December 15th, 2008
I’m Married!
Yes, it has been MONTHS between blog posts, but I’m married, I’m married!
It’s a tough job being a wife, and since coming back from honeymoon I have been full-steam-ahead for Christmas – orders, markets etc, amidst trying to get my bank cards changed into my new name, tax the car, do the washing…
Pictures will be posted shortly, for all to see the ‘happy day’ in all its beautific simplicity. There were 13 of us in total (let’s not say ‘unlucky for some’!), and it was wild, wet and windy when I woke up, but my bridesmaid/maid of honour Natalie told me ‘a wet knot never comes undone’, and my husband-to-be texted me to say it didn’t matter about the rain and that he loved me, and that’s all I needed as I set-to with my glass table covered in make-up brushes, false eyelashes, my something old, and brought my wedding look together.
There was a poignant moment in my suite with my mum and dad (16 years divorced), when we just stood there in a trance as they perhaps remembered back to their own wedding day with nostalgia and fond warmth, and acknowledged this transition I was about to make on my own, and out of their hands as a grown up married woman.
After the ceremony, the photographer told me I was such a minx for all my excitable poses after the butterflies had flown from my corseted stomach, and when we got back to our mansion house for the meal, we sat in front of a roaring fire and drank champagne and candles lit up the room and it was a wonderful day of love, happiness and excitement.