The Wedding
I wanted to capture the messages I received from friends/family on and after my wedding day on my blog. I'll be changing my phone soon and don't want to lose these precious memories... SMS: From Vanessa Hi heather! I wish you all the best for your big day, may it be a blessed event and everything goes according to you plan. Vanessa From Alison May you have a beautiful wedding today+ all your dreams come true on this special day From Karin My Heatherkind geniet hierdie dag wat ons hemelse vader vir jou gegee het. Ek het jou baie lief en bid jou kalmte toe. Ek weet jy gaan pragtig lyk en straal voor Jesus. *k My mother (during the evening after the wedding) Thank u my angel for a most unique and wonderful experience. I hope u have a wonderful time with your hubby. Please tell Rudi u used to be my only child, but now I have a son and I love him. Love u ^ sweet dreams Then I received this e-mail from Melissa after the wedding: Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:50 PM To: Heather Janse Van Rensburg (James) Subject: Your beauty Hello Pretty Married Lady WOW! There are few weddings that one attends and you can feel not only the love but the strength of the bond between the couple. The awesome commitment and seriousness of the union was very clear to me at your wedding celebration. I was nothing short of inspired by you. I am Glad that you had a New Apostolic wedding (even though I know I come off as anti-NAC), I’m genuinely glad that you “kept the faith”. Many times when you go to a wedding as a guest you feel slightly displaced even if you know the couple well, at yours, this was not the case. From the seating to the music to the ceremony and all the other guests, I felt welcome and ecstatic to be a witness and part of the celebration. Your radiance made me cry. Heather you were one of the most beautiful brides I’ve ever seen. EVER. You were Eros, Agape, Aphrodite and more. Your beauty coloured the entire day wonderful. I am reminded of your grandfather’s words that your are a masterpiece and I echo his sentiments. Jade was sealed with the Holy Spirit yesterday and the Apostle spoke of the love of Agape. Love unconditionally, selflessly with no expectations. I hope that this love will permeate your and Rudi’s union completely. I admire you for being to arrange such a lovely event in such a short time span. I admire you for smiling in the face of adversarial forces (you know I had to throw her in). I am proud to be your friend and happy that you have found your happiness. Thank you for allowing me to bear witness to your Great Love. Love, your friend Melissa From Carmen (my cousin) I am truly lucky to have such wonderful friends. I can't believe the wedding is the day after tomorrow. The hair dresser has agreed to redo my colour for free as my roots are still all too obvious, but no trial The Mount restaurant has decided to give us their smoking section (the bigger part of the restaurant) free of charge! They really are wonderful. Turns out the CD's I burnt aren't working on their CD player so I'll be carting off my DVD player to them this evening to hook it up and ensure that it is working. The extra 5 key rings for my new guests arrived today. Everything will be fine So I picked up my dress yesterday and burnt the CD's for the reception on Monday. Today Leeza and I are going for my make up trial and going to buy the champagne. Then we're going to the restaurant to give them the CD's, name tags, menu's key rings and seating arrangements. I still have to go for a hair trial and on Friday will be going for my manicure, pedicure, waxes and massage. Lots of things to do and lots of stress. Hoping everything gets done in time. Obviously I'll be away for a while with the wedding and honeymoon happening soon. Hold thumbs that the weather is perfect! It's my last day at work today before the wedding. I haven't had "long leave" in such a long time, it's going to be nice for a change. Tonight is my "bachelorette" and Rudi's bachelor's, although we're technically not unmarried anymore. Our friends are taking us out for a night on the town and it's going to be fun. I realized last night that I still have a lot of little things I need to do...like burn the CD for my reception, take it to the restaurant....pick up my dress...go and pay for the embroidery on my dress....go for a make up trial...fuck. So many small things. Go buy extra table gifts for the extra guests - I still don't know what I'm going to get them.... FUCK. 7 days. FUCK! Rudi and I were legally wed last night. I was rather emotional and burst into tears as the minister said "You may kiss your bride"...then cried in the car again and cried again when my grandfather made a speech as we drank some champagne at our place after the legalities. My grandfather said "My angel you have only caused me great joy since you've been in my life. I won't tell you what I thought or said when your mother told me she was..." then he made a gesture of a stomach growing larger "...but when you were born - all that was over" - he also said how much he loves Rudi. When he left and nobody else is around he said to me "Thank you so much for the wonderful gift you have given me today" and I said "What? A new grandson-in-law?" and said "No, seeing you happily married has always been a dream for me". And so the waterworks spewed on again. Rudi and I decided to go out for a romantic dinner, our first as husband and wife. We went to Jimmy's Killer Prawns (a seafood restaurant - duh) and ordered some drinks. I asked the waiter if they sell the small bottles of champagne and he said no. Suddenly the power in the restaurant cut. He apologized for the dark, but we had a candle on the table - I told him that he shouldn't worry, as it was very appropriate and romantic as it was our wedding night. He was like..SERIOUS? and he went to organize a little bottle of champagne for us (from his own private store) and something for Rudi as well, since he'd established Rudi doesn't drink champagne. He didn't charge for either. Since the power was out, the restaurant couldn't make us food, but Rudi ordered oysters (which he loves) which they didn't have to cook...so they brought those along. Rudi has been begging me to try oysters for as long as I can remember and in the mood of being his new wife...I thought I would indulge him. I had two oysters and we decided to leave. We made love legally for the first time...then we went to sleep. About 1:30 am this morning I woke up. Something wasn't right.... I was SICK. VERY FUCKING SICK! It was horrible. After throwing up (fuck knows what I was throwing up...I don't know where the hell all that stuff came from) I had INSANE stomach cramps. I was groaning and feeling that Rudi should take me to the hospital. I'm sure the oysters made me sick, although Rudi had 3 and he was perfect. I definitely couldn't sleep and was loathe to put anything in my mouth. I found some pills...but was scared to take them as they were the last and I was scared that I would just throw them up again. I was feeling TERRIBLE though...so I swallowed them and prayed that I would keep them down long enough for them to work. Luckily they did just that. I'm working today...I was seriously thinking of calling in sick today - if I had felt like I was feeling at 2am this morning I definitely wouldn't have come to work, which I didn't want to do since it's the day after my wedding/off days and a public holiday. Luckily I feel better today. What a first night. I felt like a bad wife keeping Rudi awake. He's DEFINITELY seen me at my worst. Rudi's dumbass brother, Derick, decided to inform us TODAY that he cannot make or arrange the bachelors for this SATURDAY. These people letting Rudi down are driving me INSANE. I've had to phone a friend (also a guest) to try and slap something together in two days. How ridiculous is that? Luckily I have friends that will do this for me. Rudi can't find his ID book and we can't get married without it. How could he be so careless? He insists it's in the house and that I'm too lazy to look for it, even though I've turned the house upside down trying to find it. FUCK I hope he knows where it is. Wow. Today is officially my last day of being single. I'll be married tomorrow. Ok I know it's confusing...we're signing the legal document tomorrow as it's our 6 year anniversary and we wanted to be officially married on our anniversary so it stays the same. Because it's on a Thursday we couldn't have the ceremony during the week and we couldn't have it this weekend either because my grandfather is going to be away this weekend. So next weekend we receive our marriage blessing. But today is my last day of being a single women. I don't think it's sunk in yet. I don't think it will sink in tomorrow either. We'll have to wait and see. Wish me luck!
ally 
22.5.07 15:27
I'll just have to hope for the best.
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