It was a spring wedding: spring in the air, spring flowers in the bouquet, spring water rather than champagne.   A Spring and Autumn marriage some of the older guests observed, and tutted with gentle disapproval.  But nobody that mattered cared about that - and neither did they.  Spring is a time for new beginnings, for the freshness of new life, for the rebirth of hope; they had survived a bitter winter and found an unsought joy in the blossoming of old affections.  The most obvious spring was in the steps of the groom as he walked beside his bride  …