Chris and Mels Big Day

Thanks to Mel we’ve now got a finished directions map in PDF format available for download. If your not sure of your way then take a look. You can open or download the map from the directions page and there’s also a link to download free PDF reader software if you haven’t got any there already.

Make sure you take a look at the directions beforehand if you’re unsure where you going as Shrewsbury is a confusing little town and a jumble of one-ways systems.

If anyone would like a version of the map in another format (Word, GIF, JPEG, PNG) etc then let us know and we’ll sort it out.

It’s getting close now with only eight weeks to go to the wedding. We spent today in Shrewsbury, first at a meeting with the events co-ordinator at the Lion Hotel (Vicki) to go over the details of the wedding breakfast. Following that Mel was off to the hair dressers just down the road for a hair trial and then down our florists to decide on the wedding flowers.

Managed to get some nice pics of the castle on my mobile phone while we were there, as last time we visited they had scaffolding covering the front of it. You can check out the pics on our Flickr pages and there’s a ‘taster’ for you here.

We’ve not had a lot of responses yet. Admittedly we did make the classic mistake of not including a ‘reply-by-date’ which we considered but then forgot to include when we printed the invitation inners.

Don’t forget to write and let us know whether or not you can make it, and if you are coming to the ceremony and the wedding breakfast that follows, don’t forget that we need your menu choices back. If you don’t respond then you don’t get fed

We hope to hear from you all soon.

We’ve booked it, our honeymoon is all set. The deposit has been paid to the tour guides, Mel booked the flights last night and we’re already excited about it. Only trouble is we’ve got to wait till October for it! You can read about where we’re going and what we’re gonna be up to on the honeymoon page.

To help unwind after the wedding we’ve booked a few days away in the Lake District to put pur feet up and enjoy ourselves. We’ll be checking into the Applegarth Hotel for three nights from the Tuesday onwards. We’ll be taking in the sites, enjoying the walks, maybe trying our hand at sailing or some equestrian activites, sampling the local cuisine and ales, and hopefully we may even get a little sunshine and good weather while we there. Nice!