4:15pm Thursday 10th December 2009
By Jess Childs
THIS year I have been invited to not one, but two Christmas weddings. Who are these people that are organised enough to hold a wedding at one of the busiest times of the year?!!
I’m not against it - two of the most loveliest people around our way are getting hitched in the very same church me and my beloved are a few days after Christmas and it promises to be a truly magical affair. The service is late in the evening and the path outside, as well as the church inside, promises to be a spectacularly candle-lit affair. The church itself, at some point in the past, seemingly fell from the skies and onto a cosy Welsh hillside and is in one of the most idyllic spots you can imagine.
In short it will be stunning - I’m against Christmas weddings for me that’s all.
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great, romantic time to get married. I love stepping out into town of an evening, even just to pick up a pint of milk, with my big coat on so I can gaze at the fairy lights on my way down to the Co-op and feel that reassuring nip in the air bite at my nose. I can’t wait until our living room is plastered (fingers crossed!) and the floor is polished so I can get the tree up and decorate the house with holly instead of emulsion and gloss for a change.
I love Christmas, but I hate New Year. I hate feeling that another year of my life has gone, never to be recovered. I hate the fact that it reminds you, whether you want it to or not, how people that were once in your life are in it no longer, and I hate the grind of January with nothing to look foward to.
This year, of course, I have everything to look forward to. I am still desperate for January and February to pass as quickly as possible but this time it’s for completely different reasons. And they will pass quickly because everyone seems hell bent on telling me so - “once January comes your big day will be here, there’ll be no time for anything”, they say. (Er, thanks).
It’s true though, it will be here before you know it - probably because I still have a million one things to do and only about three months in which to do them now. You won’t believe this but I still have the reception food to sort out, the invitations, bridesmaids accessories, menswear, flowers and cake. Eek! A friend of mine told me (even though I have recommended them before) that Just Flowers wholesalers in Hereford are great when it comes to getting hold of cheap and, in some cases, out of season flowers. There you are see? Despite me turning into a complete fruit cake over all this, I have been known to talk sense it seems (and I for one will be giving them a call before Christmas!).
So in short, I salute anyone who has a Christmas wedding and I think it’s a lovely time to get wed, just not for me. I haven’t even started my Christmas shopping yet (how I would plan a wedding alongside that is anyone’s guess) and, as you can tell from my previous entries and this one, even holding mine in March could be pushing it at this rate.
But, well, it’s not worth getting stressed over now is it?
I promise you more proper tips and websites in January (goodness knows I’ll be needing them myself by then). But for now, for 2009, if I’m honest I think I’m all wedding-ed out. I’m all about downing tools for the festive period and pouring myself a large glass of sherry, and I’d advise anyone who’s finding it all a bit much (or maybe that’s just me?) to do the same.
This is, after all, time to enjoy the calm before the storm is it not?...
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