WEATHER: It’s still bloody HOT-overcast today and 31C
HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY: Dayna looking beautiful
BUMMER OF THE DAY: Too much vodka
WORD OF THE DAY: Buffalo
Soldier
Today we have a wedding to attend
Trevor and Dayna get married. Is there anything
better than attending a wedding? Friends and family reunited and the vows of a
couple committing to each other forever, it always tugs at the heart strings
and this wedding was to be no different.
We had a later breakfast this
morning at 9am. The kids (and adults)
were a little latter rousing this morning after such an epic day
yesterday. Swimming in the pool and
going up and down up and down and up and down that water slide also take the
wind out of their little energetic bodies as well by the end of the day. We saw the Bride at breakfast and besides the
worry on where the ceremony will be held (the weather looked a little dicey
today) she seemed quite calm and relaxed.
We really had no plans as suck this morning as the wedding ceremony was
at 4pm, so we headed back to the room to have a drink as we got the kids ready
for the pool. It was overcast today,
which never stops the kids from getting in the pool, but the water was a little
too cold for me to get into today, so with a cocktail in hand we just kept an
eye on the kids as we relaxed on ‘our’ sun chairs at ‘our’ pool that there
never seems to be too many people around.
It really felt like we had the whole resort to ourselves when we were
down here. The pool guys know our rooms
numbers and they also know our cocktails that we are drinking-is this a bad
thing? Shelly packed her Bose speaker
system, so with the music on with our own tunes, the kids happily playing in
the pool and us relaxing with cocktails in hand with our best friends-does life
get any better? At this point it is a
positive NO. Even though we weren’t that
hungry we ordered a club sandwich to tide us over till dinner which was going
to be after 6.30pm and it was one of the best club sangas I have ever had. I don’t eat them much anymore as I had a
really bad experience with one when I was in India like 5 years ago (very sick)
but maybe eating this one has turned my club sandwich tide.
We were back to the room at
2.00pm to scrub up for the wedding. The
kids have been itching to wear their new wedding dresses for months and now
they were able to put them on. Shane
knocked on the door passing telling me he was taking the kids down for a
practice run on their duties during the ceremony and that Shelly and SA were
nearly ready. I had 3 dresses to choose
from. I got Shelly to bring 2 from home
and I had one that I had bought with me for London in case we went to a show,
so it was nice to have a little variety but I hadn’t thought about my shoes and
ended up wearing my ballet looking Croc’s which didn’t look too bad really, but
may have not been my first shoe of choice.
I also didn’t have a bag, so I compromised and used the drawstring hair
dryer bag as it was black, and as long as I had the words ‘hair dryer’ facing
into me all night then no-one would be the wiser. It would have been nice to also have some
hair straighteners as the humidity gives my hair that scarecrow straw look about
it, and no matter how much non frizz I slapped on the ends it was having no
effect. Oh well, some things you just
cannot change. One drink later, we
headed down to where the ceremony was to be held and waited for the Bride to
arrive. Trev was looking like a nervous
Groom, but they had actually married under Australian Law a week earlier, so it
really was a done deal and not sure why Trev seemed so unsettled. It is a big testament to both Trev and Dayna
that they had 57 people travel to Phuket for their special day, that’s a lot of
people for an overseas wedding.
Dayna was only a few minutes
late. We could see her walking along one
of the corridors on the other side of the reception out of her building and
even from there she looked a vision of beauty.
They had a Thai celebrant that was actually quite funny and he was
letting us know how the ceremony was to go and what we were expected to
do. The kids entered first with Tess,
Hads and then Zoe and they held little baskets with flower petals in them and
they tossed them on their way in. They
looked so smart and so serious and they did a marvelous job. Next was Hunter and he had the rings tied on
a pillow and then the Bride with her father Barry, and Dayna looked
beautiful. The second that she came into
sight Trev had tears in his eyes, it was so sweet. The ceremony was beautiful as well and the
highlight for me was Dayna’s Aunt Glynnis’s speech. It bought a tear to my eye, it was heartfelt,
the words were poignant and special and written from the heart and she also
nearly lost it while doing her reading.
