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The amazing cake, made by my friend Catherine.

We’ve known each other since we were babies.

So, it rained. Starting an hour before the ceremony, it rained and continued on throughout the rest of the day, meaning I don’t have nearly as many post ceremony photos as I would like.

But that’s okay.

Isaac refused to carry the rings or walk down the aisle, hiding in my neck like a koala instead.

My mothers friend did my flowers and they made me happy every time I looked at them. My house is now full of gerberas and I love it.

I think that’s about it. I’m still exhausted, I think it’s going to take a week to recover. I could not have gotten through yesterday without the amazing help from my little brothers friend Rhiarna (not pictured) who worked tirelessly and therefore has my eternal gratitude. Also, Tan (who did the flowers) and her daughter and daughters boyfriend .

Amazing people. Really.

I will have more photos tomorrow when I’m not quite so close to the brink of exhausted collapse.

Oh and yes, Isaac wore his boots because he didn’t want to wear shoes and I didn’t have the energy left to argue. It was good enough that he wore a new tshirt.

Here we are, on the 26th of November. My wedding day.

We’re slowly pulling together the last of the details and food prep and I expect I’ve got a very busy morning ahead of me. The nice weather predicted came a little early and today is grey with a good chance of rain, but honestly I’m not too bothered.

I promised you a live-stream and here it is. I’m hoping to run a test for it at 10am AEST, before the wedding proper at 12.30pm AEST.

You are absolutely more than welcome to watch!

Live video from your iPhone using Ustream

In fifteen hours time, thereabouts, I will be getting married. I’m excited and nervous all rolled up into one – we have a lot of things to get prepared tomorrow morning and I expect to be very busy.

I wanted to update you all on a few things however, because people have been asking.

Yes, I will be live-streaming it. I will embed the live stream here, so that you can watch easily, without hunting for links. There will probably be a few tests in the morning, but the actual wedding starts at 12.30pm AEST and you can watch then.

No, we’re not going away afterwards because Isaac won’t let us leave him. We’re not terribly bothered at this point – although after the stress and work of organising a wedding, I can see why people insist on escaping immediately afterwards.

Actually, I think that’s it. Wish me luck, I’ve got to go and organise a playlist now.

So.

Soooooo.

Sooooooooooo.

They tell you that your first line has to be your hook, in order to get readers, reading. But sometimes, life gets on top of you and starting a blog post anyway you can is the best you can do and the worst of blogging rule breaking. You can do it anyway you know, because it’s your blog and I’ve given you permission.

I’ve been walking around today in a perpetual state of minor panicky-ness. Almost a panic attack, but not quite, I merely wanted to lock myself in my bedroom with ten or fifteen distractions (puppies! kittens! small children! e-books! iPhone apps! only some of these things were available) and ignore the world for today.

It isn’t what happened however, despite my patented head in the sand method and a few declarations of “I don’t even want to think about this yet, so we’re not discussing it” and I was Productive and Stressed and probably Bitchy as well.

The wedding is in forty hours and steadily counting down. We had our rehearsal this evening, and I thought I was calming down, until I got home and realised that no, I was not in any way calm and I should probably take a sleeping tablet and go to bed.

We had our rehearsal this evening, while the children tried to kill themselves on a giant slide (it was FINE) and people jogged around us. It was kind of weird and I couldn’t stop giggling during the vow practise. Sorry Nathan,  I wasn’t laughing at you, I promise. But we pretended to get married and there you go. Suddenly it’s all very serious and important and stuff. It’s a little weird.

After that, I went to Bunnings and bought myself twenty pots of flowering plants, to plant myself an “aisle” to walk down. Nathan has declared that he is no-way-no-how digging holes for me, so I may have to press gang one of our brothers into digging holes while I boss them around.

Volunteers?

My to-do list of Things That Absolutely Must Get Done is growing (cover a cake in white icing! put down new lino in the toilet! coerce Nathan into dragging the ceramic pot filled with strawberries out to the orchard! put up a marquee! bother a duck to see if we have ducklings yet! hide!) and my head is close to implosion point. A warm bath would be lovely, but my joints are absolutely so crappy at the moment that it would do more harm than good.

Isaac is, however, well on his way to being Back To Normal, and all that that entails. While I am bemoaning my loss of free time while he stared into space, it’s been rather nice to have him well again. Weight loss stabilised at a little over 2kg and he’s eaten well (ish) today, so I imagine that it won’t take him long to gain it back. Fingers crossed.

This blog post had absolutely no cohesion at all. I’m sorry.

Also, I just deleted over 300 spam comments without checking them, so if you got caught in spam recently, I’m sorry. I just couldn’t bring myself to trawl through offers of Christmas viagra (give your wife a boning hard present) and Russian brides (alone this dark long season of holidays?).