It’s been such a long time since my last post, and so much has happened.

I just started writing again today – my goal is to write a novel to enter into the Text Prize this year.

I had to give up on Nanowrimo in 2010 – the wedding consumed my attention!

But now I have been married for 9 days, and I’m happy to have some weeks off before I start uni! Hopefully I will be able to dedicate some good hours to writing again; I’ve missed it so much.

The wedding was sooooo good! I loved it. If I do say so myself, we did a very good job considering we had two and a half months to plan it! Haha, Jared and I have only been together for ten months, and we were engaged for two and a half months… Sounds insane! But we’ve been good friends for ten years, and we have lots of history to learn from and embrace. I’m so excited he’s my husband, and so excited to be on this journey together now!


I’m keeping my name the same for writing purposes – a pseudonym is always a good idea, and plus – there are literally only six Hopmeres left in the world! (Except the town, in Oregon, USA). So I will keep the name alive by heading my stories with them.

We had a black and white and pink theme, which was fun! The guys wore black with ivory ties and ivory converses. The girls wore black with ivory sashes – they had different dresses but the same length, which worked well! It also meant they got to wear something comfortable for them, that they will wear again.

My husband and I and our cake!

I was going to wear a different dress, but I changed my mind 6 days before the wedding!! I ended up buying something I wouldn’t ordinarily have picked for me, but made me feel like a princess. I’m so glad I switched dresses.

Old dress...

New dress...
We had the ceremony at the Hillsong Chapel, and we had a short and funny ceremony. We wrote our own vows, had our sisters and cousin sing the hymns for us, and my sister Ebony wrote a song for us – it was INCREDIBLE. We loved it, it was so personal and funny. When it came time for the pastor to say “you can kiss the bride”, instead he said “you may now update your Facebook relationship status” – which we did. My husband got out his Blackberry and we took the photo and uploaded straight away. Haha, it was very us. (We’re pretty much Facebook additcted, and we have about a billion photos of us taken on our Blackberry’s :P)

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