This weekend was Sarah's wedding. Here are a few of the hightlights: On friday (the day before the wedding) Sarah calls me crying hysterically. I told her to calm down and tell me what was wrong. She found out the day before that the area where they were having the reception was booked for a breakfast, and a 12:00 lunch on the day of the wedding. The wedding started at 2, so there was approximately one hour to set up and decorate the whole reception area before the reception started. Anyone who has had a wedding knows how crazy this is. I try to remain calm and pretend like this is no big deal. I am freaking out for her on the inside. Then she says the flowers that were supposed to be small gerber daisys came in and they were the size of a small saucer. The reason this is bad is because these were to be used as the men's boutineers. They were hugely ridiculous looking! So being the awesome MOH that I was I told her it would be ok. We would recruit everyone who loved her to help with the reception and I would go to the flower shop to fix the flower situation since she couldn't because she had to meet with the preacher before rehersal. (of course I wasn't really sure that there was anything I could do) So I went to the flower shop and nicely asked if there was any other flower we could use for the boutineers because the bride was crying hysterically. Fortunately we were able to "borrow" some flowers that were supposed to go in the bouquets and use them for the boutineers instead, and the bouquets were still beautiful! Problem solved. Whew! So I'm driving home from solving this problem when she calls me crying again, saying "I guess we're just not going to have any music!" This ,by the way, is three hours before rehersal begins. Ok....why not? She says, "My computer is frozen and I can't download anything!" Yes...I know....You're thinking.....Shouldn't that have ALREADY been taken care of? I didn't dare say that, so I said well, why don't you just come over to my house and use my computer? Then she says...I have to get ready for rehersal and be there an hour early.....Ugh.....so I'm like.....Ok, tell me what songs you want, and I will download them. She says: "I DONT KNOW.".....seriously. There was one song she wanted, but she didn't know what she wanted to use it for. So I told her not to worry that I would pick her out some music. Yeah!! That stressed me out! I had to pick out someone elses wedding music 3 hours before the rehersal! I went home and asked Josh if he knew where OUR wedding CD might possibly be. After a little digging he found it!!! SCORE!!! Fortunately we had not used any special or sentimental songs in our wedding. Just traditional, classical, wedding music. So I uploaded that CD onto the computer, and downloaded the song she said she wanted and added them all together and ta-da! I figured if she didn't like it, there wasn't much she could say. Anyways, she heard it for the FIRST time at her rehersal. She was just thankful to have music! The groom on the other hand had the nerve to say he didn't like the song that they left to. I laughed it off and told him that he better not knock it since he didn't make it. I DID! It didn't bother me because, grooms really have no idea what us women go through to plan a wedding! They just show up, and think someone waved a magic wand, and a wedding happened! Fortunately, the drama all happened the day before, and the actual wedding day was perfect and beautiful! I am soooooo glad that it is over. Hopefully I am done with weddings for a while! Everyone i am close to is married now, except my sister, but she is doing a beach wedding next year and she isn't having bridesmaids or groomsmen! Thank GOD! After the wedding I had to rush home and make cheese dip, because we had friends over for the game. I was exhausted by the end of the night. It was a good weekend, but a very tireing one!
