Sunflowers
Wants to be a yummy mummy
Well we had the most amazing couple of weeks!! The day itself was absolutely amazing - we wouldn't have changed a thing!! We also had the most wonderful time in St Lucia, the hotel was absolutely amazing!!
I've written a diary of the wedding and the honeymoon - you've got the day before, the wedding day and the day after below to read! I've had to put it into three entries as it's too big for one entry!!! Photos are at the bottom!!
I managed to gain A STONE (?!?!?!?!?!?!) while on honeymoon (and the wedding itself I guess too!) but not sure how accurate that was as I've lost 7lbs in the last 2 days if that's the case!!!! Back on SS for another week, I'm 11st 3.5 this morning and I was 10st 8 on the wedding day so will SS until I get to 11st then 790 until 10st 10 and then back on to the 1000 plan!!
Enjoy the diary - and you might want to grab a cuppa, it's a long one!!!
Friday 6th July 2007!
About 8.30 am we dropped flowers to church – we’d been growing all our own sunflowers and these were being used for the flower displays that week at the high alter and the trancept. My father and I then went in to Plymouth and I did some last minute shopping for clothes for the honeymoon then went to have my nails done whilst my father was getting the remote for his camcorder repaired.
We got back from Plymouth about 1pm and went down to see the cake to confirm where we wanted the toppers! I had a physio appointment which meant we couldn’t stay there very long as we were on a bit of a mad dash to Tavistock so we quickly sorted the toppers and confirmed when it was being delivered and dashed out!! Once I’d had my physio on my knee we went down to see how the Town Hall was getting on.. All the tables were laid out and laid up for the meal – it looked beautiful, a complete sea of yellow and white, particularly so because the (dark red) chairs hadn’t been put out then!!
I needed to check in to the hotel and make sure my dress was ok – I’d given it to my father a couple of hours earlier as he was going straight to the hotel from when he dropped me back home and asked that he could take the train out (at least) of the bag as soon as he got to Tavistock. I would then hang it up properly, along with my full length veil, in my room when I got there.. So I checked in, went to their room to find them not there, started walking down the stairs and saw them coming in the hotel.. “Right” says my father, “we can get your dress out of the car……” Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!! Turned out that when Dad got back Mum had gone out with the key, he found her in the Church but then had a little difficulty getting her out (he hadn’t, in fairness, mentioned my dress was in his car) – by this time 2 hours had gone by that it was in the bag.. The bottom was quite creased by then but I hung it up in my room and the creases soon dropped out overnight so no worries!!
By this point it was about 3pm and Paul and I were both starving so we grabbed a couple of paninis and took them back to the Town Hall to have a final run through of timings with the Manager there.. We added all the sunflowers in to their vases, Paul started to put the favour boxes out and I went to lay out the place name cards.. At this point we realised we were a box of things short - we’d left the place name cards at home! So we got back in our car, dashed back to Dousland to pick them up, calling in at Horrabridge on the way to give the cheque from my mother to pay the baker for the wedding cake.. On the way out of the bakers I had a phonecall from one of the ushers (Dave) to say he was safely back in England! This was a relief as I was, ever so slightly, dreading his flight being delayed and him missing the wedding! We hadn’t seen Dave for a few months as he now lives out in Australia and had flown in just for the weekend for the wedding.. That meant so much to me, I’ve known him for 21 years and he’s very much like a brother to me..
We picked up the place name cards (and also my Bridesmaid’s dress which I realised I’d left hanging up in the spare room, oops!!) and then drove back to Tavistock! An hour we could well have done without wasting!! I was so glad when I’d written the place name cards I’d put them in table order – it made it SO much easier on the day to put them out, especially as we were now a little pushed for time!! Paul was, at this point, quite pleased he had insisted that all the vegetarian favour boxes had had a v put on the bottom of them, he was quite right – when they got taken out of the box they had got muddled in as people were helping by this stage to get everything done! We were giving out Jelly Babies as favours (what else would a midwife give?!) and the vegetarians were given some mini chocolate truffles.
