Marriage Celebration in May 2010

Wedding in May

May is a beautiful time of year in England and what better than to celebrate a wedding in the blossom filled countryside of Kent. From Hampshire we travelled 3 hours to Kent following the winding country roads bursting with leaf buds from their winter shut down. Villages and country lanes celebrated Spring and welcomed us with tree blossoms, daffs, tulips, magnolias, and the soon to be seen blue bells nodding in the road edges. The trees are replacing their stark twiggy look by delicate shades of green and lime twinkling in the sun.

We were on our way to the Priory Inn in Larkfield which itself has a historic appearance, with a conservatory for cheerful breakfasts overlooking the gardens.

The wedding celebrations were for Stuart and Kelly King who recently were married and decided to do ‘something different’ and married in Las Vegas USA, 'The White Wedding Chapel' visiting the land of casinos and grand hotels.
http://www.alittlewhitechapel.com/
Joined by family they had a wonderful sunlit week and the photos were part of a slide show at the reception area at Bradbourne Houswhich is close to their planned future home.
  Stuart manages his own fashion publication http://www.instore-london.com/ which gives up to the minute shopping guides to the fashionists in London. Kelly is a Design Tech teacher for young designers.

Stuarts’s brother Graham is a world musical production manager (previously a dancer) for various stage productions, and at the moment is working on ‘Singing in the Rain’ with Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds. They are related to Bill through his sister Alice who lives in Kent.

The walled orchard garden was in full bloom, and was a remarkable sight, with avenues of trees in full bloom, almost to good to be believed as ‘natures gifts’, I was overwhelmed.

The guests arrived at 7.30pm and after drinks and wonderful eats danced the night away to Disco music until about 2pm. Bill and myself arrived with his sister Grace, her son John with about 150 guests, family and friends to celebrate.

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Bradbourne House http://www.bradbournehousekent.co.uk/ is a beautiful grade one listed building set in 20 acres of parkland, close to the village of East Malling in Kent. The house was originally built in Tudor times but was extended and altered in the early 18th century . The house was owned by the Twisden family until 1937 and portraits of the family remain in the house, charting the chequered 400 year old history of this fascinating family. Visitors to the walled orchard garden can see the garden's 47 varieties of apple, 28 varieties of pear and individuals of medlar, nectarine, peach and fig trees. in the garden - which was originally planted in 1945 and inspired by the fruit plantings in Louis XIV kitchen garden at Versailles.

Reflections on Life
Lives are like delicate pencils If you push them too hard they're gonna break
And people are like paper dolls Paper dolls and people, they're a similar shape
Love is like a roll of tape It's real good for making two things one
But just like that roll of tape Love sometimes breaks off before you were done
Another way that love is similar to tape
Is sometimes it's hard to see the end
You search on the roll........