Apologies if the formatting is odd, I put this together on my laptop and it never seems to look very good on phones!
So the morning of the wedding, I woke up feeling very restless; it was only 7am and I'd had about 3 hours of broken sleep. I knew Mel was up in the room next door as she had to get her hair done super early so that she had time to get us all ready. I went through to sit with her, and I was out of sorts but it was still a nice atmosphere in there.
Mel did Amy's hair and make up, and then Mum's. While she was finishing up with Mum, Carol (one of our photographers) arrived, and started getting some beautiful detailed shots of my perfume, my jewellery, my shoes etc. My flowers also arrived, and my bouquet was so beyond beautiful, so much nicer than I could ever have imagined!
Then it was my turn to get ready. Mel worked her magic and turned me from a Plain Jane to someone who looked really quite nice.
Then before we knew it, time disappeared and it was a mad rush to get ready. Dresses were thrown around the room, corsages and buttonholes were breaking left right and centre, jewellery was almost forgotten. But somehow miraculously, we were all suited and booted and ready to go on time.
One of my favourite photos from my cousin's wedding was of her Dad's reaction to seeing her for the first time, and I was desperate to get our version of that photo too. And it turned out perfectly!
While all this was going on, my super handsome fiancé was at the church, making sure everything was ok and getting ready to welcome our guests.
As I mentioned earlier, all morning I was a bag of nerves. I couldn't properly relax and enjoy the morning because I couldn't stop going over the ceremony in my head, I was convinced I was going to mess up! But the second we arrived at the church, my nerves just fell away. I knew that Anthony was mere metres away, and I just wanted to see him and be with him. I couldn't wait to become his wife, I was basically running into the church!
I was crying as I walked down the aisle, and though I had all these visions of me glowing and tears just rolling down my smiling face, it turns out that I fully ugly-cried! But I honestly didn't care, I was just so happy to be with my almost-husband. I was beaming throughout the entire ceremony, just radiating happiness. I love every photo we have of the ceremony (and we have about 100!) so here are a few snippets.
Next was our drinks reception. Our cake was proudly on display, that my amazing mother-in-law made, and people socialised while we had our photos taken.
After our photos (which were beautiful but freezing! Cue one of my favourite photos ever where mum starts telling the photographer off for letting me be so cold!), we went into our drinks reception, did some mingling, cut our cake and went through to have dinner.
Then, it was time for speeches. All three speeches were perfect, so well thought-out and delivered amazingly. I love the photo where Dave has just stood up to give his best man speech and both of us hang our heads in anticipation! And the pure rage when he mentions the driving test...
After dinner, the real fun began. We had our first game of Twister as husband and wife, we had some outdoor photos, and unbeknown to me, Anthony's work colleagues were transforming our evening area into a haven of our mutual loves. It was such an incredible surprise, and I was so unbelievably happy with the atmosphere it created! Anthony got so emotional, I think a mixture of relief, happiness, love, it just overwhelmed him!
All that was left to do was have our first dance, and then party the night away!
That's all for now, I hope you enjoyed this post! I will be putting more photos up every so often so this is not your only look into our day, but hopefully it has satisfied the needs of the people who wanted to see more.
See you soon!
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