Devastating News

DiscoStu

If you do actually have to hide your modesty under the kilt, can we call you TommyGstring from now on? 

thomasross20

Sheena specifically bought me a set of boxers for the occasion lol!!!

sweepy

All you need is a can of Woad and you'll be sorted all the best for tomorrow

thomasross20

Does that stand for Weapon of Ass Destruction? 
(Too much urbandictionary!)

VimFuego

thomasross20 said:

Does that stand for Weapon of Ass Destruction? 
(Too much urbandictionary!)

well, it explain why the pictish warriors were always so damn angry.

ToneControl

Just go with the flow, and enjoy yourself

richardhomer

Hope the day's gone well for you @thomasross20 - raising a glass to you right now

MtB

Just caught up with this thread for the first time in a while. Hope you and Sheena had a great day. Drank a few units in celebration. Congrats to you both. Hope the day went well.

thomasross20

Brilliant night.

Tears, laughter, food, dancing. 

Have to say the speeches were fantastic !

Sheena looked incredible. She came in to "white wedding." After some delay, I might add - I joked that I would be saying "I do" to the next person through the door! During the signing, North Sea Gas adapted "Marie's Wedding" to "Sheena's Wedding" for us and were there to play it live - Sheena has known them since they started out. At the end, we exited to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and we did an impromptu dance down the aisle, which actually looked great apparently lol. We got a lift from Sheena's best friend who did the Jag up for us! This was a non-religious ceremony just at a registry office but it was lovely. Sheena's brother in law did a reading for us, which Sheena wrote, and was lovely. He choked up at the end and almost set me off!

Reception was a small and intimate thing, 5 mins away and close to home. We had a big projector showing photos of our lives over the years, which was a great touch. Eiffel tower from Paris on the tables. Buffet was great. Two Scottish dances which were a bit manic but we got there in the end. First dance was to "Love Me Tender" - lots of people crying watching. Same for the speeches - they went down incredibly well. From the heart. Very tiring working the room to chat to everybody! We had a video guestbook so the videographer pulled people out randomly so they could record messages for us. The cake was an imitation of that purple PRS I had! Nice touch by Sheena. The Eiffel towers on the tables were great - we put lights on them, and party pieces etc.

By the way, the second dance was great.. we formed a circle then I just went for it.. it was to "eye of the tiger" - I jumped in there and did the robot lol... Then everybody took it in turns to do their little thing!! The last one was Auld Lang Syne, really nice. I had to do an "off the cuff" speech at the end to say thanks to everybody which turned out great.. I used our house sales agent, who came to the wedding, as an example of how even after a couple days, Sheena can make friends of anybody, that is the sort of woman she is - and that I love her, and loved everybody there as they are all positive forces in our lives. 

I'm sure there's loads more but it'll be on video! Really amazing day, everybody said so and sheena said she was 95% happy with it which is massive for Sheena lol. There were a few niggles - I initially thought the mp3 player was bust at the ceremony, the tables at the reception left no room for dancing so got shifted, the wall tapestries weren't rolled up like Sheena wanted, the cake which got made for us wasn't toffee like she asked for, and the 500+ photos on the projector were all rotated 90 degrees for some reason, but my friend who came all the way from Germany fixed those for us. It ended up great, though.

It wasn't a big expensive wedding but it was really intimate and personal. 

ICBM

Sounds brilliant .

North Sea Gas are great - I used to work with their banjo player (Gerry, now sadly no longer with us). Does their guitarist (Davy? Can't quite remember) still use that Lowden with the hole in the front and a giant perspex pickguard? Or has he finally thrashed it to pieces...?

Moe_Zambeek

Good stuff. Glad it went well!

guitars4you

Excellent and great to hear you all had a fantastic time - Hope you enjoy many more days together and make the most of the time available - Very best wishes

you mentioned Tears, laughter, food, dancing.  - What about the liquid that goes in a glass

Cabicular

Glad it went well

thomasross20

@ICBM I'm not sure - the day went by so fast. I'll check the video when we get it Never knew you worked with them - they're great!

I stuck mainly to clear fluids for hydration lol! I did have a cheeky cider though

Didn't need the rubber band... Almost, though!

not_the_dj

Congratulations! 

BRISTOL86

Sounds like you both had a great day!  

ICBM

thomasross20 said:

@ICBM I'm not sure - the day went by so fast. I'll check the video when we get it Never knew you worked with them - they're great!

Not them as such - just Gerry, he was the shop manager in Gordon Simpsons for many years, when I was their repairman. He was a brilliant banjo player and a reasonable guitarist. I worked on their guitars and other gear a bit - they were very hard on it, like most working folkies! No concept of treating expensive guitars like Lowdens as anything other than a tool…

It's good to hear they're still going, too. I lost touch with Gerry after the shop closed about ten years ago.

richardhomer

Awesome - it sounds fantastic. Congratulations on bring a married man - and on everything you have done and are doing.

breakstuff

Big congrats to you both.

Nunogilberto

Sounds like a great day was had