#wedding rant

~Together Through Everything~

I’ve been going through wedding pictures all day and I can FEEL my brain melting. There are 800 of them, 600 of which are professional shots, most of them good. It’s a problem – a good one of course – that there are so many nice photos. I have to stare at them and decide which are the nicest. I made an online gallery for family&friends and there are 264 photos in that (... I’m fairly sure that no one but our mothers will go through all of them). Now I’m making an order of actual physical photos and feeling so manic I’ll probably end up ordering enough prints to plaster our living room with.

Here (behind the cut) are a few nice ones which probably will end up on the living room wall anyway. I decided to be less cautious about posting faces on Tumblr and husband said it was OK by him too, so here are heads-included photos, unlike the ones I posted the day after the wedding.

We was hoping for a small friend/family discount - but the quote came in at £600 for half a day - nearly double what we could have paid had we gone with someone else.

Now he is from the south so I expected him to more expensive but with a cheeky discount hoped it would work out similar and would help support his small business. 

But that’s a lot of money (costing more than the church!) and can’t help but feel a bit ripped off... And we’re stuck as it’d be to rude to go elsewhere.

I’d love to say I had the most amazing experience of my life while looking for the perfect dress for my Wedding in October, unfortunately, it didn’t go that way...

I married my beloved yesterday :)

This is an odd couple of cropped photos, because I don’t want to post anything too identifiable here on Tumblr, but I hope that they show the sunshine and happiness that was yesterday for me and my husband (first time writing that in English!). We are so grateful we got to share our joy with family and friends and celebrate with them all day.

Concerning Hobbits was our processional and this piece was our recessional. They capture the mood of the day well and I know that listening to them will always bring back the feelings. And also Abba’s Waterloo, the song that inspired most crazy dancing, much later in the day.

(Couple of replies behind the cut)

Tomorrow is the day. I should go to bed in two hours’ time to get enough sleep but I doubt I’ll be able to fall asleep that soon. Last preparations went well today and everything is packed up or set out for tomorrow. Fiancé is slightly more of a nervous wreck than I am but fortunately he’s not very much of that either. We think our parents and our best men and maids of honour (we have two of each, it’s a common thing here) might be more nervous than us.

We have done all the wedding preparations that are necessary at this point, 7 months away from the wedding, and a bit more. We’re not stressing about the rest, just working on it all slowly bit by bit as the mood happens to strike. (At some point we’ll of course get more serious about it, but there’s no need for that yet.)

The wedding planning mood strikes me more often than my fiancé, which is no surprise, but he is definitely involved too, and has had some great ideas. One of them is using ‘Concerning Hobbits’ as our wedding march. I’m a bigger LotR fan than he is so I was kind of surprised he thought of it, but I instantly agreed that that piece would be a wonderful way to walk into our marriage, as it were.

It’s cheerful and touching at the same time, and it evokes images of home, comfort and happiness – sunshine on green hills, coming home after a rough day or journey. We want to be those things to each other.

I’m in the middle of something of a rough spot at the moment and trying to do cheering things to cope. Tonight I started googling ‘concerning hobbits church organ’ and found wonderful videos. Turns out the piece sounds really good on an organ!

The only problems are that I have yet to find sheet music of the piece meant specifically for a church organ (I think we’d have a better chance of persuading the organist to use this unorthodox music if we had ready sheet music to provide) and also I don’t know if there are big differences between organs and churches – I mean, I presume there are, so the lovely Youtube videos I found don’t necessarily guarantee that it would sound good where we’re getting married. The church we’ve chosen is kind of huge (a medieval cathedral – what else were we going to choose when that was an option?) and so is the organ. I don’t know if that’s a problem.

(Photo of dress behind the cut because I know it's not relevant to everyone's interests)