Our wedding day

August 16, 2009

Our wedding day

Hi everyone, we just got back from our honeymoon and i'm feeling very fidgety so Sir sent me to catch up with everything on my laptop. i've got loads of emails and blog posts to read through, but first i wanted to tell everyone about our wedding day and honeymoon in more detail, so feel free to skip the next couple of posts if things like that bore you!

The night before the wedding i was really nervous and i found it hard to sleep, but by the morning most of the nerves had gone and i was just very excited instead. i didn't know how i'd be able to wait until 4pm when the ceremony was due to begin, but then people started arriving (my mum and my bridesmaids for breakfast first of all) and from then on there was one thing after another - shower, hairdresser, make-up, getting dressed, getting Poppy ready, flowers, etc, etc. and before i knew it it was time for the bridesmaids to go in the first car and for me to wait for the second car to take me to the venue! Sir had gone to a hotel with his best man earlier in the day, so i wouldn't see Him until i walked down the aisle, but Poppy stayed with me the whole time and travelled in my car to the ceremony, then was looked after by my sister (who was also a bridesmaid).

It took about 20 minutes to drive there, in a gorgeous old car, but i was mainly trying to keep Poppy calm and happy, and then we were there! Everything after that is a bit jumbly in my head, but i remember walking down the aisle, hearing the string quartet playing the music we'd picked out, with my bridesmaids and flower girls and pageboys walking behind me, hearing Poppy calling 'mama' as she toddled down the aisle after me and i just had to turn back and smile at her because she was so sweet, seeing Sir waiting for me at the front with a big proud grin on His face and then the ceremony properly began. i'll post the order of service and our vows and readings in separate posts because they'll take up too much room here, but everything went smoothly and i listened really carefully to everything that was said because i truly meant it all - every word of my vows and all the readings we had carefully picked out, even every word of the song which my friend sang just before we said our vows. Then suddenly it was time to kiss and sign the register, which seemed to go really quickly, and then we were walking back down the aisle together, Sir carrying Poppy, and everyone was clapping and following us outside where we did the butterfly release. i'm sooooo glad we chose to do that because it was absolutely beautiful and so symbolic of my 'release' of control as a submissive to my Master and now husband. Everyone was amazed by the butterflies and that's the main thing all the guests have commented on since, along with my dress and the cake :)

Then we had the official photographs done in the garden, under the trees, and it was a beautiful sunny day just like i'd hoped. We had drinks and canapes available for the guests as they were waiting for the photos to be finished and lots of them took the time before dinner to go off and explore the pretty gardens, as did me and Sir for a little while once the photographer was done. i have to mention how fantastic our photographer was because he was so unobtrusive and let us just get on with things without constantly asking us to pose all the time (except for a few official photos after the ceremony) but yet he managed to perfectly capture so many elements of the big day, and the sample photos we saw on the laptop show he left us looked fantastic, so i can't wait to see the full selection we can choose from.

Then we were all called inside for the speeches and the toasts and all that, and then it was time for dinner, and what a dinner it was! i'll post the menu elsewhere, and to be honest i can't actually remember much of what i ate because i was so full of happiness and joy sitting next to my husband, and also i was trying to make sure Poppy ate, and kept checking that everyone had everything they needed including the vegetarian guests and those with dietary requirements as well as those other mothers with young babies and toddlers (in total we had 2 one-year olds, 3 two-year olds, 1 three-year old, 2 four-year olds, 2 five-year olds, 1 six-year old, 2 seven-year olds and 1 eight-year old there plus 45 other guests). But i do remember enjoying the meal and everyone said afterwards how nice it had been, so that was good. Oh, and there was more music from the string quartet while we ate, which was really nice and made a lovely mellow atmosphere. After dinner there was a singer in the main hall, with dancing and drinks and a chocolate fountain brimming with goodies to dip in, and a bouncy castle and ball pool in the garden for the kiddies. There was such a lovely atmosphere, with everyone really enjoying themselves, and i managed to get round all of my guests and chat to them all for a while, and i joined in the dancing and gorged on the chocolate fountain and played with Poppy until she got tired near the end so i took her off for a little nap. As dark gradually fell the lanterns and tea-lights were lit in the garden and placed on tables and hung from the trees and it all looked so pretty it made me cry a little bit. And soon it was time for us to go to our wedding -night hotel in a little village nearby, and Sir drove us there with flares all the way down the driveway from the wedding venue, and it was so nice that i was sad to go.

Poppy was an exhausted little girl and didn't wake up in the car or when we put her to bed in the hotel, but me and Sir stayed up talking for a while, and then we had a very special wedding night together in our four-poster bed :) So there it is, our dream wedding, and it truly was a dream - no major hitches and everything went just like i hoped it would. Thank-you to everyone for their kind wishes and comments, and thanks to flame and everyone on P&H for putting up with my wedding talk all this time!

libby

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