Anyway so I kept on waking up in the middle of the night and looking at my wedding dress an thinking ‘shit I’m getting married tomorrow!, and I was and it was exciting but scary too.
I woke up to a beautiful Auckland sunny morning and had a cup of coffee with Dan and then she went to work, and I had a nice long walk up and down Ponsonby road trying to calm myself down, it didn’t work I called my sister and my voice was so high pitched with excitement I think dogs could hear me. I didn’t know what to have for breakfast I didn’t know whether to have carbs, because I didn’t want to bloat myself but then I wanted to have something to sustain my energy. So after walking in and out of three cafes without buying anything (I am not joking, breakfast was a big decision it required more thought than saying yes when Jamie asked me to marry him) I decided on a hot cross bun because I thought it had fruit it in so it was half carb and half fruit, a good compromise.
And then I went back to the hotel and shaved every part of my body I mean every part so that I was as slick as a seal out of the water. My sister arrived and was a bit tired because it was hot and she is very pregnant, as the photos will show. And her poor feet were so swollen she had to put them in a bucket of cold water and couldn’t even put both feet in at once. She is a legend and lasted all day and never complained once, if it was me I would have bitched all day.
Then Jules the hair and make up lady arrived (she thought my eyebrows where fine and needed no filling out and she is a professional, but now they have been bleached by the sun on the h-moon, God is really testing me) and she was so funny and kept me entertained with her TVNZ gossip and did such a great job so the three of us chatted and I read the paper and I had this excitement bubbling the bottom of my stomach. Oh and Jamie didn’t call me once. I was nearly going to call him and remind him that we were getting married today. He has a terrible short term memory. I mean terrible. He had to put the date of the wedding in his blackberry so he wouldn’t forget. I wish I was joking.
Then the photographer arrived and my sister and I went out to get some lunch,. I definitely didn’t have any carbs for lunch. I am not an idiot. Oh and the flowers arrived and they were so beautiful and not at all what I expected but perfect anyway.
Back in the hotel we got into our dresses. Usually the bridesmaid is supposed to help the bride but because of the chosen one in my sisters womb I helped her as much as she helped me. Just like always. And then we looked gorgeous and were ready right on time. And then Jamie arrived and he was stressed and grumpy. But looked so handsome and I felt a little bit sick with love for him.
Breaking with tradition we had our photos before hand. It is weird having your photo taken and it made me feel a little bit uncomfortable. And Jamie has this funny one eyebrow thing going on and I always had to remember to suck my stomach in. It was a bit stressful. We rocked all around the city having our pictures taken my
favourite wedding pictures are below, only some because our photographer Jo Currie was so fantastic and took many wonderful pictures.
And we got some congratulations. One guy asked us if it was for real or if we were models, I said we were real and he looked a little disappointed. Another from some glue sniffing street kids who were surprisingly non-confrontational.
Then we went back to the hotel and met Dad. And he cried when he saw me, one of the first times of many times he cried that day. (he also cried when I showed him the edelweiss brooch that was in my bouquet, before he gave me away, while he was giving me away, after he gave me away, during the speeches, when my friends sung edelweiss. I’m sure he cried more than that but I wasn’t around him all the time) I didn’t cry I was too worried about the smudging my make-up.
And now little story to tell you that sometimes things go wrong for a reason. Jamie and I were in one car and my sister and Scott our best man were in the other. And they left before us and were meant to be back at the hotel and get changed so that they could take Jamie to the venue and he could greet guests and blah blah blah. But they got held up in traffic and were late. And I hate it when people, including me are late. So Jamie and dad and me hung around popped a bottle of champagne and chatted and had a good old time and then everyone arrived and Jamie arrived at the venue at 5:00, half an hour late and he said when he arrived people clapped and cheered. And he felt like rock star when he arrived. Well a rock star doing a gig for 50 of his close family and friends but a rock star none the less.
And usually lateness would have stressed me out. but it was probably one of my favourite memories of the day spending that time with Jamie and Dad.
And I was shocked because if you know me you know I get stressed about little details but all day I was calm and happy and I loved it. I loved getting married to Jamie and nothing could ruin my day. A large part of this was due to my sister who kept me on track all day and didn’t let the little things become big things.
Then I went and got married and meet my flower girls and I walked down the aisle and forgot to look jamie and just looked at all my family and friends and smiled like I was on prozac.
I saw Jamie and I got really nervous all of a sudden and had to take a big deep breath. And then the celebrant started and I remember little bits, like the readings that our mums did, I got overcome in the middle of the ceremony and head butted Jamie in the chest I don’t know why it was just spontaneous and I had all this energy that I had the get rid of it, Sue lighting the remembrance candle and saying our vows. I remember tears in Jamie’s eyes when he said them and I remember trying to concentrate in the words and not cry when I said mine. Neither of us did. And then signing the registry and chatting to our bridal party and having a laugh and then we kissed and were married and I grabbed Jamie’s face when I kissed him because I didn't want to let him go, ever.
And then we walked down the aisle. Also we played the following music in case it helps you to visualise the day. I walked up the aisle to God only knows by the beach boys and we signed the register to Friday I’ in love by the Cure (because it was a Friday and we were in love, see we are funny and ironic) and then we walked out to Let’s stay together by Al Green. The music was widely debated and it was Jamie’s job to organise it before he left London. Needless to say in Auckland we had to visit 2 music stores to buy the CD’s.
Then the rest of the evening is a bit of a blur people congratulated us and we chatted with people and had the best food and then danced and just hung out with old friends and family it was such a great day, I hope everyone had a good time. We did it was so ace. And then we did our first dance that we had lessons for and I think we got it right but by this time I was a little bit tipsy so have no idea really hopefully the video will shed some light and also on the speeches can’t remember any of these either. I do remember Steve, Jamie’s step-dad saying that now I was their daughter, I cried when he said that. Who wouldn’t?
And I just laughed and looked at my new husband and smiled and smiled all night.
I did have that bridal fog though, you know where you space out a bit and people were telling me what to do all day and I did it, no questions asked. This is very unlike me, I usually tell other people what to do. But I sat back and let it flow. And I had so many great people helping me out like my family and our fantastic MC Kirsty.
Just realised this blog is not very funny so will leave you with a highlight of the day when we were driving around we drove past a car park in high street in Auckland. If you are from Auckland you will know that this car park is very expensive, very difficult to negotiate and also once a little old lady died in the lift because it was over Easter and no one answered her emergency call button. So obviously they are tight and don’t give a shit about security. So we were driving past and we saw, wait for it, a tow truck in the entrance BUT it was stuck. It was too high to get into the little cave like entrance. Just ponder this for a second, it was going to tow someone, got stuck so couldn’t tow that person and also couldn’t let any cars in to the car park, Genius. And the light on the top was broken. Ah it made me and Jamie laugh.
One more thing I asked Jamie when we were on the h-moon, ‘Are you pleased we got married because we could have just stayed living together and not got married’ and he said ‘well I can’t say because I married you and it’s the happiest I’ve ever been, so that is that’
And yes folks that is that.
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