Wedding Update (finally)

How I spent my labor day weekend...

I love holidays especially when I actually have something planned and just don't end up sitting around this house.

This labor day weekend the husband and I went to Albequerque NM for my friends wedding. I left Thursday Morning so I could get there a little earlier and help with the wedding if I needed to. The plan for the wedding was for it to look "thrown" toghether. At first I was a little worried about this thrown together look. I like having the bridesmaids wearing the same colors, the flowergirls all in matching dresses and the centerpieces on the tables all uniformed.

But to tell you the truth, it worked. Especially the place the wedding and reception was held.
The place were it was being held was a cute adobe bed & breakfast. Each room was painted a different color (as you'll see from the pictures).




(these are pictures of the room in the b&b we had the reception at and slept at)

The actual wedding day started a bit rough. None of the grooms family would help because "they had family in town and wanted to spend time with them". So the bride and groom were stressing trying to figure out how to get two bbq grills to the Bed & Breakfast, get all the food and decorations there as well as get ready themselves. Of course me and the other bridesmaid were there to help as much as possible. The brides mom helped pack all the stuff they could into the car but they stayed home to watch the kids. The rest of her family didn't even offer to help.

So we were stuck getting everything set up and taken care of. It was a bit stressful. We got to the Bed & Breakfast and started unloading all the candles, lights, food, plates, and grills.

All the platers for the food were different colors and shapes and sizes. The plates were the same all different colors. They weren't the cheap plastic kinds that you find at most outdoor receptions though, they were all glass. But as I said before it all worked because of the atmoshpere of the B&B.

Finally around 4 0'clock the grooms family showed up to help set up (ummm yeah that's all taken care of). The bride was still in a spin trying to make sure we had everything and everyone knew what plate the food was to be put on.

Around 5 0'clock we start getting ready. It was a crazy for the next hour. Me and the other bridesmaid ended up both taking a curling iron and curling the brides hair in order to make it in time for the ceremony. I barely had time to curl my hair. And my hair is not curling friendly.

At 6 o'clock we started getting ready to walk down the aisle. But no one really knew what we were doing as we had not had a walk through. The grooms men showed up sometimes around 5:30 so we hadn't even met any of them. The bride wanted their daughter to walk down the aisle with her husband and their son to walk down with her. So after a little confusion on all of our parts the procession started. We got down the aisle to where the minister was waiting....
a little side story: They wanted a non-domination minister to conduct their wedding but was having a hard time finding anyone. While at a comic book store her husband frequents they were talking about it. The Cashier overheard their conversation and mentioned that had been ordained over the internet so he could be the minister at his daughters wedding. So the minister was a comic book guy... just thought that was cool! Anyways back to the story at hand... We got down the aisle and stood there for only a few seconds when I realized I didn't have the grooms wedding ring. So I snuck off from the back and ran into the house. Only to find the bride chasing her son around the coffee table. I told her I had forgotten the ring (well really she hadn't given it to me). She ran back get the ring and I grabbed her son. We exchanged kid for ring and I ran back to my place in line. When the bride came through the door she was struggling with her son. He did not want to walk down the aisle. Finally she gave up with her struggles and walked the aisle by herself. The cermony was beautiful.

Afterwards was picture time.

Unfortunely her kids were too wired from all the people there to want their picture taken so there are no pictures of them all together.

Also since I was in the wedding my husband took a few pictures but not really the ones that I would have wanted, so I'll need to wait for my copies of the pictures to have any "good" ones. And normally I would have followed them around as they took pictures but since this was a thrown together wedding. We had no one to prepare the food, get the food set up, anyone sitting by the guest book, or someone accepting gifts and cards for the couple. The next few hours were a blur to me. I was running around trying to make sure that everything was taken care of. That food stayed replenished, people stayed out of the B&B hosts quarters and that my husband was happy. Even the other bridesmaid had to cut and serve the cake because no one was assigned to that duty. We cleaned off tables and washed dishes because again we had no servers or people clearing off the tables. It was crazy. But the bride had a good time and she was vertually stressfree the rest of the night and that's what we wanted.

So I wish I had more pictures to remember her wedding by. I'll just have to bug her for the CD of pictures.

But here are a few of the festivities that I did get:

The Wedding

The Bride

The groom

The Kids


The wedding party

mmm cake

so there you have it the wedding!