A Little of This & That: Weekend of Weddingness

I've had to make some collages, but the thing I'm not a fan of is the fact that Picasa cuts your pictures in random spots if they decide they're too big. For instance, mom's head is almost cut off in the first picture....and I'm not that bad at setting up a shot! There's a shot I wanted to put in a different collage, but it cuts off both Jody and Sherri's heads! Dumb. But whatever. This will have to do. The ones that don't work in a collage will stand on their own, and probably have a story behind them anyway. Oh yes, there are more stories.

This first collage is of a few shots we had Joseph take on Friday morning, just for fun. Jody (well, all of us really) wanted mother-daughter wedding dress shots for the fun of it. Sherri and I toted our wedding dresses with us through the airport and onto the airplane. We got many looks, and I'm sure most people thought we were going to get married somewhere. Not so much. We did tell a few inquiring minds that it was actually our little sister getting married, and she wanted pictures of all of us with our dresses. At that point, we got many strange looks and answers of "oh". Simply that. "Oh". That leads me to believe that they all thought it was a rather silly idea. I don't care. I think it's cool, and I'll look back on the pictures when I'm old (and probably while I'm not old, too!) and be glad we took them.

This second collage is from rehearsal evening. There's nothing super fabulous about any of these pictures, especially considering that my favorite picture has, again, been unnecessarily cropped to remove two of the four hats . It was just cute, as the guys all placed their hats nicely on the guest table before the rehearsal :) If you're my friend on Facebook, you can check out my wedding album and see all these better there. The other neat thing was that Bryce, one of Nigel's groomsmen, had a Herbie tattoo. I was a fan :) I grew up watching the Disney Herbie movies, so I thought it was pretty spiffy! One more thing regarding a picture in this set. Jody's maid of honor, Alicia, made it into one of these pictures, amazingly. The reason it was so amazing is because Alicia was involved in a rather unfortunate situation involving the smashing of two cars on her way to the church for rehearsal that afternoon. Her car was one of them. Her car didn't make it out alive, but thank the Lord she did! The relaying of news we first heard was that she had chemical burns and was taken away by ambulance in a brace. Immediately my over-active brain goes into 'worst-case-scenario' mode and I imagine the worst. I'm sitting there in the church thinking my little "sister" wasn't able to walk, and that her burns were all over and really bad and that she wouldn't be able to stand with us on Saturday at the wedding! I did have a moment of relief when we were informed that Jody wasn't involved in the accident (though she watched the entire thing play out from her car!), and was on her way to the church so we could go ahead with the much-needed rehearsal. We later learned that the "brace" was just the C-collar in case of head/neck injury that they put on everyone involved in an MVA in transport to the hospital, and the burns weren't nearly as significant as my mind made them out to be..she just had a couple on each forearm and a smidgen of one on her chest. I think she said she was the most sore from the spot the nurses kept poking her to find a vein for her IV! That's rather impressive. By the end of the dinner, though, one of the burns was starting to hurt from the sun/heat beating on it for the duration of our outside dinner. She was a real trooper, and though she wasn't able to spend the night with all of us (she went home to shower and decided afterwards that she was, in fact, quite sore and preferred to spend the night in her own bed), she was at our house to have hair and makeup done the next morning and was in a chipper mood and happy to stand up as maid of honor for her best friend :) I love that girl.

Fairly self-explanitory, but these are a few of the hair shots on wedding morning! Jody, Alicia and Debbie all had their hair done at mom and dad's house by the girls' friend, Kim. Mom, Sherri and I all went to mom's stylist, Adele's house/salon for our appointments. While the others were having their hair done, I got a much-needed manicure from Adele's friend.

Getting ready!

On the way to the ceremony (in mom's van), we decided it would be a great idea to have some water because it was SUPER HOT that day, and we were all parched. So we stopped along the way at the Husky Food Store for a 6-pack :) Yes, we made Jody pile out of the van and traipse through the store with us. She didn't want to, but it really was fun! See? She's smiling! Besides, she got the royal treatment the entire way. You can't really tell in this picture, but the 3 of us in the back seat were fanning her the entire way.

Because I was in the wedding party, I don't have any pictures of the ceremony! These are the shots I took as we were leaving the church to head to City Hall for pictures. The '67 Mercury Cougar get-away car is courtesy of mom and dad's neighbor, Dave.

The wedding cake was decorated with their first dance song, "Eternal Love". Cute idea. Then they played the shoe game, which got out of hand quickly. Then there were speeches, including some from my parental unit who, apparently, had a lobotomy sometime between the ceremony and reception (stupid Picasa), and then the bride and groom thanked the kitchen for the food...which we liked.

Check this out...Nigel had a lobotomy too! What is UP with that? :) Oh boy. I'm getting sleepy. There was cake-cutting and cake smearing, along with kissing and dancing.

And garter tossing and bouquet tossing, and then more dancing. But not a lot. We were very sleepy. And we had to kick out the drunken revelers. Well, we tried to...with little success, so we made the guy who was cleaning the hall do it. We had more important things to do. Like chauffeur the honeymooners to their apartment 'cause Jody's car keys were locked in her car. Yup, yet another fun story for the weekend of weddingness! They did get them out eventually, just not in time to use the car as their get-away vehicle on their wedding night. Isn't that what family is for?