The Honeymoon story

Hi!

What can I say about Greece? White houses with blue shutters, old man Stavros sitting in front of his taverna, stray cats lazing in the sun, cake in the morning with breakfast, Ouzo with supper, warm calm waters, bright red sunsets, rows and rows of olive groves with zorba the greek playing in the background while we drove around the island about 20 times!
It was an wonderful experience and I am still nostalgic about our little island - Milos. Milos is an special island in the Aegean sea close to Santorini. It is the birthplace of Venus the Milos and has the most beautiful beaches. The one side of island, called Kleftiko can only be reached by boat. The local people were friendly and even knew a little bit of Afrikaans! We visited Athens as well, and saw the magnificent Akropolis and Zeus's temple. We strolled through Plaka - a bustling area close to the Akropolis through the various little shops and had souvlaki with raki at one of the many tavernas!
We ended our holiday off with 8 hours in Egypt. What a country! We thought we wouldn't come out there alive. The taxidriver was driving like an maniac and the next thing we knew we were on camelback heading towards the mysterious Pyramids of Giza. We met Ali there, our tourguide and he told us the history of the pyramids. After trying to bribe me to trade my sister in for 3 camels for him as an second wife and a trip to the Papyrus museum we arrived safely back to the airport with a hole in our pocket.
All ended well, and we feel fortunate to have had such a wonderful experience!
We would like to go back there one day, and would recommend it to anyone!
With love,
The couple

The Inspiration to our silhouettes

As you may know our theme was silhouettes. You could see it on the petit cakes, on the boxes, on the invitations.. it was everywhere! It added a further personal touch to an already intimate wedding!
All our love, until next time!

Our wedding photos

Hallo everyone!

I want to thank everyone for giving us such lovely presents! The thank you cards is on the way if anyone were wondering! So sorry it took so long! It also has been an awful long time since I wrote on our blog...Been busy with setting up our new house, me finishing my intern year, and David started Ninja training :) and I started French classes, but all is good and we have a bit of free time now..
I have posted a couple of photos, enjoy!

I do...I Do...I DOOOOO!

Wasn't Ilse's entrance so graceful?

I need you all to tell me. I was facing away as she came down the red carpet, forcing that final bit of self control which didn't last too long, because the moment I turned to receive my bride I was overwhelmed by uncontrollable happiness and joy. All those last bits of nervous doubt and expectation just vaporized as I saw her standing next to me. No word can describe the emotions I felt, or should I say that I could not put a word to the emotions I felt at the time, because I was not aware those feelings even existed.

THE WEDDING - 1 MAY 2010 (Part 1 : The preparations)

The day has come and gone, but the memories will remain forever. However, the memories were not created out of thin air, but rather composed as an ensemble of good friends and family, good food, good music and lots of wine - a marvelous piece de resistance to David and Ilse.

The day went of extremely smoothly. Pre-wedding at Aan de Doorns Guest House - the girly pad - Ilse was being prepped by her sorceresses Luzia, Melissa, Delores and Annelise, who worked their magic magic on her, turning Ilse into the most amazingly beautiful bride. The tricks and spells hey used on Ilse were strong and powerful. They even out did the infamous Fairy God-mother, because when the clock struck twelve, Ilse was and is still as beautiful as ever.



At the same time, not so far away at Leipzig Country House there was there was much excitement. The final preparations were being made for the ceremony. Elizma's team was preparing the venue, Tannie Suzette and her flower team were decorating and Leonora and her caters were cooking up a culinary extravaganza and making every in close proximity to the kitchen drool. Enter Dopey (Ike), Grumpy (Ricky), Doc (Lisa), Bashful (Augs), Sleezy (Garry), Sleepy (Dwight) and Happy (George) each with a unique set of skills which they used in overseeing all the final touches at Leipzig prior to the wedding, Oh, and for being there so that I could delegate. Thanks Guys and girl for the time before, during and after that you put into making Ilse and my day flawless.

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My dear guests...

