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So once again we have the build up to New Year’s eve and what our plans were to be.
Last year went a bit awry, and call me superstitious but we did have a few hiccups along the way, so we really wanted this year to be a bit of a reprive.
Sadly it did not get off to the best of starts. You know when your gut feeling is saying “not a good idea!” but you kind of have to go with what is being planned? Well that was how our new year’s eve started. I won’t name names, or rather places, as that would just be churlish. But I will say that our choice of venue was just faaar too pretentious for a group of diving instructors who just wanted to party and welcome the New Year in with a bang. Not saying we don’t scrub up well, far from it, but this night is one of those nights where the atmosphere is sooo important. And whilst it was important for us all to be together with our friends, we also needed a few other people in the venue to add a little buzz, and the wine to be a little less pricey. There is no easier way to ruin a good party than by making your punters feel like they have been well and truly ripped off. Anyway, less of the negative, the evening was rescued by our departure from the “morgue” to a more down to earth bar where we ended up dancing on the speakers and getting well and truly…@*/+@£#ed! So all in all, by the end of the night, a great time was had by all.

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So… all those years of singing, dancing and presenting etc and I never got on the front page of a magazine. I move to Sharm, become a diving instructor, get married, and hey presto! I end up on the front page of the local mag!!! Well I guess our wedding did end up being a bit of a Sharm social event of the year, and we did have the best photographer in town taking the snaps, so I suppose it made a very pretty front cover of The Mix.

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Well, after many weeks’ planning, and more than a few sleepless nights… it actually all came together!!! And this I can say was the best day of my life!
Thankfully due to the heat, we hadn’t planned to do anything before 6pm, which gave us plenty of time to decorate our little home, as we decided to hold the ceremony in our rather special back garden, special because it opens out onto the cliff top that some of you will recognise as Ras Katy with a view of the sea and the Ras Mohammed National Park beyond. With the sun low in the sky, it really did turn out to be quite a spectacular view, more so than normal.
Everyone had turned up, with around 40 coming from the UK and another 40 or more of our local friends. We had Barry White playing whilst everyone arrived and then my brothers played Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song” on accoustic guitars as my Dad walked me down a natural “aisle” that runs the length of our garden. Surrounded by so many friends and family I very nearly lost it, but managed not to be a “bawler” as they say in Wedding Crashers and even held it together for the vows.
We had a Celebrant Tina over from the Uk to perform the ceremony for us (although as you know we had already had the fun bit in Cairo doing all the legal stuff) and she was absolutely perfect. It wasn’t long before we were exchanging rings as the sun set over the pink mountains and the champagne began to flow.
The party then moved to the famous (or could it be infamous) Terrazzina beach restaurant, where our lovely Disco Dave played our favourite music for more wine dance and song. What am amazing night.

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