iVillage brides - Michelle and Martin

Then that was it, all the planning, stress and fussing was over. We got to the door of the church and the vicar greeted us.

As we were walking up the aisle Martin smiled at me. When we got to the top he told me I looked beautiful and my grin got even wider. All through the service we just kept smiling at each other.

During the hymns the little girl I look after who is only 2 was singing Bob the Builder. At one point she decided to take her shoes off so she just sat down in the aisle and removed them. She and Martin play this game where they argue over whose Michelle I am. One of them says 'My 'chelle' and the other one says 'No, she's my my-chelle'. During our vows she was shouting 'Martin, no, she's my 'chelle. Martin no!' I think everyone found this rather amusing.

When we had signed the register I thought the vicar must have missed some of the ceremony out, because it didn't seem like five minutes since we had started. But it really was over.

We had agreed with the photographer that he would take 80 photos for us to choose 50 for the album. Before the service had even started he had taken more than 50. He got completely carried away with how picturesque the church and village are and we figure he took at least 250 photos. We had an hour and a half of photos afterwards. Everyone got a bit fed up and slowly trickled indoors. When we were doing some photos by the river two of the ducks of the river started mating, which was amusing!

Finally we all went in and had something to eat. At this point Martin admitted he wasn't very hungry because he felt hungover! Men! He and the best man and the best man's girlfriend and her sister had drunk five bottles of red wine between them the night before. This I found very funny, partly because Martin and his best man kept blaming each other.

The speeches were really nice. My little brother had decided he wanted to make a speech so he thanked everyone for coming and said he hoped they had a nice time. Martin's speech was lovely. He started by toasting me, which nearly set me off, but not quite.

At about 7.30pm we left for our hotel and that is where I will leave it.

Talk to Michelle, known as tiggernumber1 on the message boards, and other iVillage brides-to-be on the I'm Getting Married message board.