The Big Day
It's 5am on the morning of the wedding. I can't sleep.
Wow, what a hectic week it's been! Everything changed into second gear last weekend when we commenced 'operation cleaning' in order to get ready for the arrival of the overseas guests. On Monday me, Stu and Annis went on a day trip to to buy all the alcohol for the wedding. That was a very long day indeed, and all the drama would require a whole entry of it's own, but suffice to say that even though it was exhausting and Stu was crippled, it was worth it – not only for the saving we made on the booze, but also for the fun that was had.
Stu's family and my Maid of Honour arrived on Wednesday. In the evening Miikka surprised Stu with a boys' night out as – even though it was in the planning at some point but proved impossible in the end – no-one from the UK had been able to attend Stu's stag weekend. Us girls opted for a 'quiet' night in with some pizza and Bailey's.
Yesterday morning the Groom and the Best Man (who crawled home at around 2.30am the previous night) were looking a bit on the green side when we started logging all the boxes of stuff over to the party venue. It turned into a very long day of decorating and preparing for the wedding. We didn't get back home until 8pm, and we still had the 'diary book' – where all these entries and pictures of the hen/stag do's etc. end up – to put together, not to mention that Stu hadn't even started writing his story of the stag weekend yet. We opted for a sauna and some dinner first, and finally got stuck in the task at hand at about 10pm. We were still at it by 1am… By 2am some of us were getting a bit delirious so we decided to go to bed. And now, here I am three hours later, wide awake. My head is adamantly running through lists of things I still need to remember to do, even though my body would like nothing better than to be unconscious for a few hours at least. Oh well.
It's all so scarily close now. I suppose it's getting to that point where it's out of our hands now. In a day it will all be just a memory. I sure hope it will be a good one.
