I'm backkk! Swamped at work, but wanted to take some time to share the good, and frustrating from my trip.
To start: The Good
- All my prepping worked and I didn't have any altitude sickness.
- I used my company discount for a rental car and paid for a regular car. The lot was full of SUVs so they upgraded us for free
- It was absolutely gorgeous. Pictures seriously don't even show how gorgeous it was.
- The weather was perfect all week.
- The house we stayed in was a freaking mansion. It had 6 bedrooms and each bedroom had its own private bathroom. So even though we were staying with the whole family, we had our own little place away from everyone else.
- I finally got to meet all of my bf's family, and had so much fun with all of them
- My bf was wrong, ceremony was not first thing in the morning and there was no early morning hike.
Time for the snark...
- I spent most of the trip in the car because my bf was sent the wrong vest. After spending an entire day driving all over the place to find any kind of grey vest, we gave up because Jcrew said they were having one sent first thing in the morning. It didn't show up until that evening (after the wedding), but it turns out 2 of the others groomsmen were also sent the wrong vest. So it looked like it was done on purpose.
- Ceremony and reception sites were two hours apart. Ceremony site was gorgeous, but outside with no shade spots. We drove two hours for a 20 minutes ceremony, took pictures, then drove another 2 hours to the reception.
- Reception venue was open to public (they were supposed to go to second floor, but since they could walk right in there were several non-wedding guests at the bar).
- They had a head table. So I was placed at a table with the groom's college friends, outside on the deck. We couldn't see anything from our seats, so we had our own party.
Overall it wasn't horrible and we had fun. Getting up early Friday to catch our flight was rough. Ok, picture time. The first picture is where the ceremony was located. Second picture is the Sky mountains (can kind of still see where it spells out SKY). Third picture is the view from the plane Friday morning. Fourth through seventh pictures are from the drive through the canyons. Eighth and Ninth pictures are from the house we stayed at. Tenth is the sunset from the plane on our way to Colorado.