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By Gareth, September 15, 2008 00:01

Our Wedding - Signing

This year has flown! One year ago today, Gemma and I got married. It was a fantastic day.

Now, one year on, we have a little boy called Liam to add to our family whose big sister Ellie loves to bits.

Thank you Gem, for making this a wonderful year to remember. Long may the years continue and we grow old together.

I love you x x x

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By Gareth, October 8, 2007 13:00

Finally, I’ve added a full page about Our Wedding Day.

This was the best day of my life. It was such a brilliant day, and all went without too much of a hitch.

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By Gareth, September 15, 2007 15:47

Gemma and Me, Just Married

Gemma and I are now married.

We are now officially Mr & Mrs Jones.

More info to follow………….

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By Gareth, September 8, 2007 22:08

I’ll be a happily married man.
I’ve been thinking a lot more about the event next week and I’m getting really excited.
Well, why wouldn’t I?
I’m marrying the girl of my dreams, my soul mate. What more can I say?
Nothing apart from:

” I love her so much.”

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By Gareth, September 6, 2007 08:05

Just thought I’d post a small update on how the wedding preparations are going.

Its now only 9 days till our big day. Its come around fast, and I can’t wait!

Hotel

The invoice from the hotel arrived yesterday, which has actually come in under our budget, not a huge amount, but its still under, which is a good thing. This is definitely the biggest expense that we will incur, as its not cheap trying to feed 75 guests.

Suits

I got a phone call yesterday to inform me that all of the suits had come in and were ready for collection today. So now, all of the suits will need to be tried on to make sure everything fits and any changes made. Hopefully there won’t be any!

Speech

Last night I had a good rehearsal of my speech. I set up our video camera and did my speech to it. It was a big help as I could play the tape back and pick up on things that didn’t sound right etc. I was quite surprised at how long my speech was, it lasted just about ten minutes, and that was pretty much the same on all takes. (I think there were 5 takes last night)

Anyway I was pleasantly surprised how it went, although how it goes on the actual day remains to be seen. I’m pretty happy with the content of the speech, I just need to work on the presentation a little bit more before next Saturday.

Hopefully I won’t have to make too many speeches in my life. But I do know I’ll probably have to do one when Ellie gets married, but thankfully that’s a few years off yet

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By Gareth, August 24, 2007 18:16

Final preparations are coming along now for the wedding.

Yesterday, we had meetings with our photographer and the registrar who is performing the ceremony.

This meant an early start so that we could get to Shrewsbury for 11am, as it is just over 1.5 hrs from Wigan to Shrewsbury. Even though the roads were pretty busy we managed to get there on time.

We had a good meeting with the photographer going through what sort of shots we’d like on the day, and just general chat about arrangements. Everything seems good for the day.

After getting carried away with chatting, we realised that we were short on time as we needed to be back in Wrexham so that Gemma could get her hair done. So, after some fairly quick driving I managed to drop Gemma off at the hairdressers only a couple of minutes late.

Ellie and I then headed to Nana Jen and Grandad’s house to wait while Gemma had her hair done. We’d expected to be there for a few hours, after it took about 4 hours the last time Gemma had her hair done. So I was a bit surprised when I got a phone call to pick her up after a couple of hours.

I picked Gemma up and took her back to my parent’s house, where we stayed for a couple of hours before we needed to go and meet the registrar.

Our appointment with the registrar was at closing time at the Register Office, which nearly proved to be a problem, because just as we were trying to walk through the front door, the cleaner was in the process of locking the door! Anyway, once through the door, we waited for a few minutes while the Registrar finished off a few things.

She must have been very flustered during the day, as everytime she tried to get through a door he found it to be locked and would need to go back and get a key for the door . It was quite funny to watch. Once we managed to sit down we went through the wedding forms and documents and also the procedure for the wedding and anything that we would need to do.

It was good to meet the Registrar before the day, as it helped us both to relax about it. The Registrar was a relaxed type of person, who didn’t seem too hung up on being formal, which is just what Gemma and I like. We’re not people who like everything stuffy and formal. We just want the day to be relaxed and to go smoothly. Simple is good!

After meeting with the Registrar we headed to Gemma’s parents for a couple of hours. This enabled us to avoid the rush hour traffic, and gave us chance to have something to eat.

It turned out to be a long day, and we got home at around 9.30pm. But after meeting with people, it gave us more confidence that everything should run smoothly on the day.

I can’t wait