Bride to be Claire is getting really close to her big day now, today she talks about tradition and their plans for the night before the Big Day.
‘Twas the night before… The wedding!
You may recognise the first part of the title to this month’s post as being from a renowned Christmas poem which builds all the excitement of Christmas Eve and all the excitement it brings… Stay with me cwtchers, in my wedding build up haze, I haven’t completely lost the plot and started rambling aimlessly about Christmas!
At the moment, nothing fills me with more excitement than thinking about mine and Mr Double L’s wedding day and also, the final build up to the oh so special day it’s going to be. Every time I think about it, I feel a flood of emotions and I just can’t wait for us to be Mr and Mrs Double L! I’m also super excited for the night before our wedding and it does feel a little bit like Christmas is approaching – You all know the feeling, either from when you were babes in arms, or whether you’ve always been like an excited child at the thought of Christmas weeeeeell into your adulthood and waited with bated breath every year since 2011 for the now all famous John Lewis ad to have its first airing!
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That night before Christmas is special and the night before the C&C wedding is certain to top any Christmas Eve’s I’ve had. I’ve also just realised that the night before is going to be, pretty much, the only “traditional” part to our wedding – I’ll be spending the night at my parents while Mr Double L will stay at ours with his best man. My plan is, once all the day before prep has been completed at the Norwegian Church, I’ll head to my parents for an evening of bubbles and nibbles where my excitement will undoubtedly be, it’s safe to say, uncontrollable!
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I’m very lucky to have a best friend who is the world’s greatest hairdresser so on the morning of the wedding, she’ll be tipping up to my parents to work her magic on me, my sister and mother… Rewind two years ago and my lovely best friend did exactly the same for my sister’s wedding.
There has also been some talk of Mr Double L squeezing in an extremely early hair appointment on the morning of the wedding at said best friend’s house to be coiffed and styled for the big day!
Make up wise, I’m again, very lucky to have been a customer of Soul Beauty salon in Ystrad Mynach (which is all of about ten minutes drive to my parents house) for quite a few years. Tina, who’s the owner, is honestly the nicest lady you’ll ever meet and she was responsible for making my mother, sister and I look radiant beauties (yep, I’m bigging us up here!) at my sister’s wedding.
You’ll know, from my last blog post , that I’m not a huge make up wearer and the last thing I’d want is a dramatic transformation on the day of the wedding from me, to a person with a full face of make up that Mr Double L is squinting at to check that it really is me under all that war paint! The only person I want coming anywhere near me with a make up set on the day of the wedding is the lovely Tina who I trust a million percent. So, Tina will also be making an appearance at my parents’ house on the morning of the wedding to wave her magic make up wands and turn me from bare faced Claire to subtly made up bride to be!
Once the celebrations have ended *sob* we’ll spend our first night together as Mr and Mrs Llewellyn at Jolyons at Number 10 on Cathedral Road in Cardiff.
Jolyons at Number 10
My parents, sister and family friends also have rooms booked at Jolyons so, the plan is, that we all get together the following morning for a tasty breakfast then, me and Mr Double L will head off into the sun (come on British summertime, be kind to us!) to start our married life together… With, by then, our little Baby Double L to join us for the journey!
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