It was so lovely to see you all at our wedding!!
The day was a raging success!!
Just want to say that we didn't forget about everyone and please keep an eye out because we will soon be posting pics of the bachelorette, stag, wedding and honeymoon etc. on our blog!
Keep well!
Au revoir

How the invitations came about...

Hello all!

7 weeks to the big day. WOW! I'm getting really anxious!

Here is a little story about how our invitations came about.

A few years back, David was on holiday alone in Paris and had a silhouette of his head cut out of cardboard by an artist in Montmarte. Long forgotten, we happened to come across it between some books on our bookshelf. Good memories were brought up and the idea of having silhouettes of each of us, to use in our wedding somewhere, came up. So on our past Christmas holiday in Paris, we made our way in the -3 degree rainy, snowy weather to the top of the hill in Montmarte to find the artist who cut David's silhouette 2 years before. We did not find the same old man however, but there were many others. So after a 20 hour plane trip, 8 hour train ride and a steep climb up the hill with the infamous Sacré-Cœur Basilica looming over us, it took the artist all of 2 minutes to cut our profiles (see pic) - but it was all worth it!





Parisian romance was all around. We happened upon a little shop (it was really one of hundreds of tourist shop scattered all over Paris) in Paris where we saw these black and white vintage postcards, all depicting various romance scenes in Paris. The mood took us and we change our entire idea of what the wedding theme was going to be and we bought a range of these postcards. Done deal! With a bit of creativity they were made into the invitations that you've all received.

Bisoux xxx
David & Ilse

Newsflash: Dummy on how to post a comment

Hello!

We apologise to everyone that has tried to post us a comment! But I hope everyone still remembers their messages and posts new ones to us!
Here are the correct instructions on how to follow a blog:
1. Click on the "follow" button towards the end of the blog page
2. Click on Google
3. Create a Google account - give your current email address and a password
6. When registered with a Google account, go to the section where you would like to comment, and click on comments.
7. Post your comment and select your profile (namely Google account)
8. Post your message
9. It will then ask you who do you want to comment as, and then you select your name
10. Please sign out after commenting

Voila!

Hope it's not too difficult!
Love
David & Ilse

Our Gift Registry

Hi All!

I hope everyone is in good health!
You all may not know,but we will be moving into our own little nest after we are married, so we will appreciate all the help we can get to embark on our new life together!

Attached you will find our on-line gift registries at Woolworths, Carrol Boyes and Yuppiechef. Online shopping has really made buying easier and the places we have chosen have secure payment facilities - and this method also eliminates having to shop,wrap and deliver gifts, as it will be done by the company.

The Woolworths and Carrol Boyes registries are also available in the stores ,but please remember to go to the gift registry section and ask an assistant for: Ilse Eybers wedding gift registry and if you do purchase items in the stores please remind the assistant to delete the item from the registry list to avoid duplication.

Whatever you choose will be wonderful and will be greatly appreciated!

Please visit the websites at the bottom for the gift registries - Yuppiechef and Woolworths will open up directly, but with for Carrol Boyes you should first go into gift registry on the left hand side panel, then into find a gift registry and then type my name in (Ilse Eybers). If there should be any problems, contact us!

Thank you!

David & Ilse

http://www.yuppiechef.co.za/registry.htm?action=show&id=17200
http://www.woolworths.co.za/caissa.asp?GiftListID=0000184754&Page=ITB4_RHGiftListView&RegionID=1
http://www.carrolboyes.co.za/cbpl/frames2.asp?PageNo=FRAMES2

R.S.V.P.

Hey All

Please R.S.V.P. on or before the 15th March 2010 either on this blog post or gives us a call. Please remember to tell us your food preferences (meat, chicken, vegetarian, halaal).

Regrets, we cannot accommodate children.

Hear from you soon

Accommodation for guests

Hello!
Being a fair distance out of Cape Town, we would encourage our guests to try and spend the evening in the area so that everyone can enjoy the party even more and not be hassled with driving late at night.
Please feel free to visit the websites that we posted, they offer a range of accommodation in the Nuy Valley and surroundings.
The choice is all yours!
http://www.safarinow.com/destinations/nuy/hub.aspx
http://www.breedekloof.com/sleep.html

Food preferences

Hallo!

