While its still fresh in my mind, I thought I would start blogging about our wedding. It would be a crazy long read if I did it all at once and I'm pretty sure that I'll take several days to type it all out. I'm not sure how I'll break the weekend up and it will cover basically everything that went down. I'll won't air anyone else's dirty laundry for sure but I will say that having one of Tim's groomsmen on his side and 2 girls that dated him on my side was probably not one of our brightest moves. That's basically all that's worth saying about that. Moving on....
My morning on September 14th was relatively well plotted out. I was going to leisurely go to look at the wedding flowers after 10, go to the hall to set up for the reception around noon and then shower/relax until our rehearsal at 5 (getting there a few minutes early). So I started off my morning with a walk, a nice cup of coffee, catching up on some tv shows and got a call from the caterer a little before 10. She started by asking how I was doing, whether I was freaking out or calm. Then came the words that no bride wants to hear..."We're having a little problem...." so I raced down to the hall and with the help of the caterer and her assistant literally rearranged the entire hall and rotated the entire layout 90 degrees so we could have a nice large dance floor instead of a 3 foot wide dance...aisle (no really, I'm not exaggerating. I don't think that my dress would have even fit in that space let alone multiple people). Then my mom and I sped off to look at the flowers (simple and gorgeous) and ran back to my apartment to meet my maid of honor A, her fiance J and Tim at my apartment to gather up all the decorations, favors, menus, alcohol and rock back to the hall. We cranked out set up in about 2 hours, checked in at the hotel, ran out to Chick fil A, showered changed and went to the rehearsal at the church. And waited. And waited.
Did I mention that we waited?
Yeah about half an hour after our rehearsal should have started, we found out the priest was stuck in traffic about 20 minutes away. So once we got it going it went really well. I totally freaked Tim a little bit towards the end when the priest said "You may now kiss the bride" I decided that it would be fantastic to lean over and whisper "Don't do it!" Tim froze. He had such a panicked deer in the headlights look that I could not get over it. We wrapped up the rehearsal and had a fantastic dinner where Tim's stepmother said that she had the best crabcakes she's had in her life.
Afterwards, matron of honor M went home with her husband, Tim's sister K (also one of my bridesmaids) went home and the rest of the girls went to my hotel room to hang out. We stayed up until after midnight gossiping, steaming dresses, a speedy run back to my apartment when I realized that I had forgotten my something old/borrowed/blue at home. I was somewhere between crazy exhausted and super wired about the wedding by the time it was all over with.
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| The table set up once we were done...before the final touches were added by the caterer and decorator. |
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