Seating Plans – Version 1

We haven’t looked at the seating plans for quite a while and when we originally did, it was only a quick glance. Now that we’re up to almost 100 people, it was time to look at it all a lot more closely.

After some major tweaking of my original plans, we’ve now got something that looks much more sensible - and more importantly, much more workable, given that we’re now close to the room’s capacity.

No doubt they’ll be some fine-tuning as we get closer to the date, but we’re pretty confident we’ve got it as close to perfection as we ever will!

(Famous last words!!!!)

Wedding Admin

We spent a couple of hours today working on the following:

• The Formal Invitation
• The Briefing Pack
• The Charities we’d like to nominate in lieu of wedding gifts

Early days yet, but we’ll gradually refine all of these over the coming weeks and when we’re comfy with it all, we’ll post something here that’s a  bit more specific.

Let Them Meet Cake!

We trundled off to Hockley’s today to discuss the wedding-cake. We’d been inspired by Jo and Janet’s at their do, mainly because it was a little non-conventional in design – and we DO like bucking the trend!

We arrived just before 10, and Michael Hockley met us straightaway. After a bit of discussion, and a tour round the demonstration area, the decision was made

Suffice to say, it’s really unusual!!!

Progress with Keepsake: Micro-design and Honeymoon Itinerary

Ralph’s done some great work this week on tidying-up and micro-sizing the inserts. We should get some time this week to see how they print out.

Meanwhile, I’ve been designing the honeymoon itinerary page based on Ann’s research. You can view it/download from HERE

The Wedding Breakfast Menu/Wedding Music

After Ann’s successful mission to bag some quality wines for the Wedding today, we turned our attention to the Wedding Menu design. Subject to the checking of our Italian, by err, an Italian, it’s more-or-less as we’d like it.

We’ve also sorted out the tune that’ll be played when Ann enters the ceremony, when we’re signing the Register and when we’re finally married and leave the Salon for a bit of socialising.

Ralph, David, Ian and Roger: I’ll bring you all up-to-date with the details when we see each other for our boat trip.

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No Room at the Inn?

For a moment, red was most definitely, not our favourite colour! Note the picture – it shows our chosen hotel’s availability in December. There's no way we thought they’d be fully occupied that far ahead!

Fortunately, a quick call to them revealed that things weren’t as bad as they looked, and we were able to reserve two rooms (one for us and one for Ralph and Karen) for our chosen period.

A collective sigh of relief at this end then!!!!

Event Timings adjusted

Ann and I spent some time looking and re-looking at the timings for the whole event. The challenge seems to be that there doesn't seem to be much time to actually get round and talk to people! OK, there's the 'receiving line', but that's a bit formal - and if we leave the chatting until the fireworks display at the end, that's a bit late!

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The Cock

Seems appropriate somehow!

As part of our Stag Day/Planning Meeting/Boys go Mad in a Boat event on the 25 June, I’ve booked ‘The Cock’ at Hemingford Grey at 12.15ish 1.30ish for our planning meeting.

It’s on the boat-route and comes well recommended. Thanks for suggesting it David!

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The ‘ups’ and ‘downs’ of marriage

...and we’re not even married yet!

The ‘up’ being that after a lot of head scratching, we’ve settled on the songs that Rosi and David will entertain us with as part of the Service.

The ‘down’, is that the Salvation Army band that we’d hoped for, isn’t available to play the Carols during the evening, as they’re playing at another gig – the local prison! We have at least, secured the pianist.

Not literally!

Men Behaving – Sadly!…

David has offered his motor-cruiser as the venue for my ‘Planning-and-Stag-Day’ on the 25th June. Brilliant! Thanks David.

As a precaution:

1. Lock up your Daughters

2. Blindfold the fish

3. Ladies - hide the credit-cards

4. Open the Locks

I can’t wait – just need to get my main-brace spliced!

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