When we rock up to a country house hotel for a wedding, one of the first questions I ask of whoever’s running the show is always “Have you got another wedding today?”
On this occasion the answer was “No”, and everything proceeded normally until the toastmaster started getting folks onto the front of the hotel ready...
Monthly Archives: August 2008

We’ve seen table decorations and menus catch fire at weddings before, but this is the closest we’ve seen to a bride’s veil (and perhaps her lacquered hair) catching fire.
In this picture, the hem of Eleanor’s veil is about 2 inches away from that flame. Luckily she realised the danger immediately after I...


