Ceri and Dave's Wedding Blog

It's all over - but now the photos!!!!

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:58:40 GMT

Hi Everyone,

We are back from honeymoon - we had an amazing time - and again want to say a massive thankyou for everyone who came and shared our AMAZING day. Even if I do say so myself it was brilliant and everything that Dave and I hoped for,

The big news is that the photo's are now available on the photographers website. www.roygooding.com. If you have lost the card with the special entry number on it, just email me and I will send it to you.

In the nicest possible sense do not buy photo's on the website. Dave and I have the rights to all the photos and can either send you the shots on CD etc or have them printed for you. Just email us with the numbers of the pictures you would like and we will send them over.

Love to all and hope you are all well and we will catch up with you soon.

C+D Parsons x

update

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:57:23 GMT

Hello everyone, Its really just over one week till the wedding and the excitement (and stress level) is really building. For those who have not seen us, Dave has been taken down with a strange eye infection (although hanby to have a close friend who is an eye specialist!) So has been off work going mad at home not being able to see. Improvements are being made and we hope that by the big day he will be mostly recovered. In other news Quinny was thought to be complete and ready to put back on the road and then decided she needed a new brake master cyclinder. This part was initially very hard to source but this has now been found (well done stu) and fitted. Although Dave could fit the part half blind, someone now needs to test drive her and I'm not sure it should be me! In other news my dress is now back from alterations and is lovely. Ma is finishing up the bridesmaids and then its down to little bits like namecards etc. For those who don't know, Vicky had a little boy called Jack John Liam Conway, 9lb 4 I believe. He is very cute and very content when I saw him. As for arrangements for this marvel, friday I will be staying at the hotel and will try and be in the bar from 9pm to say hello to people and have a drink or two. Saturday I think is pretty well organised and on Sunday we intend to have breakfast with everyone and then open some presents (assuming we get some) before probably heading off for lunch somewhere. We will have to go home and pack at some point as well! We leave for las vegas monday morning. Love to all and see you soon C

Restaurants

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:57:23 GMT

Hello all, Here are some numbers for local restaurants you might lilke to visit on the friday or sunday. We will be putting a pack of info in your hotel rooms with more directions etc, but you may want to book ahead. Chilworth arms Pub just outside the hotel. More of a gastro pub than a quite country pub, but good food at restaurant prices. Some dishes are a bit fussy for some tastes 02380 766247 Cowheards Typical pub that serves tradutional pub food but usually of very good quality. More of your standard pub restaurant food at very reasonable prices Dock O the bay One of our favourite restaurants in Soton. I will visitng on friday night. Serves modern british food always very well done with reasonable prices for such good quality. In soton there is a road called Oxford road will all sorts of restaurants. Pizza, curry, italian, british etc a few of the them follow here. With oxford street ona friday night if you have a particular preference its best to book but you can just roll up and go with whoever takes your fancy. Pizza Express 02380 499090 Poppadom Express 02380 632444 Olive Tree- Italian, quite pricy but lovely White Star line-gastro pub and bar Prezzo's-Italian Kuti's-Curry Oxford-modern british

Not long now!!! - Who wants to catch the coach

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:20:20 GMT

Hello everyone,

Only two small weeks till the big day!

If there is anyone still reading the blog and you want to catch the coach from Chilworth to the Church on the morning of the wedding, please email me to confirm. My email address is ceri@freeuk.com.

The coach is booked and paid for and can fit everyone on, I just need to complie a list of people so the driver does nto leave without someone.

See you all soon.

Cx

Catch up

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:27:49 GMT

Hello everyone,
So I realise it has been forever since I last put an entry and I find myself bored on the train to London again so here we go. Something like 25 days to go and all is well.

Dress is being altered, final fit on the 20th.
Suits are measured and in the capable hands of Moss Bros employee Lydia.
Quinny is all back together having had Dave strip her to her very core, but unfortunatly still poorly. We have got the parts that will fix the problem though hopefully.
Flowers are ordered Wine and food all agreed and mostly paid for.
Cheese (which had been forgotten temporarily) is ordered
And Bridesmaids dresses are looking fabulous.

However we still have one bridesmaid heavily pregnant. Vicky was due on Friday but as yet is still lumping a bump around. Hopefully (especially Vicky) we will see some progress today!

What's left I hear you cry! We still have stationary items to make, cheques to write. There is still an open issue as to our first dance song, its very hard after 11 years to pick one song! And we need to choose a playlist for the band. We also still need to book somewhere to stay in San Francisco. Any recommendations welcome.

