Wedding Weekend Part 3: The Ceremony and Reception

So RIGHT before I walked into the church, my stomach was doing flip flops.  My corset felt too tight, my heart beat was insane I got out of the limo and was so nervous that I couldn't stop shaking.  Then it was time to walk down the aisle.  I was ok for the first few seconds.

Aaaand by the time that I got to the end of the aisle, I looked more like this....

Yes, that is me, the oh so bleary eyed mess.  I could not get myself to stop crying.  It was all just going so quickly and obviously a little more overwhelming than I had expected.  Fortunately by the first reading or so, Tim's mother's phone rang and it knocked me out of my crying immediately.  The rest of the ceremony went perfectly.  After my initial boo hooing, it was all good.  The priest cried, we hugged, we kissed...

And then we were super excited to head to the reception!

See?  No more tears.  So we left the church and then headed to the back waiting area until the guests had left so we could take pictures.  While we were back there, the priest thought he was super hilarious and brought out 3 little girls and told me to designate which ones would be brides and which would be nuns.  I seriously hope the videographer caught this.  I'm not sure who was more horrified...them or me.  It was just SO wrong!!  I decided that it would be best to say brides...not that there's anything wrong with nuns but seriously, you could give a kid a complex with something like that.  Pictures went well until we went outside and realized that the limo driver had totally left with all our bags/phones etc.  I was livid.  Slight segue...I have never written such a horrifying review for a company ever.  Not only did that happen but the customer service was actually even worse.  But anyhow back to happier things.

So after wrapping up at the church we got to the reception.  It went so fast that I still can't believe it.  We had the first dance, ate amazing food, had the most epic cupcake tower ever, all the decorations that we spent so much time on were gorgeous and we had an amazing getaway car.  We hardly danced, missed saying hello to a bunch of guests, had a cupcake thief before the cake was cut, some slight wedding party drama and had a song skip and had to pick a replacement for the bouquet toss.  And yet, it was all still wonderful.  There were so many friends and relatives we hadn't seen in a long time (some we had never met), loud bad singing and some pretty fantastically awful dance moves.  I would say it was a huge success.