So it's now been 72 days since our wedding, I was planning on doing this report much much earlier but it took longer than expected to get the photos back then I had school reports to write! So here we go!
The Days Before
Tuesday-- I had my hair dyed by my brother's girlfriend, this wasn't in my original plan, I was going to be my usual cheap self and get my mum to do it but decided last minute to get brothers gf to do it as she is a hairdresser, and I'm so glad I did, I am now well and truly hooked into professional colouring!
Thursday--We had accumulated a fair amount of stuff in our DIY efforts so I'd boxed it all up and we took it to the venue with instructions on EVERYTHING! I didn't really want to hand it all over as I didn't trust them to take good care of it, they did of course but it was quite stressful! In the evening my mum and I went to get our nails done, a first for both of us! It took me a while to choose the colour but settled on a nude-y pink with a few diamantes on my ring finger nails. I went first and all was good, chatting away and starting to feel decidedly wedidng-y, then as soon as she put the diamantes on I started questioning my decision, I kept quiet thinking it was just because I'm not used to stuff like that. then she did my mums; a french manicure with a subtle sparkly line and they looked amazing and all of a sudden I hated mine! Cue me being a tad bridezilla and requesting she take the (gel) polish and diamantes off my ring fingers and replacing it with the same colour with a touch of glitter, this is apparently much more difficult than I would have thought and it took her AGES! I felt very mean but happy once they were done!
Friday (Wedding Eve)-- This was the day that I'd been a bit worried about, we had been planning to do all the flowers ourselves but once we'd looked into coss it just wasn't worth it, we had however decided to do the buttonholes, corsages and my mum offered to do two floral arrangements on sticks. We went to the market in the morning and bought A LOT of flowers then I decided I needed a new bracelet for the wedding so we went to a few shops to find one (got one in Claire's in the end!)
I dropped all the flowers and my mum off at my parent's house then popped home to get some stuff ready and actually see my husband-to-be for a few minutes! When I got back to my mum's she had made a good start on 'her' arrangements and reinforcements arrived in the form of my mum's friend, one of my BMs and a friend of mine so we made a start on buttonholes and corsages, we'd over-brought on flowers somewhat but just kept going with making and ended up with enough to provide all the 'important' men with buttonholes, my mum, MIL with corsages and all the other female guests with buttonholes too!
It was then back to mine to collect all my stuff, I dropped off all the button holes at my parents-in-laws' and said good bye to H2B who was off round to his friend's for a bit. As I was getting ready to leave there was a knock on the door, I answered it to our next door neighbours who serenaded me with 'You're Getting Married in the Morning' it was very funny and sweet of them!
I spent the evening at my parents' with my BMs, we had pizza and half watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding whilst chatting, at 11 I realised we hadn't practised walking to my entrance music so had another small bridezilla moment and forced everyone to do that, my mum then started stressing about where everyone was going to sit, I think she wanted everyone on the front row, 2 BMs went off home whilst the other stayed over, and off to bed it was, still no nerves really!
The Morning
I wake to my alarm and rain, I never want to get out of bed and today is no exception but I don't have time to snooze as I only have half an hour until the hairdresser arrives, I'm just brushing my teeth when she arrives, no-one else is up so I rush down in my towel and let her in, made a cup of tea then leave her to set up. Back in the bedroom my BM has woken up and wishes me a 'Happy Wedding Day!'
Before long the other BMs arrive and it's all stations go with hair and make-up! My dad's on breakfast duty and gets fresh pastries from the shop YUM!!
It's still raining but all apps say clearing up by 10, just in case it doesn't I cheer myself up by opening my card and present from H2B which are both lovely, and then the bouquets arrive, I was so excited about this bit, my bouquet was stunning, exactly what I'd wanted, the BM ones were a lot smaller than I'd expected, I'm sure she'd said she'd put a few hydraengea heads together but I might have been mistaken, never mind, it's all good!
I had my make up done and she put the fake eyelashes on, I looked in the mirror and they look ridiculously long, I say this and she suggests trimming them, as she's doing it she reveals she hasn't done it after she's put them on before! I wasn't worried though and they turned out great! As I was having my hair finished my dad came practically running in to announce there's blue sky at the front of the house! It's about then the photographer turns up and takes a quick few 'getting ready' photos before I have to put my dress on.
