i showed my family two of the three-hour honeymoon videos. they enjoyed watching it because they went to Kauai two years ago when amy and jim got married (their very SURPRISE wedding, where only mom and dad were in attendance). it was quite gratifying to see that we’d actually found the spot where the ceremony took place.
it was under a palm tree.
there are MANY MANY palm trees in hawaii. they couldn’t give me very good directions about where, exactly, they’d been married. but when they saw the video (of the second place where i thought it might be), they said THAT’S THE PLACE! and that was very cool.
i’ll be posting a photo of that one of these days.
at the rate i’m going, that’ll be today.
except today is already over, now it’s tomorrow. sunday. i really really need to go to bed now.
i just have to put up a few more photos.
this is another shot of the cake. did i mention that in addition the top layer which were allegedly saving till next year, we also have a pretty big carrot cake layer in the freezer? i’m taking it out next week and we’re going to watch some more honeymoon videos and eat cake.
here’s a great picture of mercedes and david. i love this because david just looks so genuinely happy, as does mercedes. as soon as i buy some more photo paper i’m going to print out a bunch of copies for the family.
it was a really lovely, beautiful day all around.
this is kevin and his mom, nancee, at the reception. i think it’s a nice, happy photo of his mom. i worried about his family enjoying themselves. this isn’t kevin’s first marriage, and i wondered if they might be thinking, “uh oh, here he goes again.”
it’s funny, all the worrying that seemed to go on. i also worried a lot about that not getting around to all the tables to say hi to everybody that i wrote about earlier. tonight amy said she was upset the day after the wedding because she hadn’t danced with me! she was worried that that made her a bad sister. i couldn’t believe that she’d worry about this at all. mom was concerned that she hadn’t danced with my brother david.
we’re a family of worriers. too many people worry too much.
ok, so i’m starting yet another new chapter of my life, and i’m going to attempt in this all new deal to STOP WORRYING SO MUCH.
also maybe not quite as much planning. we could have spent more time just relaxing during our trip, but when i’m in a new place it’s very very difficult for me not to want to see everything. our pace wasn’t frantic all the time, but we saw plenty.
here, kevin is singing to me. he’s playing “lady.” is that the name of the song? wouldn’t you think i’d KNOW the name of the song?
it goes “lady…are you crying? Do your tears belong to me?”
lady. i think. he sang it to me very early on in our relationship, and then at other times.
he was going to use a microphone, but one of his mics was at the top of the hill for randy to sing. and the other one was at the motor boat club for the reception.
about 15 minutes before the wedding, somebody said that kevin wasn’t around. he’d left. christine said he went out to find some kind of cord or something. HE LEFT? i asked. christine said she didn’t want to tell me that.
i thought he’d gone to the store (and had no idea WHY he felt the need to shop 15 minutes before we were going to be married), but later he said he’d gone to the motor boat club to find some kind of adaptor for another microphone he had. hank, one of the guys in the band Real Time, who played at the reception, said he had one with his stuff. i don’t know why hank didn’t go look for the adaptor, but kevin went and didn’t find it.
but at least he came back.
and even if people in the back row couldn’t hear him, i could. and that’s all that really matters.
but on the other hand, i wouldn’t have wanted people to sit there bored.
but at one point during the ceremony i looked around me at the incredibly beautiful setting and thought that even if you were EXTREMELY JADED about weddings (and i know there were at least a couple of people in the audience who were), you’d have to appreciate sitting there in this lovely yard with absolutely perfect weather, sipping a sangria and eating a homemade chocolate chip cookie.
or we also had cold water.
i’d like some sangria and a cookie right now, as a matter of fact.
there were quite a few cookies left but dad kept most of them. he wanted to keep them all but there were a LOT left, so i made him relinquish a few of them.
i actually had a glass of leftover sangria tonight, and it’s still pretty good.
ok, ONE MORE PHOTO before i MUST go to sleep. we passed out wedding bubbles for the walk up the aisle, and this is a good photo of that.
ok i lied, just one more. this is jim and mollie and the bubbles. mollie is kind of hard to see, in back of jim. i’m not sure what, exactly she was doing here, why she seemed hesitant to walk up the aisle. maybe she smelled cookies and was trying to snag one as she walked.
in the background you can see sam. sam and ben were both in the wedding; i have at least one good photo so far of them together. ben, my friend kurt’s son, was the ring bearer, and because he got to do this his little brother sam was jealous so sam was the assistant to the flower girl.
and since mollie was the beagle of honor, the boys spent most of the wedding petting mollie. or at least i’m pretty sure that’s what they were doing; i was trying to focus on matters at hand.
the thing i remember most vividly is that at one point ben suddenly fell down. no reason or anything, he just fell right down. after he got up, almost immediately, sam fell down. i didn’t laugh. it wouldn’t have been appropriate. but it was so funny.
i guess small children don’t have very good balance.
i know i didn’t when i was a child.
still don’t, so much. but i did manage to stay upright during the entire wedding, even though i was walking down a hill in high heels.
ok, i’m truly going to sleep now. except my HUSBAND is going to be home from work ANY MINUTE NOW, so maybe i’ll stay up just a few minutes more.
just a few.
one or two.
goodnight, goodnight,
married grace, TWO WEEKS already.