DAY 8 - Our Wedding Day! - Getting Ready
I wasn't expecting to sleep at all the night before the wedding I thought I would be either excited or worried about something. I shared the bed with Suzie and Talisa took the couch, to be honest I think we could have all fit in the bed as it was huge but I'm glad we didn't as Suzie has now told me Talisa was talking in her sleep. I didn't hear this at all and it turns out I slept better than Suzie!
I think I woke because Suzie turned over and I had no idea what the time was so I just laid in bed hoping that it wasn't the early hours of the morning, we had covered the clock on the bedside table as I have trouble getting to sleep with the glow.
Now I was very calm and this has really surprised me. All day I was the calmest person and I am normally the worlds worst worrier and I stress and panic over everything. I can only describe it as if I was out of my body just watching everything and going through the motions, I don't mean this in a bad way I think I just knew the day I had dreamed of since I was sixteen was finally happening and I knew that Disney would take care of everything. I just sat back quietly and took it all in.
Another thing that I stressed about before the wedding was about being able to control my blushing. I go bright red over anything, if I get embarrassed, stressed, if I get excited and animated about anything, I have no control my face turns bright red and no make-up will cover it up. I had two bottles of rescue remedy handy and ready to drink if this happened. I can honestly say I went red once and that was when Ana turned up as they took me a bit by surprise as I had sent the girls down to look for her.
I would love to know how I kept myself so calm and relaxed on the wedding day but I can honestly say I don't know how I did it and even now my family tell me how calm I was and that they couldn't believe it.
Suzie got up to go to the bathroom and when she got back into bed I nearly shouted at her to find out what the time was. I can't remember what her answer was but the next thing I remember is that there was a knock at the door and our room service was delivered. Talisa had never stayed in a hotel that offered room service before so the night before she ordered us some breakfast that both her and Suzie treated me to.
Talisa was so excited that it was my wedding day she was almost bouncing off the walls every half an hour she would come up and say to me "Your getting married" and ask me if I was nervous. To be honest I wasn't nervous at all and I was expecting to be as I thought everyone got nervous on their wedding day but I think I was ready and there was no need for me to be nervous. I think at lot of how I was feeling that day was that I couldn't believe it was happening I was at Walt Disney World in Florida with my family and I was getting married at the wedding pavilion! I also think Talisa's excitement helped calm me down she was being excited enough for all of us so I just let her get on with it.
Talisa and Suzie made me breakfast and I just sat on the sofa taking it all in.
The wedding day is a bit of a blur to me as things seamed to happen so fast, only now when talking to my family about the day has the wedding all come together in my head. And I must just say that I was in two minds about getting some of our day filmed and I think it was the best thing we ever did as I didn't really start sinking it until we were sitting down for dinner. Suzie's husband Simon also had our video camera and done some filming for us and I will always be grateful to him for doing that for us.
I think my mum must have called our room at that point to say she was coming over with Caitlin. She was then going to take some breakfast to Mick and come back, poor Mick was banished. I sent the girls down to reception to get them as they need one of the room keys to come up.
It was 7.50 by now, I was in the room on my own and everyone was turning up at 8.00 and I still hadn't had a bath. Now I wanted to have a nice bath and relax and at least shave my legs but I wasn't going to get that done in ten minutes. I had the quickest bath ever and had only changed into my track suit when there was a knock at the door. It was Ana and her assistant, I'm so sorry I can't remember her name, this took me by surprise as I was expecting them to be brought up by Suzie and Talisa but they were still in the reception.
I was still the only one in the room when Carolyn Allens turned up to steam the dresses, thankfully Ana was setting up so I wasn't worried about the girls getting back to the room quickly that much.
When they finally got back to the room with my mum and Caitlin it turns out that they were sorting out a problem. The announcement board in the reception was showing our wedding details but it had my surname spelt wrong, they wanted to get it corrected before I saw it so I wouldn't have to stress.
With everyone in the room the girls started their work Caitlin was the first one to have her hair done and because it was washed the night before it but up a bit of a fight.
I think Talisa was the first person to have her make up done and then her hair.
Now I must just say that Ana's assistant is fantastic she made all of us look fantastic with our make-up, I went from looking like this
to this
All I can say is wow when I first saw myself in the mirror I was so shocked at how pretty they made me, my eyes were just as huge as Caitlin's.
I then had my hair put up
and Suzie was last
After much debating my mum also had her make up done
Even Caitlin had some at no extra charge.
I must just say that sometimes Caitlin can be a handful but both of the girls were fantastic with her even when she was wanting more make-up.
You are a beautiful bride 
