Hundreds in pyjamas for wedding
Jun 9 2009 by Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post
The Bishop-Wallace Mailbox Wedding was a huge success and culminated in 200 people in a tunnel underground in their pyjamas...
Alex and Guy have been honeymooning in Rome.
The actual ceremony took place at Malmaison, was witnessed by a small group of close friends and family and Alex walked down the aisle to Coldplay’s Fix You.
The ‘wedding snitch’ tells me: “They wrote their own vows and promised to make each other laugh every day and love each other always. Not a dry eye in the house!”
The happy couple donned matching white gowns and black silk pyjamas and treated their guests to a first dance where they boogied on down to Barry White’s My First My Last My Everything... the video is coming to YouTube soon!
Guests at the pyjama party, in a former postal tunnel under the Mailbox, enjoyed a vodka luge made of ice and amazing bhangra music courtesy of Parminder, Jag and Harvei.
The snitch goes on: “The tunnel was decked out marvellously to resemble a decadent night club. White silk lined the walls and the new Wallace/Bishop emblem emblazoned the bar. “It was certainly a night to remember, not least because we all learnt that Marc Reeves, editor of the Birmingham Post, apparently wears duck feet to bed!”
Chortle, chortle …
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In his final report from the Brecon Beacons, my spy with the rucksack informs me 689 yompers completed the St Basils Challenge a couple of weekends back.
A quick calculation on the back of a beer mat tells me that a total of 15,400 miles were walked! And 2,600 bars of Cadbury’s confection were consumed.
Mind you, being some 24C at the summit of Pen-y-Fan, apparently supplies carried up by St Basils’ Sherpa Steve Rainbow were so fetid that even the four-legged participants rejected the offering!
Line honours, boringly and predictably, go to Baverstock Sports College who ran – yes, that’s right, ran – the 28-mile course in 6hrs 28mins. Fastest on the 14-mile half-course was, you guessed it, Baverstock B. Full results at http://www.stbasils.org.uk/fundraisingsupportingus/events/walk/.
Among the decided amblers were HFC’s Beth’s Foot Forward and Mott MacDonald’s What a Bunch of Walkers who determined to make a 13 hour-plus day of it.
Few injuries to report. The most severe appears to have been blisters to the left foot of PwC’s Barbara Ritchie or, having seen the hunk on the St John’s Ambulance station, was it those that she found on the right foot... or maybe those on locations that Bright blushes to mention!
News of next year’s walk soon – the Cotswolds or the Dorset Coast appear favourites.
