Something sweet today for our Melbourne brides! I’m still a fan of cupcakes at a wedding and really cupcakes in general. Nothing gives me quite the same smile as a perfectly sweet vanilla cupcake with soft pink icing on a grey day.
To celebrate the launch of their brand new website (launching tomorrow!) You can win a wedding cupcake package from Love at First Bite Cupcakes
Love at First Bite is a boutique cupcake bakery, boasting some of the most delicious tasting cupcakes in Melbourne. Their cupcakes are beautifully finished with their own unique hand made decorations, so they look as good as they taste.
Love at First Bite are going to make one lucky wedding full of cupcake bliss! They’re giving away a scrumptious cupcake package!
The prize is 100 vanilla decorated butter cream cupcakes, including stand hire, delivery and setup in the Melbourne metro area. This prize is valued at AU$500
To win beautiful cupcakes for your wedding day simply leave a comment with your proposal story – the Love At First Bite team will then choose their favourite!
The winner will be chosen by Love at First bite and will be informed by Polka Dot Bride by email and announced on the Polka Dot Bride site. This prize is not redeemable for cash and must be redeemed 18 months from the date of the winner announcement. This competition is open worldwide. Entrants must be aged 18 or older. This competition is a game of skill; no chance enters into deciding the winner. No late entries will be considered. This Competition closes on 20th July 2010 at 5.00 p.m (Australian time).
This competition is now closed.
Perfect. 9th August 2008. Marko booked accommodation for us in Dromana (but I had no idea). He had arranged for his sister and brother in-law to set up the room with rose petals and hundreds of candles. Marko told me he had made early dinner reservations in Dromana (a booking for 5:30… who eats at 5:30?) and so we had to leave quite early to get there in time. When we arrived the restaurant was closed but still nothing clicked. Marko then walked through a small door and ushered me up a flight of stairs to a door. He told me to open the door, but when I did I saw a room set up beautifully with roses and candles and a bottle of champagne on ice.. I proceeded to shut the door and tell him that we must be in someone else’s room. He told me it wasn’t and that I should go in. As I did I started to realize what was about to happen.. I got to a table where there was a note waiting for me, It was a beautiful note written by Marko describing how much he loved me etc. When I had finished reading he was down on one knee with the ring in his hand. Before I could even say yes, I had snatched the ring out of the box and put it straight on my finger.. the rest as they say is history.
December 4th 2010. It was just another Friday afternoon. I had just finshed after work drinks with the rest of the teachers and arrived home about 5pm. After dumping my bag at the door, I headed to the kitchen to find a vase of long stemmed roses and a silver envelope.
My heart began to race as I opened the envelope, it was a poem. After my initial tears from reading the beautiful words, I realised that it was instructing me to do something. Upon following the diretions to head upstairs, I found yet another rose and accompanying silver envelope. My head began to spin at what was happening, could this be it? The moment I have dreamt of as a little girl. I would have to follow the clues to find out.
The next clue directed me to get ‘dressed in my best’ and proceed to his parents house. After breaking the land speed record in my ’91 Nissan Pulsar, I arrived to find both mine and his parents sharing a drink. They greeted me and instructed me to sit down and watch a DVD that had been left for me. The DVD contained photos of us collected of the 9 years we had been together with our song playing in the background. After wiping away the tears, I was presented with another silver envelope, this one hinting at a location special to us – the place where our relationship became ‘official’.
The waitress at the small cafe was pleased to see me and handed me a cake box and yep…another silver envelope!
Lucky I had my mum and his mum with me to drive as the suspence was getting the better of me and I began to shake. The cafe clue was easy for me to decypher as it directed me to a place where we both love to visit, the home of my 2 favourite cousins, 4 year-old Dylan and 2 year-old Lucas, two ‘little gentlemen’ whom we havd the pleasure of babysitting on many occasions.
The cakes I had collected came in handy as we shared a cup of tea with my aunty and uncle and had a chance to settle for a minute or two. No sooner had i sipped the last of my tea when little Dylan approached coyly, waving a small silver envelope.
‘Kim…Daniel wanted me to give this to you…’
I immediately began crying at the cuteness of it all and Dylan thought he’d done something wrong. We reassured him that they were ‘happy tears’
I began to hope for a finish line as the next clue was read out, the 35th floor of the Sofitel on COllins my destination. The anticipation of what was waiting for me became too much and i cried constantly in transit.
Dad tried his best to get me there ASAP and i was very appreciative. My door swung open before the car had stopped and i dashed off with the 2 mums in tow. I did pretty well to make my was around the unfamiliar hotel lobby and barged into the elevator, smashing the 35 button like my life depended on it (well, at that point, I believed it did!).
As the silver carriage ascended me to my dearest dream, my fellow travellers began to feel the moment and I could see the emotion in their faces.
After the longest minute of my life, the doors parted to reveal my suited Romeo. More tears fell as i ran over. Before I could make sense of the situation he was down on one knee asking me to be his wife.
We had been backpacking for 4 weeks around China and it had been fabulous. Overnight trains on tiny bunks, crazy bus trips sitting next to live chickens in plastic bags, cooking dumplings with locals and wearing three outfits on rotation because who wants to be lugging around a whole wardrobe!
Apparently the Great Wall of China was the destination for the proposal and the token ring purchased from a village market was tucked in his pocket after half the village women helped him decide on a design but, who would have thought I would have made friends with an elderly Mongolian woman and walked with her for most of the way swapping stories…whoops.
Finally we arrived to the bright lights of Hong Kong and on a balmy night before our departure as we reflected on our adventure he dropped onto his knee and asked me to come on the biggest adventure of all – through life as husband and wife. Naturally I said “Yes!” for if he can love me when it’s 4am on a packed train carriage looking like a bedraggled turtle with a backpack on my back, hair not brushed and the same t-shirt I had slept in on the 14 hour train ride imagine when he sees me coming down the aisle this September!
That night we walked hand in hand back to our accommodation and funnily enough it was called ‘The Bridal Tea House’.
Our little journey
I decided to surprise my guy for his 30th birthday, with a trip on the West Coast Wilderness Railway in Tasmania. He end up surprising me with a wedding proposal at Montezuma Falls, (He had asked me out 9 years earlier at the Frankston Railway subway) he was very nervous; I pulled my personal alarm on him! …you see he had been following me for a awhile and I was scared as this was the time of the Frankston murders… a girl who was studying at the Tafe had just gone missing – so before he could say: “what are you doing Saturday night – are you free?” I pulled the alarm – We were both so embarrassed! We have had a bizarre train connection, ever since. So after 15 years together having experienced many of life hurdles, we are determined to walk down the aisle this December.
Ps. unintentionally …There just happens to be old red rattler train carriages at our ceremony site…
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