So, we got married... (image heavy!)

[Fnaar]

So, @Arch and @Night Train, how's married life treating you? :-)

 

[Dayvo]

Congratulations and best wishes to you both.

 

[JamesTaylor02]

Congratulations!!

 

[coffeejo]

The massive grins plastered across both your faces says it all.

Many congratulations.

 

[Soltydog]

Congratulations Sue & NT, looks like a great day & hope you have many happy years together

 

[snapper_37]

Congratulations NT and Arch. You make a lovely couple. All the best in your future together.

 

[EltonFrog]

Someone said above this is the second CC wedding. Who is the other couple?

 

[ianrauk]

Baggy and Chuffy iirc

 

[A Cyclist]

Congrats and have a good life together.

 

[Night Train]

So, @Arch and @Night Train, how's married life treating you? :-)

Very well, thank you for asking.
As Arch has said, we don't feel any different to the way we felt before so we must have been doing something right. We will just keep on doing it.

Thank you all for all the lovely messages of congratulations, it is much appreciated and so lovely to read.
I must admit that the whole wedding thing had me weeping with joy much of the time. Even the music we chose for the wedding ceremony, though tracks we have heard frequently and not thought too much about previously, would bring a tear to my eye at each hearing once we chose them for the day. Unfortunately not all the tracks were played as the ceremony went faster then expected, probably something to do with only have a single short sentence for our exchange of rings vows.
The speeches too were very emotional and I was struggling to hold back the tears as I spoke. It was the same as we reviewed the video of the speeches this morning that we received overnight.

It was a lovely, lovely day, very intimate and informal (aside from the formalities of getting legally married) with all the guests mingling and doing their own thing. Having children there pond dipping and randomly dancing was great, as was knowing that so much of the wedding was only made possible by the generosity of friends and family all doing their bit to make it happen and knowing that they were doing it because of their love and support for us.
And it is in front of our friends and family that our marriage was truly made, not the legal words, nor the bit of paper, nor the rings themselves mean as much to us in confirming our bond together.

Thank you all, again, for your lovely posts and messages.

NT

 

[Arch]

And very nice rings they are too, but they reminded me of this post:

Well remembered!

We have a friend who works on maintenance at Manchester Airport, it was him who mentioned that jubilee clips come in Ti. He hoped to be able to get us a used pair, but in the end couldn't source any. Buying new would have rather gone against our mean environmental principles, so we came up with Plan B. NT machined them from scrap stainless steel, and @spandex helped with the brazing in the groove running round them.

The whole jubilee clip idea came from the early days of our relationship, when NT's car broke a clutch pedal linkage, and he fixed it at the roadside using a multipack of jubilee clips from Halfords. I helped by handing them to him, as he had his head in the footwell. I joked that one of the sizes was just right on my ring finger.

However, having a ring made by NT, which we'd designed together on a napkin at our local coffee shop, is priceless.

 

[EltonFrog]

Very well, thank you for asking.
As Arch has said, we don't feel any different to the way we felt before so we must have been doing something right. We will just keep on doing it.

Thank you all for all the lovely messages of congratulations, it is much appreciated and so lovely to read.
I must admit that the whole wedding thing had me weeping with joy much of the time. Even the music we chose for the wedding ceremony, though tracks we have heard frequently and not thought too much about previously, would bring a tear to my eye at each hearing once we chose them for the day. Unfortunately not all the tracks were played as the ceremony went faster then expected, probably something to do with only have a single short sentence for our exchange of rings vows.
The speeches too were very emotional and I was struggling to hold back the tears as I spoke. It was the same as we reviewed the video of the speeches this morning that we received overnight.

It was a lovely, lovely day, very intimate and informal (aside from the formalities of getting legally married) with all the guests mingling and doing their own thing. Having children there pond dipping and randomly dancing was great, as was knowing that so much of the wedding was only made possible by the generosity of friends and family all doing their bit to make it happen and knowing that they were doing it because of their love and support for us.
And it is in front of our friends and family that our marriage was truly made, not the legal words, nor the bit of paper, nor the rings themselves mean as much to us in confirming our bond together.

Thank you all, again, for your lovely posts and messages.

NT

Its not often one reads a post on these pages that bring a big grin to the face and tears to the eyes at the same time.

 

[longers]

Absolutely wonderful. Couldn't have happened to two lovelier people. Very chuffed for you both.

 

[Arch]

"I'd like my wedding dress to have a train, please."

I made that gag a few times. "Most wedding dresses only have one train...."

I saw the fabric as a skirt in the window of Cath Kidston one day when I was working, and knew it was the one. I showed my workmate and he just said "Cool". So next time NT was over, I showed him, and he loved the idea, and even ran about the shop fetching sizes as I tried the dresses on. Apart from that only my Mum saw it in advance, and that was because she was making my jacket and needed to see the outfit for a good fit.

On first sight, she went silent for about 30 seconds, which is about 29 seconds longer than she's ever normally silent.... But I think she came to terms with it.

 

[Arch]

At first glance it looked like the little'un in the 'paperwork' photo is giving a one-finger salute

My older nephew. He and his brother seem to be natural posers. I think he was doing some sort of karate move, or else air-guitar, that's what they are normally doing.

His little brother garnered more attention a the reception, by falling in the pond. Poor thing, he'll never live that down. I'm going to promise to go and fall in a pond at his wedding...