David and Kathryn's wedding
Despite the intermittent rain in Auckland, David and Kathryn’s wedding went without a hitch. The couple looked very happy during the whole day (as you’d hope they would!). The preparations had been extensively made, so much so that there was a list of the order that the group photographs would be made in. Thus the group from the UK knew that we were the last photograph…
There were eight of us who knew David and Kathryn from Holy Trinity Brompton church - me and Paul, Byron, Sean, Nathan, Kyra, Alison, and the special surprise guest, Leo. This did mean that we ended up with a cross-section broadly similar to that of HTB as a whole - two Englishmen, two Kiwis and four South Africans, to attend a wedding of two more Kiwis.
The food was fantastic - we all piled our plates up high with meat, seafood and some salad, and some of us went up for seconds. I’ll let David and Kathryn work out who that might have been (for once it wasn’t me…)!
The reception was in a great venue in One Tree Hill. We wandered outside during the drinks and canapés part of the evening to hear the melodious waft of bagpipes coming from the hills. On closer inspection, we saw a man playing his bagpipes to a large herd of cattle. Presumably his neighbours had complained about him practising at home, and he’d been forced to go out into the hills whenever he wanted to play.
The speeches were great, with Kathryn’s father in particular being good value. He undertook a merciless teasing campaign against David, but all seemed to be friends in the end…!
All in all, it was a great day. It was good to see a group of friends again after a couple of months, although it was slightly bizarre to have a whole group of us together in a completely different country.
There were eight of us who knew David and Kathryn from Holy Trinity Brompton church - me and Paul, Byron, Sean, Nathan, Kyra, Alison, and the special surprise guest, Leo. This did mean that we ended up with a cross-section broadly similar to that of HTB as a whole - two Englishmen, two Kiwis and four South Africans, to attend a wedding of two more Kiwis.
The food was fantastic - we all piled our plates up high with meat, seafood and some salad, and some of us went up for seconds. I’ll let David and Kathryn work out who that might have been (for once it wasn’t me…)!
The reception was in a great venue in One Tree Hill. We wandered outside during the drinks and canapés part of the evening to hear the melodious waft of bagpipes coming from the hills. On closer inspection, we saw a man playing his bagpipes to a large herd of cattle. Presumably his neighbours had complained about him practising at home, and he’d been forced to go out into the hills whenever he wanted to play.
The speeches were great, with Kathryn’s father in particular being good value. He undertook a merciless teasing campaign against David, but all seemed to be friends in the end…!
All in all, it was a great day. It was good to see a group of friends again after a couple of months, although it was slightly bizarre to have a whole group of us together in a completely different country.
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