Congratulations Mr and Mrs Jenkins!

I'm off out to Mass shortly so this is only going to be a short post, but I wanted to say publicly that I went to a beautiful wedding yesterday. I've been to a lot of weddings now, not the least my own, and I'm really finding a preference for weddings that come across as "personal" or "individual". I think that you can really tell when the bride and groom have been heavily involved in the planning because the wedding reflects their own idiosyncracies and their personalities. I think that Kris and Fran's wedding yesterday, which I was honoured to be a guest at, was just perfect. I can't claim to know them as well as I would like, but I very much suspect that even if their closest friends had sat down and planned the ideal wedding for them, they would not have come as close to the perfection that we experienced yesterday.

It does go without saying that the bride looked stunning, but I'll say it anyway. And the groom was also immaculate and managed to look completely comfortable and totally himself, something that not many grooms manage to pull off.

The ceremony was beautiful, I loved the concept of walking together from the church to the reception. The reception venue was stunning. I was extremely jealous... but that's the medievalist in me talking. I'd have loved to have stopped the reception and had a history lesson.

It was a delight to meet some of their friends and family. My biggest regret was that we had to creep out during the speeches to get our sleepy Dragonets home to bed. I trust that the rest of the evening continued as well as the rest of the day though and I offer my online congratulations to the newest Mr and Mrs Jenkins, who wake this morning as man and wife for the first time.