So yes all in all a few things to do but all in hand. We are both getting excited now. However just for now I am more excited by baby Conway coming into the world!

The Passing of a giant

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:27:49 GMT

For those who don't know there will be a very special person not attending our wedding in 25 days time. My Gran passed away on the 15th April.

She was to me a very special person and her passing will have a big impact on our big day so requires comment here. She is the second person to die since we got engaged. But unlike Jan who was taken too early, Gran had an amazingly long life for all her aiments.

For anyone who met Gran you would remember her, she always spoke her mind and was always right. A bit like me really! I will miss her terribly on the day and will probably shed more than a few tears for those that cannot be with us. However there is a part of me that says if she had made it to the big day it would not have been fair on my grandfather, great aunts and all the others whowill not be attending.

I do now however that she loved my dress ( I sent her a picture) and she was very happy that Dave and I had finally managed to get round to getting married. She would be devasted that I am not having carnations as my wedding flowers, but we are having roses which were her second favourite.

I think if she was coming to the day her first reaction would be to cry and miss my grandad, her second would be to apologise to Dave for an incident years ago which she apologied about 200 times for before she died, and her third would be to say "I'm so proud of you" about 100 times thorughout the day.

I will miss her alot as I know the rest of my family will. But she had an exceptionally good run and we can all only hope to be so lucky.

What a relief!

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:00:10 GMT

Hi everyone,

I think I have just had one of the most stressfull couple of hours of my life! Tonight was decision time for the adult bridesmaid dresses. We had previous mocked up one of the dresses and put it on Louise and it looked to say the least, awful. We then tried adding an overlay, that made it no better. So tonight was decision night, could we make the £100 worth of fabric already purchased work, or would it be a whole new load of fabric, and could we make the pattern work. And with a lot of unorthadox behaviour, my mum has never taken scissors to a dress with a body in it before! we now have a dress that looks beautiful and the model felt comfortable in, so much so she started dancing!!!!

However this whole process has taken nearly 3 hours but we got there. At one point we were going to get a new pattern and a whole new load of fabric, but thankfully someone suggested, just hack at it till it looks good and we did, and it looks great. And best of all we can use the fabric we have, and the patterns we already have, and BEST of all, its exactly what I wanted in the first place!

And even Dave likes it :)

And relax......

Wedding rings

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:12:54 GMT

Hello all,

Another quick post to say that this weekend we went to collect our wedding rings. Mine is apparently beautiful but I haven't been able to see it. I choose a very plain platinum band, but apparently Dave has had something done to it, so I have tried it on (with my eyes shut obviously) but will not see it till the day.

Dave's has been made specially, a nut design. Below is a link to see a picture if you are interested. It comes in at a hefty 27g of Platinum! But is very shiney which was the point :)

C

Flowergirl dresses coming along

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:39:04 GMT

Hello all,

Thought you might be interested to see how the flowergirl dresses are getting along!

Well done ma :)

An extra Bridesmaid and the Bridal suite

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:34:18 GMT

So we are 16 or so weeks away from the wedding and the level of activity surrounding the wedding is increasing at pace. Plus after a lot of internal debate in my head we have an additional bridesmaid.

Kate Bush (nee O'hare) will be putting in a stunning performance as my third adult bridesmaid. Kate is a late arrival to the party a I thought it was a bit greedy to have 3 flower girls and 3 adult bridesmaids. But I have made the decision she is an amazingly good friend and I want her to be involved and wonderfully she is very excited about the idea :)

And the Bridal suite. Well the world just gets wierder and wierder. I am currently in a hotel near Chester. When I have to go away I generally pick the hotel and then my company book me a room. I have stayed in this particular hotel before and it is all very nice, but this time I arrived last night and checked in and there was a lot of whispers behind the counter. The receptionist then said "well, your in the bridal suite". I thought she was kidding but no, here I am in a giant suite with mezzanine slleping deck, huge TV and rainfall shower. And all for £61!!!!! You got to love life sometimes.

In other news, my mum is busy making bridesmaids dresses, (with a small amunt of help from me!) and things like the favours are being purchased. RSVP's flooded in at first but have dried up slightly. If you haven't sent your back yet, please do.

Ours rings should be ready today so we will have to go to Bristol to collect them soon. My dress has been collected and is waiting to go for fittings, and really everything is moving along well :)

Love to all and see you all soon.

C