Hello all,
so here's the bad news, you have all got to get up early on the 4th July next year, as we are getting married at 11am. But the good news, we are having the reception at Chilworth Manor hotel and it's all booked!!!!
The last couple of weeks have been fraght to say the least. Dave and I both liked the Botleigh Grange Hotel but they have been really rubbish about getting back to us and producing the paperwork post their branding change. This then lead to questions being raised in both our minds about the standard of service we would recieve once we had made a booking. The other questions raised were what would the new owners of the hotel do in terms of refurbishment of the hotel. By the look of their website a number of their hotels are under refrubishment and the last thing we would need for the wedding is the hotel being refurbished.
So after a long chat with my cousin (Thank you Jenny) I was verving towards the Chilworth. Once chatted with Dave he also agreed that the Chilworth might be the one to go for and when we re-ran the figures we found that Chilworth has a significant cost saving and actually alot more choice than the Botleigh in terms of menu and wine list.
So we returned from a trip away and booked an appointment to see the Chilworth again this Saturday with Rick and Mary (Dave's parents). I was ready to book on arrival, Dave as ever wanted to look, see, review one more time.
However a spanner of the works was raised when we said we had booked the church for a 12:30pm wedding and would therefore be arriving at 13:30 or so from the church. This clashes with the other wedding party which they already have confirmed for that day. So we would either have to change the time to earlier or later in the day.
We had booked the earliest slot possible at the church and the later slot would mean there was no way of having a wedding breakfast and an evening party. (and "breakfast" would be at about 6pm!!!!)
So we looked round the Chilworth anyway and liked what we saw (a whole conversation about chair covers insused we'll come back to that another day) and left feeling very scared that we weren't going to be able to either have the wedding at the venue where we wanted or on the day we wanted.
So we went to church on Sunday but left the church administrator to her Sunday alone, and spoke to her today about the possibility of moving the wedding to 11am. Thankfully she spoke to the Rector and they have agreed to marry us at 11am.
So once again we are shown that Dave and I are the luckiest people on earth and we get to get married on the day we want, in the church we want, with the reception at the hotel we want. Someone must like us :)
