Well, I suppose I will start with what I remember from last week.
I got married on Friday, a long tedious day.
I had my Rehearsal Dinner-Ceremony on Thursday, a rather plain day.
I made phone calls on Wednesday, keeping busy and making sure everything was in order.
I fell and bruised my rotator cuff on Tuesday, went to the ER, got a sling...
That's as far as I remember specifics, but! I can elaborate on the wedding details for the sake of well.... history.
The rehearsal was fun, kinda scary, actually! Just before the rehearsal, Seth, Jared, Greg, Matthew, and Paul were all in the apartment. I was getting the gifts ready for the girls, writing thank you cards for them. Seth was looking for his shoes, dress socks, getting ready. And it wasn't 10 mins before that I was still writing cards, in my pjs. Somehow I got dressed though, in my blue and white dress. I didnt have any regular shoes, but I did have those big boots Bev got me years back so I wore those.
We drove there, everyone else was there on time except us as usual. Pauline was in the kitc hen with Joan and Karen, Vienna greeted me. Everyone was basically just standing around. The boys and our flowergirl, Britney were apparently doing laps back and forth around the church.
Both Pastors were there, organizing the ceremony lists, making the finalizations.
We introduced dinner, prayed, and began eating. I used the first few minutes to give out the girls presents.
Soon after, the Pastor Rod mentioned to me that they weren't sure about the music, and wanted us to go set it up in the system. Seth had never gotten the chance to finalize the music so it kinda never happened. We were freaking out forever, ran upstairs to look at the soundboard to figure out how to play music over the system. We were also trying to figure out if there was some random song on my IPOD that would work, but it didnt even hook up to the system. We even employed Chris's help. I was up there panicking, and had 3 maids trying to comfort me. It was stressful!
Then, for some reason Joan (Seth's gramma) was upset about something, saying that she didnt know that she had to do the music and that she thought seth had it all figured out. Ultimately she did end up playing for us!
After a few more prayers and things, the actual rehearsal happened. The guys stood up, and us girls practiced walking. There were a few people there with us, some moms and a few friends were sitting in the pews watching us practice. When it came time for me to go down the aisle for the first time, I about freaked out! I paced down the aisle, so nervous and freaking out, all of the people in there staring at me. Seth was standing up there, all of his men beside him and it was all really starting to sink in!
When we went through the order of service, the teeth dug in. We had to recite the vows, brutal torture it was. Up until then I was planning on writing my own along with the spoken ones. But after I realized the length of the regular vows, and how hard it is to get through them without breaking down, I let go of the personal vows. Staring into eachother's eyes, made the legality and how this was the only time I would ever be able to do this enter my mind. Not like the fear of cheating or not being ready to commit, but the reality that we would be married, husband and wife, and would have to make the most of the day to come.
They also made us kiss, practice kissing to get it down right. Seth and I had practiced before, a simple, dry, set of three soft kisses. The Pastors and neither did the mock congregation like that, they said that we would have to liven it up a bit, so we acted a little looser with it. I really miss Pastor Dale! The jokes he made made this wedding! Seth's guys loved him... Okay totally off topic.
At the end we walked back up the aisle and ran away, kinda thinking it was time to be over. But no, we had to do it all over again over course.... It wasnt that special the second time around, so i dont remember too much of it.
Oh, and Joan was playing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" while we were practicing, along with "Silent Night" so we ended up with that as our set of songs....
After all this, Pauline (Seth's ma), Matthew, Seth and I went shopping at Walmart for final things. Ribbons, pants for the boys, extra food, and some random sheets that she grabbed. She quickly announced that she got us a bed as our gift, and to just tell kendra (Seth's sister, one year married) that its bottom of the line and nothing special. But she did manage to find the most expensive sheets in Walmart for this bottom of the line bed!
It was hilarious watching Pauline zip around that store. We would be talking with her, and in seconds she has wandered off... No, better yet, stormed far away from us, practically runny from the boys department, to the shoes, to the cards section, to the fabrics to find veil making stuff, and then back to the grocery aisle for every thing of Mayo she could find (12 things on the shelf I think). Matt and Seth were laughing the whole time at this! Poor Matthew, he had to wait around Walmart while we shopped. ... ON HIS BIRTHDAY! Goodness. He even stood in the makeup aisle with me while I searched for concealer.... Even helped me pick out the color (which is so hard with my yellowish pink black skin tone).
To finish really quickly, Pauline and I ended up in Copper City, Seth and ALL his friends ended up in our apartment. (they, thank the Jesus babies, were only there until 2).
