Well, it is just gone 8am on saturday morning.
You know when you go to bed and you think that you will wake up and it will be the morning of the wedding and everything in that day has just been a dream? well that is how yesterday went;
8am. pick up bridesmaids and take for their hair appointments.
8.30am make sure groom is awake. (he was watching cartoons on TV!)
9am go back to my house and have breakfast. don't have time for breakfast becuse i spent the time running around making sure i had everything.
9.20am go down church with mother in law to ensure church is all set up and looking nice, also to leave car down there so i have some way of getting to the reception after the service. On the way to the church i call Jobey and there is no sign of the ring. (The ring should have arrived two days earlier, harsh words were said to the ring makers the day before and they had promised it would be at the house guaranteed before 9am on the day. It hadn't!).
9.30am Walk in to H.Samuels with a look of pannic and ask them if i can borrow a ring, explaining the entire saga. i had to pay £80 for a wedding ring! because it had to be in a size 'N' so it would fit nicely. thank the nice lady there very much.
9.35am run through town to the brides hairdressers and explain that the ring hadn't arrived and i needed to check that the substitute ring fitted. It was perfect.
9.40am back to church. venue looks great. drop off order of services.
9.45am head back to jobeys house with relief we have a ring.
9.50am Post man arrives at house with wedding ring shaped box. IT IS THE RING! (but you can guarantee that if i hadn't bought a spare the real one wouldn't have arrived)
10am eat bacon roll
10.30am. shower, shave etc.
11.am car arrives at house (a lovely classic car to take us to the church).
11.15am at church.
last minute pannic. i keep checking my pockets ever 2 minutes to ensure i have the rings. I do have them. phew!
12noon the service starts. the bride looks beautiful , the music lovely. (i won't describe the service. watch the dvd)
1.30pm we are all on the way to the reception venue (about 35mins drive away, going for photos on the way)
2pm have call, the car the bridesmaid are in has broken down. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
2.10pm the bridesmaids all cram into a car coming behind them and head straight to the reception venue. (i think it was the car the parents of the bride were in but am unsure, by now it was all a blur.) so i leave the photo venue and go to the reception.
2.30pm photos are beingtaken and the reception looks lovely. but i am still running around like a maniac sorting out gifts from people etc.
3.pm sit people down for food
3.15pm eating.
3.16pm groom tells me all the gifts for the speaches are outside. so i leave my soup go cold and go bring them in.
3.25pm i confescate the gabble off the top table and hide it under my chair so the groom and grooms dad stop hitting the table with it.
3.26pm jonathan taps his bowl loudly. people stop eating. i have to explain that it is the groom messing around and tell people to please continue eating. i shout at grrom.
3.30pm realise the groom has no notes for his speach.
3.31pm write notes for grooms speach. while eating a bit of beef (not that i had time to be hungry or eat)
4.30pm (i think) the speaches beging. my speach gets much laughter as i discuss jobeys immaginary friends, how he met zoe, jonathans dancing skills etc. etc. the guests were happy and that made my job much easier. (all speaches are on the dvd)
6.30pm, clear people out of the room to allow the venue to set up for evening do. while this is going on i transfer all of the bride and grooms going away stuff into their car for them. put gifts into my car
7.pm evening event started. lovely, live band etc, hot buffet.
8.pm jonathan looses car keys for his car. argh!
9pm first dance. lovely, so sweet. pause the key madness and dance with them (again watch the dvd)
9.05pm band start playing and i resume the search in the dark for the lost keys.
9.30pm i find the keys in a gift bag! am given 'legend' status by all guests. i find a dark bench outside and sit down breathing a sigh of relief.
9.40pm i stroll back inside and eat from a 2 hour cold buffet.
10.45pm zoe and jobey change into going away outfit, (which i have to run around trying to find!)
11pm escorth them to car just to make sure their car starts (i was certain it wouldn't after the day so far, but it started and they headed off to the hotel they were staying in for the night)
12 midnight am last to leave venue, boot full of gifts, venue cleared. no stragglers looking lost. (by the time my feet are in agony). 40 min drive home in dream like state.
1am. bed.
well that was the day. well actually it wasn't lots of other stuff happened, including jobey saying the wrong lines when he souldn't have, i had a paper cut!, polaroid camera fun! but you need to see the dvd for all that stuff. lol.
today:
take gifts to house,
return wedding ring to H Samuels
go get my laptop from church
go back to bed.
