Brides in Frustration & Anger

As the title states Frustration and Anger not Love... I've just got a little bit of a rant for the BRIDES IN LOVE store at Wetherill Park NSW!

Not Happy should be the term... I'm not sure if I've blogged anything about my wedding or not but I'm getting Married May 2013... Engaged on 1/1/11 we went bridal dress shopping a friend of mine and myself and then with my mum and sister... We found a gorgeous dress and I fell in love with it so what did I do??? Yeap you guessed it I put a VERY small deposit on it cause I absolutely loved it!!! And the salesperson in the store was absolutely lovely...

Now I've gone back into this store Brides in Love Wetherill Park with my sister the past Friday to look at the Bridesmaid dresses they had there and to let her try it on next to my dress... Now as per the statement next to my dress doesn't mean the dress on me per se I would be happy with a mannequin anything!

Anyways walking into the store which is completely empty, we found ourselves looking at an empty shop literally until we heard someone shout out we'll be with you shortly.. Clearly they were eating their lunch... So my sister and I browsed the various bridesmaid gowns they had, I think we went through them all maybe twice! So they had to eat their lunch before they served us! Finally when someone did come over we were confronted with a girl who seemed like she really didn't want to be there... So we say "Hi" Cheerily and continue with "we were just hoping to look at a few bridesmaid dresses and hopefully allow my sister to try a few on next to the dress I have on order." -- her reply was "Oh, how many times have you tried your dress?" About three being my answer when she then says "Oh well you can't try your dress on again because you can only try it on twice as per our policy." I was appalled! Not only did they finish their lunch before serving us but apparently I couldn't try let alone see my dress! This was when the girl suggested she'll speak to her manager Angela. We ended up looking at the same dresses another two times and then at the flower girl dresses and a few of the tuxedo's they had on show and then at wedding gowns when I turned to my sister and said lets just go to the other place, Classic's Formalwear.

We made our way back to the front of the store to leave when we were stopped by the manager Angela. She interrupted mine and my sister's conversation and has said that I can only try my dress on three times so they can't let me try it on again since I've already tried the dress on three times and have used up my allowance to try it on! I went to speak as I pulled my receipt out and instead she snatches my receipt off me I said to her I was told that I could try the dress on whenever I'd like during the week and she interrupts me AGAIN! And states "Well not without an appointment I don't know who told you otherwise!" So I've gone to say don't worry that's fine we'll just look at bridesmaid dresses elsewhere when she turns to me and says January is our busiest month and we can't go putting dresses on everyone that walks into the store! THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE STORE! The whole time this was happening she was ordering her employee to bring up my customer details she'd constantly say to the poor girl just bring the customer details up already!

So anyway they're doing something on the computer and she says to me you still need an appointment and she constantly interrupted me again and again! I've stopped taken a deep breath and said can you please stop interrupting me? I work in retail and I get interrupted when I'm trying to explain things all the time. So what does she do? "I've worked in retail for 20 years." What the hell? I don't need to know how long you've worked in retail I'm just making a statement about my work AND who's to say the only retail store she's worked in is that bridal store?!

So I end up saying look forget it and she interrupts me again so I say Can you let me finish! (Angry now lol) So she finally lets me speak, and I say again forget it we'll look elsewhere, taking my receipt back and saying to my sister lets leave.

As we turn to leave she says "fine we'll do it for you this time but never again." So my response No forget it as we walked out of that store! Good Riddance!

Good for everyone to know that I am cancelling my dress with the so called "Brides In Love" And have a deposit on another much more gorgeous dress elsewhere! Would LOVE to put pics of my dress up but can't since I don't want my fiance to see them! LOL Which brings me to another point after putting a deposit on my dress do you think they let me photograph it?! Not only that but I have spoken to their head office which is the place we were going to Classics Formal Wear and hopefully I can get a store credit for the amount or something =)

Lesson learned.... DO NOT go back into the store that was rude to you years ago hoping they have changed, find that ONE of the salespeople are nice and the rest rude because it'll only come back to bite you! Horrible people!

