So who's marrying who? Big day part 3

It was decided that the bride and groom should arrive separately, simultaneously in our own tenders. Worked brilliantly.

Crew had set up chairs, a bar and a small arrangement of palm fronds. Brilliant. As we set off for beach there seemed to be quite a few other punters hanging around, but amazingly during the three minutes it took to get to the beach they had all disappeared.

Caroline looked - well, you be the judge.

We were introduced to the fantastic Ralph Moses Barbe (Pronounced Barbie) - A Ray Charles look-a-like, who wanted to check 1-2 things before we got down to business. He had a large register and a piece of paper with the relevant details of who was doing what.

Anyway, all went ahead as planned, with wrong names and ages announced during ceremony, but we think is it is all correct now and we have a certificate that we think is legal. and mostly correct.

1-2 small mistakes though. My name was correct, but it turned out i was Marrying Jenny, not Caroline. And a few other minor details (DOB, POB etc) but he seemed very cool with it all and said it would be fine (Jenny really not so sure.

Celebrations kicked off with champagne, and DJ Tom of Edinburgh on the turntables (Spotify). He had checked some favourite tunes and was told "Black Betty". Greta s it is it is really a song that means more to Erna and I, (We met in Black Sallies restaurant in Snowy Mountains, OZ) so unusually i had the first dance with Erna, not the bride!

Rubens followed through with his promise of a DJ and budgie smugglers, beach cricket was enjoyed, with Caroline bowling me out first ball, and crew member, outdoor Sean, who had never played, or even heard of, cricket before, cracking his first ball miles.

We even found a tired old 140 year old Giant tortoise to join (?) in the fun.

The party and the champagne moved back to the boat where a BBQ and plenty of vigorous dancing , including some crew members, Rubens and Whizz, neither of whom had ever been seen to dance before. Most people faded sometime after midnight, which, to be fair, was 8 hours after the party started!Read more