It finished with a combining of sands to become one and then the ‘you
may kiss the Bride kiss’. We had to get
busy with the photos as the weather started to close in and just as the last 2
family shots had been taken it started to spit a little. It was good for us ‘novice’ photographers, we
got to ride on the coat tails of the ‘official’ photographer and I got all the
family photos of the Elks and Randall’s which was great.
It was now 5pm and the reception
didn’t start till 6.30pm. So we made our
way back to the room and had a few quite beverages. Brad and Jodie had flown in this morning from
a wedding that they had attended in Oreland, so it was nice to catch up with
them. I sued this time to upload my
photos I had just taken to Facebook.
Some people give me hassle with the speed that I do load things, but I
need to make the most of internet and connection time. If I don’t keep on top of it all it snowballs
and then it just makes it hard to catch up, take my blog for instance when I
was 22 days behind. I will never get
that far behind again, well I hope not anyway.
So load I did while I had connection.
Considering we were in an international hotel I would have thought the
internet would have been better. It
wasn’t free, I had to pay 20USD for 24 hour access-this was 24 hours of
internet v’s over a 24 hour period, so I didn’t mind paying, but I had drama’s
with my password not working, I was issued a new one, which didn’t work and in
the end they must have given me a staff password as it was now valid for 30
days. It worked but of you hadn’t been
on for more than 15 minutes it would boot you off and you would have to
re-login in again blah blah blah…..damn internet worries.
We lost track of time as Shane
rang us at 6.29pm and said the Bride and Groom were nearly ready to enter the
reception, the beauty of us being in the main building was it only took us a
second to down the last of our drinks, grab the kids and catch the lift to where
we had to get to. Perfect-we were right
on time, don’t know why the Bridesmaid was looking so worried!!!! Sorry
Glenda. We found out seats and we were
all on different tables, I was lucky to have Brad and Jodie on my table though,
so I wasn’t totally on my own. The
reception went well, the speeches, the cake, the bridal waltz and the buffet
food was amazing with plenty of choice and I think the best lasagna I have ever
eaten in my life. The bar was set up
just outside the doors which didn’t seem to slow us down with who ever went
outside for a drink also got drinks for the rest of us, so they flowed
plentiful all night which at the time is great, but the next morning I knew was
not going to be great at all. There was
one more thing they had to do and that was the throwing of the bridal
bouquet. I wasn’t that fussed on getting
up there, let some proper single ladies an opportunity to catch the bouquet,
but Shelly and Sandy were having none of that and before I knew it they were
all calling me up there, so if I was going to go up I was going to catch the
damn thing, so after limbering up a little, throwing the elbows out I stood
directly behind Dayna and she threw it and it came straight for me to the
disappointment to some little people.
The theory is whoever catches the bouquet will be the next one to get
married. I’m not sure if I will be next,
but marriage is on the cards, Zeme and I have spoken a little about it, not
much as there is a lot to happen before that, but after being divorced it has
not put me off the institution of marriage and I know I will get married again
somewhere down the track.
After all the formalities were
done, we ripped out our funny glasses and large blowup microphones and then
continued to party the night away. There
was a DJ for entertainment and Sandy was all over the song requests early and
gave all our ‘usual’ songs to play over the course of the night. By the end of the reception it was like he
was our own personal DJ. He only had a
few songs missing but was more than happy to accommodate all our requests. The kids didn’t stop dancing all night and
Hunter had moves that I hadn’t seen before he kept them coming till 11.15pm
when the lights came on and it was time to leave the party.
What a great night and even
though we shouldn’t have, we stopped at the bar for one last drink before
heading back to the rooms. We certainly
didn’t need any more alcohol so with one cocktail to finish the night upon
leaving the bar we stopped to say goodnight to some fellow wedding guests and
when Shelly and I went to leave there was no sign of Sandy. So we thought she must have gone back to the
room and we made our way to the lifts.
Shelly and I still don’t know why, but we turned around to have a look
at the bar one last time and that’s when we saw Sandy asleep on one of the
couches covered in pillows with her 2 blowup microphones still in her
hands. It was hilarious and after taking
a few photos we helped her up and we all went back to my room for a night cap
of Baileys, again another drink we didn’t need.
Sandy stayed for one and then hit the sack, Shelly and I had another one
and chatted till 3.30am in the morning when we decided it was time to pull up
stumps.
So congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Elkin.
Thank-you for letting me be a
part of your special day and as the Thai people say "love you long
time"
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