Husband and Wife

Gary and I tied the knot on the 29Th February 2008. Initially it was planned, to marry at the registry office in Cairns, but my mother wasn't too pleased with this idea. Instead we were married at Trinity Beach. We only invited our nearest and dearest. We had a welcoming toast before the ceremony ( A glass of champagne ), a blessing of the ring and the significance of the ring was shared during the ceremony. My wedding ring once belonged to my Nana and her sister. My nan's sister died of shrapnel wounds during the bombardment of Rotterdam in World War 2 and her husband allowed my grand-parents to use the ring for their wedding as they couldn't afford to buy one at the time. You know how something always seems to go wrong at a wedding. Ours was perfect, except the celebrant informed us before the ceremony that she wasn't well and had suffered with gastric all day. Well I was having visions of our celebrant running of to the toilet frequently during the ceremony, but she managed to get through without the expected delays. After becoming Mrs Anneloes Warrener, we took our guests to the Atlantis Beach restaurant for a meal. We were given all our presents here and in Dutch tradition I opened them all right there. We all had a fantastic meal and we called it a night. Our wedding was a simple and low key event, but that is how we wanted it.