The Wedding
So, it’s all over. Finally.
My husband and I woke up the morning of the wedding, still pretty much in the dark about what was going on and what we would have to do. We spoke to my brother in law and were told that we would be meeting up with the bride to be at her parent’s house because they would need us to take some things over to the hall. So we took Charlie to the babysitter’s house and came back home with just enough time to shower, drink some coffee and pack our stuff.
We arrived at the house on time and were told by her parents that the bride would be late. She was really late. She finally got to the house and started loading our car with stuff to take over. I’ll be as brief as possible: basically, my husband and I were responsible for setting everything up. I got some instructions from her and we took off. When we arrived at the hall, the room was not set up (tables, etc) because there was a meeting taking place in the room. So we dumped as much stuff as we could there in a locked office and went to the hotel to check in. We quickly got changed and raced back to the reception hall only to find that it still wasn’t ready. We were finally able to go in and set up with only an hour before the ceremony. Luckily, we made it work and everything got set up. This is when the real problems began…
The first problem was that the bride and groom were going to have the wedding march played on a little ghetto blaster. First of all, they never bothered to pick a person to do this; secondly, the bride forgot to bring the ghetto blaster. They assigned one of the guests last minute to stand up at the front and push play when she started walking down the isle. Of course, he was not overly happy about this but agreed to do it. Then, she called her brother in law to turn around (he was halfway to the place) and get the boom box from the house. Well, the brother in law was bringing the ring bearer. So the ceremony started 45 minutes late. In the meantime, everyone is freezing their asses off because the ceremony is in a tent in the parking lot and it is raining and cold. They had to turn off the heaters because they were too loud to hear anything so it got cold in there pretty fast. Finally, the ceremony starts. Of course, the music doesn’t work and the bride comes down the aisle to a skipping CD that plays part of the song and then finally cuts out. Halfway through the ceremony, a bus pulled up beside the tent and flooded the tent with diesel fumes. They had to stop the wedding and have someone run out to tell him to shut off the engine. It was so loud that no one could hear anything. Instead of shutting off the engine, the bus driver decided to back up all the way out of the parking lot. So we all had to wait until the beeping stopped. It was brutal.
Eventually, after what seemed like endless prayers and vows that ran on and on, we all made it inside. Because the pictures took so long and god knows what else was happening, dinner was not served until 8:30pm, two hours late.
The rest of the night went well, and the whole thing is finally over, thank god. Charlie had a good time at the babysitters and now things are back to normal, sort of. My husband had to leave for a conference last night so I’m alone all week with the animals and will be busy as hell. Luckily he’s back on Friday and I have the day off so hopefully I’ll get some rest.
What a nightmare this month has been. I have never been this busy in my life. I don’t even have time to do laundry anymore. Our bedroom is a disaster and the bathrooms need to be cleaned. The puppy is in his crate all day because I’m at work so I can’t lock him up when I get home to get some stuff done. Ugh. I just need to get through this week.
Office Girl
My husband and I woke up the morning of the wedding, still pretty much in the dark about what was going on and what we would have to do. We spoke to my brother in law and were told that we would be meeting up with the bride to be at her parent’s house because they would need us to take some things over to the hall. So we took Charlie to the babysitter’s house and came back home with just enough time to shower, drink some coffee and pack our stuff.
We arrived at the house on time and were told by her parents that the bride would be late. She was really late. She finally got to the house and started loading our car with stuff to take over. I’ll be as brief as possible: basically, my husband and I were responsible for setting everything up. I got some instructions from her and we took off. When we arrived at the hall, the room was not set up (tables, etc) because there was a meeting taking place in the room. So we dumped as much stuff as we could there in a locked office and went to the hotel to check in. We quickly got changed and raced back to the reception hall only to find that it still wasn’t ready. We were finally able to go in and set up with only an hour before the ceremony. Luckily, we made it work and everything got set up. This is when the real problems began…
The first problem was that the bride and groom were going to have the wedding march played on a little ghetto blaster. First of all, they never bothered to pick a person to do this; secondly, the bride forgot to bring the ghetto blaster. They assigned one of the guests last minute to stand up at the front and push play when she started walking down the isle. Of course, he was not overly happy about this but agreed to do it. Then, she called her brother in law to turn around (he was halfway to the place) and get the boom box from the house. Well, the brother in law was bringing the ring bearer. So the ceremony started 45 minutes late. In the meantime, everyone is freezing their asses off because the ceremony is in a tent in the parking lot and it is raining and cold. They had to turn off the heaters because they were too loud to hear anything so it got cold in there pretty fast. Finally, the ceremony starts. Of course, the music doesn’t work and the bride comes down the aisle to a skipping CD that plays part of the song and then finally cuts out. Halfway through the ceremony, a bus pulled up beside the tent and flooded the tent with diesel fumes. They had to stop the wedding and have someone run out to tell him to shut off the engine. It was so loud that no one could hear anything. Instead of shutting off the engine, the bus driver decided to back up all the way out of the parking lot. So we all had to wait until the beeping stopped. It was brutal.
Eventually, after what seemed like endless prayers and vows that ran on and on, we all made it inside. Because the pictures took so long and god knows what else was happening, dinner was not served until 8:30pm, two hours late.
The rest of the night went well, and the whole thing is finally over, thank god. Charlie had a good time at the babysitters and now things are back to normal, sort of. My husband had to leave for a conference last night so I’m alone all week with the animals and will be busy as hell. Luckily he’s back on Friday and I have the day off so hopefully I’ll get some rest.
What a nightmare this month has been. I have never been this busy in my life. I don’t even have time to do laundry anymore. Our bedroom is a disaster and the bathrooms need to be cleaned. The puppy is in his crate all day because I’m at work so I can’t lock him up when I get home to get some stuff done. Ugh. I just need to get through this week.
Office Girl
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