Winter Wedding

This time last year I was awaiting surgery on 8th January for breast cancer. 2008 was a horrible, horrible, year and in some ways I am glad to see the back of it and the grief that came during that year. Not only was I ill (two lots of surgery then radiotherapy) but my mother-in-law contracted C-difficile and died in March. However on the 27th of December there was an occasion of Joy and Hope - the wedding of my youngest daughter to a lovely man. It was an extraordinary wedding in that both bride and groom have the same (unusual) surname and they were both born on the same day only hours apart. They had been childhood sweethearts for two years but then our family moved away from the area and they lost touch. They found one another again through Friends Reunited and the rest, as they say, is history. It was, I think, the coldest day of the year - a wind chill factor of -30 degrees I'm sure! I wore a suit which cost about five times my normal annual clothes budget but was not made for warmth. Everything went smoothly: wonderful meal, great music, party in the evening... even the bill (picked up by Dad of course) wasn't too eye-watering. But it was most extraordinary having a room full of people all with the same surname! Thank goodness and the medical profession I was well enough to enjoy it!