It’s a little boring at work today and I feel like I’m back in the ‘real world’ now so I want to write about the wedding so I can come back and read it someday.
Wednesday was my first day off of work and I was going crazy running all over town getting last minute stuff done. Then Thursday I packed up all of our stuff for the weekend, wedding and honeymoon then went to the clarendon hotel (www.theclarendon.net) (awesome hotel!) And we had my bachelorette party, it was super fun, just what I wanted. Very mellow, not crazy, good time with my closest friends (and sisters). We had macayo’s delivered and then went to melting pot (yummm!). Then on Friday we got our nails done and it took forever but was good bonding time. The whole day I felt sick to my stomach, I even went to the bathroom because I thought I was going to puke several times. So I started freaking out a bit, in everything I read it said that it’s good to be nervous but if you feel physically sick then you should listen to your body and re-think what you are doing (getting married). So my mind was out of it all day and I was worrying like crazy. But then it hit me, I had a vitamin this morning on an empty stomach then had a huge starbucks, probably why my stomach hurt. Then I had some food and instantly felt better. Oh man, I cant tell you how relieved I was, I knew I wasn’t making a mistake, but it kind of freaked me out a bit and I think it was for the better. After we did our nails we rested for a bit and then went to the rehearsal, it was good and fun, started to feel real then, then I started getting nervous (real nervous not sickness). After we went to dinner at Roy’s and it was flipping amazing!! I loved loved it. They printed custom menus with our names on it and everyone had fun bonding with each other. Jakey gave a speech and it just made my heart melt, he is such a cutie! After that I think I just felt like all was right in the world and everything was perfect, I had no more nervousness or anything.
On wedding day I woke up and felt like it was a normal day with lots of stuff to do. So I took a long shower, packed up and headed to the hotel. My sister spent the night with me on Friday and even though we didn’t have much time to chat I really appreciated her being there, so I wasn’t alone. We got to the hotel and everything was slow but fast. The hair lady was super nice, then we started to separate all of the ribbon and put together the candy ‘bar’. I was really super calm all day, anytime I started to get nervous I picked up my camera and played some music (the best things in the world). We all got ready, took pictures then went down for the ceremony. I was fine, talking with ty and my dad when all of the bridesmaids and groomsmen were walking down the isle but then when it was my turn and I hit the stars, saw jakey I turned in to a mush (as I’m sure everyone saw). I couldn’t comprehend anything I only really saw 3 people in the seats everything else was just about trying to see jake through my tears and making sure ty was beside me. Everything else was a blur, I remember not being able to hold jake’s hand, which is all I wanted to do, I hadn’t seen him in almost 24 hours and it was for obvious reasons an emotional 24 hours. He is my support system and I think it’s dumb that I couldn’t see him through out that time. What I do remember is the sand ceremony and the vows which were both perfect, the sand ceremony was important to me because I have ty, and I wanted him to be a part of the ceremony and have something symbolic stating that we are 2 and 1 becoming 3 together. Then the vows which turned out perfect, we didn’t show them to each other before so I was kind of worried they would be too different since we used the same concept but it worked well! I’m going to frame them in our house with a wedding picture. When it was all official and we kissed Jake dipped me, he did this in the rehearsal and I told him it was cute but not to do it in the ceremony because I could fall in my dress, but apparently he didn’t listen because he did it anyways. I was told later that he wanted to do that because it’s what his dad did when he got married, so that was cute but way unexpected! The reception was good and fun, nothing really bad to say about that. Everyone was gone by 10:30 which I thought was super early but when I thought about it I’ve never stayed at a wedding past 10 so I guess that’s normal.
Our honeymoon was great, we didn’t do a ton of stuff which is what I originally wanted to do, but after everything we just wanted to relax and be together so we did. We had mucho fun but mostly just relaxed. We went on a cruise to mexico and went to 3 cities and all 3 were unique and completely different. I told jake that I wanted to accomplish 3 things on the cruise at the cities, 1. Shop 2. Relax 3. do something adventurous
So in the first port Puerto Vallarta we went shopping the first ½ of the day and then went horseback riding at night so that just left relaxing. In the second city Mazatlan we decided at the last minute to take a trolley tour of the city, it was 5 hours but we are so glad we did it! We learned a lot of stuff and it took us to the most beautiful views and things to do. It was one of my favorite things we did. Then the third city was Cabo San Lucas (!!!!) we got a taxi to take us to the most beautiful beach I’ve ever seen in my life. The sand and water were amazing and there was hardly anybody there. They had little straw huts lined up and we just had so much fun, jake played in the water like a little kid (in a cute way) and I took a ton of pics and then we just relaxed, we almost fell asleep. It was so beautiful. So that was our relaxing day.
On the cruise we were lucky enough to get our own table at dinner but the people next to us were in there late 30’s early 40’s and were constantly complementing us on how ‘refreshing’ it was to see a couple who genuinely loved each other as much as we did. They kept saying how they could just tell that we belonged together. The last night one of the guys asked how old we were and we told him, of course he was surprised at how young we were but then he asked whose house we were moving in to and we explained that we already lived together and he seriously almost flipped out. Apparently he is ‘old fashioned’ his wife said, then they said ½ jokingly that their opinion changed of us because we live together already. I don’t get it. How did we change his opinion about how we love each other just because we live together? Oh well, they were really nice.
I am super happy how everything went and also super happy that i married jake, he is the best! : )
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I feel like I'm going to cry just reading that! I think you are definitely meant for each other. I loved the wedding and everyone I've talked to said it was beautiful and perfect. Especially not having to wait forever between the ceremony and the reception :-)
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