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August 13, 2006
Emily & Phil Get Married!
Well, this weekend has been a VERY eventful one. Mostly for the fact that Emily Webb got married to Phil Coleman and what a great day it was.
We arrived at Letton Hall Christian Centre in Norfolk (in the middle of what seemed no where) on the Friday evening as Laraine and I had volunteered to help with the table decorations. Little did we know that it actually meant please can we lay all the 25 tables! We spent 2 hours on the Friday night setting a few up in our 'staging area' at the back of a gigantic marquee that must have been about 100 meters long and about 25 wide with three sections. We realised we might have quite a task on our hands when after two hours we'd only done a total of 5 tables! 20 to go!!
The next morning (The Wedding Day) we decided that we would try and complete as many tables as possible in the morning as trying to lay that many tables between the ceremony and the meal would take forever, even if we did have lots of people helping. Fortunately in the morning we managed to rope in quite a few volunteers who also helped set some of the tables. Another 4 hours passed and we have managed to do 20 tables and had also managed to fit them all into the small area that was also to be the dance floor. One more hour and we had done all 25 tables! yay!! The next problem was getting them all moved down the huge marquee after the wedding service, but we'd worry about that one later..... onto the service itself!
Now there was this guy who did all the PA for the wedding who'd also turned up on the morning of the big day. Phil's dad had been worried about the amount of kit that would be needed to be able to amplify the length of this huge white monster marquee but he needn't have worried. Phil knew a chap called Richard who had more kit than Wembley. Richard turned up in a hire van with more flight cases than an Oasis concert and so the setting up began - very cool!
The wedding ceremony was about to begin when we saw a familiar face in Lucy Cairns who we'd said bye bye to at camp a week before and it was really nice to see her again. She had her whole family with her as we'd found out previously that completely randomly she'd grown up with Emily and by coincidence Lucy, Emily and Phil were chatting once about mentioned they had a friend called Laraine and then worked out that Emily actually lived with Laraine and was going to be her bridesmaid, very bizarre but that's what happens in these Christian circles!
Emily looked amazing as you can see in the images and Phil scrubbed up OK too! :) The band was awesome but we all knew they would be as they had Pete Webb in the band. I think the fact that they also had such an awesome PA and an equally awesome chap to run it all helped too. The wedding ceremony was really nice with God being the centre of the whole thing. Phil's family are great and most of it was conducted by someone from either the Webb of Coleman family, all of them giving God massive praise and thanks. It truly was a great wedding. 
Right, back onto Laraine and my bit..... we got everyone out of the tent as quickly as possible so that we could start moving tables from our staging area to the main part of the tent. What i failed to mention was the fact that it was chucking it down with rain outside the tent at this point and there was a wind that felt like the marquee could lift off at any moment..... well we began carrying all the tables (fully laid) all the way down the tent. This was a bit of a logistical nightmare, especially with far to many Chiefs and not enough Indians but hey, isn’t it always the way. But anyway, after about another 45 minutes of faffing around we managed to get all the tables in.... hmmm except for one and guess where it was and guess where it needed to go. That's right, it had been missed off literally the far end of the tent from where it currently was sitting. So 5 of us got around the table and (VERY CAREFULLY) lifted the table over all the others dodging chairs and marquee support beams to get it to the other end! Apart from a couple of glasses falling over on the table, we made it! It was quite comical by the end!
So then the tables were in place. The rain kept coming, anyone by a door (including Dan Usher and Me) got drenched (bad planning on our part, we could have moved our table to the middle!) but it was a great day. To top it off at the end, there was a power cut at about 10.30 which lasted nearly 2 hours in the whole village. All the city people were saying "This wouldn’t happen in London" but then again, it would have made the day far less interesting!
About 30 people were left in the Drawing Room when I returned from dropping Dan and Sabrina off at their hotel and there was a chap who seemed able to play absolutely anything on a piano and everyone was singing along. It was a great way to finish off a great day. I think that Emily and Phil thoroughly enjoyed it and it is definitely a day we won't forget in a hurry.
The next day, we all had to dismantle everything which took most of the morning. I'm quite pleased we had people to do it at ours. I think that I’ll be staying out of the wedding organising business for a while!
Posted by daveszt at August 13, 2006 07:57 AM
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What a great story and fantastic pics, you told it really well mate, really well!! It was great to see you and Laraine and you did an absolutely amazing job! Quality, Mint and Pukka in fact!
Posted by: Matt Currey at August 15, 2006 03:54 PM