Okay, so I am going out on a limb here because I have to tell this story after reading so many other funny/horrific weddings on these boards!
So I was invited to the wedding of a friend's little sister whom I have known for years. Won't go in to them much. Just the wedding. Well, about 2-3 months before the wedding I hear from my mother (the wedding was in my home town) that it has been called off. Okay. About a month before, it is back on, same date etc....different groom. I suppose this isn't unheard of but all I could think was: "Oh my."
I make the trip home for the wedding because I want to visit my friend (Bride's sister) who I don't get to see much of so I am excited to see her. Well I get ready for the wedding and my other friend (we all went to school together and thus knew this gal's sister) comes over. She wasn't dressed as nicely so I felt awkward all gussied up next to her and asked if I could make her my Barbie doll. She replied that she kind of figured I would and we laughed and had a really fun time making her over.
Fast forward to our arrival at the wedding. This wedding took place at a park in my hometown. It's a neat little park. However, it is right next to the dump. It was 80 degrees and the wind was wafting the smell directly over to us. So we arrive at the wedding and aside from the bride, the bridesmaids and the mother of the bride, we are the nicest dressed there. So we are standing there feeling awkward and kind of laughing snarkily (word?) about it and I notice the nice shotgun shell at my feet...right after my friend makes a comment about this feeling like a shotgun wedding.
The ceremony area is set up nicely and is at least facing away from the dump so it does look pretty coming down that way. We find some seats and start discussing what kind of officiant they have because he doesn't look like an officiant of sorts that we know. Okay, so he is a little dressed down. (Black button up shirt and black jeans.) We are feeling super snarky at this point and just laugh our heads off trying to figure that out. The ceremony starts. She'd chosen a colour for her wedding but let her bridesmaids each pick a dress. (That is actually what I am going to have to do due to one of my BMs "to-be-condition" at the time. I actually think this is a nice idea.) So bridesmaid number 1: Jeans and tennis shoes sticking out of the bottom of her gown. Bridesmaid number 2: Should have picked a dress that would have covered her chest. I am all for a little cleavage if that's your thing....but these were BURSTING. We kept asking when they were going to pop out. Bridesmaid number 3: Our friend, her sister, beautiful! She looked stunning! Then the bride. She looked very nice. Beautiful dress, she looked beautiful. It was all okay. Then the officiant started talking. We were just commenting on how we couldn't hear him and suddenly they were going back down the aisle. WAIT! REWIND! Where was the wedding?? I think we only blinked!
Well, after we went directly to the reception in a building in the park. Good stuff...no organization. We weren't sure who was supposed to go after the bridal party or what the etiquette of the whole thing was and before we knew it, they were cleaning up!!! We hadn't eaten anything! So we grabbed all the mints we could an hoarded them!
After that we ended up going out to eat with another of our friends, the bride's sister, and my friend's (who attended with me) FI. We all had a great time reminiscing and overall had a wonderful day.
Yes, I am so snarky for this and we both knew as we were snarky-ing our way through that wedding that we were going to Hell...but oh my. What a wedding!