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beautiful wedding day
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIRK WILCOX
The dog had the rings
Sellena Armanno and Matt Peters met at a party six years ago and new instantly that there was potential.
“We knew it was love after a couple of weeks when we realised how alike we are and how much we clicked,” Sellena says. It wasn’t until their fifth anniversary when Sellena and Matt visited Airlie Beach that a proposal would take place
Sellena say’s she had an inkling that a proposal was being planned, but quickly lost hope when Matt asked her what she wanted to do that day.
“We drove to Airlie and he wanted to go look at the beach, we went to a secluded beach and then he got down on one knee to propose.
“It was beautiful because I never wanted to be one of those people that had a crowd watching, I wanted it to be private,” Sellena says.
In November 2019, Sellena and Matt tied the knot at Preston Peak Winery.
Blessed with a crystal-clear sky, in a month of bushfires, the wedding was perfect.
“We were both a bit nervous leading up to the day, but as soon as we saw each other at the ceremony our nerves quickly went away.” says Sellena.
It wasn’t just the two love birds making their way down the aisle, the pair planned to have their fur-child Wilbur in the ceremony as well.
Wilbur took the role as the ring bearer on the day and stayed for family photos.
“We were worried that he was going to wee while coming down the aisle or he was going to run off,” Sellena laughed.
“But he came straight down the aisle to us and did well during photos.”
When it came to write their vows, Sellena and Matt found it challenging to express their emotions and say how they really felt in front of a crowd, a moment during the ceremony which was particularly emotional.
Matt even had to hold onto Sellena’s hand while she spoke as she couldn’t stop shaking her palm cards.
Yet to have their official honeymoon, Matt and Sellena Peters had their first Christmas with their “son” Wilbur.
“We want to have kids, do some more travelling, buy another house and probably adopt 50 more dogs.”
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Protecting your future
BY ELIZABETH ADAMS, ASSOCIATE – KENNEDY SPANNER LAWYERS N ew relationships can make us feel “all loved up” and while the excitement of that feeling is one to soak up, there are a few practical things to consider to make things smoother for those you love (should there be some bumps in the road).
Brian is divorced and in his 60s and was lucky enough to meet the next love of his life June, a widow in her 50s. Both Brian and June have adult children from their previous relationships and have their own homes, significant cash savings and share portfolios. Brian and June wish to preserve their independent financial positions should this not be their next forever relationship.
They agree they will each retain what they brought into the relationship and then divide equally anything they acquire together. Brian and June can enter in a Financial Agreement that will give effect to their wishes. As circumstances change over years, both Brian and June should review their agreement so it still reflects their wishes.
While Brian and June trust each other, they wish to ensure that their children are provided for and participate in managing their individual affairs should they lose capacity or pass away.
Both Brian and June could consider making Enduring Powers of Attorney that appoint each other and their children to make decisions about their financial, personal and health matters.
This power could be exercised jointly. Brian and June could also consider entering into a contract for Mutual Wills, where they promise to not change their Wills in the future. The Mutual Wills could then follow the same terms as the Financial Agreement, leaving the property they owned at the start of the relationship to their own children, then sharing between all children the jointly owned property once both Brian and June pass away.
If Brian and June have not yet accessed their superannuation entitlements, they may consider making a binding nomination for their children to receive their interests, independent of their Wills. With the right legal advice, Brian and June can protect their interests.
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Utter chaos
The English language is filled to the brim with irregularities and oddities
Innumerable twists, turns, pitfalls and traps permeate the English language, ready to snare any unsuspecting explorer. The Chaos, a poem written by Dutch teacher Gerard Nolst Trenité and first published in 1920, includes about 800 examples of English spelling irregularities.
The esteemed Mr Trenité finds that “stranger’’ does not rhyme with “anger’’, and nor does “devour’’ rhyme with “clangour”. He points out homophones (words spelled the same, but pronounced differently) like “tier’’ for someone who ties things, but “tier’’ for a set of structural levels.
To drive his point home, Trenité remarks how Thomas, thyme, Theresa and Thames are pronounced without the H in TH.
The poet finishes with some advice for those who wish to learn English:
Finally, which rhymes with ‘enough’; though, through, plough, bough, cough, hough, sough, or tough? Hiccough has the sound of ‘cup’ … My advice is – just give up! Letters “-ough’’ can be pronounced in eight different ways and are all used in this sentence (which does not appear in the poem) to illustrate:
A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully. English is rife with paradoxes – there is no egg in eggplant and no ham in hamburger, neither are English muffins English nor French fries French.
Sweetmeats are candies and sweetbreads are meat (and not sweet at all).
As Richard Lederer asked in his book Crazy English, how is it that your nose can run and your feet can smell? The word “ghoti’’ was constructed to perfectly illustrate the confusing spelling rules of English (the third most commonly spoken language on earth).
In this word, the “gh’’ is pronounced the same as in “tough’’, the “o’’ is pronounced the same as in “women’’ and the “ti’’ as in”‘nation’’.
All this ends with “ghoti’’ being pronounced as “fish’’. No wonder even the British have trouble speaking true English.
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New budget, new lifestyle
Abudget refresh can make all the difference to your life – especially your stress levels – so what better time to do a finance overhaul than right now?
First things first: in order to do a budget overhaul, you will need an actual budget in the first place.
If you don’t already have one, go through your banking records for the past month and make a list of what gets spent on what, and when.
This is especially important for all those bills, as knowing exactly when their due date falls can make all the difference to a household budget.
Knowing how much fuel, groceries, and other everyday expenses cost in each pay period is also essential.
Once you have a complete list, sit down and allocate each expense amount within your pay period – fortnightly is most common, but you may also get paid weekly or monthly.
Regardless of whether you’re setting up your budget formally for the first time or doing an overhaul, you can make a monthly rotating budget for bills that fall each four weeks, or have one concrete budget where a portion of the overall bill is put aside each period (this method works well for quarterly or annual bills as well). Allocating small portions to set aside each pay period for large bills can make a great difference.
Not only will you have the financial security of knowing how much surplus money you have each budget, but you’ll find yourself less stressed when the bills arrive.
Having a close look at your budget can also reveal areas where you can cut expenditure, or remove unnecessary costs entirely – like a streaming subscription that you no longer use, or a gym membership that allows for double the classes you actually need.
You may think that finding an extra $5 in your budget won’t make much difference, but it all adds up in the long run.