♥ Lor ♪♫♪

Somewhere over the Rainbow

Had an attempt at making Rainbow cupcakes the other day Oh My Gosh they're so fiddly they were fun though!!! Check em out!

Next Challenege is a Rainbow Cake without making separate cakes to layer it! I'm wanting one cake no cream layers! Wish me luck!!!!


♥ Lor ♪♫♪

Avoidance

Had such an amazing day today! I enjoyed every minute dropped my little princess off to preschool this morning and headed out to the city with one of my friends.. We had such a wonderful time Wagamama for lunch, where we stuffed ourselves with so much food it was hard to walk out of there... Went to the book shop Kinokuko or something like that LOL!!! Where we looked at sex books LOL and romance novels and solved my dilemma of trying to figure out which Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse novel I needed next! Dead Lock which comes out in May by the way! Then headed to Capitols where we were going to do those cute picture booths only to find they were charging $15 rather than the previous $8! Won me a baby cookie monster out of the skill tester which I've given to my little girl, ate ice creams and got stuck on a train without aircon...

So all in all I had a good day hanging out with a good friend of mine =)

♥ Lor ♪♫♪

Nerves of steel or maybe not...

So I've been driven insane the last few days. Who would have thought FaceBook Friends could be so horrible and assume things before they know the entire story?! Just because I've written something as my status does not mean that you should go and assume what I'm on about without asking me first OR that you should go and judge people! I think it's absolutely ridiculous! And then when you let people know that they've upset you because they've assumed and judged you they feel that it's a need to attack you AGAIN! So then you think you know what? I'll just put you on my restricted list so that you can't bug me anymore because you have the nerve to write things on my statuses so everyone can see it instead of private messaging me to find out why it is that I feel a certain way about a certain topic. So what do they do instead blow up on my WALL! LIKE WHAT THE F**K! How hard is it to press the button next to the post to wall one that says message? In the end I deleted the person it was getting too much for me to handle especially when they seem to constantly feel that they have the need to comment on everything I post! From Pictures to check in's to statuses GAH I was fed up of ignoring and deleting posts! Anyways those who really care about me and are true friends were the ones questioning me instead of blowing up or were the ones who went and consoled me. How hard is it to just let me write what I want? I might just have to create a separate account just so I can write how I feel without comments!? It doesn't matter anymore but I had to get this out of my system and write it down somewhere I have my diary but I don't want to sit down somewhere where I can't see the time and be late for work!

Anyways in regards to the main reason why I decided to sit down here.... Wedding Photographers... I think I may have messaged 20 or so of them just to get prices for an all day wedding shoot... I hate it when people don't advertise their prices online and have it easily accessible If I had known you are going to charge $4000 for photography for 4 hours I would not have emailed you.
In retrospect there are a few who are so wonderful and are willing to try and get the amount of time you need for a lower price closer to my budget.. I found one Phatography (look him up) My sister the pro photographer approves and so I have emailed him since he actually has his price for full day coverage on his web page! $1400 for all day unlimited images, all colour corrected or retouched on a disc delivered 2 weeks after the wedding well I think he's wonderful! He doesn't even insist on having an album included! (that's where they up the price) Well anyway from the 20 so far I've narrowed it down to three unless someone else comes along with a half decent price for all day and no albums! Wish me luck!

Anyway the other reason as to why I've decided to post is because I took my daughter to preschool today! I know she's going to love it but the heartache as she cries and doesn't want to leave my side is well heart breaking! I think she settled down eventually she really didn't like the Karen lady LOL and she didn't like the sand once the wind picked up.. I'm sure she'll be fine but still I worry... She's going to have the time of her life and not want to leave when I go to pick her up well that's what I keep saying to myself hoping it's true... I love her so much and I think I'm a tad overprotective actually scratch that COMPLETELY overprotective of her! Her daddy came with us for her first day and then she goes again on Friday I hope she's ok I really really do.... Which reminds me I'll probably call them once I get into work and check up on her...

