Wedding Bells

The weekend after Christmas was a rather special one for us. We travelled down to London for the wedding of our Uncle Tim who is a good friend of Bears Unlimited and the minder of some of our good friends including Moose, Boulder and Grommit. They all came to visit us in February and you may remember our outing of the time (Visitors welcome) and also, more recently, Moose’s email to us all the way from Taiwan (an email for Bris).

As we were going to a wedding it was natural that the 2 sets of Bears Unlimited newly weds would want to attend so look out for them in our pictures.

Our own minder was conducting the wedding service, so we arrived on the Friday afternoon in time for the wedding rehearsal. While the wedding party were busy with the rehearsal, us bears were free to chat to Moose and to look round the church which was very big and fine – much bigger than the Norfolk village churches we are used to.


We took a closer look at a large nativity scene, set up at the back of the church. It was all protected by a sort of plastic curtain which is why our photo is not as clear as it might be. The figures and animals were very life-like and we soon felt as if we really were part of the scene, rather than outsiders.

We also took a closer look at the flowers which were perfect in their joint role of wedding and Christmas flowers. The wedding bears though they were very romantic.


After the rehearsal we went to the hall where the reception would be held and helped decorate the tables with leaves and other things that drop off trees. We all felt very artistic. Then we settled down to enjoy some pizzas and a few beers with Tim. It was great to see him again and he was clearly very excited about his wedding. We were also very excited and pleased for him as he is one of our favourite non bear friends.

We’ll report on the wedding day itself in our next post.

Lots of love, all at Bears Unlimited xxx