The Wedding of Allison and Mark

I'm pleased to report that the sun shone on Allison and Mark's wedding day. Unfortunately it was a bit too windy to hold the ceremony outdoors.

It was a lovely service, with readings by Allison's sister, Helen, and Mark's aunt, also called Alison (as is one of Mark's sisters!) and some lovely singing by Allison's friends Tim and Fran.

As Mark's family is Scottish he wore a kilt, as did one of his best men, Paul, and very fine they looked as well.

Allison's dress was lovely and she looked radiant. Hopefully my human will work out how to load photos so you can see it in more detail.

After the wedding, pre-lunch drinks and nibbles and photos, we sat down to a buffet dinner and then the speeches. Allison's father is a professor and we were treated to a powerpoint presentation on the life of Allison and Mark (there was some concerns that we were going to be set a paper afterwards, but fortunately these proved to be unfounded).

Once these formalities were completed we came to the cutting of the cake and my human saved a bit to put under her pillow. Apparently if you do this you're meant to dream of the person you'll marry.

We then had a little gap before bush band dance in the evening. After the Flying Fox activity and the '20 minute walk' to the spot where it took place (yeah, 20 minutes as the crow flies more like), my human was in need for a bit of a rest.

Suitably refreshed, we went along to the bush band dance before retiring to bed.

Posted: 31/07/06 12.35 pm