Well, this one was never going to be a dull day!
From first meeting Jeanette & Chris a few weeks before the wedding it was obvious that their day at Birmingham Botanical Gardens was going to be light hearted & fun with nobody taking anything too seriously & that’s exactly how it panned out & I loved it 🙂
I met up with Jeanette & the girls at the Marriott Hotel in Birmingham city centre & sure enough found Jeanette, laid back & chilled having her make up done & enjoying the morning. The morning passed relatively calmly apart from exploding champagne bottles & a mad dash down the hotel corridor when Jeanette headed off to the hairdressers without her tiara!
With ceremony time fast approaching I headed off to the lovely Birmingham Botanical Gardens to meet up with Chris & the guests who were all gathering in anticipation of the days events. It did seem opportune at this point to mention to Chris & his bestman that having the rings for the ceremony would actually be a good idea……
With Birmingham Registrars on top form the ceremony was a blast & I will never forgot poor Chris’s sisters reading. Nothing wrong with the works of A.A Milne but mentioning Pooh 50 odd times did mean that everybody & I mean everybody got the giggles big time & huge credit to her for ignoring the mayhem around her & completing her task 🙂
With calm restored we headed into the lovely sunshine for family photos & a lap of the gardens for photos with us attempting, but probably failing, to get a few ‘serious wedding shots’ but thoroughly enjoying ourselves anyway.
The way the day had gone it was inevitable that the speeches would be lively & sure enough Jeanette suffered as her father delighted in thoroughly embarrassing her!
The beautiful evening weather tempted everybody back onto the terrace before the disco started up & the evening celebrations commenced & I bid farewell to Jeanette & Chris.
