You will have to wait if you want to see one of me looking like Queen Victoria; we did not have a wedding photographer, choosing instead to spend the money on crystal meth and biscuits, so are hoping for the goodwill of friends with cameraphones to instead create us a virtual (and semi-focused) wedding album that we can look at when we are old and smell of wee.
(And yes, we had a lovely time.)
Here are the wedding cakes that I made with my own monkey paws.
Here is the extraordinary cushion our friend Sarah made for us:
And here are the medals, made by our friend Charly and given to and worn by all 79 of our geeeests. (I am still wearing mine, and refuse to take it off.) We have kept one aside for Captain Sir Dave Shelton, responsible for so many of the things that have made us happy in the last few months (and years).
More to come, including what happens when you put a 3-piece Quebec folk band and 10 dancers in a room with 30 English people and an open bar, and what happens when you introduce 30 French-Canadians to fake moustaches and noses from the joke shop on Upper Richmond Road.
17 comments:
Ooo, first!
Congratulations!
As one of my co-workers says whenever anyone gets married, "Why should they be any happier than the rest of us?"
Waiting with bated breath for the wedding photos.
You had me at "vaseline-rimmed." Har! Many congratulations! I love the medals especially - what a fantastic idea. Are you honeymooning?
Ooh, and happy birthday!
Reader, she married him!!!!
Congratulations to you both.
Congratulations you guys!, really happy for you both.
Congratu-bloody-lations!
Congratulations!!! Love the cakes, love the medals, love the idea of the 3 piece band and the fake moustaches. Wish you were here? Forget that. Wish I was there....
Hurrah! And congratulations!
And also happy birthday!
And at the same time you are too kind. Very excited about the medal.
I wish you a life of wonder, adventure and fine pastries together.
x
Oh gosh, it's all really splendid and lovely and great. Is there any cake left?
Woohoo, congratulations and all that.
It all sounds tip tippety-top, particularly the medals, which I like muchly and may even be made of win.
May you live happily ever after. Maybe even with babies!!!
Congratulations. Those medals are brilliant !
congrats! her is my major, unsolicited marriage advice...laugh everyday. and happy birthday,too.
It sounds like a most fab wedding!
here, not her..DOH!!!!!
Many felicitations! The whole double event seems to be perfectly summed up by Spenser's Prothalamion (of course subsituting a monkey and a beaver for two swans and changing the Thames to the St Lawrence), particularly:
"Joy may you have, and gentle heart’s content
Of your love’s complement;
And let fair Venus, that is queen of love,
With her heart-quelling son upon you smile,
Whose smile, they say, hath virtue to remove
All love’s dislike, and friendship’s faulty guile
For ever to assoil.
Let endless peace your steadfast hearts accord,
And blessed plenty wait upon your board;"
Cheers! What fun: not the usual packaged wedding. The cakes look delicious! Talk about frosting.
Congrats. There is no reason you couldn't smear vaseline over the less flattering photos your friends present you. We had those throw away cameras at our wedding but as there were many men with kilts drinking beer, decided it best not to get them developed.
Do you still use the mac.com email address wot is over there on the right hand side of this 'ere blog? Just wondering, cos I sent you emails there. Of course you are probably just like me and rubbish at replying to emails, in which case ignore this.
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