At work until 10 Might go out after but not decided yet. Got birthday party tonight and goin on lash all day tomorrow so might of had enough of drinking by then...
Neither of us very religious so didn't want a church ceremony. Both liked the idea of a family wedding as in the "wedding" in The Godfather. So ..... Hired top restaurant. Invited all friends and family all day. They then choose meal from a la carte menu rather than mass produced pap. They then drank at the open bar. They then danced till dawn to a great live band. It was an amazing day & night x
Didn't want a church wedding either. We did the 'official' bit in a registery office, and we had rented out a massive house for a week in a little cove down on the south coast near the Lizard in Cornwall. So it was a proper DIY wedding. The place is amazing, it sleeps 25 and has it's own lookout tower, banquet hall, sunken gardens and private beach. We invited our families to come and spend the week there and spent evenings all together sipping brandy by the open fire. No TV, no Internet, just chatting and spending time together. We then had our own ceromony in the garden with a good friend of mine conducting affairs, and another friend playing her Cello as my wife walked down the 'aisle' with her Dad. In the evening my band played in the banquet hall. After that things got a bit messy, I remember carrying my wife back to our room around 6am, me covered in mud and stinking of rum. Happy days
Sounds like a great day/week isn't it so much better to do something completely different and so memorable
Absolutely mate. Best week of my life. Getting everybody together like that in the same house was a once in a lifetime moment really. You see family members at weddings, funerals, xmas etc, but usually just for one day. Spending the whole week together meant we got to really settle down and chat properly and enjoy our time together. The lads (and some of the lasses) got up early in the mornings for a sea swim, whilst the mummsy ones cooked breakfast for our return. We played hide and seek in the old house, found and old croquet set in the basement and set that up on the lawn, and drank and ate merry all week. The House we rented wasn't expensive, people chipped in for the cost of their own rooms and we supplied the booze, food and entertainment. I think we spent about £3k all in. The house, food, booze, decorations, wedding dress, suit. It was hard work doing it all ourselves, but so much fun. People spend £12k-£15k on weddings in a church when they aren't even religious, being married by somebody they've never met and then end up at a hotel buffet room they've never been to before and it's all over in a day.
Right, it's decided. We're taking the kids for a curry at the exceptional Kerala restaurant down the road. Home by 8.30. Bit of telly. Kids to bed. Stan to bang bang Mrs Stan. 1st Jan. Same ****, different date.
