18.5.24
Back in May was Rachel and Hayden's wedding. Not really sure why we were invited, we've barely seen them in the past 17 years. Rachel was just a little kid when I left Sydney and I've really only seen them a few times since then. But we were, so off we went.
It was scheduled for 11:00. So we got there at 10:30, so we'd have plenty of time to find parking. We ended up all the way down the street.
They were late. So the cermony started at 12:00.
!!
It was a lovely service.
After the service was morning tea. Even though it was 13:00 by now. And it was raining. And I was stressing about so many people. And it was a dry wedding. I did end up going and talking to a couple of my old friends. But felt pretty uncomfortable. And the sweetie just avoided everyone heh.
They tried to get a photo of everyone outside. In the rain. Yeah that didn't work.
And there was lunch. Talked to more of my friends. Did I mention it was a dry wedding?
There were various family/friends photo shots throughout the afternoon.
And there were speeches.
With bubbles.
Of cider.
Alan wrote a limerick!
And there was cake cutting
Photo shoots carried on
When we finally had a chance to leave Marylon said we should sign the guest book, but you were meant to do a photo booth thing and keep a copy and stick the other one in the book. But there were lots of people and we didn't know what to do with the machine and it was all very stressful.
And then of course I couldn't think of anything useful to say in the book. Oh well.
We finally left at nearly 16:30. Six hours after we got there. On the way out we saw the MASSIVE car park under the church. Yeah that would have been nice to know about in advance.
It was a lovely day, but we were both utterly exhausted by the end of it, with a 3.5 hour drive ahead of us to get home. I spent the next day or so *cringing* over the crap I said because I was so anxious. This is why I don't socialise sober, people!! But I think Rachel and Hayden had a wonderful day, so that's really all that matters!
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