Wedding Day

After Christmas there was definitely no down time for us.  The following day we met with our pastor, who is also a long time friend of mine.  He's known me since my preteen years, and has always been like a big brother to me.  Having him perform our ceremony was beyond special.  Anyway, we met with him to finalize the ceremony.

Saturday morning was pretty smooth.  I got up, ate some food, hung out some, taught my bff's mom how to crochet...nothing super crazy.  I'm not an easily stressed person, and definitely don't fluster easily.  I worked on my nails some, as I wanted to add some of my Jamberry accent nails to the manicure I had gotten the day before.  Finished my hair, makeup, and got ready.  My dress was a corset back, which always amuses me.  You totally have to have someone lace you up who is not going to be scared to pull tight.  Otherwise, you're not going to get the right support.  I got laced in and did not get nearly as personal as I had with my bff on her wedding day (either of them, actually, as there are two of them) which cracked me up.  The most recent one had a more form fitting dress, with a corset back.  I was way up her dress and a little close for comfort on that!  The one who laced me up had a more princess style dress, but helping her get her petticoat on was an adventure.  Needless to say, both have some great photos of me under their dresses!  What are besties for?

Anyway, we got on the road without any real drama.  The 405 freeway was of course its normal self.  The only real "dramatic" thing we had happen was my getting tire grease, or car dirt, something on my dress when getting out of the car.  My dress was tea length, and let me tell you, those were not tiny little streaks of black.  After some Google searching (thank you smart phones) we found that mild liquid soap and water gets just about anything out of satin.  Hello bathroom hand soap!

Luckily she got it all out, and you could barely tell that anything had gone awry.  The wedding was sweet, and intimate.  We didn't have more than 25 guests in attendance.  Afterwards we had a nice dinner, and then went for Karaoke.  We didn't want the traditional reception type thing, as that really isn't the type of people we are, and really, neither are most of our friends and family.  There wouldn't have been much dancing, so really it would have all gone to waste.  Karaoke was a blast, and every one participated at some point.  Even when we decided to bust out some Frozen songs!  All in all, it was a wonderful time, and I'm so glad we decided to do it the way we did.