While we were travelling Paul and Rachel told us that they had chosen a date for their wedding. They wanted a Spring wedding and decided on Saturday April 30th 2011. Little did they know at the time that William and Kate would choose to get married the day before. When the date of the Royal Wedding was announced we were all a bit taken aback but also relieved that at least they had chosen the day before and not the same date!
As it turned out the Royal Wedding being the day before didn’t impinge on Paul & Rachel’s day in the slightest, although it did add some extra considerations to the planning as the Friday would normally have been the day to pick up hire suits, flowers etc but this was now a Bank Holiday so everything had to be collected a day earlier.
The next surprise was the sale of our house. We’d delayed putting it on the market until the beginning of March because we didn’t want a house move to get in the way of preparations for the wedding. We were told by the Estate Agents that we would be very lucky to complete a sale within 3 months so we thought we were safe. Eight days after putting the house on the market we had buyers who made us a very good offer and who were very keen to move in as soon as possible.
Fortunately in the end we agreed a completion date of May 20th which enabled us to focus on the wedding arrangements and leave most of the packing until afterwards.
There are so many things that could go wrong on a wedding day but we are pleased to report that it was, in all respects, a perfect day. Even the sun shone all day which made it feel more like a summer wedding than a spring one.
We have hundreds of lovely photos from the day – here are just a few to give you an idea of what an amazing day it was.
