The wife of the guy who bought our car came to do my hair that morning. I think she was yanking at my hair but I was too tired to feel anything. She did an amazing job! Her daughter is crazy though…little 1.5 year old girl that just gets into absolutely everything! After my hair got done, the chaos of the two moms getting ready started. We still didn’t have the music figured out and I had to get our wedding music (namely our first dance song!). Betty did my make-up and I actually did my own mascara. This is when I started to get nervous. Miller left about 10 to 15 minutes before we did with Miller Jr. and Vicki’s husband. I had to wait for Carolina to get there. Carolina got there and I asked that she drive us to the Recorder’s office because she has a 4 door car.
Traffic to the Recorder’s office could not have been worse. We stopped for EVERY light. I was getting really nervous! When we finally got there, we saw all of Miller’s family already there and Miller was already there. However, the few family members of mine have not gotten there yet. Miller and I went inside the office to finish up the paperwork and they told us to wait outside. We waited and waited and waited and I started to get irritated. Then we realized that I forgot my tiara, my bouquet and the rice bags that Miller Jr. made! Carolina was holding my dress the whole time too! My family members finally got there!! They got lost!! Thank god the ceremony was late because at least my few family members were able to be there.
The ceremony started and it was wonderful too. There was construction going on behind the building, but it stopped while the ceremony was going on! Since this is the Recorder’s office, there was no romantic walking down the aisle lol. We didn’t have the wedding music playing, but my head was too filled with emotions to really pay any attention to that. Of course I started crying…then I thought Miller started to laugh at me because he turned away…then…he turned back around and I see his eyes were all red and he was crying too! The ceremony is somewhat a blur…I didn’t even know what I was saying. Miller Jr. was our ring-bearer. When it was over, every one clapped and everyone took a lot of pictures.
Miller, Miller Jr. and I left together (ceremonial I guess?). We were the first one to get back to the house. I told Miller to carry my over the threshold and he reluctantly did (lol). As soon as we got back, we went to set up the music box at the clubhouse…people slowly started arriving. It was a very successful and fun reception. I didn’t have to lift a finger and somehow, all the food, drinks, etc got served. We kept the alcohol at the house because there was a “no alcohol” policy at the clubhouse. Everyone brought their drinks over with the white cups lol (if it was up to me, people would have had red cups...but Betty specifically told me no, I had to get the white cups). Carolina was right on the money, she told me to get the cake, dance, etc going. So we did. Miller and I really didn’t want to do a first dance so we were laughing through the whole thing. Our song was Elvis Presley’s “Can’t help falling in love”. There was no parent/children dance because, well, Vicki was crying too hard and my parents weren’t there.
We got the cake cutting over with…that was fun lol. We were not the most coordinated when we tried to do the champagne thing. Then we moved to the toast. Miller’s grandma did a toast, Betty did a toast, my uncle did a toast, and my crazy BFF did a toast. Carolina was laughing the whole time our BFF gave me a toast. BFF said that her and I both showed up to work in a suit…I stopped listening at that point because I was asking myself “do I even OWN a suit?!” Thank god Carolina shouted out at the end that she was the reason we got married. Everyone came up to ask me who my BFF was…all I can say to the ones who asked was that she’s crazy and it’s a funny memory that she gave me a toast.
The reception went really well. Everyone seemed like they enjoyed themselves. As people started to leave, the party migrated to my house. The clubhouse got cleaned up without me having to do anything! I vowed that I was not going to take any shots…so I had just a perfect buzz throughout the whole thing. When the party came to the house, Vicki and Betty kept doing shots. I finally did one Milagro shot and half a Jager. Miller’s buddy (the one who bought our car) came by with his wife and kids. Our creepy neighbors left their camera here, so we snooped through that and found some S&M pictures…Miller quickly deleted the pictures of me from the camera.
After everyone finally left, I kicked Vicki, her husband and Miller Jr. out for about 10 minutes. Told them we need to do it for the first time as husband and wife lol. It was a good night, and frankly, an awesome wedding!! I’m sure I’ll come back and read this a year later and go “oh yeh! That’s right!”
-Emma
