Perfect day
I need to post this now, while it's still fresh in my mind.
When we started to talk about getting married, nearly 3 years ago, we wanted something pretty specific and non-standard.
We wanted a spiritualist ceremony somewhere big enough to hold as many of our friends who wanted to be there. We wanted afternoon tea with those friends, conversation, fun and laughter. We wanted to spend the evening together in a nice hotel, get out of our wedding clothes, have a bath, have our dinner brought to our room and eat it in our bathrobes. Drink wine together and talk over our day.
It didn't seem possible that we could have all that. Our budget was small, and our needs were outside the mainstream.
Thanks to the wonderful community of Longton Church, our lovely generous friends who worked hard for us, our spirit friends quietly working behind the scenes to direct us where we needed to be, we got EVERYTHING we wanted.
Yesterday was the perfect day.
The Church, decorated ready for Harvest Festival today, looked gorgeous. ellistar was dapper and sexy. I felt beautiful and loved, as every bride hopes to. We didn't cry during our vows, but only by not catching each others eye too much; every time it got too emotional one of us would studiously look away. Our photographer was lovely and unobtrusive. Afternoon tea was marvellous, especially velvet_the_cat's spectacular meringues. Our wedding cake, made by Em sans lj was gloriously chocolatey. ellistar and I were hugged and kissed by so many, many wonderful friends that his buttonhole got utterly flattened. And then we were whisked away to Mottram Hall Hotel, to a splendid room with a four poster bed and a terrace looking out over the lake, courtesy of a group of friends who clubbed together as their gift to us. We sat on the terrace in our wedding attire and opened all our cards and gifts, bathed, changed, dined and found time for each other, the rarest gift that so few couples find on their wedding day.
At 2am I woke up and thought back over the day, and cried my heart out in an outpouring of joy so huge that I just couldn't contain it. Our physical forms are too small a vessel to contain so much love and joy for long.
Thank you to all those who came, all those who couldn't come but thought of us, special thanks to all those who gave their time and effort generously for us; Em & Andy sans lj, paulbenwell, noj sans lj, velvet_the_cat, tamsin sans lj, june, joyce, arthur and the rest at Longton.
*sniffle*
Normal, biting, caustic service may now be resumed.
When we started to talk about getting married, nearly 3 years ago, we wanted something pretty specific and non-standard.
We wanted a spiritualist ceremony somewhere big enough to hold as many of our friends who wanted to be there. We wanted afternoon tea with those friends, conversation, fun and laughter. We wanted to spend the evening together in a nice hotel, get out of our wedding clothes, have a bath, have our dinner brought to our room and eat it in our bathrobes. Drink wine together and talk over our day.
It didn't seem possible that we could have all that. Our budget was small, and our needs were outside the mainstream.
Thanks to the wonderful community of Longton Church, our lovely generous friends who worked hard for us, our spirit friends quietly working behind the scenes to direct us where we needed to be, we got EVERYTHING we wanted.
Yesterday was the perfect day.
The Church, decorated ready for Harvest Festival today, looked gorgeous. ellistar was dapper and sexy. I felt beautiful and loved, as every bride hopes to. We didn't cry during our vows, but only by not catching each others eye too much; every time it got too emotional one of us would studiously look away. Our photographer was lovely and unobtrusive. Afternoon tea was marvellous, especially velvet_the_cat's spectacular meringues. Our wedding cake, made by Em sans lj was gloriously chocolatey. ellistar and I were hugged and kissed by so many, many wonderful friends that his buttonhole got utterly flattened. And then we were whisked away to Mottram Hall Hotel, to a splendid room with a four poster bed and a terrace looking out over the lake, courtesy of a group of friends who clubbed together as their gift to us. We sat on the terrace in our wedding attire and opened all our cards and gifts, bathed, changed, dined and found time for each other, the rarest gift that so few couples find on their wedding day.
At 2am I woke up and thought back over the day, and cried my heart out in an outpouring of joy so huge that I just couldn't contain it. Our physical forms are too small a vessel to contain so much love and joy for long.
Thank you to all those who came, all those who couldn't come but thought of us, special thanks to all those who gave their time and effort generously for us; Em & Andy sans lj, paulbenwell, noj sans lj, velvet_the_cat, tamsin sans lj, june, joyce, arthur and the rest at Longton.
*sniffle*
Normal, biting, caustic service may now be resumed.