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The return of the rings
Date: 28-03-03

Our rings are back! WooHoo!

Katherine picked them up from the jewelers today. I tried my ring on (I wanted it increased by ½ a size) and it seemed to fit ok. I think I've got odd shaped fingers - they seemd to be cones with no distinctive knuckle to hold the ring on. For the ring to be *really* comfortable, it's more than likely going to fall off as it effortlessly slips over the knuckle.

Katherine's happy now....she's got the engagement ring back, too. No adjustments needed, it was just in for a check to see if the setting and band were ok. She wanted to leave it until I got home before putting it on, though, so I could see how sparkly it was after a polish :) I must admit, it was v sparkly.

Marriage preparation (3)
Date: 27-03-03

Tonight was the last marriage preparation session this side of the wedding. After some v nice ginger cake and coffee, we chatted about arguments, conflicts and anger - a nice way to finish the course off! I can't say we argue much, and if we do, it's normally as a result of us being so tired, but we'd be a bit niave to expect there to be no arguements when we're married. All helpful stuff, though.

Then we spent a bit of time chatting about our order of service - particularly the final hymn! As it happened, they had a huge pile of order of services from weddings they'd been to, so we picked up a few ideas from them. We might take the selection along to the music director on Sunday and see what he thinks about them.

All change!
Date: 26-03-03

Well, ok, maybe not "All change!", but after meeting with the vicar tonight, we're thinking of tweaking the Order of Service. We're thinking of squeezing in another reading (he suggested a rather nice one as it happens. Slightly out of context, but it says the right thing) for a start. The other tweak is to add another hymn. Hmmmm. Difficult, considering it took us long enough to come up with the current hymns.

The thinking behind this tweak? Well, as it stands, the last two hymns aren't "traditional" as such, although the tunes are quite easy to pick up. But this could mean that the congregation won't be singing with, shall we say, gusto. It would be nice to finish on a more popular hymn so that it gets everyone singing along and the service finishes on a "high".

But it's difficult chosing a more well-known hymn without opting for something cheesey or one that a friend's had at their wedding.

Honeymoon? Check!
Date: 25-03-03

Finally got round to phoning up the car hire company for the honeymoon to find out how much all the extras are. Y'know, things like adding a second driver, reducing the excesses etc etc. Oh, and I needed to make sure that the booking actually existed! It's a bit odd that they don't take credit card details from you as a sort of guarantee that you're going to pick the car up when you say you are.

Well, apparently the booking is valid (WooHoo!), and the extras aren't *that* expensive. Not that anything in this country appears to be cheap. Or so we've been told. So, that's the honeymoon sorted! Yay! Another tick in the box.

Apparently the table chaff arrived at Katherine's work today, so she's going to bring that home when she drives to work instead of cycling.

Table stuff
Date: 24-03-03

We've finally decided on the table chaff now, and the florist liked the vases and glass bases we showed her yesterday, so that's pretty much all the table stuff sorted.

So I ordered the chaff from the web and wandered over to The Pier during my lunch break. Let me tell you, 9 tables worth of glass vases and bases and a couple of other things weigh an absolute ton! Of course, it was one of the hottest days of the year, too. Oh well, we've got them now, and I don't think any were damaged on the way home after work (although there were a few close calls with lamp posts and walls on the way to the station!)

Bit of an odd time, this evening. After sorting out dinner and faffing for a bit we realised that we didn't have anything to do.. No wedding stuff to organise. We were lost - we felt like we should have been doing stuff. How odd.

D'oh!
Date: 23-03-03

One of the reasons we came back from Cardiff yesterday (via Bridgewater to order the tandem :) ) was so that we could hear our marriage banns being read out at our church in the morning service. We sat there, grinning to each other as the normal church notices were read ½ way through the service. The anticipation grew as someone elses banns were read and then.....they went straight into the prayers and the service moved on.

Er....what about us? Had they forgotten? We were quite gutted, to tell you the truth - we could only hear the banns being read twice as it was, what with the stag and hen do's taking place on the third time. This meant that we could only hear them once. I know it's nothing major, but it would have been nice.

We spoke briefly to the music director after the service who was the person who booked the banns in the diary - he told us our banns were being read in the 5pm service an was really apologetic when we told him that we were expecting them to be read that morning. Oh well. No harm done. Just a bit of a mix-up really. On another note (pun intended) we had a quick chat about music for signing the register. He twinkled a few tunes on the piano which sounded quite nice. Don't ask me what they were as I can't remember, but I think they were by Debussy.

Afterwards, we popped over to the shopping centre to see the florist about the "vase" that we bought yesterday. She liked it, and the glass base, and she hasn't been able to find any alternatives through her wholesale contacts, so she told us to go ahead and buy them now! Another tick in the box.

We managed to squeeze in a fleeting visit to the evening service afterall. We spoke to a person on the door who we know and told him the situation, so he pointed us towards some seats at the back which we could make a quick and quiet getaway after the banns were read. We sat there grinning again, and couldn't stop smiling when they were read out (by the person who's marrying us, as it happens). The prayers for us straight after the banns were really nice, too.

There....it all worked out in the end :)