November 30, 2005
October 15, 2006
Paul & Best Man
As our wedding in Italy is fading into a distant memory friends are still sending us their photos of our amazing day. We particularly like this one of Paul and his best man Richard.
Paul & Richard
August 18, 2006
Honeymoon in Mauritius
We returned from our honeymoon yesterday-we had a fabulous time, it was brilliant!
Here are some pictures...
Champagne in our room on arrival!
Sunset
Gorgeous cocktails!
The beach
Chamarel waterfall
Enjoying ourselves in Mauritius
The National flowers of Mauritius
Flowers outside our room
Being "arty" with leaves!
Paul waterskiing
Eating pineapples on the beach
180 year old tortoise
Our hotel
Our hotel restaurant
Paul windsurfing
Pamplemousses-giant waterlilies
Waterlilies
Gabriel Island
A friendly hermit crab!
East coast of Mauritius
Soaking up the sun on our last day in Mauritius
August 01, 2006
Honeymoon starts here..
We are setting off for Mauritius early tomorrow morning... we are both very excited!!
Thank you to everyone for the kind and generous gifts that made this dream a reality, we'll take lots of photos while we're there to post on the site when we return!
Mauritius here we come...
Newspaper
We got our picture into the local newspaper....
Did you get a mention?!
June 25, 2006
The Big Day
After a year of planning and preparations the waiting was almost over...
The day was as perfect as we had both imagined. The sun shone, our friends and family were with us and the atmosphere was relaxed. The girls spent all morning pampering and getting themselves ready, while Paul took all the boys into the town for a steak (his so-called last meal as a free man!) Everyone was relaxed and there was no stess, even though the venue for the ceremony changed about 3 times due to the wind! The ceremony was due to start at 3 o'clock and Paul was still in the pool at 2:30-relaxed as ever... We were kept separate due to old traditions although this proved tricky in a relatively small villa. It all added to the anticipation though!! I was fashionably late (brides perogative!) although I found out later that the groom was almost as late as I was due to his buttonhole falling off at the last minute! I had butterflies in my stomach as I walked down the rose petal covered path on my dad's arm. It was an amzing feeling-one I'll never forget. The ceremony went without a hitch and even fewer dry eyes, it was very emotional. Afterwards came drinks on the lawn with chocolate covered strawberries and lots of photographs. Tim took us to vineyards, railway lines and hillsides to take more photographs to capture the amzing day.
The happy couple
Next was a journey to the medieval fort at Montalcino where we celebrated with Italian wine and had more photos on the ramparts followed by confetti throwing and a procession into town towards the restaurant. We had lots of smiles from locals probably thinking "mad English people!" We had a delicious meal at Il Grifo restaurant where the staff couldn't do enough for us. We enjoyed speeches from my dad and Paul and then it was on to the ice-cream parlour to finish off the night Yummmmm!! When we arrived back at the villa we had the best mans speech and had our first dance by candlelight. What a great way to end a fantastic day... It was better than I could have dreamed of and the memories will last forever. A huge thank you to our parents for making it all possible, especially my mum who played a massive part in helping to plan and organise and whose creative talents with flowers, cakes, dress, invitations, hair etc were greatly appreciated!