A long time coming - since B.E (Before Emails)

Karen and Mike got married, hooray! It has taken long enough, I remember Karen writing me a letter (proof of how long, before emails!) in my first year at University saying that she'd found someone lovely - it was Mike.
She texted me a few weeks ago and asked if I'd be able to go, of course I could she is my oldest and one of my best friends, I wouldn't miss it for the world. The wedding was in Liverpool at 11.30am on Friday. So Richard took the day off and we travelled up on Thursday, he found a great little apartment for us to stay in in the centre of town. When we arrived Tilly who had been an angel in the car, she slept the whole journey and continued to sleep even when we moved her from the car, to the room and then on the dining room table on her blanket!

The wedding was lovely, short and sweet. Karen looked beautiful in a long cream skirt and corset style top. She did spend the whole time fussing and pulling at the top as she kept saying she was showing a lot of cleavage but it wasn't that bad and what better time to show it off? It's been a long time since I've seen Karen's mum and brother Rob, to me they hadn't aged a bit. Dan has grown so tall and looked and behaved almost fatherly.

Tilly was asleep when we arrived and I'd joked that she'd wake up when the ceremony started, sure enough as soon as we walked into the room and the registrar said "Welcome" she started to grizzle and I had to leave. I was delighted when Richard popped out a few seconds later after she hadn't settled to take her so I didn't miss the whole thing. I sat at the back, one hear listening out for Tilly. Richard had given me his camera but he knows I don't really know how to use it so I tried to take a few snaps but they're all out of focus. After they had exchanged vows and rings, the registrar called Dan forward to be almost official photographer, it made me laugh as he went up snapping away on his Polaroid while Rob stood on the other side with a very professional looking camera. It was quite funny. There were lots of laughs and it was a really nice service.

When I got out, I fed Tilly and we stood around chatting. They were married, hooray.
We made our way over to the restaurant for the reception, it was quite some way, the GPS had packed up and we didn't have a map, thankfully it was almost a straight road and we got there. It was right on the corner of the infamous Penny Lane.

Karen had got changed, which is a shame but she had another lovely outfit on. We had to carry Tilly in her pram upstairs. I wondered how much of the meal I'd get through before she woke again, but surprisingly she stayed asleep for the whole thing, it was wonderful timing. It also let us have a lovely meal. We always knew that we'd not be able to stay for the evening reception, we had to get back home, but we popped along to their flat before we left. Tilly was awake, had a quick babble and some bare time on the floor and then we fed her again and left them to party.