the long-awaited wedding info

We promised you all some wedding info upon our post-holiday return to the land of dust, AKA Bahrain, and here it is - FINALLY!! We've been back 5 weeks already, but time being the relentless thief of hours and days that it is, we didn't actually manage to put any info together til this week. So, a gazillion apologies for the delayednessment of it! I know all of you (ok, some of you... Any of you??) have been mulling over questions like, 'When is it?' 'What's the venue?' 'Where can we stay?' 'What's to do there?' 'What's to eat there?' 'Is Aly really marrying Matt?' 'Is Matt really marrying Aly??!' Well, the answers to all these questions and more can be found by clicking on the 'Matt and Aly' image at the top of this blog entry.

When you click on the image, you'll see a screen like this:

Click on the yellow bar at the top that says 'pop-ups blocked' and select 'temporarily allow pop-ups'. Then press 'Click here to start download', then 'Open'. Fingers crossed it's there as it's taken us forever with our crappy internet connection to upload it!

If you don't have Adobe, here is a more boring, but in no way less informative, version on MS Word.

It's possible that we've forgotten a lot of things, so give us a shout if you have any questions after reading it. We also know absolutely nothing about this wedding planning stuff, so if any of you have any tips/ideas/suggestions, we'd love to hear them.

We miss you all and are super excited about seeing you in Hoi An next August (some of you we'll be seeing before then!)

Laters, Matt n Aly x

the playlist

wallpaper popart (allxfg, 2010)

We want your music suggestions! We'd love to see what you guys want played at our shindig. Anything from rock, to funk, to electro-pop; we want your requests! Pls use the comments link under this post to give artist and song ideas (just so you know, we draw the line at gooey love songs...). Happy tune hunting!

first thing's first

Okay. Thought I'd jump on the social media bandwagon considering I'll be teaching Web Media here in Bahrain next semester. And before you all tear my wee blog effort to bits, I'll be teaching web content (the words and stuff), NOT design or HTML or Flash or any o' that....

We've set this blog up for all you lucky peeps who have been invited to the esteemed occasion of our nuptials in Hoi An, Vietnam on 6th August, 2011. That's 2011, not 2010, for all those currently freaking out thinking they have to madly save and plan for a quickie wedding in a few weeks' time (yes, people have asked!). Why Vietnam? Well, me hailing from Oz and Matt being from England meant we had to find somewhere overseas, neutral territory and all that... We chose Vietnam as it's one of our favourite countries, full of fab food, fun, flora, fauna, festivals, and fabulousness (okay, the alliteration frenzy is over). We had such an amazing time there in 2008 and we'd love for you guys to see Hoi An for yourself. Here's a bit of visual incentive from our last trip there:

So, if you've been suitably persuaded by these images and our winning prose, we'd be so excited to see all of you in Hoi An next August. Watch this space for info regarding flights, visas, accommodation, things to see & do in Vietnam, plus other practical (and totally impractical) bits n bobs.