This is a picture of the wedding cake.
All cakes for special occasions in England like weddings, Christmas, Easter , Christenings and so on, are made of a mixture of flour, butter, eggs, sugar and a large amount of sultanas, raisins, currants, maybe peel and nuts and laced with a generous quantity of whisky or brandy.
They are cooked some time( like months) before the date of the event and so become very rich. Therefore you only usually eat an very small piece. Traditionally, the top tier of the wedding cake is kept as a cake for the Christening of the first child, because it can be kept for two or three years. They didn't want to keep it partly because it was coloured and because they sent pieces of cake to people who didn't come to the wedding, which again, is tradition.

Wedding photos

Well, I hope you liked these wedding photos.
perhaps they don't mean a lot to anybody but me, and my family, but I thought maybe you would like to see an English wedding as opposed to one in your own country - after all, I suppose that's what communicating is all about!
It also makes it easier for me to show lots of people.
Please, let me know what you think and if you want to know anything about them, please let me know.
Catherine

This is a picture of my family.
From the left, there is my mother's cousin, who travelled alone from the depths of Wales, my daughter, my Mum and me.
Then there is my sister-in-law, Barbara's brother, the bride and groom, Barbara, my brother, Theo, my nephew Robin and Barbara parents.
It's like playing "Happy Families"!

This shows my brother, sister-in-law and nephew at the hall where the reception was held.
It used to be a corset factory, and when the factory closed, the local council decided to turn it into a conference centre.
The original building had an enormous ballroom, which had been built for the firm's dances for its workers, and it has been maintained as a place which the public can hire out for occasions such as weddings.

This shows them raising the sticks that they use during their dances to form the arch, under which the couple pass.

I thought you would like this one.
It is a picture of the guard of honour for the married couple formed by Morris men. They are traditional English dancers, whose origins go back in time to the Moors.
My brother is one of the members of the team - he plays the melodion
The man at the front is called "The Fool" and you can see his unusual dress!
(He got changed afterwards to come to the reception - and so did the others!)!

The happy couple smiling for the (many) photographers!

My niece's wedding

Well, I promised you some photos of an English wedding and here they are. This is my niece and her husband outside the church - it's obvious really!