Update. We got to the campsite on Friday. The campsite (in the Yorkshire Dales) was a field in the middle of a sheep farm. No electric hookup or anything like that.
It rained a lot of the time we were there. I did not bring warm enough clothes and I should have brought wellies. The only shoes I had were trainers, and flats to wear to the wedding. The field had high grass and was soaking wet most of the time. Everytime I stepped outside my trainers got soaked and my socks would get drenched. I think I had to change my socks around four times a day, and I ended up wearing my flats most of the time.
It was sunny for the wedding.
We bought two chairs, a table and a gazebo on the way there. However, DH is starting an aerial photography business and brought some drones to practice and take photos of the scenery there. So DH, being DH, was out doing that and didn’t get back to our camper till 5 -10 minutes before the wedding started, and then frantically started looking through his things for something to wear to the wedding that fit him and wasn’t stained (I had been sitting in the van waiting for him in my outfit for the past half hour), so the chairs, table and gazebo stayed in the back of the van in their original boxes and were never used.
Despite the bride’s belief that there would be 30 kids that could be organized into sports teams in the field (the weather wasn’t conducive to that anyway), there were actually only a handful of young children. As far as I saw, two babies and three older children, two of whom were in the bridal party.
The actual wedding was outdoors on Saturday. The bride wore a beautiful dress – the kind you would wear to a “normal wedding” and the bridesmaids were all dressed in nice dresses. The groom wore a kilt. The clothing on the guests varied . Some wore typical dressy clothing that you would wear to a wedding. Some of the men wore suits with trainers. Then there were some people who were a little outlandish. The bride’s brother, for example, wore a pinstripe suit. One of our friends, who gave a speech at the wedding, wore a long 1960s hippy-type wig. The wedding was performed by a friend of ours who wore a light-coloured suit with sandals.
The wedding ceremony itself was OK and involved a lot of speeches.
There was a lot of food which was cooked/catered by friends/family. There were canapes after the wedding and a buffet style dinner.
We stayed on the Sunday and left on the Monday morning. Most of the people had left on the Sunday, presumably because they had to be at work on Monday.
DH and I spent the rest of the week staying at different campsites (typical campsites with access to water and electricity and places to dump your toilet waste), at Castle Douglas, Inverness and then at Whitley Bay.
