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We are excited. We are working hard over here to have it ready really really soon.
Thank you all for being part of the journey we love you! And are beyond grateful that you are here.
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UPDATE: OUR NEW SITE IS NOW LIVE: http://www.livlifemag.com/livplusdaveequals/

We spent our free time planning, organising, researching, listing, shopping, emailing....
for our wedding right now.
Remember I said we were planning to spent more qualitiy time with each other?
Well my wishes were heard and we got the opportunity to get help with house cleaning the other week, which was fantastic. It freed up a lot of time for us, just to get someone to clean up our place,
after a busy week and so much to do for the wedding.
We treated ourselves to a clean by online cleaning business Home Hello.
It was super easy to set up and I can highly recommend this.
David really enjoys cleaning the house usually and we don't have a house full of children, so usually we manage quite well although I could easily get used to this. :)

When we got engaged White Magazine asked me to write an article about our planning,
it's been published in the latest print issue, so I thought I share it here with you as well:


Planning a wedding in the age of Pinterest & CO
Have you set a date yet? What is your dress going to look like? What sort of flowers were you thinking of getting? – Immediately after getting engaged well meaning friends and family bombarded us with questions, even before we had a chance to decide if we wanted a wedding or simply elope.
We just wanted to be married and live happily ever after, we hadn’t thought about a wedding.It seemed like everyone around us had pretty high expectations of what our wedding day would look like, maybe because we are both working in creative jobs and are surrounded by wonderful vendors all the time.
We dived right into the abundance of inspiration, hoping to feel the same excitement about this event than everyone around us. Looking at beautiful blogs, magazines and of course Instagram and
Pinterest, there was all this deliciousness from amazing fellow vendors, beautifully photographed.Lost in a picture perfect Pinterest wedding world filled with DIY projects, services and products we felt that most of it was meaningless and irrelevant to us personally. Were we over-inspired? Was all the goodness just too much to take and overwhelming? Ok, back to the drawing board…we took a deep breath, pen and paper and made notes about the
things that really mattered to us. We focused on why we wanted a wedding in the first place and who we really wanted to share this special day with. We made a must-have and nice-to-have list to
keep us on track and stick to our own ideas. The outcome was a clear feeling and a blurry vision of a small, intimate wedding, with our nearest and dearest including our puppy Dalston, a “on-holiday-
feel” with lot’s of fun, eating and dancing. We wanted it to be low key and high fun. We strongly felt less is more. No need for a theme or a colour scheme. What we DID need was a place that made us and our guests feel welcome, plenty of food, good music, drinks and some simple off-the-rack outfits. Easier said than done… Many of the “alternative” venues we contacted seemed to be colder than expected and replied with way too many rules, regulations and restrictions than my free spirited self could digest. Our must have list quickly ruled out pretty much any venue within NSW and it seemed like the only option left was camping- no wait, even the campsite did not allow dogs. (Besides that my lovely future mother in law would possibly be mad at me forever if I make her camp on our wedding.) While we really stuck to our guns with the venue and overall feel, we gave in at other points of planning. The “don’t-care-ready-to-wear” dress idea turned into a custom design couture gown (whoops…). As my former fashion designer self took over and I rediscovered how much fun the process of creating it from scratch would be, there was no turning back from the quality fabrics and great craftsmanship.
Turned out that overall trying to keeping it simple and real is sometimes harder than just going with a more traditional option. Letting the magic of wedding planning take over from time to time actually feels good. Now we can’t wait.

Since I wrote these words we have gotten a lot more done and we will do a little wedding venue site visit next month.
I am so glad Dave is organized and helps making beautiful plans and drawings for the setup.
We are also super excited about some of our overseas friends & family that have booked their flights and will be coming to celebrate with us.

The other week we also got to meet our brand new little nephew Christopher, such a cutie!
Dave was a natural in rocking him back to sleep in the hospital when we visited and we are looking forward to catching up with the whole family soon.
While we have been enjoying home made soups, bakes and cozy nights in, I am excited for Spring!

Copenhagen: What a magical little city... Denmark was statistically the happiest nation in the world according to the United Nations Happiness Report in 2013, 2014 and came 2nd in 2015. And we could really tell why: Copenhagen had the most relaxing feel about it. There was hardly any car traffic, as everyone seems to ride bicycles. The roads are therefore quiet and the air smells clean, which is probably one of the reasons why Copenhagen is also he greenest city in the world. Every morning when we left the apartment for our daily adventures we grabbed a coffee at our local cafe a few doors down and were watching all the lovely young Dad's, who were also extremely stylish and had the cutest babies on their bikes or just taking them shopping. Yes! Welcome to Denmark, the perfect little world. People really seemed to have the perfect balance between a great job and time to spent with family and friends. In Scandinavia families receive great support to help parents with bringing up their little ones. Pretty much every restaurant we went to served organic produce and I didn't have a single bad meal. Every day we spent exploring, just by walking around. We visited the Design Museum, different parts of the city and quite some lovely design, homewares and clothes shops. The fashion was really good in Scandinavia and most things were on sale too! They also had some great organic makeup and skincare brands over there and a completely organic perfumery too. I could not resist shopping and filling my bags with beautiful products for my professional makeup kit. As Organic Makeup Artist in Sydney I am always trying to keep on top of international brands and pick and choose the very best to work with. We have to give Denmark extra points for design: Every little aspect of life here seems to be perfectly designed, from public spaces, over schools to street signs and of course furniture. It was really lucky I packed my trench coat though, I wore it pretty much every day. It was a very chilly trip but so much fun. Our last day in this cute little city was finally a sunny one. Soaking up all the sun rays we went to the botanical gardens, got a delicious vegan hot dog and spent the day wandering through parks. On our last night we found the best Aperitivo Bar near our apartment and hung out all night for delicious drinks and nibbles. Going on dates together with Dave is the best. We did have a little think if we not actually wanted to pack our bags once more and move. The trip made me realise that I really seek more free time to spend with Dave. Holidays are the best! I am so crazy about this man!
Next we're off to Sweden to visit Stockholm. We will share more real soon.

My work as destination wedding makeup artist took me recently to Bali, I packed Dave into my suitcase and we stayed a for a few days after the wedding.
We were in luck when wedding photographer extraordinaire Jo Bartholomew who also flew in from Sydney was up to take some shots of us!
I love her work. So this is the story of how we somehow ended up having an engagement shoot,
that we never planned to do. I am glad we did.
Not only did we have a blast on this shoot, we also became friends with Jo and her lovely hubby Martin. We might have booked them to be our wedding photographers too...

Bali was nothing short of spectacular and I will share our personal travel photos on here real soon!
P.S: We missed little Dalston terribly on this trip!

One very windy and cool Sunday afternoon, we met up with superstar pet photographer and friend
Julianna from twoguineapigs to celebrate Dalston's first Birthday.
We had to leave cake and candles behind but the weather still allowed us to wear our party heads.
I think the pictures speak for themselves. We had so much fun.
Happy Birthday little one, we love you to bits. Oh my, how much you have grown in the short time...