July 2012 Brides and Grooms

double_mummy

yay for mrsD

here is some mood music lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMr9zCvtOfY

hope you have a wonderful day xxxxxxxx

FutureCooper

Natalie is a married woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thought about you all morning honey. The rain has held off this side of Lincolnshire so i hope its dry your side too. xx

Well i have 10 days to go and i haven't slept for nights again now. I have actual bags forming.

I have been really good with the beauty routine. I'm still doing the full facial thing at night. I am actually in love with Liz Earle superskin range and i can genuinely see and feel a huge difference in my skin. Everyone else still beautifying?

BabyBoots

Yaaaaay! Congratulations MrsDrink!:beer: Hope you're having a fab day.

FutureCooper, I've managed five days in a row of exfoliating and moisturising face and body! I'm normally pretty low-maintenance, so this is a big effort, scrubbing and covering myself in gloop when I get up very early for work.

Bit of a wobble late last night, but all back on track now (will rant on FB). Last day at work tomorrow - then your last one on Thursday FutureCooper!:j

MrsDrink

Okay I'll write what I can remember here now - but be warned I have had a drink so it may be a bit higgledepiggledee.

I got so little sleep. Approximately 3 hrs, but from around 7:30 MrD and I were texting each other so that helped keep me calm. I started getting ready at 10. Lips were a bit problematic. By the time it came to applying my lip pencil my hands were shaking - they took two attempts!! Lol.

So mum me and granddad all parked up in a carpark in town and walked the short distance to the registry office. Got lots of looks and a few 'you look great/congratulations' off randomers. Got to the registry office early lol. As we arrived the photographer was just taking a few shots of Mark in the corridor - so he quickly ushered him inside the ceremony room. He took some photos of me and my granddad, then we were taken to the waiting room, and I was taken in to the 'office' and my details were double checked. Then we just sat till 2. The registrar was explaining they can't start early - cause basically with it being a public event and if there was someone who wanted to object they have to hold it at the advertised time (although he didn't say this).

So I entered the ceremony room with my granddad on my arm. To my Labyrinth music . As I entered everyone was stood up and I first saw my brother's girlfriend and that was it, I was a bag of nerves. I have no real recollection of walking down the aisle apart from absolutely focusing on MrD's eyes. If I dared look around I'd have been even more petrified. I don't really being all that aware of how fast I was going lol. As soon as I got to MrD I grabbed his hand for safety/security lol.

MrD's sister read her reading. Which was really lovely - it was written in the 3rd person and she read it to us - looking at our eyes as she read. Was really lovely. Then we said our vows - cor blimey that's hard trying to remember what was said to repeat it back. MrD just looked great. Then my brother read the second reading - I had to try so hard not to laugh at him and interrupt - he did a great job (and I bet my mum was proud of him). He is dyslexic and absolutely hates reading so to do it for us means sooo much. The reason for wanting to laugh and interrupt was because he read it in his very typical tone that comes across as sarcasm lol. I wanted to say 'oi stop being sarky' ha!! Then we signed the register. My mum recognised the music but couldn't remember what it was called. (The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin). After it all we went out to REM's it's the end of the world as we know it - a piano version, and our photographer took loads of group photos and a few ones of just us.

After we were finished we all came back to ours for a very informal BBQ. Oh I haven't mentioned the weather - we were sooo lucky - it was a mixture of sunshine and clouds. It started drizzling at around 6ish. But we'd mainly finished eating by then.

It really does just fly by. I cannot believe how fast the ceremony went. There was a lot of laughter in the photos which was lovely.

Things to consider for the brides coming up:
Don't wear a bra before you put your wedding dress on - lol I didn't think about this but I had strap marks from the weight of my bad boys. Luckily they had faded in time for the ceremony lol.
Practise exchanging rings. My ring is tight over my knuckles but MrD knew he could push it on hard without being scared of hurting me.
Give yourself plenty of time. If you need to reapply a part of your make up/redo your hair or anything then you have lots of lee way.

I just remember grinning like a cheshire cat. I really am the happiest person alive tonight.
There was something else I was going to say but can't remember.
Oh yea - my dress was amazing. It fitted me perfectly by the time mum had tied me in. She was able to tie me in tighter than the shop had (I'd lost 4.5lbs since the last time they put it on me) so the modesty panel sat perfectly - no worries of skin peeking through.

It was an absolutely amazing day. And the love I felt from everyone for us was just immense. Everyone was just so pleased for us - it was soo lovely.

Right on that note - I'm off to bed - some of us have work in the morning xxx

(PS photos will follow on Friday)

double_mummy

YAY for mr and mrs D

so glad you had a wonderful day and i cant wait for the photos!

nuatha

Congratulations Mrs D

Ghostlove

Congratulations, Officially Mrs Drink!

jtr2803

Congratulations hun! Thank you for your lovely words too, hopefully you will tag along with me until I do the deed :beer:

Turtle

Congratulations! Sounds like you had a brilliant day and I'm grinning thinking that will be me in 299 days :j

MrsDrink

<<< me!!
I'm still grinning like a cheshire cat.

I've tried to remember if there is anything else I should pass on in my wisdom as a married (:T) but I can't remember. It really is true - you're in a whirlwind and it just goes by so quickly.

Oh - another bit of detail I did miss out. I put my 'non-engagement ring' on my little finger on my right hand (it won't fit on any of the others) when my Granddad and I were in the corridor waiting to go in. Then as soon as we'd finished exchanging rings I discretely swapped it back onto it's rightful finger. I was petrified of it slipping off my little finger (especially as I was holding/gripping MrD's hand with that hand).

It was all just absolutely lovely if not exhausting. We were asleep by 10!!