lucky!! :)

 

Our Wedding Venue...The *Before* Photo's

*Sorry for this last post! Silly Ipad didn't actually post my pictures...So here you go!*

We are both thrilled to be having our venue on Farmboy's *working* dairy farm in the little town of Creighton,  Kwazulu Natal. Our ceremony will tale place in the Barn (complete with live Barn Owl who is wrecking havoc all over the walls!). Our reception will be in the shed, which is used as a calf nursery for the baby cows recently separated from their mommy's! 

Watch this space as we turn it into the venue of our dreams...

The Shed:

The Barn:

Our Engagement Photo-shoot...a *sneak peak*

A *big* thank you to our wonderfully talented friends Cameron & Sophie (of SophieSmithPhotography) who took our Engagement photo's yesterday. It was an afternoon filled with lots of love, smiles and the occasional bump on the head :)

Here are a few of the photographs, with the rest of them to follow soon!

Enjoy 

xxx

He asked and I said *Yes*

On Sunday 11th March 2011 Dale Hutton (aka Farmboy) got down on one knee at the base of a beautiful waterfall and asked me to marry him...it sounds like the end of a movie, and to be honest, right now it feels like I am in one. I have been unable to stop myself grinning like a fool whenever I glance down at my left hand, or when my phone crashes from too many Facebooks 'likes'. I want to try and capture the moment again for all my readers who would like to know the how's and the why's. Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you enjoy the photo's...

A few *before* shots:

Even at this stage I had no idea what was in store for me, I just knew I was being taken to a place where I needed my swimming costume (plus I saw out fishing rods in the car and was therefore slightly disappointed *hehe*)

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Where did my Farmboy take me for the day?? None other than one of the largest and most luxurious day spa's in Africa...Karkloof Spa!! This, I thought, had to have been the big suprise. I really was not expected what came next...

Always snapping away with Instagram :) 

Little stroll around while our driver repaired the flat tire on our Game Drive vehicle :)

Getting deep and reflective (well actually just catching my breath and cooling down after the very *long* and humid walk to the waterfall!) Completely unprepared for what followed...

And *After*...

I wasn't crying at this point, rather jumping up and down on the spot while Dale struggled to get me to keep still to put the ring on my finger...

Dale had written this little note and hidden inside a little teddy bear he had made for me over a year and half ago...at this point the tears just streamed down my face. Dale Hutton...I am so in love with you!!!

A little celebratory gift left for us by our driver :)

BIG smiles all around... 

And there you have it. A real fairtytale ending to a most perfect day. 

From now on I am also going to use the blog to document the whole planning process of our Wedding. We have set a date in September, so that leaves 6 months to plan plan plan. Stay tuned for lots of pictures, advice, and most of all *idea's* 

xxx