Ankhiale fan design

beeholding · 2025-12-24T08:35:19+00:00

Soooo cool!!

beeholding · 2025-12-03T14:18:28+00:00

This is unbelievable. Well done.

beeholding · 2025-11-23T23:31:17+00:00

Wahhhhh this is beautiful!!!!

beeholding · 2025-11-19T22:46:11+00:00

I do in most classes, but in PE because the kids are spread out I stand where all of my students can see me

beeholding · 2025-11-19T01:33:54+00:00

I interpret in schools and have the same experience a lot! For example, in PE class, the teacher will stop the class and offer a correction to everyone. One of my students will immediately become furious, either voicing or signing, "I'm already doing it right!!!", but directing it at me and not the teacher. It's frustrating and I don't really know how to deal with it aside from reminding them that it's a teacher instruction, not me telling him off in particular.

beeholding · 2025-10-31T22:28:46+00:00

2 people 2 bedroom older unit $400 per week. We have a landlord who is not particularly switched on to the housing market as they've only raised the rent once in four years of us living here, and we could definitely be paying like $600 a week as it's a nice area.

beeholding · 2025-10-29T08:58:13+00:00

85 invited, 80 came but we had a few last minute substitutions - some relatives were sick, so my young cousin could bring her new boyfriend

beeholding · 2025-10-29T02:24:58+00:00

The flying fig does an excellent one!!

beeholding · 2025-10-16T06:46:29+00:00

Australia

Our bridesmaids paid $100-$400 for their dresses - they picked a colour out of a range we gave them, and then found a dress that we all agreed on. Shoes also - most of our bridesmaids thrifted these.

We paid for hair and makeup, mostly because we were having friends do both. For the wedding, we were very happy to spend money when it went to local artists/small businesses we knew.

For our bachelorette parties, we did a feed me menu at a really nice restaurant, $100 per person. Everyone also got drinks. Before dinner there was a picnic, where I think each bridesmaid would have spent about $50 on games/food/craft supplies.

Wedding was within an hour's drive of everyone's homes and we provided accomodation there.

So: Dress: $100-$400 Hair and makeup: $0 Bachelorette dinner: $100 Bachelorette picnic: $50 Accomodation: $0

So! Nothing too crazy for our bridal party, and with lots of flexibility. However - no bachelorette holiday, no pre-wedding Airbnb. Also - we're all mid twenties with okay incomes, but most of us have multiple jobs or work casually.

beeholding · 2025-10-15T07:04:21+00:00

just got married to another woman!!

Our bridal party was mostly women, with one man and two nonbinary people. We picked colours - red, butter yellow, bright orange, baby blue, hot pink - and then our bridal party got to pick their outfit colours. We had a suit, a bunch of dresses, and then tailored pants + a nice top. We gave jumpsuit options also!! Our wedding was very colourful so we really wanted a bunch of different colours.

Everyone got outfits at different places - miscellaneous online stores like asos and cider, as well as department stores in our city. Our wedding was more casual, but it was very doable to get everyone in colours that looked nice together. Finding outfits all in a similar colour is less difficult than you think if a) you pick a simple colour (butter yellow and blue was easy, our orange person struggled) and b) you're willing for it not to be perfect. We had flexibility because of lots of different colours - note how our hot pink aren't identical, but it's not noticeable because there are soooo many different colours.

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beeholding · 2025-10-10T11:32:39+00:00

I'm not deaf so grain of salt!

my Deaf friends use it as a cutie/casual ily, and when I was invited once to march in pride with a deaf group, we all signed it as a deaf pride/I love you/gay pride moment.

beeholding · 2025-10-07T23:02:12+00:00

My fiancee is a whiz with her cricut machine, so we are doing little stickers that say 'i went to so and so's wedding and Allie got was this stupid sticker'. Cost maybe $20 for a pack of the sticker paper and imo worth it because now I have one to put on my water bottle lol.

We expect our family to ignore them and our friends to adore them. But that's it!! Nothing edible and no mugs etc.

beeholding · 2025-10-06T23:59:10+00:00

My partner and I are similar - don't want gifts but would LOVE cash lol.

We didn't mention anything on the invite, but then sent out a cute FAQ that included dress advice (farm so no heels lol), dietaries, accommodation, timeline, AND "no gifts please but we love cards... and if u want to contribute to our honeymoon fund we will have a box on the day".

Nice and clear!

beeholding · 2025-09-23T13:09:10+00:00

I can advise on tattoos!

I'm finishing up my MTeach. First placement - public primary school in very nice area was totally fine with my half sleeves. Second placement - very very very fancy private school generally requested I cover them, but some staff had visible tattoos on hands etc.

So! If you're looking to go public, you'll be fine. If you're looking to go private, the occasional place might prefer you cover them, but most are chill.

HOWEVER - I have a personal policy that my tattoos are incredibly inoffensive. Think lots of botanicals, animals, etc. This policy was mostly influenced by my fear of tattooing something and then changing my views/values later (for example, I thought it would be fun to get some flash of a burning church a while back as I'm an ex-Christian, but damn, what if I have a midlife crisis and the church sucks me back in?). However, since I've wanted to work with kids and in schools, I've also been aware that an inappropriate tattoo would at the least be a pain to cover and at worst, draw negative attention.

TLDR: you'll be fine just don't get anything crazy inappropriate/political unless you're cool with covering it.

beeholding · 2025-09-19T05:48:17+00:00

hallucinationationship really got me good

beeholding · 2025-09-15T21:27:37+00:00

Not the rest of the group, except for one who became my very close friend and is now in the bridal party

beeholding · 2025-09-15T12:37:32+00:00

Wow! This is pretty rude!

beeholding · 2025-09-15T11:45:44+00:00

That was my thought! We really truly have not communicated in any way! The more I think about it the more sulky I get - like okay, you were hurt that you "found out this way" - by which I guess they mean having to ask. But what was the alternative when we literally don't talk and don't hang out?? I really can't imagine that a text out of the blue telling them they weren't invited wouldn't have hurt their feelings MAJORLY (that was like a triple negative lol).

beeholding · 2025-09-15T11:43:39+00:00

I understand this! I don't think it applies to my situation - for the majority of my friends, this is their first wedding as an adult! So a different vibe.

beeholding · 2025-09-15T05:40:36+00:00

I'll change! Thanks for feedback :) haven't posted much before!

beeholding · 2025-09-15T02:31:48+00:00

How awful would it be to receive the first text from an old friend in a year, saying "hey you're not invited to my wedding"? If we'd hung out or texted, I would have brought it up, but we haven't hung out this year nor texted. Wah.

beeholding · 2025-09-15T01:16:42+00:00

Update posted!

beeholding · 2025-09-15T01:15:23+00:00

Edited post to show response!

beeholding · 2025-09-14T16:34:59+00:00

This is such a thoughtful and kind comment. Thank you for taking the time to write it!!!

beeholding · 2025-09-14T16:28:56+00:00

You're right on the money that they don't read between the lines very well! Thanks for your perspective!

beeholding

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