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myWedding in Scotland

We felt that the most important thing about our wedding day was that Drew and I had OUR day together, without worrying about making sure we got to see to all the guests and their needs. I wanted it to be about us.

We're both travelers so we knew we wanted to be married abroad and that way it would be an intimate group. Drew was in the Marines Corps so he said he does his best work on water but he didn't want anything normal like Hawaii or the Caribbean. I wanted a religious ceremony so with travel time from the USA, it looked like either Spain or Scotland would let us have a religious wedding on water.

My Gram's Gram is from Scotland and we both love all things British so I set about finding my venue. We found the Eala Bhan which means white swan in Gaelic (and swans mate for life) so I felt like we found our venue. We were married on Loch Ness with Urquhart Castle ruins in the background.

Because I didn't have to worry about feeding a bunch of people, I focused on details that mattered to us. Our wedding cake was made of shortbread because when we were first dating we were driving to see his nephew about 4 hours away. Drew was saying he liked everything I was mentioning (song on the radio, favorite museum which is the Imperial War Museum) and then I said but you don't know the secret about that Museum--the best shortbread in London is at the Cafe there and he said he loved shortbread too. So I told him he needn't like everything I like, so he said he'd have to show me his stash. When we got to our destination, he knocked on my hotel room door and gave me his box of Walker's shortbread. So we had a beautiful shortbread wedding cake where she replicated the sailboat on which we got married.

I had a Marine Corps garter, and our flowers included the yellow rose of Texas for him as well as orchids (I used to live in Hawaii) and tulips since we honeymooned in Amsterdam. Our piper played the Marine's Hymn as our recessional as well as a medley of American songs (i.e. Yankee Doodle Dandy, Yellow Rose of Texas, etc.) later on the boat ride. It was just the little details that were not dictated by the number of people we invited nor matching the bridesmaids'‚ colors but rather things that meant something to us.

I bought Walker's cookies and piped our initials on them to send to family right before we left so they could have a piece of our wedding cake to be a part of our day (the webcam at Urquhart showed our boat so they could be "at" the wedding virtually) and I bought whisks that said "whisked away" on them to send to family too when I first set up my wedding blog to let them know about it (it's called Whisked Away to Scotland). I did buy a little M&S cake and cake topper with a kilted groom at our supper which was at a restaurant with the same name as he calls one of our cats (the Mustard Seed).

We had a beautiful, romantic and unique wedding in Scotland that we will never forget!

--contributed by Jannelle, Bismarck, ND USA

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posted by Lovetripper.com @ 1:52 PM