Hope everyone is well!

For catering purposes we need to know our guests' food preferences. So please let us know if you'd prefer meat, chicken, vegetarian or halaal when you RSVP.

Thank you!

David & Ilse

p.s. I will post options for accommodation in the Nuy Valley and for our gift registry shortly.

Please feel free to contact us if there are anything else you would like to know!

Around Europe in 17 days

Holiday was bliss, and looking back we realised that we were fortunate to have so many priceless moments during the holiday... From snow and waffles in picturesque fairytale Brugge; to a champagne tasting on a boat trip on the Seine; to gliding down the pipes in the saltmines in Halein, Berchtesgaden on Christmas day, Le Palais in Prague, to the colossal St. Vitus cathedral, the depressing Terezin concentration camp and finally the fireworks on Leidseplein on New Year!
Travelling with trains between the countries was a different experience altogether! Running with 20kg bags in the snow on platforms who knows where in minus 7degree temp, up stairs, down stairs, into wrong carriages and ending off with a trip through antiquity on a old Czech train in a chicken-cage sized 6-sleeper compartment with a manual air-con and no coffee... for 15 hours, proved to be a difficult task.
But alas we had our own black belt Johnny Bravo(David)carrying our luggage and Lisa our pathfinder who always got us to our destination in one piece...
Lastly a great big thanks to the wonderful parents who made the trip possible!
David & Ilse

Boy meets girl

Boy and girl works in a jewellery store. Girl has boyfriend, who was overseas at the time. Girl secretly liked boy(boy also liked girl subconsciously,) but was too shy to admit it and had to be faithful to other boy...Overseas boy broke of the relationship, girl sad but happy? Boy asks girl on a date on the 24th June 2003 to the imax theatre, girl happily says yes!
4 years later...
Boy asks girl to marry him while busy driving along Melkbosstrand. The beautiful ring is in a sweets packet and girl almost threw it away, but when she finally saw it her first reaction was to put it on! Needless to say the answer was yes!
3 years later...
Boy and girl sets a date for the big day and girl makes boy crazy with all the planning!
The story continues...

Directions to Leipzig Country House

Hello!

Welcome to our blog and we hope everyone is in good health!
Below you will find the directions to Leipzig Country House, we hope that it is not too difficult to find it! If anyone has queries don't hesitate to contact us! Please visit the website www.leipzigcountryhouse.co.za for the map and additional information.
I will post some information on accommodation in the Breedekloof area for our guests that want to party all weekend long!

From Cape Town N1
Take the N1 (north) towards Worcester
Past Paarl on the N1 and drive through the Hugenote Tunnel
Once you reached Worcester, drive past Shell Ultra City on your left and continue on the N1, past the first set of traffic lights
Turn right into Roux Road at traffic lights 3
Drive past traffic lights 4 and 5 (Fire Brigade) on your right
Drive past traffic light 6 (Church street) and turn left at traffic light 7 into Hoog Street (R60)
Turn right into Robertson Road (R60) at traffic light 7
Continue past traffic light 8 (Traffic centre) on your right
Continue for approximately 14 km till you find the Nuy Valley turn of at your left
Take the Nuy valley turn off and travel for approximately 8 km till you find Leipzig on your right.

From Villiersdorp
Take the R43 towards Worcester
Turn right at the T - Juction by De Doorns wine cellar towards Overhex
Turn right at the 4 way stop into the R60 – towards Robertson / Nuy valley
Continue till you find the Nuy Valley turn of at your left
Take the Nuy valley turn off and travel for approximately 8 km till you find Leipzig on your right.

From Robertson
Take the R60 towards Worcester past Rooiberg cellar
Turn left at the Nuy Valley turn off
Take the Nuy valley turn off and travel for approximately 8 km till you find Leipzig on your right.

From De Doorns
Take the N1 south towards Cape Town
Take the De wet / Overhex turn off on your right (De Wet cellar on your left)
Travel for approximately 15km till you find Leipzig County House on your left.

Keep well!Lots of love..