So it's ten past ten and I start work at eleven so I think I should head off and get to work a little earlier and play games on my phone to pass the time and to make me think of anything but worrying about my little girl... OH MY GOODNESS I've just realised... What am I going to do when I go on my honeymoon?! Ohhh great wish me luck!

Ciao
♥ Lor ♪♫♪

Cheers to the New Year!

So, I haven't written on here in a little while and though maybe I should, So just thinking of everything that's happened since.

So to begin with Christmas, was CRAZY! This year was the first year that I actually realised how crazy it is since it's the first year that Caliah is old enough to somewhat understand that something exciting is happening. It was so amazing seeing her actually running around wanting to open every present she had! The thing is though that even though it was all pretty much done for Caliah it was crazy for family members and friends that I had intended on giving a gift to. And it was crazy since I had for the first time forgotten to get those presents early too! I liased with Santa with Caliah's presents but when it came to friends and family I was buying for I completely forgot! Since those presents don't come from Santa, and are from our little family. So Christmas before it had arrived was already driving me insane! When Christmas Eve arrived I had cooked a roast dinner for us and my father-in-law since the mother-in-law was overseas I thought it would be good to invite him for dinner which was wonderfully simple. That night Caliah and I left Oreo's and Milk for Santa out and a carrot for good measure for the reindeer, although she wanted to eat and drink everything on that plate instead! I thought we should get that tradition started while she was young even though she doesn't completely understand! Christmas day was another thing it was great watching our little girl trying to open everything it was absolutely adorable! Christmas Lunch was with my Family and she fell asleep while she was eating her lunch! It was adorable! Then Boxing day was filled with adventure as one of our friend's had her birthday. So as you can see my Christmas was quite crazy afterall and I felt like we were extremely busy especially since the only day left was the Tuesday public Holiday and I had to work from 8am-6pm! I really would have liked that day to have a relaxing beach filled day with my little family instead of working =( which brings me to another point...

I really need to get out of retail work I am craving a chance to work in events again I would do anything to get into an event job at the moment I really miss it I miss the organising and the WBS and the Strategic Plans and the Event Orders and Site maps and floor plans and well I could go on forever! Sure I'm doing the event thing with LOUD Tribe but it would be absolutely AMAZING if I could just get back into the event industry and get paid for it! Anyone know of any jobs that don't require at least 2 years experience in the industry??? I have almost one year experience and a diploma with a Distinction Average I would do absolutely anything for an event job I'd prefer weddings and such but will go for almost anything! My work needs an event manager badly but I don't want to work on public holidays when I won't be needed but I don't see that happening they'll roster me on no matter what and I'll be stuck in admin forever...

I've been feeling wonderful besides all of this and have had the chance to go out with friends and new friends I have made over the past few months which is great and I'm hoping that some of my really close friends become somewhat free after the craziness of the Holidays! I had such an epic night the other night though! I only spent $30 and was drunk (drinks are $8 each) I kept having drinks shouted for me!!! It was so fun gotta love being a girl and able to work magic on guys LOL!

Well anyways New Years Eve was so funny! We were trying to defrost some meat to cook for lunch when our microwave that we've had for almost 4 years just died on us! I couldn't believe it! And so the hunt began for a new microwave, I called in to work and didn't get approved for GEM interest free finance and since we had a HSBC Interest Free finance card we decided to head over to Bing Lee Yea I know if I work at a retail store that sells this stuff why not go there? Well quite honestly cause we didn't really have enough money to just buy outright hence the interest free card and if we have one why should we go and get another? And since we can't put just $200 on the card we decided to get a new BIGGER washing Machine which I will be selling shortly. So YAY to the New Year starting out with a new microwave and washer!

All that's really left to talk about would be New Years in general, that night we went to a party and well discovered that Caliah absolutely loves fireworks which is strange for a one year old! Then we celebrated our 6 year anniversary and one year of being engaged by sitting at home just being a family which for once was refreshing! I've had quite an eventful month in December and I hope the New Year brings on many more happy memories! AND craziness since I'll be finally getting things sorted for our wedding!!!

Well so long for now!
Lor ♥♥♥♥