More Wedding Plans

It's Monday morning, and it doesn't feel like I've had a weekend off...

As my daughter is currently living with her mum, I had to phone her and check that arrangements for the wedding were acceptable. It's on a Friday, after all, and she'll be missing a day at school. Well to my surprise she was fine with the whole thing; this is unusual. Mind you, when I phoned her on Friday morning for a completely different matter, she sounded pretty rough - she was having a migraine, and did not sound well at all. Perhaps she was in a good mood because the pain was all but over.

Now we've only got the wedding toast and greeting bubbly to organise (17 quid a bottle from the hotel, or use their corkage fee of a tenner a bottle to bring our own - both of these a utterly extortionate). We've still got no cars organised, but Maxine was dong that, so Tracey is getting in touch with her. Plus Tracey was flapping about her shoes and earrings which she has still to purchase. But she's seen her shoes on ebay, and hopes the other buggers who're bidding on them aren't as keen as her to get them. Oh, and she needs tights or stockings, apparently. Special really expensive ones for brides and bridesmaids to wear. They're shiny.

Now we have 'Hair by Ashleen' to organise. She's away this weekend doing hair at her nan's (Tracey's mum's) where she's to do Heather (my sister-in-law) too, as her and Martin have recently moved to Church Gresley, Swadlincote, which is very close to where Tracey's folks live (Newhall, Swadlincode). So we have to fit other haircuts around that; there's Chris (the best man) and myself to do, Daniel (my son) and Glyn (Tracey's son), and my daughter, and Ash herself. Then there's the bride. Ash needs to practice doing Tracey's hair several times, it will have extensions and will be pretty spectacular. But the style is quite difficult to do, so Ash needs to work through it a few times to ensure it's perfect on the day. She has all that hair to prepare and barely enough time to do it all.

It's all go on the wedding front

Well all is now planned. Yesterday I phoned the hotel where we're having our reception, and gave them the final numbers for the meal and the wine order. There will be 27 of us altogether; one in a wheelchair, four diabetics and no (as far as I'm aware) vegetarians. All I have to do now is pay for that... We wont be invoiced until after Tuesday - and we've still to let them know what we want to do about some bubbly for the toast/greeting. So they need that before Tuesday, too. More expense!

This morning I managed to turn in over an hour late for work as I'd popped into the Rushcliffe register office to hand over the blue certificates that we need to prove we're entitled to get married. They seemed quite calm about the whole proceeding; we've yet to discuss the actual ceremony with them and there's just a fortnight to go. I asked about this, and they were happy for us to do it over the phone, which is good, but they only open from 9:30 am and only during the week (not at weekends) so having Tracey and I both together to call them is going to be tricky.

Oh, and the tickets for the Honeymoon arrived yesterday. That's a bit of a relief. I hope Maxine can still do the cars for us.