A Cupcake Kitney Wedding!

Finally! I'm so happy to be able to write here about becoming Mrs Kitney at long last! 

On April 20th, Martyn and I tied the knot at our lovely church where we are regular members of the congregation. It was such a wonderful day full of family, friends and so much love. 

As many of you will know, Mr K and I 'met' online via blogging. He was having a hard time and I gave him my Twitter handle so he could reach out. Along with a regular group of fellow bloggers we interacted now and then online. About 2 years later, after my husband left, Mr K offered me many kind words along with other fellow online friends. We struck up a friendship and realised we actually had a lot in common. 

What ensued was the coming together of our families. Not an easy time, but a journey we got through together. After all that, we have finally become man and wife and I'd love to share our day here:

We had such a relaxed start at home, all together. Martyn got ready with Will and James and they headed off with my Dad fairly early in charge of setting up the village hall for our after celebrations. 

We all got our hair done by our local hairdresser, Sarah, from Plush Bridal who is also fast becoming a friend of the family (she's also my best friends sister in law!) I paid for myself, L and my mum to have lovely wedding hair and I'm so pleased I did. It wasn't originally part of our budget but I'm pleased we did go for it in the end. 

All the kids looked so smart and grown up in their outfits. As mentioned before, we had a Marvel theme. All our colours matched an infinity stone. We bought the ties in different colours and L wore a green dress. My sister managed to find a near identical dress online to match L. My colour was purple, which I incorporated into my dried flower bouquet.

Mum drove myself, A (who gave me away) and L to the church. I was about 20 minutes early so had time to fix my dress (handmade by mum with Marvel ribbon on the netting!) And have some deep breaths. My brother, nephew in hand, was just in time and went in slightly before we got settled in the church entrance. I got to see my sister for the first time in a while and admire her gorgeous little bump and have a hug before we went in. 

We kept the congregation sitting for my entrance so Martyn could see me enter to our song, Something Just Like This by Coldplay and The Chainsmokers. We had a wonderful service. Our songs were modern church songs, our friends played for us, our vicar did a wonderful personalised sermon which she even made comic book related! We had a lovely photo of Martyns parents at the front and, after the signing, we sent everyone who could make it to the outside to throw lots of flower petal confetti over us! Do enjoy this quick video!

After photos. we went over to the hall where we were welcomed by claps and cheers to the Avengers theme tune. The boys, Martyn, my Dad and our friends had done a wonderful job decorating the hall. There were Lego figures on the tables with our flowers from Ginger Lily in Rochester, our table runners matched our colours, the food was amazing! We had to do several takes with the toast, poor Will celebrated us without there being any wine poured into the glasses! 

We wanted there to be a real relaxed feel to the evening. It was only lasting from 4.30pm to 8.30pm, perfect for us all!

We played music in the background and just let everyone mill about. We got to catch up with so many people and enjoy the company of every single guest. Martyn caught up with the blogger table (yes! Bloggers were there! Our lovely friends Nat, Nat and Ember came) So wonderful. 

I didn't get any food until I got home that night but for once, I didn't care! Everyone else seemed happy with their supply. 

Our cake was, of course, comic booked themed:

And our first dance was just magical. No one knew what we would do for our first dance to Charlie Puth's One Call Away, or if we'd do a dance at all, but after a little spin on my feet, I popped up the arm on his wheelchair and we span around like that for the whole song to claps and cheers. It was so wonderful, I'm smiling again now! 

We got home around half 9, I unpacked a lot of stuff and ate my dinner. The children helped unload the car then scarpered off to bed fairly quick. They were all so amazing and did us both proud. 

We all met up the next morning for breakfast to see my relatives off back to Cornwall and Nottingham. I appreciate them so much for visiting and being part of our special day. 

Thank you to all those who wished us a wonderful day and have since congratulated us many times online. And thank you to those bloggers who have become friends, and others in the community who have supported us so much together over the years. Here's to many more!

Mr and Mrs K

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