Rainy (Typhoon) Day Progress



The rice field beside us did NOT have water in it yesterday.



So we are expereincing our 6th (ish) typhoon here in Japan. I think it's the 6th, there are a number of typhoon in the last 2 years that were of little to no worry because they were so small. This one is probably the biggest we've had, and so far it's not terrible, although I am very glad I don't need to go outside.

On top of that I have a wonderfully sore throat which means I talk very little.

All this leads to Mike and I staying home and just working away at some small jobs. So I thought I should update everyone about how things are progressing.

I have gotten material for one of the flower girl dresses. After hunting at 4 different fabric store I came away with this material. I can find lots of Japanese fabric, but not much in purple and NONE in orange. Then on top of that I need at least 240 cm of fabric... and most places had only 200cm.... so it was rather frustrating to at times and I'm glad my friend Nikolina was along with me, otherwise I might have lost my mind.

At my job at U I school of English the students and parents have been folding dozens and dozens of paper cranes for the wedding! Some of them are definitely folded by students, but that kind of makes them super charming. The little notes and things are adorable too, I will definitely miss them. My boss Kaz posted on the School Blog (Click to link) about it, and she also posted about how Mike and I donated money to the Japanese relief fund instead of giving guest favours. It's in Japanese, but I'm sure you can get the idea lol.

The veils are coming along.... slowly. I am being super careful and gentle, which when hand-sewing can be super tedious. Plus I stared out with the entire lace, but after sewing the bottom edge on Mike and I decided that it look better without the top edge. So with a tiny pair of thread scissors I went along carefully cutting the lace (and NOT cutting the veil material). So the bottom edge of the lace is sewn on all of it, and now I need to sew the top part of flowers on.



Veil folded over; smaller edge is the blusher, big flowers is the rest of the trim.

So I will continue with the veils, since I have only half finished ONE, and the cranes, and other wedding stuff. Mike and I working on the ceremony details as well.

If you haven't RSVP yet please do so! Trying to confirm numbers. Also please send up song requests, are enjoying all the suggestions so far, so keep them coming.

Oh yea... one other thing...

Mike and I have booked our tickets home!
Touch down in Canada July 23 at 8:25!

Can you tell I'm excited? Lol

Well that's it for now. Lots more going on in life, but not really wedding related, so I'll save that for another time.