Today, Sam and I have been married for six months, which has absolutely flown by. It feels like only yesterday that we were having our final details meeting, when in reality, that was back in February. So far, married life has been much the same, except I feel like I’m constantly having to update my name (I’m still not finished), but it has been a nice six months.
But, on to today (and my return to blogging). I thought I would use this pretend anniversary to talk about the day itself, and show some of our wedding photos at the same time.
The Morning of the Wedding
I had stayed in the hotel the night before the wedding with my bridesmaids; where we ate Dominos, played Animal Crossing, had some Rosé Prosecco, and chatted away about the next day (we also practiced walking down “the aisle” in the room, and Rachel tried to put on Home Alone despite it being April). We had a gorgeous suite in the hotel, and I felt lovely and relaxed ahead of the big day. Sam went for a meal at Hickory’s, which he also enjoyed.
When the morning came we had an early start as the hairdresser was coming to do our hair at 8:30. She was done fairly quickly, so we had a couple of hours of chill time before the whirlwind. By this point, Sam had arrived at the venue so I was confined to the room, and he had a full blown photoshoot.
My bridesmaids and I were collected from the room at around 11:30, and we were taken to the lobby of the hotel for some pictures and a chat with the officiant before the ceremony.
As soon as I knew it, the orchestral version of Enchanted by Taylor Swift was playing, and we were walking down the aisle. I am a sympathy cryer, so as soon as I walked in and saw Sam crying, it set me off. Hopefully I pulled it off well enough.
Our ceremony was cute, with readings from Lord of the Rings (sort of) and Bambi, and our music including Studio Ghibli, Disney, and Lord of the Rings, and it went by in a flash. There was a funny moment when Sam’s groomsman Chris, who was in charge of the music, played our Star Wars exit song a bit too early, but we all laughed it off and it gave us a funny story.
The Daytime Bit
The rest of our day went by in a flash. The food and wine were delicious, big Kev did a speech that didn’t last forever, and everyone loved their Pokémon cards and Lindt chocolates. There were even some trades going on.
We were very happy to see everyone was chatting on their tables, even the people who didn’t know each other, and we got to have some nice chill time before the evening.
The Reception
Then it was time for the reception! We did our first dance to Happily Ever After, because, why wouldn’t we? And we cut the cake (Sam was very happy to be welding a big knife) before dancing away with everyone.
One of the highlights was the ice cream cart that we got. It was a huge hit with the guests, but unfortunately, as with the gins everyone was buying me, I never got through a full tub. But what I did have was very nice.
We had a lot of time dancing (even Sam) to a mix of Taylor Swift, wedding classics, pop punk classics, and some Abba for the girlies, and we partied away until midnight, when we did our last dance to Long Live (Taylor’s Version), and headed to bed very tired but very happy.
We had a big breakfast the next morning with everyone who stayed over in the hotel, before heading on our mini-moon to London for the week (more on that another time).
Overall, we had a fantastic day; it was everything we could’ve hoped for, and I’d like to thank everyone who came for making it the best day.
Now, time to go eat some wedding cake out of the freezer.
Nic
xx
