Plan of The Day

Friday

English Tradition is to get the groom as drunk as possible the night before the wedding and then shave off his eyebrows and put him on a plane to Auckland or similar. Anyone in Canterbury early enough to catch the pubs before last orders (11 pm) is invited to join him at the Miller´s Arms on Friday evening.

(Of course anyone actively engaged in getting my husband to be inubriated the night before our wedding will have to face the consequences of being soundly horsewhipped by my father on the wedding day.)

Saturday

As stated in the invitation, the wedding ceremony will take place at the County Hotel on the High Street at 1 pm. Afterwards a double decker (and in worst case scenario jamming people into other guests´cars) will take us back to the farm for the party. There is plenty of overnight parking at the farm, of course, which is also easy to get to by bus from Canterbury for those who want to pick their car up the next morning. The vague and extremely weather-dependent plan is dinner and speeches/sketches etc in the garden followed by a barn dance in the barn, so please make sure you can dance and walk on lawns in the shoes you are wearing!

Sunday

My (Charlotte´s) parents would like to invite everyone, but particularly those who have come a long way for the wedding to come back to the farm on the Sunday for a barbecue-cum-brunch. After that, we´ll pack you off down to the seaside for the afternoon...