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This weekend has been great fun. My daughter Michelle is getting married on 10 October this year and we went going wedding dress shopping on Saturday. On Friday night we left work and drove down to Burton on Trent where Michelle and Ben bought a house. On Saturday we walked into Burton Town to Moss Bros and looked at the men's outfits and made some decisions about those.
We had an appointment at the little wedding dress shop at 2.00pm on the afternoon and Ben's mum came along to join in the fun as well. Michelle tried on about eight or nine different styles, some where very Victorian and full of flounces, others were more fitted. She even managed to try a large full net meringue style dress on. Although it was quite difficult to sort out the manoeuvring into them.
After a while Michelle narrowed it down to two dresses. Then the difficulty was to make a decision, but she finally chose one and a matching headdress for the event.
On the evening we were booked into a local Burton curry house, Temptations for a meal. Apparently it had won awards in 2008 for the service but I must admit we had the worse service I had ever encountered. There was seven of us and we ordered wine when we ordered out meal. It took that long before they served ourt starters that we had drunk three bottles of wine between us. and then they only served us after we had complaind twice. Then they had the cheek to serve our meal on chipped plates. When we asked for them to be changed they made out we were in the wrong for being fussy! Michelle was not happy and stated that it was very unhygenic to have chipped plates and immediately all other diners were given a different style 'new' plate.
They even managed to mix up the orders when Sally wanted a change from her usual Korma to another mild one but was given a very hot Jalfezi. Even that was hotter than the Madras paul had requested and the waiter had warned him it was 'very hot'! Needless to say we wont be going back to that restaurant again. It may have had an award in the past but it only deserves a gong at the moment.
Sunday morning we had our family favorite of 'dippy' boiled eggs before we drove back home to see to the cats.

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  1. Michelle Green13 March 2009 at 13:47

    Yeay pretty dresses! I wish we could do that every week!
    Mush
    xxx

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