So pleased you had such a lovely day and pictures provided much evidence at that.Morning all. 7.1. TBF after a huge carb fest yesterday I’m happy with that.
We had the most wonderful day yesterday, from start to finish. The weather wasn’t great but that didn’t spoil anything. The handfasting ceremony was surprisingly emotional and we both cried, we were presented with a certificate and the ribbon that was used to “tie” us together, and a wee anvil that could be used in a game of Monopoly if you’d lost one of the pieces. We also got shortbread, fudge, a teddy and miniatures of Gretna Green gin and whiskey. The afternoon tea was lovely, we only managed half, and washed it down with a couple of glasses of champagne. Checked into our room and had a nana nap! And who says romance is dead! We had a lovely dinner at 7.30, and back to our room for me to watch Corrie on plus 1. 😉
All the staff were amazing and attentive considering they had seven weddings yesterday! At least two were just couples on their own, we got chatting with one of them, and two more were small parties, and they ate in the dinning room same as us, and one was a bigger do in a function room. There was also a coach load of tourists in the restaurant too! All in all a fabulous way to spend our sapphire anniversary. Back to it today, the honeymoon is over, a quick trip to the retail park for a mooch and the 15 minute drive home to water the garden.
Have a super Saturday.
Here’s a handful of photos.
Oooh, very exciting. You need to get the craic! Royalty or celebrities?Morning all, 4.3 here.
That all looks wonderful, @eggyg !
Talking of weddings, there is a big society wedding taking place today in the neighbourhood. The other night, our village was full of beefy men in suits, with suspicious bulges under the armpits. Apparently there was a pre-wedding dinner at the posh pub in the centre, which Kamala Harris attended, hence half the US Secret Service pacing up and down outside.
Steve Jobs's daughter is marrying the British showjumper Harry Charles, in the church at Great Tew (handy for Soho Farmhouse, our local celebrity haunt) and having the reception at Estelle Manor, which is an incredibly posh hotel just outside Oxford. I have just worked out that the best route between the two comes straight past the crossroads just up from us, will be expecting a procession of blacked out limos later.Oooh, very exciting. You need to get the craic! Royalty or celebrities?
You beat me to it. I went to check the paperSteve Jobs's daughter is marrying the British showjumper Harry Charles, in the church at Great Tew (handy for Soho Farmhouse, our local celebrity haunt) and having the reception at Estelle Manor, which is an incredibly posh hotel just outside Oxford. I have just worked out that the best route between the two comes straight past the crossroads just up from us, will be expecting a procession of blacked out limos later.
Watch this space, we’ve been threatened with JDVance later next month, the rumour mill has it that he’s coming to this end of the Cotswolds. Ah, I remember when we were a sleepy backwater at the unfashionable end.
That’s what it was billed as in the tabloids, it was a private dinner for a large party of people in the pub at the other end of our road, anyway! (a pub that used to be a really nice restaurant at prices locals could afford, but which has been taken over by someone from London and reinvented as a poncy place for rich weekenders).@Robin i'm sure i read in the paper yesterday about Steve Jobs (Apple) daughter getting married in the Cotswolds and they had a rehearsal dinner. Maybe that was it?