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iVillage brides - Michelle and Martin
After a 4-month engagement, iVillage member tiggernumber1 (Michelle) married her fiance Martin. Here's what she had to say about the big day
I arrived at my mum's on Friday morning and the marquee was already up and looking fantastic. The walls and ceiling were cream, the swags around the top of the walls were dark green and there were two chandeliers. It took me a while to get my head around the fact that it was for Martin and I!
Around lunchtime we picked up the flowers for the church. One of my mum's friends had offered to decorate the church so we left the flowers with her. I went and had a long soak in the bath and spent about two hours shaving and preening, reading and relaxing.
Later I went up to the church with my cousin Sarah, my chief bridesmaid, to put the ribbons on the ends of the pews. The church looked beautiful. As we got home, Martin's sister and her fiance arrived so I showed them round the village and church. They loved it and said they could see why we wanted to move back there one day.
Around 5pm Martin appeared on his way to his best man's house. His workmates had decorated his motorbike. They tied balloons and an L-plate along with two signs saying, 'Honk, I'm getting married'. He stayed for an hour or so.
After supper my mum, dad, two brothers, Martin's mum and her fiance, Martin's sister and her fiance and I all sat and chatted for several hours. I then decided at 9.50pm to go to bed. I went upstairs to lay everything out to discover my mum hadn't taken my dress out of my bag to hang. So I had to press the skirt. I finally got to bed at about 11pm.
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