Unfortunately it rained for most of the week leading up to the big day so, on Thursday night, we decided to move it into the reception hall. Not idea, but better than being wet. (And we did managed to get a refund on the park, so it wasn't all bad.)
Scott stayed at Kelly's parent's place the night before then spent the next morning running around like an idiot getting things organised while Kelly was pampered and what not.
She arrived only a few minutes late and entered the hall, looking absolutely amazing, to the sounds of Bernard Fanning's 'Watch Over Me'.
The ceremony was great. The celebrant put in a lot of effort and it showed. It was very warm
and personal. The only hitch was a microphone that didn't want to stay where it was supposed to. Sharon(not mother-in-law-Sharon, friend-Sharon) did a great poem reading and nobody really stuffed up their lines.After that it was off for the photos. We took some around the hall then headed off to Cleveland Point, where the ceremony was supposed to be held, for some more. Unfortunately we were a little bit pushed for time, but we still got some great shots. (see for yourself).
We headed back for the reception, which involved musical tables and spit roast. The spit roast was great and everyone seemed to enjoy the changing seating arrangement between courses as well. It gave them the opportunity
(ie, forced them) to talk to people they probably would have ignored for the whole evening if left to their own devices.We didn't do all the formal stuff in the usual way, spacing it out between the courses and and mixing up the order a bit. The main reason for the latter is that we'd secretly been taking dance lessons for about six months
and were a little bit nervous about the whole thing. We wanted to get it out of the way fairly early in the night.
To tell the truth, we were terrible compared to our last few practices, but that was still about a hundred times better than anyone actually expected so it seemed to go down well.
We chatted and danced and did the speeches. Scott's was very amusing (even if h
e does say so himself) and Best-Man- Josh's was very restrained. Scott got of more lightly than kelly did when Chief_Bridesmaid-Sylvia did her speech.We left reasonably early-- 10pm or something like that and went off to... Don't you worry about that.
While we were enjoying ourselves, our guests stayed behind to clean and tidy the hall. They did a wonderful job, apparently, because we got our entire bond back. So we would like to thank them all very much for that.
And that's all I have to say about that.
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