Friday 8 July 2011

I Got Married!!!



Yep... that's me on the right, next to my new wife, Katy, taken at our wedding on July 1st 2011. I didn't get to take any photo's myself, so I was waiting until enough people had posted their photo's before posting this blog. The wedding took place at the Mansion House in Old Warden, Bedfordshire:







My brother Andy was the Best Man:



And the bridesmaids were Katy's best friend Mel, her sister Georgi, and my four nieces, Kacie, Ellie, Eloise and Jessica:





There were also some very special guests in attendance... our friends Alan, Sophia, Janean and Mary Beth both had a long way to travel, with Janean and Mary Beth both coming all the way from the United States:


There we all are... note Janean on the right in pose mode.

The girls and I have a very bipolar relationship... one minute it's all cuddles:



And the next, they're literally kicking my ass:



The cake (which to our specifications was not white, and did not feature any flowers) was made by Katy's mother, Sally, with assistance from Georgi.



Cutting it was both a shame, and far more difficult than I've ever imagined cutting a cake should be:



There was much fun which involved dancing, and alcohol:


Lot's of alcohol...

I thought I'd give people a very brief summary of what happened, but there's a complete album on my Facebook page at this location:
 
If you know anything about Katy and I, you'd know of our love for music. If there is one thing that was going to make or break our enjoyment of our own wedding, it would be what music was played. Most wedding DJ's tend to ask what kind of music you'd like, and work bits and pieces of that if they think it will work in their usual set. So instead, we enlisted the help of Katy's brother, Olli, a music producer who also spends a lot of time creating tailor-made playlists for parties for fun. Perfect!
What we came up with was the kind of strict "can play/can't play" list that we wouldn't have even been able to attempt with anybody else, and whereas there was a bit of skepticism that our music tastes would work well for a party, Olli came up with a playlist that I think had a bit of something for everyone, and we didn't have to worry about whether or not the next song would be crap. Everybody else seems to have enjoyed themselves, so it couldn't have been a complete disaster. There were a few songs that weren't on the playlist that got played, but this was because there was less music on the finished playlist than Olli believed and we had to fill up time.

Ceremony
Howard Shore - Concerning Hobbits
Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
Shigeru Umebayashi/Zhang Ziyi - Beauty Song
John Williams - Victory Celebration

First Dance
Savage Garden - Truly, Madly, Deeply

Reception
Alanis Morissette - Ironic
Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man
Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Christina Aguilera - Candyman
Derek & The Domino's - Layla
Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
Billie Piper - Walk Of Life (this was Katy's choice)
Sister Sledge - We Are Family (and this was my mum's choice)
Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
Blur - Song 2
The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
Aerosmith/Run D.M.C. - Walk This Way
Aerosmith - Dude (Look Like A Lady)
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
Green Day - Basket Case
Goldfinger - Superman
Blink 182 - All The Small Things
The Offspring - Want You Bad
The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize/Imperial March
Kanye West - Gold Digger (this one I chose despite Katy's protest)
Jay-Z/Rihanna/Kanye West - Run This Town
Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man
Outkast - Hey Ya!
Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Duff McKagan's Loaded - We Win
Korn - Word Up!
Juliette & The Licks - Hot Kiss
Louis Prima - I Wanna Be Like You (from The Jungle Book)
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Blink 182 - First Date
Smash Mouth - All Star
Ash - Girl From Mars
Duff McKagan's Loaded - Superman
Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin
AC/DC - Back In Black
Tommy Stinson's Perfect - Thing I Call My Life
Bowling For Soup - 1985
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Tenacious D - Tribute
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Florence & The Machine - You've Got The Love
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Here's one last photo of Katy, just because it's been a week and I'm still both very proud to be able to call her my wife, and bewildered as to why she'd want me for a husband..