Be quiet and sit still - Wedding pt 1

We had a great time at the wedding.

An early start for a weekend. All the kids up, fed and in the car for 8am then a four hour drive to Dorset.

The hotel staff had assured us the room would be ready for Midday so we could decamp and get dressed ready to take our seats in the wedding hall at 2:45pm. So of course the room was not ready. No big problem though, they soon had it done.



We had adjoining rooms so, the kids could sleep separately to my wife and I without being inaccessible. The hotel is a lovely old building, it has this weird cental 'staircase' that runs parallel to the main one. Each step is only about 6 inches wide and they were used to hold the candles for guests to find their way to the rooms in pre-electric times.

The wedding and reception was not held in the main hotel but in a side hall, this meant we could get some sleep before the party finished.

We got dressed for the event and made our way downstairs to the hall. I went and sat down with the twins whilst my wife stayed outside with our daughter waiting for the Bride and Groom to arrive and pose for some photos with the horse and carriage they arrived in.

Our daughter looked beautiful as a bridesmaid. She was given a basket of rose petals to litter on the floor as the procession made its way through the hall but, she wouldn't do it because she "didn't want to make a mess". The other small bridesmaid was the bride's daughter. The bride's sister, was the last bridesmaid. The ceremony went really well. The bride got a little tearful when making her vows but, that all adds to the atmosphere of a wedding doesn't it?

We were sat in the front row on the Bride's side trying to keep the twins quiet. Fat chance, they wanted to have a wander around so, rather than keep hold of them and have them crying we had to let them go. When the happy couple watch the wedding video they'll see a pair of two year old children behind her. A little girl clutching her dolly and a little boy sitting on the carpet playing with his car. At least he wasn't making 'Brmmm, brmmm' noises.