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Well  this weekend saw our one year wedding anniversary. It seems only yesterday when we first met and that was 4 years ago, the memories of the wedding are still fresh.

It has been a busy year what with the planning for the new kitchen extension and other things. Eva is growing up rapidly and taking a great deal of our time, but that is only right.

We went away for the weekend, Nanna and Gramps kindly offered to look after Eva so we could have a weekend to our selves. On Saturday we went to Aysgarth for a walk. We revisited the location of ‘the proposal’ and had a mini bottle of Champaign by the lower falls. After lunch at the cafe we made our way to Simonstone Hall where we got married a year ago.

There have been a lot of changes at Simonstone, the whole place has been decorated and they have created a wine room. They also seem to be specialising in Single Malt Whiskey, and if it were any other weekend I would have sampled as many as I could before i fell over!

We have a beautiful meal, the food at Simonstone was typically stunning. We have never had a bad meal there.

After a walk on Sunday we made our way home and had a meal with Nanna and Gramps.

All in all a great weekend and a great year, we are now looking forward to many more!

In the continued trend of catching up with the period of no blogging, many of you will already know that on August Bank Holiday Cheryl and Myself were married. It was the perfect day, and all the planning (one of the reasons why I stopped blogging) all paid dividends in the end.

We were got married in a wonderful place called Simonstone Hall in Hawes in North Yorkshire. It was the Hotel I took Cheryl to after proposing to her at Aysgarth falls. We could only have dreamt at that time that two short years later we would be getting married there.

The weekend did not get off to the best start as on the Friday morning James and Lynne (Best man and Bridesmaid) had a burglary, and then on the way up to North Yorkshire the top box on my car opened and scattered clothes over the A1, in the rush to get packed I had forgotten to lock it, however, it was good to get rid of anything that was going to go wrong before the wedding rather than on the day!

We had found two very special cottages for the evening before, one for the Girls and one for the Boys. I am sure the Cheryl will agree that we were both given a special evening, bottles of Champagne and some great food, followed by games and an early night (no really, an early night).

The day its self went perfectly, Cheryl’s drive over buttertubs pass in a vintage Rover went without a hitch, and everyone got there safely, the ceremony was all we wished for and the wedding breakfast food was a delight. A great day was had by all.

Eva was of course the star of the show in her little party dress, she was as good as gold and stole everyone’s hearts. 

Here are a few photographs selected from the many that we had taken.

We have sent out individual thank yous to everyone who was there and made our day so fabulous, but I would like to thank and recommend some of our suppliers who did such a great job for us.

Simonstone Hall - If you ever get a chance to visit do so you will not be disappointed

Weddings Alive Wedding Photographs – Ruth Mitchell - See above, just fantastic memories of the day

Periwinkle florist – Fantastic flowers (Tel: 01969 606005,  Market Place, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 3HL)

A Touch of Class Balloons – Hawes - Great addition and complement to the flowers and decorations we made

Ivory Bridal Collection  - stunning dress and a dedicated personal service

Thank you to all for making our special day perfect

We have set the venue and date for our wedding. It will be at Simonstone Hall on the 29th August 2009! There is alot of planning and organising to sort between now and then, but hopefully we will enjoy the next year planning our wedding together.