Miss to Mrs

After months and months of planning, finally the day arrived! And surprisingly, I was very chilled, even when the hair and makeup people arrived super late (yes, that’s why I was v late! Not my fault I promise) making us super off with the timings 🙈

Eventually though we were ready and off we went to church and down the aisle I went! The service flew by in a blur. Many people from England apparently remarked that they felt sorry for us standing up there for the whole time but I didn’t even notice! I rather think poor Nolz did though as he was standing for probably double the time as I was poor love, waiting for his bride 🙈😂

We had worship, a message from the pastor and my auntie, a prayer from my dad and Priscilla from Latin Link working hard to translate it all into the both languages! And, as is the new way of things, there had to be a zoom going on haha which had friends and family of people who couldn’t be there. The service ended and we were suddenly surrounded by people hugging and saying nice things and then, quick! We were whisked off to the venue because we were so behind schedule that we were gonna miss the part which would mean we were legally married!

So we did the legal stuff (the equivalent to signing of the register but here you get a lil marriagey book) , bish bash bosh and then time to mill around and, surprisingly, we actually got some food in us! I feel like everyone always says you don’t get to really eat at ya own wedding but we did thankfully 💪🏻

Then we had some photos which was abruptly interrupted by poor Nolz getting a nose bleed! Leaving time for my own personal photo shoot 😏 before our mutual one resumed 😊

After that it was time for food, but not before mine and Nolys first dance. We started on the backfoot bc they started the music too early and we had to race in and missed the first part of the choreography but heyho! Think it went relatively well but I do admit I was muttering to Noly “what now?!” and “help!” at various points.

Once the dance was finished with it was time for more of the nosh 😋 and then, as is customary here, we went round all the tables and had photos with each of them. Just as we’d finished with the photos the videos from family and friends started flooding in 🥰 which was super super lovely to hear from family and friends who couldn’t be there on our day. Then, as is customary in England, on came the speeches! First dad, then my sister, an impromptu couple of words from Zulum, Cristian and then Nolz. It’s not customary here in Arg to do speeches but I had instructed Nolz that he must do the classic “my wife and I…” part in his speech 😜 it was funny bc he was translating his own speech for the sake of my family and that bit was at the end so he forgot to translate it but everyone was like WHEEYYYY so my fam gathered what he’d said haha.

After the speechy speechy time it was time for the waltz! This is an Arg tradition – first you waltz with ya hubby 😜 and then with the family, so I first waltzed with my Nolz and then people swapped in, so I waltzed with dad and Nolz with his mum, then me with Nolys dad and Nolz with my mum and so on. Usually then it opens up to everyone but bc of covid we got as far as the grandma’s dancing with Nolz and we paused the waltzing there and went on to the main dancey dancey!

The rest of the night we spent dancing, milling around, having photos and dancing some more. Looking back through the photos at some point a konga broke out which amuses me bc we completely missed that! The funniest moment was when I suddenly found myself prancing about in the middle of the dancey circle. I’m not quite sure what came over me in that moment i just suddenly found myself doing it which was a bit of a surprise haha.

Eventually we managed to break thru the crowds to cut the cake. Funny coz usually that’s a big deal in England but it was nearly forgotten about here!

After eating some of said cake and the mini pizzas that were floating around off we pootled!

I cannot begin to tell you what an amazing day it was. After fighting for so long to get to this point and being unsure whether we’d be able to get married with COVID and whether my immediate family would be able to come out etc, I can tell you that I honestly enjoyed every single second. The window for us being able to get married with my immediate family being able to come out was just so small and I really believe that it all came through according to God’s purpose and will for us.

Anyways! For now that’s me done. Over and out, love to all xxxx