All that work, all that planning, all that stress, all those decisions that we anguished over….and for what????
Seriously the most amazing wedding EVER. That’s what! I know that everyone says that their wedding was the best ever but seriously, hands down, ours really was the best ever!
One of our guests told us that it was the most honest expression of emotion that they’d seen at a wedding and yes of course I’m biased but I’ll take it 🙂
It all unfolded exactly as we had wanted. Yes, we had the blip on the morning of the wedding when our childcare bailed on us (shame on you Sillybillies) but with Mum to the rescue we soon had an alternative. My aim was to make it through the wedding without giving my bridesmaid Jo Coll, Queen of the wedding disaster story, any more ammunition, and I’m pleased to say we did it!! She wasn’t aware that the ushers managed to get to the church without any of the orders of service, the confetti, the music system or the fans I had bought. And the other little blips where we had a pause of about a minute before Ivan got the recessional music going in the church and then the lights going out twice in the marquee during the speeches all just added to it.
My parents had worked so hard over the last 18 months since we asked them if we could have our wedding at their place and my God did it show. Everyone mentioned them in the speeches and they more than deserved it. What a backdrop for a wedding. I couldn’t believe the transformation since last Sept when we were last there. Our photographer Paul said that their home was a photographer’s dream. Seriously how lucky am I to have this family?!
And speaking of our photographers….Paul and Annabel ROCKED!! We knew they were awesome before the wedding because they did my best friend Anna’s wedding but they still exceeded our expectations both in the photographs they took but also the way that they took part in the wedding. I couldn’t imagine having anyone else involved. To get a taste of what they can do check this out: http://www.paultoeman.com/blog/?p=4844
As anyone I’ve spoken to in the last few months about the wedding (ok, make that anyone I’ve spoken to in the last few months) will know, to me the speeches are the best bit about the wedding and the speeches at our wedding were just fantastic. They made us wish that we had a videographer at the wedding even though we never really wanted one and then in stepped my Uncle Alan to save the day. He’d recorded all the speeches on his phone and we watched then again the next day. Genius 🙂
So much more to say about the whole thing but I’m on my honeymoon so it’ll have to wait.
Xoxo
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