I thought I would start this early as I know a few people are looking forward to it, and I'll add to it a bit at at time! ? Thank you to all you lovely hitchers who have been a great inspiration and support, especially during my last minute panic about the hair and makeup lady!
Background:
I first met my OH when we started university in Leeds 11 years ago, it was the beginning of the course and I remember seeing him in a few lectures and thinking he was pretty cute! so when they changed our timetable and I wasn't sure where to go, I saw him in the university shop and asked him where we need to go, and soon became best friends. A few months later we realised we liked each other as more than just friends, and we've been inseperable since! We moved in together in 2005 and since then we've been back and forth down to Kent a few times a year to visit his family (as thats where he's originally from). Last year on the royal wedding day we were in Kent visiting family, and in the evening when were were on our own, it had gotten a bit chilly so we had the fire on, and he then asks me if I want to get married! I thought he was joking at first, as we'd been together over 10 years at that point and not really been bothered about it, but he said he'd been thinking about it for months, and after I made sure he was serious, I said yes!
The few days before:
As the wedding was on the Friday, my last day of work was on the Monday. I work in a small team of 4 people plus my boss who are all lovely, and we went out for a team lunch (although we called it a wedding lunch!) and they gave me a lovely card and everyone had signed it along with loads of other teams as well from our corridor at work.
I was getting really stressed out on the Tuesday and Wednesday, as I had loads of stuff to remember, as well as packing for the honeymoon, as we'd be going straight from our hotel the day after the wedding. I did a bit of shopping for some finishing touches, and boxed everything up to go to the hotel on the Thursday and was feeling a bit more sane.
Day before (Thursday 27th September)
I had an appointment at 10am to get a de-stressing massage and my nails doing, which was lovely, but I had a last minute panic confirming my hair and makeup lady as she hadn't got back to me, but she did get back to me in the afternoon, which I was soooo relieved about! (thank you to the hitchers who kept me calm!). As me and my mum were staying at the hotel the night before, we picked her up at about 4pm and took her along with everything for the wedding to the hotel. When we got there the staff had already set the tables out for the breakfast and it just needed my decorations. They said they would do it but me and my mum decided to do it instead, as I had put so much work into planning it, I wanted to be the one to set it all up exactly how I wanted it! Here's the room all set up:
I'd named the tables after family names from my husbands favourite tv show/book, Game of
Thrones! we both really enjoy watching it so I thought it would be
something different and to put our personal touch to the day.
To be continued....
