Laydeecadbury's Wedding Re-Cap & Pro-Pics!!!

Sorry it took so long Ladies!

Hey Ladies,

It feels like so long since I’ve been on here, but since we got married it has been non-stop and I really wanted to give you a proper summary of our amazing day. Our wedding really was beautiful, prior to it we had been getting rain every Saturday for weeks! But on our day the weather was perfect, it was sunny and warm, and just glorious for all our outdoor pics. So here are some of our pro-pics, overall I am happy with them, though I felt that with more time our photographer could have got more variety in the shots and more of our families and friends included, and also some of my dessert buffet which she got none of! :-(

On our actual wedding day, I woke up, and just was so calm and so looking forward to the day. I wanted to treasure and enjoy every moment, as I’ve heard others say, it goes so fast. Everyone kept telling me how calm I was being, and I just kept thinking there’s nothing to be nervous about, I want to do this more than anything, why should I be nervous?! Anyway, we got off to a good start time wise, but then my hairdresser ran over time a bit, and then my make-up lady took agesssss... to do my make-up, so when we should have been leaving for the church I wasn’t even dressed yet!!! I ended up being 35 minutes late, which I don’t think is terrible, though I’m sure Hubby would dis-agree – lol. He surprised me with a Rolls Royce to go to the church in, it was a beautiful car!! I felt like a superstar – lol.

The church ceremony was exactly how we wanted, just very simple and not too long, we had a saxophonist to play the bridal party and myself in, and he was meant to play us out of the church also, but because I was so late he couldn’t stay, which was a little disappointing, but thank God for our pianist! I heard the saxophonist played beautifully while the guests waited though, and I loved walking down the aisle to him playing.

So photos were the next call of the day, and the ones at the church were very rushed because there was another wedding there after ours, which I wasn’t too happy about, but there was nothing I could do about that. The pictures that we took at the park were a lot of fun with Hubby, the Bridal Party, Family and Friends.

Our dinner reception went so smoothly, I was really worried that because we had a buffet meal guests would be queuing for a long time, but that wasn’t the case, our catering team were so efficient, I received nothing but praise for them. I also surprised Hubby, and wrote, sang and recorded a song which I played after my speech, he was sooo surprised, and couldn’t believe I managed to find the time to do it! After our meal and speeches we were meant to have a wedding quiz with all tables competing against each other, but my Co-ordinator advised us to leave this out and go straight to the crazy cocktail hour, which was the best decision of the day. It put us back on track time wise and we were able to greet our evening guests as they arrived. We then did our first dance which was hilarious!! We danced to a mix of songs: At Last(Etta James)/You Rock My World(Michael Jackson)/Notorious BIG(Hypnotize), followed by my Mum and myself dancing, and then the Bridal Party doing the Macarena - ? My shoes gave up after this! Lol

The rest of the night we spent enjoying with family and friends and enjoying ourselves, that part of the evening seemed to go really quickly, but I still loved every moment! Everyone got to enjoy the evening and dessert buffet, and yes I did manage to bake a good portion of the cakes myself!!

So what would my advice be after my special day: Firstly and most importantly, enjoy yourselves, you’ve worked so hard to get to this day, really just enjoy all your hard work and the bubble that you and Hubby are in. Also, don’t get caught up if it doesn’t all go to plan, though my day mainly went to plan there were a few elements I would have like improved, like my cake didn’t turn out how I expected it to, but hey it didn’t stop my wedding! And I wasn’t completely 100% happy with my make-up, but it could have been a lot worse! I also had a hiccup with my dress, as the underskirt was too big, but that didn’t stop me from dancing!

Secondly, if you can have a Co-ordinator for the day definitely go for it, I asked a very good friend to be mine and she was brilliant. She made sure that things were taken care of from start to finish, and was definitely my person in charge when I couldn’t be there. She really was a huge help on the day.

Thirdly, if you don’t write your speech at least make some notes, because when it’s your time to speak every thought you ever had will completely leave you, and you will feel gutted if you missed someone out that you really wanted to thank.

And lastly, everyone says I am super organised, but trust me you can never be organised enough for the day. We had been planning for 18 months, and had been doing so much so we wouldn’t have to rush nearer the time, but I still found we had endless jobs right up to last minute. So it’s never too early to start on projects!
Following that, we went on honeymoon to Thailand which was breath-takingly amazing!!! I won’t bore you with all the details of that now – lol. We’re now trying to set-up home together, and I love it! We’ve been together 8 years, but it really feels like we’re starting life together. We’re living and learning together and that’s a beautiful thing!

Thank you for reading this far Ladies, and I’m so glad you could share the details of my special day with me.

Hope your planning is going well.

LaydeeCx