Matthew's Journal

Yesterday, rmc28 and fanf got married. Yay!


The day started in the mundane manner that Saturdays often do, with senji and I pootling off to Bar Hill to do the shopping. The day was getting quite warm, even then. We had lunch, got changed, displaced vigorously by killing aliens, and eventually made our separate ways to Trinity College.

The pre-service music went very well, I think. Ruth had told me that the register was delayed, so I started on my reserve music list, when the green light came on, forcing me to invent a cadence I could return to the tonic with in the piece I was playing fairly quickly ;). The Mussorgsky they came into went pretty well, Paul and Peter's Purcell was great, and the Canon in D went fine (despite the music trying to shut itself half-way through). The Wedding March was OK, although I think everyone had left long before I finished playing. The hymns were less good; I fluffed two of the three intros, although subsequent verses were better. I was a bit frustrated, really: whilst I didn't play badly (YMMV - one or two people were quite rude, but most generally complementary), I have played quite a bit better.

I didn't see much of the service, as the Rückpositiv rank of pipes was between me and a view, but rmc28 and fanf both looked stunning, and the bridesmaids all looked great. I thought the Mort reading was a nice touch, and Ruth's sermon was short but to the point. Afterwards, we went outside, and there were many many bubbles (Trinity frown on confetti). We stood on the grass (I've not done that in a while) in some pretty hot sunshine, and there were photos and meeting people. Particularly suprising was discovering that Collette (who I just about managed to recognise) was married to Anton Altaparmakov, who works in Unix Support here. She was a vet in my year, who did the same part II option as me, and then went off to PhD (and have babies). She looked great.

I wandered off to the Carlton for a beer that I really needed by this point in proceedings, and was later joined by sesquipedality, antinomy, ptc24, senji and p_a_r_a. We drifted over to the community center, which had been transformed into a place for grand feasting (there really was a large amount of both food and booze). There were speeches, and face-paints (which I avoided, thankfully) and lots of cameras (doom), and amusingly violent champagne bottles, and I had a great evening.


Best of all, the happy couple really looked to be enjoying themselves. Congratulations, fanf and rmc28!

Shortly, atreic and I are going down to join people in the Carlton for lunch.