NOEL AND STEvE
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slight accent of dark blue. Most of the venue was dressed with
fairy lights and lanterns, in themed colours, hanging from the
high ceilings.
We both wore matching grey three-piece suits with bright
orange ties and white shirts. Our son wore the same while our
daughter wore a dark blue dress with orange flowers in her hair
and an orange bouquet.
A playlist of several songs that have meaning for us was
played as people arrived for our ceremony. We walked down the
aisle to
How Long Will I Love You
by Ellie Goulding.
Neither of us have our dads, so
we walked down the aisle with our
mums and sisters.
Our children started the procession walking arm in arm, followed
by me and then by Noel. We both gave our mums and sisters a
kiss on the cheek as they le us at the ‘alter’.
The ceremony started at 5pm and was an adapted form of
a civil renewal of vows. There were two readings, one from
each of our children. Our daughter read
May the road rise up
to meet you
, which was part of our civil ceremony, and our son
a poem by DH Lawrence, which was read out at our original
blessing. Noel’s younger sister sang
How Long Will I Love You
,
while our sister in law played the song on the piano.
We made a speech as the final part of the ceremony – it was
about our journey to that point and thanked the various friends
and family who had supported us along the way. We were
surprised at the end with two additional speeches written by
our children, both of whom proved to be very sentimental when
talking about their dads and our family – they charmed the
entire crowd. We finished with a slide show of old pictures of all
of our friends and family from when we met them.
Because we wanted some clear differences between each
