Today is our fourth wedding anniversary - hence the piccie of our yummy wedding cake.
The wedding day itself is still fresh in my mind and hopefully always will be. We had a real journey to make it to saying 'I do.' We started our wedding planning with booking a room in a Scottish castle and arranging for two staff to be witnesses - Oh yes - we were eloping!!!! And very excited about it too. But we made the fatal mistake of telling family and friends that's what we were planning. That's when it came unstuck. Shock, Horror - people actually wanted to share the day with us!!!!
We were a bit naive in hindsight thinking we could just mosy off to the highlands of Scotland and enjoy a low key but very romantic wedding...on our own. Plan B - get married in the local registry office and have a nice wedding lunch in the pub across the road from it. We would have about 10 people attending. So we booked all of that and then...Shock Horror...more people wanted to come and were willing to fly half way across the world to do so!!!!
Plan C - We cancelled all of the above and booked a beautiful, intimate country hotel and had a wonderful day celebrating with 25 of our nearest and dearest. Husband and I both agreed it was a glorious way to enter into married life. I hate to think where plan D would have led us to...perhaps a cathedral?????
We were actually grateful in the end that our families recoiled at the eloping idea. My youngest brother gets married in May and he is having the blow out wedding he and his bride to be dearly want. There is a wedding party that runs into double figures and a guest list that grows daily and they both couldn't be happier. I would't mind doing it all over again but this time I'd go straight for Plan C.
5 comments:
Congratulaions on your wedding anniversary. Your story brought back happy, fortunately, memories, of our intimate wedding turning into a much bigger number when hordes turned up at the register office and carried on from there!
Happy anniversary! The wedding sounded bliss.
I loved my wedding which is no almost 18 years ago! But like the Irish we did twice to be sure - first on Cape Cod and then a month later in Cornwall :-)
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Hi Chris & Liz, Thank you both!!! It is a real joy in life to have wonderful wedding memories isn't it? I have great visions of both of yours!!!
We ran away to Gibraltar and got married but we werent very popular with the family - still we have happy memories!
If I had had my choice I owuld haev goen for plan Q too but ended up with teh whiet merangue dress and all good memories though!
Happy Anniversay albiet very belated on my part!
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