03.04.10 Our Day by Design: Processional

Once we heard the pianist start playing, it was time for the bridesmaids to start walking down the aisle. You enter the church from the side so you have to walk along first until you turn and go down the aisle, the plan was the second pair would go when the first go do the top of the aisle, then the third pair when the second got there etc with me and my dad leaving a bit longer until we made our appearance! Graham was looking slightly nervous at this point!

Then it was my turn! I grabbed hold of my dad and we managed to walk fairly slow down the aisle, which we really had to do with the length of my dress! I tried to look at as many people as I could but its hard when you are also concentrating on keeping calm and not tripping up etc! I think I managed to smile a bit at least which you can see in the photos. Someone told me ages ago to not hold your flowers to high up otherwise they would hide some of your dress but to be honest that is the last thing you think about at the time and as you can see I totally ignored it!

Then all of a sudden we were at the bottom and I remember smiling at Graham, who looked a lot more emotional that me! My dad went to stand beside my mum quite quickly so I never got a chance to give his a kiss. The song we had chosen was quite long so we had time to whisper to each other and Graham told me I looked beautiful.

Then it was time for our ceremony to start...

(All images by Craig & Eva Sanders)