Thank you to everyone who sent us good wishes or gifts and all those who helped us have the most wonderful wedding.

Here are some of the many images and memories we gathered together. Sally and Don Reid kindly took most of the ceremony and reception photos.

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Ceremony

Ceremony Photos

Tilly’s Reading

Love Is Friendship Caught Fire by Laura Hendricks

Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.
It is loyalty through good and bad times.
It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Love is content with the present, hopes for the future, and does not brood over the past.
It is the day-in and day-out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward common goals.
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack.
If you do not have it, no matter what else there is, it is not enough.

There is a suggestion that this poem should be attributed to Jeremy Taylor, clergyman, c.1600s.

Ceremony Music

Music to enter: Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 – Johann Sebastian Bach
Music while signing the register: Crazy Love – Rita Wilson, Keith Urban
Music to exit: This Will Be Our Year – The Testy Brothers

Reception Photos

Party

Party Photos

Rufus Ruffcut

The Band

Alison Rolls – vocals
Craig Broadfoot – keyboard
David Gray – vocals and guitar
Di Whitaker – vocals
Hamish Stewart – drums and whistle (we loved the whistle)
Lawrie Wright – bass guitar
Rhys Munday – percussion

Setlist

Blue Light Boogie
Weather With You
Down Home Girl
Ain’t No Sunshine
Chuck E’s in Love
Lucky
Nick of Time
Whatever Gets You Through
Inner City Blues
I want you back
Woody & Dutch
Dreams
Love the One
Fever
Signed Sealed
Valerie
Love Potion
I Wish
Danny’s All Star Joint
Feeling Good
Flip Flop and Fly

Honeymoon Photos

History of the Silver Spoon

Clair’s wedding ring was formed from a 1937 vintage spoon that was originally made in Sheffield. It was crafted by Anne Arkle of Jaspersparkle in Anglesey.

Spoon rings originated in 17th-century England and were originally used as wedding rings. Servants could not afford to have wedding rings made of precious metals so they would steal the silverware from the manor houses and have them turned into wedding rings. For a time you could tell who the servants were working for by the crest on their rings.

No doubt convicts transported from England to Tasmania in the early 1800s were convicted of such offences as ‘Stealing a Silver Spoon’ or ‘Larceny by a servant’.

A gesture of love, commitment or responsibility earned 7-years transportation beyond the seas.

Like all wedding rings, a spoon ring denotes love, commitment and responsibility. The initial meaning likely conveyed a sense of risk as well. Their modern meaning is one of modesty, although their practicality is still pervasive too.
Source: jaspersparkle .co.uk/about