So, my father calls me into his office - at the end of September - and he says to me "Robbie, what Fridays do you have free in November", and I said to him "only the 25th!" He replied, "I'll take it. I'll get married on that day", and with that quick conversation, he handed the entire thing over to me. The planning. The organising. The guest list. Everything. Aaaah! In almost any other month of the year, this would have been a big job, but in November, it was a huge job.
So I called in my dream team. My friends..... Amy Chan to do all the hair and makeup for the bride and bridesmaids - and ever so kindly, she did me over too. Thanks Amy! xxxxxx And the delightful and super-talented Elaine Chew of Butterfly Philosophy for all the gorgeous flowers. I knew she would just know what I wanted, without me having to think about it. And Milena Dekic, sweet gorgeous photographer extraordinaire of I Love Wednesdays to capture it all. With me in charge of the ceremony - and everything else - we had it under control.
We planned to do the ceremony overlooking the water at Drummoyne. We planned for a sunshiny day - (of course we did) - but we got the wettest week we had had in ages. Torrential rain, for the whole day - except - miraculously - the 30 minutes or so we needed for a midday ceremony. It sprinkled a little, but only a little....
It wasn't the easiest ceremony to write. Dad isn't what you'd call romantic. Lily is very quiet. We had 60 guests that I knew - or who at least knew who I was. It had to be good. I had to get it right. It had to be believable. And once I got started, I really quite enjoyed it. Dad had to do as I told him - for once. I was able to get them all laughing - him too. And I got to see the reactions of all of them - because none of them really knew I had it in me! ( That was fun!)
As soon as the ceremony was over and poor Milena had stood as high on her toes as she possibly could to get a photo of everyone together, we raced back upstairs to the restaurant for what turned out to be a really great afternoon, on a really dark, unbelievably wet afternoon.
And all day, I had to keep reminding myself not to say the following "I married my father, today!" For obvious reasons.
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