little_tippler

Congratulations on getting married

I just spent this last weekend helping my friend prepare her wedding, it was yesterday.

She had the wedding at home, because she couldn't afford something more lavish, and she has two small children, one of which is 3 months old and she is breast feeding!

Needless to say, it was a little crazy doing everything only a few days before the event.

The wedding was very pleasant with only a small group of friends and family and a buffet style lunch. We decorated the place ourselves with about 40 sepia photographs of her and her groom, and some of them with their babies. We also painted a wall in a colour that matched her dress (it was burgundy) and decorated the room in similar shades and cream. We spread white daisies, burgundy gerberas and candles around the place too.

We made the music mix ourselves with songs picked by my friend and the groom that reminded them of the 10 years they have been together and the bridal gift to the guests was a CD with 15 of the songs played and a matching cover.

All in all I think she spent maybe 1000 € on the wedding. It was very cosy and pretty and people seemed to enjoy it.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918