Wedding

Hello All!

It has been weeks since I wrote last! Jeez, and how busy those weeks have been. Mom and I spent days and days setting up for Beth's wedding. Beth helped a lot, too, but she was quite sick almost the whole week before the wedding. We kept teasing her that she would have to stick tissue in Keith's tux pocket. As it ends up, she just held some with her bouquet, and that worked well until I dropped it. Oh well, I don't think anyone noticed.

The Break Down:

Monday--Completely cleaned, moped, and waxed a gym floor. We also got some of the gym lights changed, set up all the tables, and the chairs.

Tuesday--Mom, Beth, and I spent the whole day in hair salons doing the practice run for wedding hair. Beth was really sick and I even felt icky, so we didn't make it to the church that day.

Wednesday--finished setting up the screens, wiped down all the chairs, put out the table toppers and caught rogue crickets that had invaded the gym-come-dining hall.

Thursday--Spent the morning in Batesville searching for paper doilies and more table clothes. Got to the church around 11am and cleaned, set up the sanctuary, and put the finishing touches on the gym.

Friday--Rehearsal hell. (It was only hell for me, I think. Everyone else seemed to be okay with it.)

Saturday--Hair, three hours of pictures, Wedding, more pictures, and relaxation!!!

Beth was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen. I am totally prejudice but she is one of the most beautiful women in the world. The wedding in its entirety was fabulous. There weren't as many people there as I expected, but that may be due to the fact that Beth actually had the audacity to send out invitations instead of listening it in the paper as "All friends and family welcome."

Mom did a smashing job of decorating everything, coordinating, arranging fresh flowers, making all the trimmings, and still smiling. She is amazing. I never realized the fresh flowers weighed such a ton! The bouquet that mom made for Beth weighed 10 lbs. it was crazy. When Beth handed me the monstrosity so that she could hold Keiths' hands I about dropped it! My arm got the shakes, but I pulled through--and that has nothing to do with the fact that I haven't been to the gym in months.

The cutest part of the wedding was the little flower wraith that didn't want to go down the aisle. The flower girl's mother was one of the photographers, so she eventually coaxed the girl to the front of the church. Once she got to the alter she backed up into my skirts and stayed there. The only other thing worth mentioning is when one of the bride's maid's passed out cold. She fell past me on the way down, and I thought "Why is Rachel leaning on my shoulder?" Then she kept going and hit the floor face first--just as stiff as a board. This is embarrassing to admit, but I stopped myself from chunking the bridal bouquet along with mine (had both at this point) to help her. That is awful of me, and the only excuse I have is that I didn't want to crush the 10lbs of flowers. Fortunately, since none of the bridal party freaked out, my aunts were able to step up and take Rachel to a seat. When she came around, she had no idea what happened. People are still speculating as to why she passed out, but I'm pretty sure she just cut off the blood supply by locking her knees. Ooops!

The reception was very nice. I shucked my dress about an hour too soon and had to put it back on for more pictures after the reception. Beth tossed one of the bride's maid's bouquet, but I was no where near the event, so I can't identify the catcher. My only form of protest at the wedding was to wear my red Merrel sneakers in some of the photos and to be barefoot in others. All in all, things went very, very nicely.

PS--Those are some of my wonderful cousins.