I can't believe that it is all over & I am sat here as a Mrs finally writing my wedding report! The weeks in the run up to my wedding were fairly stressful. I had major concerns about the quality of food at the venue after our trial meal, I had back fat problems with my dress, a huge falling out with my FIL & my Chief Bridesmaid turned into a bridesmaidzilla which resulted in my not having a hen party.
2 weeks before the wedding, Poppy our dalmatian show *** came into season which then added extra stress because I had to take her to Melton Mowbray 3 times in the week - 10 days before the wedding to be mated - a 250 mile round trip each time! As she will be having a ground breaking litter which will be the first litter of dalmatians in Europe containing a special gene to prevent Uric Acid Stones (watch out for us on TV in the run up to Christmas!) I had no option but to put Poppy before the wedding. This was made more stressful by OH disappearing off to Jersey for a week for another friends wedding, leaving me to deal with wedding panics, dogs, 10 horses, our 19 month old son & OH's brother & nephew who I hadn't met before arriving from Australia. However, despite all the usual tearing out of hair everything came together & we had a fantastic day.
Are you sitting comfortably? Now we'll begin!
Sunday 4th September - OH arrived back from Jersey at 10pm to get an ear bashing from a rather stressed Panda. At this point I had so much to do it was getting silly. OH's brother & nephew who I had never met before were due to arrive from Australia at 1am, the house was still a tip, I still hadn't written the place cards, I had problems with the wrong size on a pair of flower girl shoes & couldn't get hold of the right size, the sweet table stuff wasn't ready & I hadn't bought the sweets, we didn't have a first dance song, I didn't have a wedding postbox or guest book, my dress still didn't fit, I hadn't got the stuff for the kids party bags etc etc etc
Monday 5th September - OH's brother & nephew were absolutely lovely! Having had 'issues' with some of OH's family I was very wary about having them to stay so close to the wedding as I was certain they were going to just add to the stress but I couldn't have been more wrong. We went shopping as my BIL wanted to get some things that you can get here but not in Aus & I spotted a lovely little pair of rose printed wellies that matched my theme perfectly & we actually had a really lovely day. BIL suggested he treat us to an Indian takeaway as he said he couldn't get such good curries in Aus but I suspect it was more a case of taking pressure off me so I didn't have to worry about cooking a big meal. We opened a bottle of wine & I actually chilled out for a few hours for the first time in weeks.
Tuesday 6th September - BIL & BIL's son left in the morning to go & stay with some other family in Wales and I made the 65 mile each way trip to Cheltenham from High Wycombe to have my final fitting. I was so nervous as some of you may remember me stressing about back fat problems. When I put the dress on I made sure I lifted it up 3 inches higher than the fitting lady wanted me to have it. It was perfect with almost no back fat at all. I nearly cried with relief at this point! We squeezed my dress into mums car & I then dashed off to the dentists for a check up & hygenists so my teeth were sparkly white. We went to the cash & carry & spent £100 on sweets for the sweet table. I managed to swap my flower girl shoes for the right ones in the right size in Monsoon. I managed to completely miss my last meeting with the florist as I just ran out of time which was a bit of an extra stress but my florist was wonderful & said that we could sort it all out over the phone instead.
