I would have cried laughing at the pastor burping......silly things like that just crease me up.
Neil and I had a pretty straightforward wedding.....apart from the mother of all thunderstorms and monsoon rain as I was being driven to the Registry Office Thankfully it soon passed and it was soon glorious sunshine once more.
We just had a quiet wedding with Neil's parents, brother & his wife and 5 of our closest friends
The registrar seemed quite shocked at there only being 9 of them. Thing is.....neither of us wanted a massive big event and didn't have the cash for it anyway...especially as the shop I was working in had closed down just 7 weeks beforehand! The whole thing cost less than £300
£97.50 for the marriage to be held in Newcastle Registry Office, £70 for my dress & jacket, £25 for my plain white gold band (found it in a flea market one week before the wedding!!!), £50 for Neil's suit and not much extra for my hair to be put up on the morning by my wonderful hairdresser and a corsage (is that the right word?) of freesias for Neil and myself
The honeymoon was two weeks in the Lake District which Neil's parents paid for as a wedding gift
Twelve years (on August 31st) later we are still blissfully happy
Funny thing was....I had a customer in the shop where I work today and she was talking about how her daughter got married last weekend and how it had all 'only' cost £15,000. She was dumbstruck when I said mine had barely been £300
Albeit it wasn't a big fancy church do.
After we had been married our friends took photos outside the building in front of the gorgeous flower displays and we then got into our car and drove off on honeymoon
We had to stop a few times as we drove over the Pennines as the UK was just recovering from that terrible Foot & Mouth outbreak in 2001 and at certain places you still had guys in waterproofs washing down your vehicle wheels and underside with disinfectant.
If we could it again I don't think we would change a thing.....other than stay in a caravan or a cottage instead of an apartment as the woman downstairs was SO noisy
