PRE-NUP PICS & WEDDING RINGS

We are a very hands on couple. As much as possible we try to make our wedding as personalized as our own beds. We spend our free hours thinking of ways to make the wedding unique by trying to incorporate our persona in each items such as the invitation or the misalette or the cake. (Hi Alex Franco! Your dates are in safe hands! ; }

Through each day that I spend with my Hunny during the preparation, I can see so much excitement in her. SHE'S A WEDDING JUNKIE!!! My sleepy fiance is experiencing catatonia and euphoria as she spends most of her time surfing the net rather than sleeping. Considering that the wedding day is about 3 months away. I wonder what happens to her when we only have a week?

Her focus on her w@wie yahoo group is immense! She reads everything that that group sends her. Its not bad I know. But she spends more time with the computer now a days than me. Makes me feel jealous! Anyhow we made some progress over the course of the week. Such as:

PRE-NUP PICS

My enthusiasm and frequent experimentation with my shiny old Sony Digicam finally paid of last Thursday, as we shot our first pre-nup pictorial. We can't wait any longer for CHITO VECINA to do our pictures, so we made the initiative to do it ourselves.

So at about 6:00am, we brought our early morning grumpiness to MANAMA SEASIDE PARK. With only our digicam in hand, we tried do our best to shoot our own pictures. First up on our time table is to shoot short clips of videos of us doing our thing. No story board here! We only played it by ear. And I tell you, its not easy to think in these early hours. We can only come up with the stereotypical VIDEOKE type mtv. We suck! But it was fun!

We took pictures of ourselves only by the use of the timer mode of the camera. We didnt even own a tripod! So we have to use any surface to put our camera on it. First, we used the bench. This is difficult since the bench doesnt have any 45 angle plane. I have to place it very carefully so as not to scratch the cam. After focusing I will time it, and then run towards Lany before it snaps a picture! Just like lighting a firecracker on new years day! It was fun at first. After the 5th time I can feel myself sweating and out of breath. The distance of the camera and Lanys location is several meters away, (it only looks near because of the cameras zoom). Its a helluva shoot man!

We took ourselves to different locations. One of my favorite place is under the short tree infront of the building near Sheraton Hotel. I mounted the camera on top of the grass. The image was gorgeous! The flat ground looked like a hill on picture! Something like the background picture of the Windows XP. the critter cam was really something! I posted a sample last night. Just scroll down and you'll see it.

There were 3 other locations the we shot at. The grassy park, the seaside, and the pathway bench. During the grassy park shoot, I used the Date tree branches to mount my cam. After the last picture the wind blew the branch and down came my digicam, craddle and all! (like a lullabye) In the next few locations I tried mounting it on a safer spot. The trash bin (that looks like a logged tree), and my hands (I make excellent photos shooting it this way. I never go out of focus or out of frame!).

At about 9am or 10, we called it a day, and went home to upload the pics on my pc. And they were all great! I wish I could show you all of it. The whole day, I made a home video of our movie clips. I thinks its terrific! There weren't so bad at all. With the music, its like time stood still while you watch it. COOL! I used PAUL WESTERBERG's DYSLEXIC HEART as the background score. Not much for the lyrics but the melody is cool!

Next time well by a tripod!

WEDDING RINGS

Its high time that we had it made. We went to GOLD SOUQ to have it forged. We picked an unconvetional design for it. We found a shop, with a nice Catholic Indian guy named John to forge our wedding bands. He is no Frodo Baggins but he was kind enough to give us a reasonable price and a good deal for it. "If you don't like how it was made you wont pay for it!" I will be finished in 10 days. We are crossing our fingers that it will look exactly the same as the one in the magazine.

We had a busy day. And there will be more busy days ahead. We just hope that the wedding will turn out the way we want it to be. I'm still worried about the requirements that has not been submitted to Paco Church. I'm crossing my fingers and my toes that our plans to get married wont be spoiled. GOD HELP US!