Tuesday, 2nd August 2016 @ 2pm
This website started life as a private and special place for our treasured wedding guests to prepare for our wedding. But now we are officially Mr & Mrs we thought it was about time we opened up our site for all our friends, family, colleagues and nosey parkers to have a look round.
Here you’ll find lots of information on our big day, from the proposal in St Tropez to the big event at Ross Priory, Loch Lomond. Have a read of our blog posts, a browse through our many photographs or a giggle at our little question and answer section.
Not only that but you can find out a little bit more about us here, see some of our favourite memories from when we got together, and if that wasn’t enough, we’ll continue to update the site with important moments in our married life together.
Thanks for coming and sharing this with us.
Big love, Mr & Mrs King. x
Welcome Drinks
4pm, Monday 1 August
We anticipate that most, if not all, of our guests will be arriving at Ross Priory on Monday August 1. With that in mind we thought it would be nice to get together with everyone during late afternoon/evening for some drinks and chit chat before we all retire to get ready for the big day.
We’ll leave you all to organise your own meals on that day — and there’s plenty of options if you fancy going out and about — but we can highly recommend the bar menu at Ross Priory having sampled it during our first visit in September 2015.
We’ll be in the bar area from 4pm for drinks and hope many of you will be able to join us. Darren, Dad and the girls will be leaving around 7.30pm to go back to our holiday cabin for the night (so that the bride and groom don’t see each other until the big moment). Shelli and Mum will be staying at Ross Priory.
Ceremony
2pm
The wedding ceremony will take place at 2pm. If the weather is good we’re planning on holding it outside in Ross Priory’s beautiful grounds, but if mother nature doesn’t play ball we’ll be in their stunning ceremony room.
After the ceremony they’ll be canapés and bubbly, and a chance to mingle, whilst our photographer works his magic.
Wedding Breakfast
5pm
We need your choice at the latest by July 4, 2016.
Please note: Because our numbers are quite small, the venue has kindly agreed to let us mix and match the vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. So feel free to choose — for example — a veggie starter and a meat main, or visa versa.
What about kids?
We’re really sorry that we can’t have everybody’s kids at the wedding, but for those that are coming please note that there is a choice for their main course.
Any special requirements?
If you have any allergies to certain foods then please let us know in your RSVP! We really like you and wouldn’t want you to swell up like a balloon because you politely ate the nosh.
Please let us know any concerns you may have with regards to the food for our wedding and we’ll be more than happy to liaise with the venue for you.
Reception
7.30pm
The evening reception will start around 7.30pm and will be a relaxed affair. We’re reliably informed that after lunchtime the casual visitors to Ross Priory pretty much dry up (it’s more or less in the middle of nowhere) so we’ll pretty much have the venue to ourselves. There’s a lovely bar and a dance floor for those who feel the need to shake their funky thang!
With such a small number of us we thought it would be a bit over kill to hire a DJ, so we’re aiming on playing some tunes from one of our iPods over the venue’s sound system.
The wedding breakfast being at 5pm, we’ve chosen not to lay on an evening buffet. But should you start to feel peckish after strutting your stuff, rest assured the bar will be open and serving snacks. Let the party commence!
Gifts
No Gift Related Pressure!
Having moved in together – compressing the entire contents of two homes into one! – we have everything we need that you’d expect to see on a normal wedding list, so we’re not having one.
We really appreciate you being with us on our big day, especially considering how far away it’s being held for everyone, and that to us is the biggest gift you could give us. Having you all there to make our day so special is all we could ever ask for!
That said, if you really do feel uncomfortable about not giving us anything on our wedding day, anything you can give to help us with the cost of the wedding would be gratefully – and graciously – received.
Accommodation
We checked the numbers and there’s room for all of our lovely guests to stay, which was one of the reasons we went with Ross Priory as our choice of venue.
Please let us know your date requirements for rooms – assuming you’ll want to stay at Ross Priory – with your RSVP and we’ll liaise with the venue for you. This will allow us to ensure rooms for our girls and Mum and Dad (Val and Tony) are allocated to ensure that they’re next to each other, hopefully giving us an undisturbed wedding night!
At the time of writing rooms are available for more than the two dates we’ve reserved. If you want to spend more time in the beauty that is Loch Lomond then please let us know and we’ll again liaise with the venue for you.
Room Rates
| Double | £100 |
| Twin | £100 |
| Single Occupancy | £70 |
Loch Lomond
Darren
- I’m not the sort of person you should put on speaker-phone.
- I thought growing older would take longer.
- Sometimes I feel quite intelligent. Other times I have to sing the ABCs in my head to remember which letter comes next.
- I love it when song lyrics totally apply to my current situation.
- If you tickle me, I am not responsible for your injuries.
- I may have a bad mouth, but I can do great things with it.
- I am old enough to know better, but young enough to do it anyway!
- I talk to the cats as if they actually understand what I’m saying.
- Admit it. Life would be so boring without me!
- Shelli makes me smile without even trying!
Shelli
- I don’t have to watch the whole movie to cry at the sad part.
- I’ve grown more as a person in the last five years, than in the 33 that came before.
- You know those fleeting moments when everything is as it should be? I live for those.
- If it wasn’t for Darren, I would be a crazy cat lady.
- Nothing de-stresses me more than singing loudly.
- My favourite sound is my girls laughing together.
- I looked into his eyes, and I just knew.
- I can lose hours planning conversations in my head that I will never have.
- I like my men like I like my red wine: strong with undertones of fruitiness.
- I’m marrying my soul mate. It doesn’t get better than that.
| Question | Darren | Shelli |
|---|---|---|
| What was your childhood nickname? | Tubs (thanks dad!) and Nosmo | Beanie/Bean Bags |
| You won £1 million. What’s the first thing you buy/spend it on? | Around the world tickets for us and the girls, all four of them! | A big country house in Scotland. |
| If your life was turned into a movie, what actor/actress would play you? | Robert Downey Jr. | Martine McCutcheon |
| What is one misconception that others have of you? | That I’m a really confident person. | That I’m a calm, confident person. |
| What would you do if you did not have to work? | Spend my time in the great outdoors. | Sleep a lot more, read a lot more and volunteer for a good cause. |
| Do you have any hidden talents? | The girls tell me I do a pretty good Gollum/Sméagol impression. | Nope… what you see, is what you get. |
| What is your earliest childhood memory? | The Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations at school in Cliffe Woods. | Building snowmen on our roof garden in Sidcup. |
| Cake or ice cream? | Cake…with ice cream! | What kind of a decision is that? |
| What is your biggest fear? | Not being strong enough. | Failing my children. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? | A soldier. | A vet. |
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