Wedding

We're just back from the wedding of one of our church members, Stefan, to Rachel, in Hinckley. We headed off towards Cardiff on Thursday and dropped of four of the children off with my sister-in-law just this side of the old bridge. We then headed up to Wolvey just outside Hinckley, to Rachel's home and then on to the church for a rehearsal.
We three then headed to Abbey Farm (see here) where a very nice bed and breakfast had been arranged for us. We then discovered I'd put a damper on things by loading the bag with our toiletries, Eleri's shoes, etc, into the car for Cardiff. We thought of driving half way to Cardiff with Eleri's brother-in-law and our kind hosts but decided an early trip into Hinckley the next day was the best option.
For the wedding itself we had perfect weather, a good meeting in a full church (see here) and a very nice reception in the impressive Ansty Hall (see here). I married them adn preached to them. (I'll blog the sermon on my sermon site at some point). Rachel and Stefan met while studying in Durham. It was nice to meet Brian and Brenda Norton again from DPC (see here). Stefan's family are a mainstay of the church here in Childs Hill.
We headed back to Cardiff around 8 pm and made good time on a fairly scenic route. We had a late night there leaving this morning around 10 am. We dropped Rhodri in Reading around mid-day (for the Reading Festival) and had a MacDonalds before heading for London. The weather is still glorious.