Mr CSW and I are celebrating our wedding anniversary this month and I went through the photos and thought I would share some of my memories with you.
I got married in my thirties.
I never expected to get married so when I finally did I didn't really have any ready plans on how to have a ceremony.
I wanted to elope but legally weddings in the UK need to have two witnesses.
But I thought it would be actually odd just having 4 people at town hall so I decided we would invite only a few close friends.
Only the close friends and not their partners.
I know.
Controversial.
But this was my wedding and I wasn't in the business to play diplomatic games and appease everyone. It was made slightly easier as there was only one family member of ours who came and that was only because that person lived in London.
I was no bridezilla.
In fact, people thought I was joking when I went into wedding dress shops asking if they had a dress I could buy in a month's time which is the time we prepared for it.
I finally got a dress from Amanda Wakely.
It was an ivory version of a cocktail dress and the train can be tied up and it waterfalls.
Wedding shoes seemed simple but as most women will know, there is a huge difference between white and cream and ivory and very few shoes matched my dress fabric.
But I found these.
It also was my something blue.
I wasn't convinced with the muslin pom pom but they looked better on.
They were so high that it changed my foot arch for the next two days.
