Let’s Have a Wedding Shall We!

I will say in advance that this will be a long post with many pictures.

Please tell me that you are not surprised by this.

I had intended to actually cover the events of the day in two posts but due to the unfortunate indoor waterfall incident I have decided to just go for the gusto and give you one big wedding post. It seems more fitting to do that somehow.
So go and grab a cup of the elixir of life and plant your behind in the chair for some wedding festivities.
It seemed like we had been thinking about the wedding and talking about it an planning for it for so long and then, all of a sudden, it was upon us.

The day started off fairly early with breakfast, cooked by Mimi, who spent the week feeding the multitudes (thanks mom!). All too quickly it was time for TEO and I to hop in the car and go to have her hair and makeup done.
Going from this……
To this lovely creation….
Requires the use of many, many of these. Watching the stylist do TEO’s hair was like watching someone build a building. Very architectural.
Then there was time in the make up chair. This girl was an artist. Seriously! She was mixing things and applying things. I was fascinated.
Voila! The finished product. And a beautiful one it was. That hair was not going ANYWHERE.

Then it was on to the church to do the actual “getting ready” part of the day. We hung around for a bit, I watched the girls all working on their hair. There was a lot of curling iron and straightener action going on and I just tried to stay out of the way.

I practiced walking in these….

                                 The Shoes of Eventual Phalanges Death.
They are lovely but……after awhile I was wondering if I had perhaps lost my toes to frostbite sometime back because I sure couldn’t feel them. Aw who needs toes anyways when your shoes are so awesome.
We ordered several of these. The bridesmaids were very hungry. I know these girls and when they are hungry they need to be fed NOW. And we didn’t want anyone fainting. Oh if only the groomsmen had thought the same thing……

And then it was time.

Everyone was in the sanctuary. The grandmothers and mothers had been seated. The unity candle had been lighted. The bridesmaids had successfully navigated their way down the aisle. The flower girl and ring bearer had made it all the way to TASiL and been rewarded with candy. Emmie took her position as flower girl VERY seriously and methodically threw flowers out of her basket.

I stood up so that everyone else would stand up. Did you know this? That the mother of the bride has to start the whole standing up when the bride appears thing. If Jen, the wedding coordinator, hadn’t told me that it was my job to stand up first we would still be sitting there and wondering when things would get going. How come I didn’t know this?
This is TASiL’s face when first seeing TEO. How sweet is that.
Sorry for the quality of the picture. I might have been smiling a lot and shedding one or two tears at this point so I wasn’t paying too much attention to the camera and the metering. Oops.




May I present Josh and Meghan Cutherell. They will now be known as The Married One and The Son-in-Law (TMO and TSiL).

And then it was on to the reception where we tried to get over the fainting groomsman, yes, rolling eyes back in head and having to be helped to the floor and all that. The minister didn’t break stride and the ceremony just kept right on.
What you can’t see is that it was raining. Not hard but drizzly. They didn’t get too many pictures outside.
We spent the evening eating really good food, visiting with family and friends, eating wedding cake (Oh how I love Buttercream frosting and vanilla wedding cake. I.LOVE.IT), snacking on the candy buffet. Man, once people knew what all that candy was for they just grazed and grazed and filled up their little bags. I still had a ton of candy to take home.

There were speeches (one given by yours truly), poetry written by the father of the groom, a video presentation put together by HHBL (it was AWESOME) and the progeny even gave  a 25th anniversary tribute to HHBL and I. It was so sweet and full of inside jokes that made others scratch their heads in confusion but made those in the know laugh hilariously.

And then there was dancing

  

Oh boy was there dancing.


And then, finally the last song was played, TMO and TSiL left, we cleaned up, went back home and collapsed into bed.

And a good time was had by all.

But I don’t want to do this again for a few more years at least.

Well not unless one of the other progeny can manage to plan a wedding on the beach in Hawaii. I am all up for that.