Married 15 Years Today

Married 15 Years Today

It’s quite hard to believe that 15 years ago today, myself and Sean took a big step in our relationship by getting married.

It was one hell of a day, the ceremony wasn’t until the afternoon but I had so much to deal with before then that I was so glad when the ceremony was done so we could go to the pub lol.

I’d booked a lady to come and do my nails as well as my mum’s and bridesmaids’ the night before the wedding. I emailed her a few days before to make sure she knew where to park and confirm times when she said she thought she was doing our nails on the Saturday, not the Friday. After she realised that she had read my email wrong, she moved some things around so that she could come to us on the Saturday morning, which wasn’t really what I wanted as it was one more thing to do on the day and I didn’t want everyone rushing to get stuff done, but it’s what we went with. What didn’t really help was that I paid quite a bit of money for her to come and do our nails but I was getting messages from everyone a few days after the wedding saying their nails had come off.

Myself, my bridesmaids (Simone, Fran and Jodie), parents, and some of my guests were all in the same hotel and the night before the wedding we were told that we could use the little function room the next day for us all to sit in to have our nails and hair done. They said there were no bookings so it’s not a problem. We thought this was great so the next morning, everything was set up, it was all going to plan, until the hotel owner came in screaming and shouting at us that we shouldn’t be in there. I tried to explain that we had been told we could use the room but he continued to shout at us and told us to go down to the breakfast room instead. We did do this but he later complained that the room then smelt like hairspray and nail polish. It turns out that he had booked the room out but hadn’t actually told anyone but was blaming us for being in there.

Me and Mum at the wedding

My mum had fallen over a few days before the wedding and had 2 black eyes so she nipped out to Boots to have a makeover at the make-up counter. She'd gone in the day before to ask about concealer and the lovely lady she spoke to had told her that she would do her make-up for her.

At lunch time it started raining which annoyed me a lot as I didn’t know how I was going to get to the car and then from the car to the registry office without my hair getting wet after just having it done. Lucky enough, the rain held off when I needed to go to the registry office so that was a little blessing.

My mum was getting overly worried about everything going to plan and got so stressed that one of my guests had a bit of dig at me about it. I couldn’t understand why my mum was getting so stressed as the only thing I had asked her to do was get her nails done, everything else was fine. I found my mum and told her she was a silly plonker, which she did find funny, and we hugged it out.

I forgot my flowers in the hotel bar and didn’t remember until I was in the car and nearly at the registry office but lucky enough, my sister-in-law Rachel was still there and picked them up for me.

I rolled up to the registry office car park to see Sean and his groomsmen, Jason and Dave, walking into the building so we had to go round the Maidstone one way system to give them time to set everything up in the room we were using for the ceremony.

When I finally got to go in, I needed to go into a little room with the registrar to confirm I was who I said I was, that I wanted to get married, etc etc etc. That was all fine, that was the easy bit of the whole day lol.

I was standing in the hallway with my dad, bridesmaids’ in front of me, waiting for the music to start so we could walk in and out of nowhere, I started crying. Full on crying for no reason. So the pictures and video of me walking into the ceremony looked more like someone was walking to their death rather than their future husband lol.

Me and Sean in the Bentley after the wedding

The ceremony went really quick, thank goodness, and before I knew it, we were back outside as husband and wife. We had lots of pictures taken and then it was off to the pub. My brother had brought his Bentley to drive me around in, so took me and Sean to the pub and then a few other trips to get people from the registry office to the pub as it was starting to drizzle a bit.

The lady, Jenny, who ran the pub where we holding our wedding reception, let us have it free because we were going to be bringing in so many people. She asked if the locals could still come in to drink and we said yes seeing as we knew them all, so everyone was happy. I found out a few days later that she had taken a month’s worth of money in that one night lol. I did tell her there was some heavy drinkers coming lol.

It was lovely having everyone in one place for once as it wasn’t very often that both sides of our families were in the same place at the same time. I got a real surprise when my Uncle Billy turned up, he was in a wheelchair because he was disabled so I wasn’t sure if he would be able to come and then he turned up haha.

Everyone had a brilliant time, at one point, I had a pint glass with vodka and coke in it. Everyone was buying me drinks and I was starting to get annoyed having to hold multiple glasses so I got the barmaid to put them all in a pint glass for me. I know, classy right? haha

After the reception, we went back to the hotel and we were in the bar until 2am, I wanted to go to bed but Sean didn’t so I went up just yet. Only problem was that I didn’t tell Sean what room we were in, so when he did want to come to bed, he didn’t know where he was meant to go haha. He eventually found me after waking up a lot of other guests by knocking on their doors. He looked so relieved when I opened the door to him haha.

Then, in the middle of the night, I woke up to find Sean wasn’t in the bed. I went to the bathroom and sitting upright in the bath with his arms crossed over his chest and fast asleep, was Sean. I woke him up and told him to get into bed but his response was that he was having a bath, even though there was no water in the bath. I tried a few more times to get him to come to bed but he insisted he was having a bath, so I left him there.

I got a wake up call from my nephew Jack to make sure I was up and ready for breakfast and I told him to f off. To be fair, I had told him to ring me to wake me up but I wasn’t happy about it haha.

So, that was 15 years ago, I better start thinking about how we are going to celebrate when it's been 20 years, definitely need to have a big party for that one.