My brother's wedding, etc.
I had a very busy weekend starting at about 1:30 Friday afternoon. I had to work that morning, but talked my coworker into coming in early so that I would have time to get ready for the Wedding Rehearsal. It was so hot in the kitchen that I thought I might die. My mother and her parents showed up around 12:30 or so to have lunch, and I got to stop for a few minutes to talk to them, and then worked until my coworker got in to replace me.
I rode home with my mother to get ready for the rehearsal. I got my new awesome black slacks on, and then just put a tshirt on because it was really hot. I had to polish up my work shoes so I would have black shoes for the evening, but everything else was pretty much just cleaning up. My mother and grandfather left to do something with the dinner that night, and so my grandmother took me over to the country club for the rehearsal. It was a very short and not very productive rehearsal. I was basically told to escort my mother, stepmother and grandmother to their seats, and then walk down the aisle with one of the bridesmaids, and then back out again after the ceremony. That was it, with very little explaining. They didn't even tell us how fast to walk, or if we had to follow music or anything, but oh well.
From there I rode with my father to the dinner, after sitting around for what felt like Forever. I finished getting dressed on the ride out to Patriot's Point where we were meeting the boat for our Charleston Harbor Dinner Cruise. I wore and awesome purple shirt and matching tie, though I kept tying my tie all wrong, over and over agian. When we got there everyone looked lost, because they kept asking for tickets, and noone had them. In the end we didn't need tickets. We just had to say we were in the wedding party. I messed the tie up so many times that the bride and bride's maids were trying to fix my tie, but didn't know how. Jacci finally grabbed me and tied it like a pro, even though she said she didn't know how to do it to begin with. So, yay... I had a pretty tie just in time to get on the boat.
It was a pretty decent dinner, but nothing too impressive. The dessert my mother brought was awesome, though. I guess the whole thing was more about looking off of the ship at the water and the sunset, and listening to music than it was really about the meal. There was dancing near the end, and lots of running in and out of the dining area to look out at the water. I'm glad Whitney's friends are so much fun, because if not for them I would never have gotten up to dance around, and probably wouldn't have had a good time at all. I got to talk with my grandparents a lot, and got to really meet some of Whitney's family I didn't know very well. I ate. I danced. I chatted. I watched the sunset over the water. It was all very pretty and fun, and I had quite a good time.
We left the boat a little after ten, and I rode home with my father, who dropped me off at my mother's. I couldn't sleep for quite awhile, but I didn't really do anything for the rest of the night.
On Saturday Philip called me not too long after I got up and invited me out to lunch with him and his friend Jason. So I got all cleaned up in a bit of a hurry and caught a ride with him to Breck's steakhouse for lunch. He paid for everything, which was very nice of him. I had a nice little steak and baked potato, and he had an awesome philly cheesesteak. Jason had a steak and shrimp combo which looked tasty, too. Apparently my father was really worried we wouldn't get to the wedding on time, even though we had like four hours. Philip got me home by one or so, and I had plenty of time to get ready and get out there by 2:30 when everything started to happen.
I rode with my mother, and we got there with plenty of time. I had most of my tuxedo on, but finished getting ready when I met up with everyone upstairs in the main building. I had to trade cufflinks with my brother, because for some reason mine were a different color from everyone elses. It worked out alright though, because the black ones went really well with Philips white vest, and the silver ones matched me with the other groom's men. When we were all there and fully dressed the crazy photographer girl showed up and dragged us all out for a bunch of photos. She was very bossy, and crazy artsy looking. She had redhair in dreds, and a nose ring... plus she wore all black like you normally only see in the movies. We got covered in pollen while we were out for photos, but it came off pretty easy so that worked out. When we finished we had to all sit in the office so no one would see the bride while she and the bride's maids had their pictures taken. We kind of ended up seeing them all anyways, except for philip because he was stuck up there when we had to go seat people.
It all got very mixed up with the seating, but there was room for everyone so it was okay. We started the ceremony around five o'clock by seating grandparents and parents in the front row (me and whitney's brother escorted the important people). Then we headed back to the clubhouse and came in with the music and the bride's maids. The music cutout halfway through Whitney walking down the aisle, but she just paused a second, smiled bigger, and kept on walking. She was very beautiful all made up and with a gorgeous dress! And my brother was awesome in a white vest with his tuxedo. Myself and the other groomsmen were in tuxes with, like, a fuscia tie. I think that's the right color. And the bride's maids dressed were the same as the ties (and very cute! I was suprised...) The vows were very nice, even though the bride and groom were being a bit silly with trying to repeat after the officiate. Only the maid of honor cried, and everything was perfect for the ceremony. It was pretty short, but beautiful and perfect!
