Five weeks!! things are very hectic and we are flat out, trying to make sure its all going to come together for us on the 29th. we have the cake coming from Cheine's Mum and also the food for the reception, as she does catering for a living, and my brother has a Holden statesman lined up for the flower girls, we will use our own Holden kings-wood for the bridal car(there is not a more beautiful vehicle in the world!) Cherine has eBay-ed the boys suits and her shoes, and got them for a song i might add,  she also whipped up some excellent invitations with the help of good old Microsoft publisher,and they look great!  we have silk  flowers that are coming from eBay, and  our dear friend, Lyn, is providing the use of her lovely garden at no charge, and a friend of mine who is a photographer, is doing the photo's as a wedding gift,  Cherines sister is a beautician and has offered to do all the hair make-up and nails etc for the flower girls and bride, we decided on a reception at home in our back yard, so i have been busy landscaping and cleaning the yard, plus putting in extra lights and speakers out side, we have a file sharing type programme on the PC that lets us download music, so we have that covered, Cherines brother is a professional DJ and has done weddings and disco's etc... so he will provide the entertainment, unfortunately the AFL grand final is being played the same weekend as our wedding(how dare they!!) so we have hit a snag with getting some important family members here as the air fares are quite high in line with the grand final, but we are trying to gather up a collection of frequent fly-er points from all the relies around that are not  going to use them and try and make the flights cheaper,, (if any one knows of cheap flights from Perth orCoolangatta to Melb, please let us know as we need all the help we can get!) whew this is wearing me out!! still, I can hardly wait, roll on the 29th, i wanna be married!!!

Ian & Cherine