Congratulations Darren & Caroline

This message comes a little belated, but as they say, better late than never...

During our time in Spain, our main purpose for being there, was to go to my brother's wedding in Gibraltar. I could write for days about how wonderful it was and that it was probably the best wedding I've been to for numerous reasons - but I'll keep it simple!

Reasons why it was probably the best wedding in the world:

1) I had to use my passport to get into the wedding! (Passing into Gibraltar from the Spanish mainland requires going through British customs as it's a British Territory).

2) There weren't loads of unfamiliar faces of cousins ten times removed who I had to pretend I recognised from the last family wedding I went to (not that I'm criticising that - If you like a big wedding with all the family, that's lovely - for me it's too much!)

3) The service didn't last three hours, my bum didn't get numb and I didn't start to count how many oversized hats were being worn by the guests.

4) We were in a foreign country!!!! (That might have been number one, if it wasn't for the fact that I may have seemed shallow!)

5) We got to eat some amazing food - Tapas at lunch including these yummy filled roasted mushrooms, sushi and a lush gazpacho (I've never seen so many plates of food!) and an equally mouth-watering dinner, with copious amounts of alcohol to wash it down in case at any point you stopped salivating!

6) I got to laugh at my brother's misdemeanours over the years and mum and dad got to finally find out about some of them.

7) The evening reception setting in the mountains around a restaurant and pool was just incredible.

8) They took the time to get everyone an personalised pocket mirror or card holder, which had their initials engraved on it. I can't justify them with my description, but they were a lovely favour to take away.

9) And this definitely would be number one, only it goes without saying - I got to see my brother marry an amazing, kind and beautiful (not to mention patient, I'm sure) woman! Caroline, you're a star!

And there you have it! So as usual, I still seem to have made something which was meant to be brief contain 9 points, although I suppose it could have been 20!

When Darren eventually manages to give me my photos of the wedding, I'll upload some of them on to here - I'm pretty proud of some of them!

So, once again D & C "NICE ONE!"