I'm not happy. Liz is even less happy.
Constable and Hershon Wines, the place that we were going to have our wedding ceremony (but not reception), has double-booked us, and chosen to go with the other people.
In
January this year, we were up there, chose the place, and were told when we asked about booking for Feb 2006 "we don't even have a diary for then yet!". Still, one month later, we rang, and booked in our date. Apparently even though we said "18th February, in the secret garden", this got written down as "19th February, in the Rose garden". Or perhaps they had us confused with someone else who enquired. I have no idea. The only thing I do know about is that at no stage did we ever want a Sunday (the 19th is a Sunday), the rose garden (wouldn't fit the number of people we are going to have), and nor would Liz make a mistake of that magnitude when talking about the "most important day of her life" on the phone to someone.
A while later, other people rang, and booked the place for the 18th. Since then, we have of course booked and paid for our reception, on the 18th of February, at the much more helpful and thus-far reliable
Hunter Resort.
So, sometime in the near future we're going to have to take yet more time off work and go and pick a
third place out for our ceremony (
Audrey Wilkinson, our first choice, require you to take their company-owned reception package as well, which we weren't interested in).
I hope the fact that Google likes my blog at the moment will warn people off them in the future.
Despite all this stuffing around I still believe we will have the best day of our lives together, with as many of our family and friends as we can manage together with us.