The Church Wedding 23rd April 2011

Well apologies for not keeping up with my writing but it has been busy.

Saturday the sun was up early and it was going to be 25deg for the day, possibility of rain late afternoon.
Up early so as to be able to all get a shower in. Katherine not feeling well, Taxi arrived at 10.50 and we were in Kingston by11.20.

The church was decorated with lots of vases of flowers and white petals down either side of the aisle. It looked very pretty. The girl in charge had done a lovely job. She had been there since 6am that morning.

There was a bit of an upset with the bridesmaids dresses. A mix up with the sizes saw one girl trying to wear a 10 when she was a 12 and after alot of tooing and froing one of the girls gave up her dress and squashed herself into the 10.

Mackenzie got into her dress and thought it was great and of course she looked so pretty.(unfortunately Owen didn't manage to get a pic of her.)
The boys were there in their suits looking very spiffy or should I say "dapper"

Our friends had arrived by train before us and Owen,s cousins from Topsham also arrived. Mackenzie had on her dress and was running around. Then we found out Jana was running late. Very late.
She had said she would be there by 12.10pm but unfortunately didn't leave home till 12 and then got caught in a huge traffic jam and at least one and a half hours later finally arrived.

Anyway the wedding went off well and it was very relaxed and had light moments too.Both sets of parents were asked if they would release their son/daughter which I thought was nice.
Matt was a bit emotional and he made us all cry too.

They had written their vows to say at the church service,(and as they had had their official ceremony and signed the register on the Wednesday), they signed them instead and then had all the family members sign them also.

We then went out to the foyer area where the high tea was set up and we had the cutting of the cake and also the speeches and of course food and drink.
I think I forgot to mention there were 7, yes seven, bridesmaids and 4 groomsmen.
Also a junior bridesmaid and a flowergirl and a pageboy who got carried down the aisle.

After that we went to Richmond park for more photos. Unfortunately our taxi driver got lost and dropped us off a long way from where we had to go and by the time we got there we were very tired and the feet weren't too impressed either.

We left them in the park having even more pics taken and we got a lift to our bus stop and we headed for home. By the time the bus got to where we had to change buses, it was raining and we all got rather wet. There had been lots of thunder and dark clouds whilst we were at the park but the bridal party did not get wet.
We were all quite tired by the time we got home.