I'm married!
Posted: Jun 21st 2004, 7:02 am
Well, it finally happened... 20 long months of planning everything to the nth degree (CG, you'd have been proud of my new-found obsessiveness), worrying about guestlists, tableplans, colour-coordinated confetti (I'm NOT kidding), family politics, food, wine, DJs and music (much heartache over song choices) etc etc etc, we did it!
It was a truly great day, everyone had such a good time, and it really does blow my mind quite how far people are willing to go to show their love and support. We're STILL getting cards and presents and general well-wishes from people we don't even really know (think Mr. S's primary school teacher from like, 20 years ago).
Honeymoon was a blast - Sri Lanka is a fantastic country; I'd recommend it to anyone. If you've never been to the developing world before it's a good introduction. On looking at the photos my dad pronounced it 'about 3 steps up from India', although obviously it depends on where you go. Amazing people; they have a historical problem of terrorism (which makes it a very cheap country to visit) with the LTTE but they honestly do seem to be coming out of it now as everyone has realised the value of peace. As usual it's the minority ruining it for the majority and 99.9% of Sri Lankans hate it. But despite the various internal problems the people I met were extremely hopeful for the future. Tourism is looking up (we went in low season and we were seriously one of very few white people there). The drawbacks to the country were how long it took to get anywhere internally - roads are a mess and the driving defies belief (Mglenn, even you wouldn't last five minutes, I fear) and is best left to the locals. We didn't dare get behind the wheel... it's easier to get a taxi. It takes ages... 5 hours to drive around 70 miles, mainly because everyone drives like a lunatic and who has right of way depends on who has the bigger vehicle (not a joke - hairpin bends notwithstanding), if you can believe it, so we didn't get to see the ancient cities but we saw some really cool stuff anyway...
I'm working on finding a good site to load up some photos I have. They're mainly honeymoon at the moment but we're expecting people's digitals of the wedding to filter through soon via email. As you're probably aware, I'm a technical fool. Can anyone recommend a good, free, site where I can post around 75-100 photos? I'll post the link here when I've done, for anyone who's interested in seeing...
It's good to be back, nonetheless, and I've enjoyed reading the activity on the site, which seems to have picked up somewhat.
It was a truly great day, everyone had such a good time, and it really does blow my mind quite how far people are willing to go to show their love and support. We're STILL getting cards and presents and general well-wishes from people we don't even really know (think Mr. S's primary school teacher from like, 20 years ago).
Honeymoon was a blast - Sri Lanka is a fantastic country; I'd recommend it to anyone. If you've never been to the developing world before it's a good introduction. On looking at the photos my dad pronounced it 'about 3 steps up from India', although obviously it depends on where you go. Amazing people; they have a historical problem of terrorism (which makes it a very cheap country to visit) with the LTTE but they honestly do seem to be coming out of it now as everyone has realised the value of peace. As usual it's the minority ruining it for the majority and 99.9% of Sri Lankans hate it. But despite the various internal problems the people I met were extremely hopeful for the future. Tourism is looking up (we went in low season and we were seriously one of very few white people there). The drawbacks to the country were how long it took to get anywhere internally - roads are a mess and the driving defies belief (Mglenn, even you wouldn't last five minutes, I fear) and is best left to the locals. We didn't dare get behind the wheel... it's easier to get a taxi. It takes ages... 5 hours to drive around 70 miles, mainly because everyone drives like a lunatic and who has right of way depends on who has the bigger vehicle (not a joke - hairpin bends notwithstanding), if you can believe it, so we didn't get to see the ancient cities but we saw some really cool stuff anyway...
I'm working on finding a good site to load up some photos I have. They're mainly honeymoon at the moment but we're expecting people's digitals of the wedding to filter through soon via email. As you're probably aware, I'm a technical fool. Can anyone recommend a good, free, site where I can post around 75-100 photos? I'll post the link here when I've done, for anyone who's interested in seeing...
It's good to be back, nonetheless, and I've enjoyed reading the activity on the site, which seems to have picked up somewhat.
) paid off.
seriously?! good grief... that's pretty good 
Congratulations Starbug!!! 
I would love to see the pics.