Well, despite the best intentions in the world, we all seem to get married at some stage in life.  Gerhard and I were always very happy NOT being married, so imagine my shock when we went away in January 2003 to Nyaka Island.  Lovely, bliss, and then: a proposal!  Of course I said yes on the spot, of course we could never set a date... To cut a long story short there was just never a good time to get married, either work kept us too busy, one, then the other, the cat got ill, we moved to Middelburg and then took it one step further, we moved to a farm near Middelburg and so it continued, year after year.  In June 2006, my dad got remarried after getting a divorce from my mom earlier in that same year.  The divorce was not pretty to say the least, can you imagine playing happy families at a wedding soon thereafter.  Anyhow, for once Gerhard and I both had time, I was between jobs and Gerhard was between year-ends (the joys of marrying an accountant), so in July 2006 we decided, this i