Hi all,
Apologies for the long delay. Finally got round to writing this up 
First of all a little background on my and my hubby. We were friends through work for 3 years before he finally asked me out in Jan 2009. We moved in together March 2010, got engaged Dec 2010 and married 1st September 2012. He is the love of my life and I couldn't live without him, he has been through so much with me and I will be forever grateful he was brought into my life
Last day of work:
I finished work 1 week before wedding. On my last day they dressed me in a veil and sash and tied balloons to me. Was quite a talking point for my customers all day lol. We drunk Buck's Fizz and had a lovely day. Looking forward to my wedding and honeymoon. Totalling 4 weeks off work
Week leading up to the wedding:
Thanks to all my careful planning I had quite a chilled out week before the wedding, was just a matter of collecting suits, flowers, etc and beautifying
Had semi permenant eyelashes put on 3 days before the wedding and I would recommend these to anyone. They looked great on the day and last me for 6 weeks before they started falling out slowly.
2 days before the wedding I decided to check my favours (had personalised chocolates and love hearts along with some crystal butterflies) I found that the love hearts had gone funny, so I had to undo all the boxes one by one and removed the love hearts.... It took hours lol.
My brother and SIL came down this day and when they got to me I was stressing out after redoing all the favours and worrying about EVERYTHING ELSE! They were trying to calm me down telling me everything will be fine... Wish it was but I was off on one and went to bed for a sleepless night thinking about everything that could go wrong.
The day before the wedding I went down to have my nails done with all my bridesmaids which was lovely. The boys went to sort out the last of the suits. We all met up for lunch with the whole bridal party and the parents. we then went to the church for our rehearsal. That went off without a hitch and we tied all the pew ends on so it was all ready for the big day. We the left the boys after the rehersal. The boys went to our home and the girls went to the hotel. I cried leaving hubby at the church knowing that the next time I would see him I would be walking down the aisle. It was a beautiful moment and I had butterflies in my tummy. So full of love, excitement and nervousness.
Us girls went to pick up my wedding dress as it had been steamed for me. We went straight to hotel (which was also next to our reception venue) hung my dress up and cracked open a few bottles of pink fizz. The girls gave me cards and presents and made me cry again. All night I was crying, laughing and crying more with happiness. My sister did a little speech to toast me, we all ended in tears... It was beautiful about how much she looked up to me and how much she loved me.
We went to dinner, had a few more drinks whilst playing a silly game which had us in stitches. I then went off to bed about 11.30 but didn't really sleep, was waking up every couple of hours because I was so excited!
The big day:
Woke mum up at 6.30 and we had a heart to heart which was just lovely an the perfect start to my day. I went and banged on the doors of my bridesmaids (I had 6 of them!) woke them up and we had breakfast in the room with a glass of bubbles then my SIL (also BM) handed me a gift from my husband. It was a beautiful swasowski crystal bracelet that I had admired 2 years before! Couldn't believe he remembered it set me off crying...again! Lol.
The BM's set off about 8.15 2 at a time to the hairdresser down the road to have their hair put up. I went back to my room to shower ready for my hair and make up lady to arrive and work her magic
My wedding perfume was jimmy choo and it is beautiful. I got the matching shower gel and moisturiser, which I'm please with as everyone mentioned on the day how lovely I smelled
i then put my bride satin dressing gown on and then my hair and make up lady arrived. She started doing my hair and I was calm and happily chatting away kind of ignoring what was happening that day. Then I started getting all my texts and messages wishing me luck and all of a sudden I felt sick with nerves! I looked out the window and the sky was cloudy 
where is the sun I kept saying! Then arrived a huge bouquet of flowers from my hubby with a beautiful card saying how much he loves me and can't wait to meet me at the alter xxx
She did my airbrush make up and I was really happy with everything she did which was fab as I had a few wobbles and changed my hair style and make up style three times lol!
When she left I went to the other rooms to checked how the BM's and my mum was doing, they all had their hair up and were finishing their make up and they looked gorgeous. They started putting their dresses on when I heard someone knock on the door. It was my photographer. She was so lovely and was so complimentary of how we all looked. She out all my nerves to one side and started taking photos of us all. Then it was time to get in the dress. Had my two sisters help me into my dress while mum looked on in tears bless her. That set me off again. I joked that they had to stop making me cry I've paid loads for my make up! Lol. Then everything started to get very real. After having my bridal shots done the cars were here! Eeeekkkk. Another load of butterflies in my belly. My brother came in to see me (he was giving me away) and there were more tears after he told me he proud he was to be doing this honour.
We went to the cars and we were 10 mins early so the BMs car set off with my mum and me and my brother got some fresh air outside having a heart to heart and him telling me not to be nervous, he had seen my hubby and he was in great spirits not nervous or anything and that somehow settled me a lot. We took the 5 minute drive to the church and I was struggling to hold back the tears.
I arrive at the church to see the sun come out! It was beautiful. the vicar comes to greet me as I get out of the car. She asked me if I was ok and told me everything was ready and we were going straight in. Eeeeeek!
my BMs where all lined up behind the choir ready. I had given the church a cd with my entrance song in secret (hubby thought we were having the wedding march!) the song was the acoustic version of Emilie sande's next to me. It's a beautiful song if you get the chance to check it out.
I hear the song start from outside the church and the choir entered. My BMs followed and we hung back just a tad so all the BMs were in their seats before I entered the church. I have tears in my eyes so much so that I can't see where I am walking.... I walk in and don't see anyone until I turn the corner and see my hubby standing there looking up at me with tears in his eyes. That was it. I was in pieces......
