Well well, the 31st of October has come and gone. It's been MONTHS since I posted here, but if you follow me on Facebook, you'd have seen all the events that lead up to the big day. And I apologize now for the long journal, if it is so.

In case you weren't aware (and I didn't really say too much on dA, mostly on Facebook and a bit on twitter), I am now happily married to one Holly Marie Gray and it was all made official yesterday afternoon!

We got married and had the reception in a small public hall about 30 minutes from home. Holly's parents flew out from Ohio, USA to be here (we tried to keep it a surprise but she had an inkling!) and being married on the 31st, we decided to go all out and do a Halloween themed wedding!

Almost 60 close friends and family turned up in costume. Some came as pumpkins, some as witches and wizards, we had a leprechaun, an Oompa Loompa, Ned Kelly, Dorothy, the Mad Hatter, The Hitcher and lots of other awesome costumes. They were absolutely fantastic and everyone had a ball! Dad and his friend Billy crafted a sound and light show with the "Ghost" of the hall who asked everyone to sin (probably to the dismay of my aunt). We had a fog machine, a 3/4 sized grave carved out of polystyrene with a rock embedded in a speaker, a hanged skeleton in the middle of the hall, spiders and spiderwebs everwhere. We went all out!

It took many weeks of preparation with some last minute changes but we got everyone there, got them fed and got us married. About 2-3 weeks before the wedding, we found out the catering company hadn't booked us in and were VERY rude to us, so we had to find another company elsewhere, my costume arrived on Tuesday and the wedding was on Saturday, the 12 seater bus we had hired had 16 people wanting to ride it, the celebrant and the hall were paid at the very last second. It was hectic! Now, we have $300 until Thursday

Anyway, we had a fantastic time, and we are now Mr. and Mrs. Gray