Author: Sara-Jayne Jones

The Groom portraits were taken whilst we were getting ready and lounging in the lobby.  I love them.  My own prince. Gav with his parents… Gav with his immediate family… Gav and his siblings…

Gavin meanwhile had Nelio and Misty with him earlier… Misty later said he was acting like a model, ha ha.  Here, he is, messing around for those awkward “I’ve already gotten ready but now I’m doing it for the camera” shots… He claims he had to be wrestled out to the Yacht Club Gazebo…..

The elevator doors part and there are people milling everywhere, of course ~ but it felt like time stood still. The rest of my bridesmaids and our families and friends ~ everyone except Gavin and Garth (his brother) were in the lobby to the Yacht Club, waiting for me. This is completely untraditional but I…

Now, across town (and when I say “town” I mean “across the corridor and around the corner”) a very handsome young man was getting up (albeit a good few hours later than we had) and getting himself ready… He put on his cufflinks that he loved so much… …put on his coat with the help…

After that it was time to have photos of my pretty little shoes that I had searched so long for…. My mum got the Benjamin Adams shoes out, and the two other pairs I had with me for our dance and an optional other pair……..and then I broke it to my mum. I wasn’t going…

I wasn’t posing in the most glamourous of ways whilst they were dressing me… Yes, I was holding onto things that were “precious” to me until Misty pointed out that I might not want photos with my hands on my breasts! Of course, I couldn’t then stop laughing…. Then I was eventually starting to pull…