So I'm back from Disney with wedding updates and a couple pics (I should have pros back by the end of the month, so I'll be sure to do a real bio then)!
For starters, I'm married (YAY!). And the wedding totally rocked. Everything went pretty much perfectly and there was very minimal drama that day, so WHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
A few "not-so-great" things:
*I stayed at my parents' house the night before, and first thing in the morning, my older sister pretty much was up my mom and my butt complaining about
everything. About 2 hours into, I wound up having a mini-zilla moment, pretty much said "I'm sick of all your crap, this is
my day (Yeah, I dropped the MD bomb, eep!)
, if you can't go a single day without being a miserable biotch, then do us all a favor and don't bother coming at all". Felt awful the minute the words came out of my mouth, but really, I'd had it, and in my (miniscule) defense, it literally was
my day at that point ... and she proceeded to leave me alone after that. I actually wasn't sure if she would wind up showing, but about an hour before the ceremony, she poppoed into the bridal suite where I was getting dressed and she was dressed with her hair done, and was extremely nice to me, so things went smoothly on that front.
*The Best Man's FI (Who is about a month physically older than my little sister, but about 12 years younger in the maturity and sanity dept) showed up in a prom gown, danced like she was at some hippie love-in (Big swaying arm motions, lolling head, dramatic dips, etc), made literally a million innapropriate/irrelevant comments thoughout the night (Ex: a few of my friends were discussing their new puppy at one point, this girl interjects "I once got drunk in Romania and lost a game of strip poker" ... this is what got back to me anyway) ... and overall was just insane. Many people asked me or my mom "Who is that girl and what is her deal?", quite a few tacked on "Is she drunk/on drugs?". But on the bright side, I always say "Every wedding has a Crazy Aunt Rita", we just got lucky that we aren't actually
related to ours (And that we rarely see her ever). Also, while I don't particularly care for her, I saw her for a grand total of 2 minutes, so it barely effected me.
*The moms got seated, the BMs were ready to walk in ... when the RB (Who was standing up where he should have been already) announces for the world to hear "I HAVE TO PEE!!!!!!" and bolted from the room to go. After he got back, the ceremony went off without a hitch. Also, in the middle of the formal pics (Which, we made sure to do his first to try and avoid this), he just randomly yelled out "THIS IS BORING! WHAT'S THE POINT OF ALL THIS?" and then started complaining about the ceremony (Which was already over).
*During the reception, DH's (Oh, weird!) side kept doing the clinking glasses for kissing (My family hates this tradition, so we never have it at weddings). Which annoyed the living crap out of me. After the first hour, I kept telling him "No, I'm ignoring it, I'm tired of doing and if we ignore it, it will stop". But it didn't stop, whoever did it would just bang the glass harder (To the point where I'm surprised glasses didn't get broken) until we did it. It wouldn't have annoyed the crap out of me if every time we finally broke down and kissed, the FOG (Who was drunk off his
@$$ before I even walked down the aisle) didn't scream (And I do mean
scream) "GET A ROOM, YOU TWO!!!!!". It didn't ruin my night, but it ... well, annoyed the crap out of me, lol.
A few really awesome things:
*Everybody in the BP (Including the Best Man, if you couldn't tell) showed up, on time, in clothes that fit. The moms had insisted on matching jewelry and shoes ... but for the life of me, I can't remember if anybody actually wore the stuff, lol.
*I had hand-picked 90% of the playlist (Yes, neurotic, but I actually loved doing it), people raved about the music selection we had.
*I can truly advocate the sweetheart table now. Aside from the clinking glasses, everybody pretty much left us alone when we were seated, and we really did enjoy the 5 minute periods of peace it gave us.
*Aside from the "Crazy Aunt Rita" comments, we didn't get a single piece of negative feedback. Everybody had a blast (The dance floor was packed most of the night, and actually a lot of our guests were an older generation), they raved about the food, the music, the cake (Apparently, not too many people usually eat the wedding cake, or so we were told). We got our little bits of dorkiness in there, so you could clearly see it was
our wedding, but it balanced so perfectly with all of the "normal" stuff we picked, so it was blantantly theme-y.
Overall: my wedding had CLASS!
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