Wednesday, November 30, 2011

And You'll Love Me 'Til My Heart Stops, Love Me 'Til I'm Dead

This is the first post of the Italy photos. It may take me a couple more posts to get to show you guys everything. I know you may not want to see so many photos but there were a lot more than this so really you're getting off lightly.... :O

These photos basically consist of our plane journey, arriving in Rome, arriving at the hotel and the first evening's festivities. Scroll down to read in more detail about everything!

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The "new" Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport. It was my first time on a plane in almost 6 years. We got some breakfast (after staying awake all night), did some duty free shopping and got through security with no problems. It was a breeze compared to Fiumicino in Rome (which I'll tell you about later). We also met Jedward.

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My mam's friend who is a beautician did mine and Kate's nails in Shellac as a treat. Kate got a french manicure and I got a bright red in 'Wildfire'.

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The Italian coastline

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I only just noticed our Aer Lingus plane in the background! I was quite excited as you can see!

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Our bus, there was 50 something of us altogether!

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The view from our room. We had to change rooms because our original one, as gorgeous as it was was too far away, up the hill and my knees were killing me walking up to it. 

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This is the older part of the hotel where the Wedding ceremony and reception were held.

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Our room was in the building in the front centre.

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The pool and the building where breakfast was each morning.

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This is the steps up to the apartment where Kate and my mam stayed the night before the wedding and where Kate, my mam and I got ready on the morning of the wedding. It was stunning, so rustic and so much character but unfortunately I forgot to take photos of it. 

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This is the side of the building above.

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This is the garden where we took all of the photos after the ceremony and the building in the distance is where the drinks reception and the food reception were.

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The Bridal suite which funnily enough used to be a church!

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There was old farm equipment dotted around the grounds of the hotel, it was such a nice touch.

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This is the courtyard where most of the rooms were, the little gazebos were so cute!

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My brother Jordan and Jack and my friend Simon who was the DJ for the weekend.

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My friend Lisa and I, our families grew up together, she's my oldest friend and I was so happy she could come to the wedding!

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This is the first thing Donnacha did when we arrived!

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The rehearsal for which I was asleep. I hadn't slept in 30 hours at this stage and was very cranky so was forced to nap by my mother :)

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Yummy food at the Welcome Barbeque, this is onion bread. So tasty!

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Chunks of Parmesan! Amazing!

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Martini Prosecco

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We had to come indoors for the food as it started to get chilly outside. We had a buffet with steak, grilled vegetables, lasagne and salad. Seriously the nicest steak I've ever had even though I don't usually like it that rare.

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The table decorations were so pretty and simple!

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A few glasses of prosecco later....

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Dessert buffet with the tiramisu Kate requested. 

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We had karaoke after the meal. There was a Bridesmaids against Groomsmen challenge in which we each sang a song and then had to pick a second song for the others to sing. We sang Love Shack first and then picked Gabrielle Dreams for the guys. It was hilarious. We won.


So there you have it our first day in Italy. The hotel was called Borgo di Tragliata and it took about 30 minutes to get there from the airport and about 45 minutes to get to Rome city. The buildings in the hotel grounds are so stunning and our room was perfect. I don't think I could imagine a better location for a wedding, everyone was so blown away by how beautiful it was, we all literally gasped when we arrived on the bus. The photos really don't do it justice so I guess you'll all just have to go stay there some day!

If you've made it this far, thank you for taking the time to read about/look at the photos. I know looking at other people's holiday photos can be a bit boring but I was just so excited to show you all how beautiful the place was, I hope you enjoyed the first part of the Wedding photos series. Heehee!

How is your week going? 

Much love,

Emma x

Ps. The post titles are going to be song lyrics from songs on Kate and Eric's wedding playlist! Do you know what song it is?



Sunday, November 27, 2011

Film Style Inspiration- Bonnie Parker (Bonnie and Clyde)

The inspiration for November's Film Style post is Faye Dunaway's portrayal of notorious bad gal Bonnie Parker from the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. It's also the only of my Film Style posts in which the character is based on a real life person (to the best of my knowledge). 

The events of the film take place in the 1930's but as far as I can tell the style and make up is very much inspired by that of the decade it was filmed in, the 1960's. I tried to do my make up as close to the make up Faye Dunaway wears as possible. From what I can see she has some warm brown shades on her lids and straight black liner, white/nude liner on the water line and pretty nude lips.

Here's the make up I used to re-create her make up look:

Urban Decay Naked Palette- Virgin and Buck
Urban Decay 24/7 waterproof liquid liner in Perversion
Maybelline The Falsies mascara
No 7 false eyelashes in 20 
Carmex on the lips

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As for the clothes, I'm pretty sure everyone knows the stills of Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty from the film. Her character's uniform consists of knee or calf length textured skirts, patterned triangle scarves, light coloured blouses, cable knit sweaters, a beret and flats/sensible heels. Here is my version of the Bonnie Parker costume (without the prop gun).


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Beret- Accessorize
Cardigan and Skirt- Monsoon
Shoes- Marks and Spencers
Scarf- Charity Shop

My hair is a lighter colour. I wanted to go back to my natural colour and decided colour remover was the way to go but obviously because I've coloured my hair about 7 times this past year it wasn't going to be that easy. It's now a lighter shade of red than it was and I kind of like it. I'm going to let it grow out for as long as I can stand the roots. Then, who knows. 

I have gotten up to date with almost everything. I have two more posts ready to go and I'm almost done editing all the wedding photos. A big thank you to Donnacha who got a new desktop computer for me this week. I can finally edit again!

Thank you all so much for the lovely comments about the wedding. You are the best people.

Emma x


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