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\u2019d actually found the spot where the ceremony took place.<\/p>\n
it was under a palm tree.<\/p>\n
there are MANY MANY palm trees in hawaii. they couldn\u2019t give me very good directions about where, exactly, they\u2019d been married. but when they saw the video (of the second place where i thought it might be), they said THAT\u2019S THE PLACE! and that was very cool. <\/p>\n
i\u2019ll be posting a photo of that one of these days.<\/p>\n
at the rate i\u2019m going, that\u2019ll be today.<\/p>\n
except today is already over, now it\u2019s tomorrow. sunday. i really really need to go to bed now.<\/p>\n
i just have to put up a few more photos.<\/p>\n
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\u2019m taking it out next week and we\u2019re going to watch some more honeymoon videos and eat cake.<\/p>\n
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here\u2019s 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\u2019m going to print out a bunch of copies for the family. <\/p>\n
it was a really lovely, beautiful day all around.<\/p>\n
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this is kevin and his mom, nancee, at the reception. i think it\u2019s a nice, happy photo of his mom. i worried about his family enjoying themselves. this isn\u2019t kevin\u2019s first marriage, and i wondered if they might be thinking, “uh oh, here he goes again.” <\/p>\n
it\u2019s 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\u2019t danced with me! she was worried that that made her a bad sister. i couldn\u2019t believe that she\u2019d worry about this at all. mom was concerned that she hadn\u2019t danced with my brother david.<\/p>\n
we\u2019re a family of worriers. too many people worry too much.<\/p>\n
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ok, so i\u2019m starting yet another new chapter of my life, and i\u2019m going to attempt in this all new deal to STOP WORRYING SO MUCH.<\/p>\n
also maybe not quite as much planning. we could have spent more time just relaxing during our trip, but when i\u2019m in a new place it\u2019s very very difficult for me not to want to see everything. our pace wasn\u2019t frantic all the time, but we saw plenty.<\/p>\n
here, kevin is singing to me. he\u2019s playing “lady.” is that the name of the song? wouldn\u2019t you think i\u2019d KNOW the name of the song?<\/p>\n
it goes “lady…are you crying? Do your tears belong to me?” <\/p>\n
lady. i think. he sang it to me very early on in our relationship, and then at other times. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
about 15 minutes before the wedding, somebody said that kevin wasn\u2019t around. he\u2019d left. christine said he went out to find some kind of cord or something. HE LEFT? i asked. christine said she didn\u2019t want to tell me that. <\/p>\n
i thought he\u2019d 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\u2019d 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\u2019t know why hank didn\u2019t go look for the adaptor, but kevin went and didn\u2019t find it.<\/p>\n
but at least he came back.<\/p>\n
and even if people in the back row couldn\u2019t hear him, i could. and that\u2019s all that really matters.<\/p>\n
but on the other hand, i wouldn\u2019t have wanted people to sit there bored.<\/p>\n
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\u2019d have to appreciate sitting there in this lovely yard with absolutely perfect weather, sipping a sangria and eating a homemade chocolate chip cookie.<\/p>\n
or we also had cold water.<\/p>\n
i\u2019d like some sangria and a cookie right now, as a matter of fact.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
i actually had a glass of leftover sangria tonight, and it\u2019s still pretty good. <\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
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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\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n
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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\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n
and since mollie was the beagle of honor, the boys spent most of the wedding petting mollie. or at least i\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s what they were doing; i was trying to focus on matters at hand.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t laugh. it wouldn\u2019t have been appropriate. but it was so funny.<\/p>\n
i guess small children don\u2019t have very good balance.<\/p>\n
i know i didn\u2019t when i was a child.<\/p>\n
still don\u2019t, so much. but i did manage to stay upright during the entire wedding, even though i was walking down a hill in high heels.<\/p>\n
ok, i\u2019m truly going to sleep now. except my HUSBAND is going to be home from work ANY MINUTE NOW, so maybe i\u2019ll stay up just a few minutes more.<\/p>\n
just a few.<\/p>\n
one or two.<\/p>\n
goodnight, goodnight,<\/p>\n
married grace, TWO WEEKS already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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