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Ding Dong, another singleton gone...
Despite the late night last night, it's up early again for me today (7.30 am to be precise) as I've got to be ready to go into town and get my hair put up for the wedding. So by 9 am I am sitting infront of a rather large mirror having pins stuck in my head and enough hairspray plastered on my hair to make me quite incandescent should there be a power failure and some happens to have a match handy ;)
So whilst I'm being used as a human pin cushion, Phil does a bit of shopping and gets a torque wrench, aniseed balls and some pontefract cakes.
Hair done and sweet bought, we head back to my parents where we then get tarted up for the wedding - suits, ties, high heels and makeup (not necessarily together or in that order ;)) and arrive at the church in plenty of time to witness just how nerve wrecking a wedding can be for a Groom - I'd say he was considerably more nervous that the Bride when I saw her having her hair done this morning!
After a fashionably late arrival of the Bride, the ceremony is lovely. Copious amounts of pictures later and some rather impressive bell ringing we then make our way to where the reception is being held, some 16 miles from the Church and virtually in the middle of nowhere! When we finally find the place however its fantastic, lovely weather and plenty of rather nice canopies to go around and keep the guests occupied until the Bride and Groom arrive.
For good luck, not that they'll need it (though the horse might want them back) :)
We settle down to a rather nice 3 course meal at around 4.30 pm and by 7.30 we'd all eaten and the speeches had been read out. So with a quick breather between the afternoon do and the evening reception Phil and I head back to my parents to change into something slightly more comfortable.
The evening few by, and before we knew it it was time to come home, both of us being absolutley knacked - I dread to think how the bride and groom were holding up!
All in all then, a great day. The weather held out, nothing went wrong and it was rather special seeing 2 close friends tying the knot and making one helluva commitment - Good Luck to them both!
Posted by Abi on the May 7, 2005 11:44 PM
suits, ties, high heels and makeup (not necessarily together or in that order ;))
You didn't accidentally switch things with Phill I hope.