The kids packs all went out and all the thank you presents put in order to make it easier to hand them out during Paul’s speech.. It was surprising how long it all took actually – we were so glad we’d hired the Town Hall for an extra day, would have been very busy to have done all that on the morning of the wedding!
Whilst we were finishing off, the photographer arrived to take a few pictures of the hall now that it had been dressed, we’ve got some lovely ones of us actually from there.. Before we knew it, it was 6pm and we were due at the church for the rehearsal! When we got there both vicars were already there, one of the vicars is now the Arch-deacon of Totnes – he was the parish priest here for 15 years until a year or two ago so it was really important to us that he could be there and we are wholly grateful to the new vicar for being happy for that to happen! All the flowergirls and pageboys were there along with respective parents and also Dave as he did all our videoing on the day – cant wait to see it all!! (Although as we have 60GB (yup, not MB!) of video I think it might be a while as that would fill 15 dvds at the moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So maybe a little editing first?!!!)
We then had the rehearsal and it went just fine, I didn’t cry (was worried I would) and everyone knew what they had to do where and when! We were all going out for a meal that evening so Paul went to see one of the other ushers, Matt, to give him his kilt (and made sure it fitted, it did!) and I went back to the hotel to give Dave his suit (bride’s side of the family in morning suits with tartan ties and waistcoats and the groom’s side were all in Cornish tartan kilts!) which fitted just fine too! We got all the suits from Youngs and they looked just great!
Everyone met up at the restaurant at 8pm – this worked really well actually.. There were about 40 of us there – mostly people who had driven down to the wedding the night before.. It also gave everyone a chance to meet and get to know each other.. Given we had a lot of people travelling, I was so glad we organised something like this - everyone really enjoyed it, as Paul and I did too! We were seated on two long tables, it split quite well actually – all the older family and friends congregated on one table and all the younger ones congregated on our table! Considering the amount of people arriving almost at once they did really well getting all the food out, it took a while but no one honestly minded as everyone was so busy catching up and talking!
My Matron of Honour was staying with me in the hotel room so we left about 10.30 and went back to the room.. Neither of us were at all sleepy so we ran a bath and just sat in the bath talking for about 2 hours (we’ve known each other since we were young children, she’s an honourary sister to me!) About midnight we got out of the bath and suddenly realised it was my wedding day!!
I was a little apprehensive about my dress fitting from all the carbs I’d eaten that day so we quickly tried it on again – fitted like a dream!! (This wasn’t an entirely irrational paranoia, when I went for my final fitting 4 days before the wedding (which was this late because my dress hadn’t been sent to the dress makers when it should, I only found this out 11 days before the wedding so it was rapidly sent!) the dress makers had misunderstood the assistant’s instructions (Goodness knows how, Jackie had worked in bridal shops for over 10 years in Australia before coming here and she’s (luckily) a seamstress herself) and when I tried it on found that the seamstress had, inadvertently, taken an inch and a half off the bodice.. She had also only bustled the satin, not the lace so when my dress was bustled the lace billowed out behind, no use at all for a ceilidh! It looked dreadful.. When Jackie showed me what alterations she’d asked for it was so clear what she wanted it was untrue – goodness knows how the seamstress interpreted it how she had.. Considering when my dress arrived in the shop just under 4 months before the wedding it was 4-5 inches too small, I had worked very hard to lose weight to fit in it.. It had fitted me like a glove when I had my previous fitting so to find it an inch and a half too small left me in tears.. Jackie was wonderful though, closed the shop immediately and unpicked by hand all the seamstress had done. She then did all the alterations herself and added a (much better!) bustle, delivering it to me after work and then fitting it to me again! She was so kind and always went that extra mile for me! So, understandably, I was a little fidgety about my dress fitting!).
With me now reassured, we hung the dress back up on the end of the bed again but we were still not sleepy at all, so just laid in bed just talking about everything!!! We eventually drifted off about quarter past 2 which only happened because Ray realised if one of us didn’t shut up then we’d keep on talking!! She was right, as soon as we stopped replying to each other we got sleepy very quickly and were soon asleep!