You know when you go to bed and you think that you will wake up and it will be the morning of the wedding and everything in that day has just been a dream? well that is how yesterday went;
8am. pick up bridesmaids and take for their hair appointments.
8.30am make sure groom is awake. (he was watching cartoons on TV!)
9am go back to my house and have breakfast. don't have time for breakfast becuse i spent the time running around making sure i had everything.
9.20am go down church with mother in law to ensure church is all set up and looking nice, also to leave car down there so i have some way of getting to the reception after the service. On the way to the church i call Jobey and there is no sign of the ring. (The ring should have arrived two days earlier, harsh words were said to the ring makers the day before and they had promised it would be at the house guaranteed before 9am on the day. It hadn't!).
9.30am Walk in to H.Samuels with a look of pannic and ask them if i can borrow a ring, explaining the entire saga. i had to pay £80 for a wedding ring! because it had to be in a size 'N' so it would fit nicely. thank the nice lady there very much.
9.35am run through town to the brides hairdressers and explain that the ring hadn't arrived and i needed to check that the substitute ring fitted. It was perfect.
9.40am back to church. venue looks great. drop off order of services.
9.45am head back to jobeys house with relief we have a ring.
9.50am Post man arrives at house with wedding ring shaped box. IT IS THE RING! (but you can guarantee that if i hadn't bought a spare the real one wouldn't have arrived)
10am eat bacon roll
10.30am. shower, shave etc.
11.am car arrives at house (a lovely classic car to take us to the church).
11.15am at church.
last minute pannic. i keep checking my pockets ever 2 minutes to ensure i have the rings. I do have them. phew!
12noon the service starts. the bride looks beautiful , the music lovely. (i won't describe the service. watch the dvd)
1.30pm we are all on the way to the reception venue (about 35mins drive away, going for photos on the way)
2pm have call, the car the bridesmaid are in has broken down. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
2.10pm the bridesmaids all cram into a car coming behind them and head straight to the reception venue. (i think it was the car the parents of the bride were in but am unsure, by now it was all a blur.) so i leave the photo venue and go to the reception.
2.30pm photos are beingtaken and the reception looks lovely. but i am still running around like a maniac sorting out gifts from people etc.
3.pm sit people down for food
3.15pm eating.
3.16pm groom tells me all the gifts for the speaches are outside. so i leave my soup go cold and go bring them in.
3.25pm i confescate the gabble off the top table and hide it under my chair so the groom and grooms dad stop hitting the table with it.
3.26pm jonathan taps his bowl loudly. people stop eating. i have to explain that it is the groom messing around and tell people to please continue eating. i shout at grrom.
3.30pm realise the groom has no notes for his speach.
3.31pm write notes for grooms speach. while eating a bit of beef (not that i had time to be hungry or eat)
4.30pm (i think) the speaches beging. my speach gets much laughter as i discuss jobeys immaginary friends, how he met zoe, jonathans dancing skills etc. etc. the guests were happy and that made my job much easier. (all speaches are on the dvd)
6.30pm, clear people out of the room to allow the venue to set up for evening do. while this is going on i transfer all of the bride and grooms going away stuff into their car for them. put gifts into my car
7.pm evening event started. lovely, live band etc, hot buffet.
8.pm jonathan looses car keys for his car. argh!
9pm first dance. lovely, so sweet. pause the key madness and dance with them (again watch the dvd)
9.05pm band start playing and i resume the search in the dark for the lost keys.
9.30pm i find the keys in a gift bag! am given 'legend' status by all guests. i find a dark bench outside and sit down breathing a sigh of relief.
9.40pm i stroll back inside and eat from a 2 hour cold buffet.
10.45pm zoe and jobey change into going away outfit, (which i have to run around trying to find!)
11pm escorth them to car just to make sure their car starts (i was certain it wouldn't after the day so far, but it started and they headed off to the hotel they were staying in for the night)
12 midnight am last to leave venue, boot full of gifts, venue cleared. no stragglers looking lost. (by the time my feet are in agony). 40 min drive home in dream like state.
1am. bed.
well that was the day. well actually it wasn't lots of other stuff happened, including jobey saying the wrong lines when he souldn't have, i had a paper cut!, polaroid camera fun! but you need to see the dvd for all that stuff. lol.
today:
take gifts to house,
return wedding ring to H Samuels
go get my laptop from church
go back to bed.
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