The Wedding

The past few weeks have been a total blur. Honestly. We had family and friends arrive as much as a week before the wedding to help prepare things which was brilliant. It turns out I was losing sleep about the dress; since my dress fitting I had lost 10lbs which is great but not so much for the whole having a dress that fits really. Luckily my OH's mum is very handy with needle and thread what with being part of the Tewkesbury Abbey sewing guild  and all. She laced me into my dress and worked out it was not ridiculously long, maybe a tad but not enough to warrant hours of us snipping and sewing, although the weight loss did not affect the dress too much once the corset was done up tight. I'm waffling, I know but even looking back on the time seems a bit odd. We had so many people coming in and out of the house and I got to meet a lot of my OH's friends who are all so lovely, very much as described.

Both of us enjoy a decent cheese and after a visit to the cheese pantry at Ardesier we chose some lovely cheese for our 'cake'. It was fun to dress this myself after doing the flowers.

From the bottom; one cheddared cheese, blue cheese, ewes milk cheese, smoked cheese and goat cheese hearts

When my OH was on his last shift before his leave started I sat and sewed a quick veil. I hadn't been sure about one but seeing as even the slimmest of people, which I am not, get a bit of 'back cleavage' when laced up I decided a veil would cover things up a bit. Another evening I had a crafting frenzy and made three little jug covers with circles of muslin edged with some old lace scraps and beads from my sewing box after I realised the jugs of summer cup would need to be covered.

ready to start

sewing the lace on by hand took a while

with some beads to weigh it down enough that it does not fly away

the finished item

One thing I could not decide on then ran out of time with was what shoes to wear. I had bought some gorgeous Ruby Shoos but the idea of walking about in them all day made my feet ache before the shoes were even on but I found a solution which was a lot more me...

A lot of the day is a happy smiling blur, all I know is that when I walked in and saw the look on my OH's face nothing else really existed. It was a fun day with some music, dancing, children playing and a couple of kilt malfunctions. My bouquet ended up being a simple bouquet of my pink Sceptre d'Isle roses from David Austin. In the end I didn't wear my wedding shawl as my many layers of dress kept me quite warm so even though it was not the warmest of days in North Scotland I still had to duck outside to cool down.

The hog roast was delicious thanks to Jamie from http://www.hog2roast.co.uk/?menu=wedding&no=1 and there was not as much left over as we had thought although plenty to give everyone who came to lend a hand clearing up a decent sized roll.

There is so much more I could tell you but it is impossible to tell you what a wonderful day it was, how many people made the day so much fun and so special but best of all that day is the day married my best friend and became his wife.

Mr & Mrs xxx

Hugs from Haggis Land,

Jx