I've written a diary of the wedding and the honeymoon - you've got the day before, the wedding day and the day after below to read! I've had to put it into three entries as it's too big for one entry!!! Photos are at the bottom!!
I managed to gain A STONE (?!?!?!?!?!?!) while on honeymoon (and the wedding itself I guess too!) but not sure how accurate that was as I've lost 7lbs in the last 2 days if that's the case!!!! Back on SS for another week, I'm 11st 3.5 this morning and I was 10st 8 on the wedding day so will SS until I get to 11st then 790 until 10st 10 and then back on to the 1000 plan!!
Enjoy the diary - and you might want to grab a cuppa, it's a long one!!!
Friday 6th July 2007!
About 8.30 am we dropped flowers to church – we’d been growing all our own sunflowers and these were being used for the flower displays that week at the high alter and the trancept. My father and I then went in to Plymouth and I did some last minute shopping for clothes for the honeymoon then went to have my nails done whilst my father was getting the remote for his camcorder repaired.
We got back from Plymouth about 1pm and went down to see the cake to confirm where we wanted the toppers! I had a physio appointment which meant we couldn’t stay there very long as we were on a bit of a mad dash to Tavistock so we quickly sorted the toppers and confirmed when it was being delivered and dashed out!! Once I’d had my physio on my knee we went down to see how the Town Hall was getting on.. All the tables were laid out and laid up for the meal – it looked beautiful, a complete sea of yellow and white, particularly so because the (dark red) chairs hadn’t been put out then!!
I needed to check in to the hotel and make sure my dress was ok – I’d given it to my father a couple of hours earlier as he was going straight to the hotel from when he dropped me back home and asked that he could take the train out (at least) of the bag as soon as he got to Tavistock. I would then hang it up properly, along with my full length veil, in my room when I got there.. So I checked in, went to their room to find them not there, started walking down the stairs and saw them coming in the hotel.. “Right” says my father, “we can get your dress out of the car……” Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!! Turned out that when Dad got back Mum had gone out with the key, he found her in the Church but then had a little difficulty getting her out (he hadn’t, in fairness, mentioned my dress was in his car) – by this time 2 hours had gone by that it was in the bag.. The bottom was quite creased by then but I hung it up in my room and the creases soon dropped out overnight so no worries!!
By this point it was about 3pm and Paul and I were both starving so we grabbed a couple of paninis and took them back to the Town Hall to have a final run through of timings with the Manager there.. We added all the sunflowers in to their vases, Paul started to put the favour boxes out and I went to lay out the place name cards.. At this point we realised we were a box of things short - we’d left the place name cards at home! So we got back in our car, dashed back to Dousland to pick them up, calling in at Horrabridge on the way to give the cheque from my mother to pay the baker for the wedding cake.. On the way out of the bakers I had a phonecall from one of the ushers (Dave) to say he was safely back in England! This was a relief as I was, ever so slightly, dreading his flight being delayed and him missing the wedding! We hadn’t seen Dave for a few months as he now lives out in Australia and had flown in just for the weekend for the wedding.. That meant so much to me, I’ve known him for 21 years and he’s very much like a brother to me..
We picked up the place name cards (and also my Bridesmaid’s dress which I realised I’d left hanging up in the spare room, oops!!) and then drove back to Tavistock! An hour we could well have done without wasting!! I was so glad when I’d written the place name cards I’d put them in table order – it made it SO much easier on the day to put them out, especially as we were now a little pushed for time!! Paul was, at this point, quite pleased he had insisted that all the vegetarian favour boxes had had a v put on the bottom of them, he was quite right – when they got taken out of the box they had got muddled in as people were helping by this stage to get everything done! We were giving out Jelly Babies as favours (what else would a midwife give?!) and the vegetarians were given some mini chocolate truffles.
The kids packs all went out and all the thank you presents put in order to make it easier to hand them out during Paul’s speech.. It was surprising how long it all took actually – we were so glad we’d hired the Town Hall for an extra day, would have been very busy to have done all that on the morning of the wedding!
Whilst we were finishing off, the photographer arrived to take a few pictures of the hall now that it had been dressed, we’ve got some lovely ones of us actually from there.. Before we knew it, it was 6pm and we were due at the church for the rehearsal! When we got there both vicars were already there, one of the vicars is now the Arch-deacon of Totnes – he was the parish priest here for 15 years until a year or two ago so it was really important to us that he could be there and we are wholly grateful to the new vicar for being happy for that to happen! All the flowergirls and pageboys were there along with respective parents and also Dave as he did all our videoing on the day – cant wait to see it all!! (Although as we have 60GB (yup, not MB!) of video I think it might be a while as that would fill 15 dvds at the moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So maybe a little editing first?!!!)
We then had the rehearsal and it went just fine, I didn’t cry (was worried I would) and everyone knew what they had to do where and when! We were all going out for a meal that evening so Paul went to see one of the other ushers, Matt, to give him his kilt (and made sure it fitted, it did!) and I went back to the hotel to give Dave his suit (bride’s side of the family in morning suits with tartan ties and waistcoats and the groom’s side were all in Cornish tartan kilts!) which fitted just fine too! We got all the suits from Youngs and they looked just great!
Everyone met up at the restaurant at 8pm – this worked really well actually.. There were about 40 of us there – mostly people who had driven down to the wedding the night before.. It also gave everyone a chance to meet and get to know each other.. Given we had a lot of people travelling, I was so glad we organised something like this - everyone really enjoyed it, as Paul and I did too! We were seated on two long tables, it split quite well actually – all the older family and friends congregated on one table and all the younger ones congregated on our table! Considering the amount of people arriving almost at once they did really well getting all the food out, it took a while but no one honestly minded as everyone was so busy catching up and talking!
My Matron of Honour was staying with me in the hotel room so we left about 10.30 and went back to the room.. Neither of us were at all sleepy so we ran a bath and just sat in the bath talking for about 2 hours (we’ve known each other since we were young children, she’s an honourary sister to me!) About midnight we got out of the bath and suddenly realised it was my wedding day!!
I was a little apprehensive about my dress fitting from all the carbs I’d eaten that day so we quickly tried it on again – fitted like a dream!! (This wasn’t an entirely irrational paranoia, when I went for my final fitting 4 days before the wedding (which was this late because my dress hadn’t been sent to the dress makers when it should, I only found this out 11 days before the wedding so it was rapidly sent!) the dress makers had misunderstood the assistant’s instructions (Goodness knows how, Jackie had worked in bridal shops for over 10 years in Australia before coming here and she’s (luckily) a seamstress herself) and when I tried it on found that the seamstress had, inadvertently, taken an inch and a half off the bodice.. She had also only bustled the satin, not the lace so when my dress was bustled the lace billowed out behind, no use at all for a ceilidh! It looked dreadful.. When Jackie showed me what alterations she’d asked for it was so clear what she wanted it was untrue – goodness knows how the seamstress interpreted it how she had.. Considering when my dress arrived in the shop just under 4 months before the wedding it was 4-5 inches too small, I had worked very hard to lose weight to fit in it.. It had fitted me like a glove when I had my previous fitting so to find it an inch and a half too small left me in tears.. Jackie was wonderful though, closed the shop immediately and unpicked by hand all the seamstress had done. She then did all the alterations herself and added a (much better!) bustle, delivering it to me after work and then fitting it to me again! She was so kind and always went that extra mile for me! So, understandably, I was a little fidgety about my dress fitting!).
With me now reassured, we hung the dress back up on the end of the bed again but we were still not sleepy at all, so just laid in bed just talking about everything!!! We eventually drifted off about quarter past 2 which only happened because Ray realised if one of us didn’t shut up then we’d keep on talking!! She was right, as soon as we stopped replying to each other we got sleepy very quickly and were soon asleep!