We got back into the clubhouse and let other people show everyone where the dinner would be. Philip and Whitney ordered a drink as soon as they were out of view. That made me laugh! After a little bit we all went out to have pictures taken all together. Then there were family pictures, and finally we got to go in for dinner. They started the announcements and my father was nowhere to be found! and he was the best man, so that was bad! Apparently he had to take Hayden home to get changed for some reason, so it was okay... but sad that he didn't get announced. The dinner was Amazing. Grilled vegetables, a nice salad, lots of pastas and grilled chicken or italian sausage... and tiramisu!
There were pretty orange and pink daisies everywhere, and little lamps and tiki torches. I couldn't get over how pretty everything was. We all finished dinner and walked around talking to everyone who had come. Almost all of my family showed up, a lot of whitney's family was there, and tons of their friends... even a bunch that didn't rsvp! After most people had finished eating they turned the music up so people could dance dance dance! The father-daughter dance was very sweet. Philip and Whitney's dance was nice. And Philip and our mother had a nice dance, too. Then people were just dancing around having fun, or standing about and chatting for the rest of the evening. Jacci made me super awesome happy, and I felt very special. She grabbed my hand and got me to dance when they called the "ladies choice" dance. But then she was very embarrassed because we were the only two dancing for the first minute or so of the song. Finally other people showed up, and the dance floor never emptied after that.
We got to dance with the little kids, and I hung out mostly with the bride, bride's maids, and philip, since the rest of the wedding party hardly danced at all. I was very sad when it was time for philp and whitney to leave for the evening. We blew lots of bubbles for them as they left to the car, and everyone headed out about fifteen minutes after they were gone. I got home with my head all a-buzz, and couldn't sleep for much of anything I was so excited and happy about it all.
Today (Sunday!), I went out to breakfast with my grandparents, mother, greg, uncle craig, sue, and my cousin Beth. It was a pretty nice time. Philip and Whitney showed up about midday and we all went on a nice walk in the park. I then rode with my brother and new sister to her parents house to see what they had gotten for wedding presents. We left there at about three to have Easter lunch/dinner with my dad's side of the family, and that lasted for a few hours and lots of eating. We followed that by dinner (AGAIN!) with my mother and grandparents, though Whitney had left before then to go home because she had school tomorrow, and philip had to stay for an interview in the morning. Everyone finally left and I sat in here forever just thinking.
And now, after all the excitement and happiness.... I'm really not sure how I feel. I guess, maybe, a bit lonely. Being around all of those people, and having that much fun just left me wanting more, and it's not here. Meeting people like those in the wedding party really made me see what I"ve been missing out on. It's not the partying, just... the happiness, the enthusiasm, the... positive energy. I don't really get to be around the kind of energy very often, and I'm not sure why that is. So now I'm kind of sad because I don't know where to find more of that, or if it's even something that can be around me often. I hope it wasn't just because of the wonderful event. I really hope I can get that kind of feeling doing other thngs, too.
It was the most wonderful wedding I've ever seen, and they are a happily married couple now, yay! The honeymoon is in the Western Carribean the day after Whitney graduates in May. Philip is hoping to get this job in Charleston from his interview tomorrow. Their life seems pretty much perfect to me right now. I hope they know how wonderful they have it, and how lucky they are to have lives like that. I'm almost jealous of them.
I keep thinking that I will stay happy, thinking about all of this, knowing, or at least hoping that I'll have the same thing one day. I've never really thought about being married and living in a nice house, and having children, and settling down for a calm, peaceful, "normal" life. But since the bachelor party, it's pretty much all I've dreamed about. I can have that one day, too, right? Marriage to the perfect girl, children, a home of my own? At least I can keep dreaming, and maybe... maybe that can keep me happy until it really happens.
I love you Philip and Whitney, and I hope you have the best time together, and the most wonderful life possible!
I rode home with my mother to get ready for the rehearsal. I got my new awesome black slacks on, and then just put a tshirt on because it was really hot. I had to polish up my work shoes so I would have black shoes for the evening, but everything else was pretty much just cleaning up. My mother and grandfather left to do something with the dinner that night, and so my grandmother took me over to the country club for the rehearsal. It was a very short and not very productive rehearsal. I was basically told to escort my mother, stepmother and grandmother to their seats, and then walk down the aisle with one of the bridesmaids, and then back out again after the ceremony. That was it, with very little explaining. They didn't even tell us how fast to walk, or if we had to follow music or anything, but oh well.
From there I rode with my father to the dinner, after sitting around for what felt like Forever. I finished getting dressed on the ride out to Patriot's Point where we were meeting the boat for our Charleston Harbor Dinner Cruise. I wore and awesome purple shirt and matching tie, though I kept tying my tie all wrong, over and over agian. When we got there everyone looked lost, because they kept asking for tickets, and noone had them. In the end we didn't need tickets. We just had to say we were in the wedding party. I messed the tie up so many times that the bride and bride's maids were trying to fix my tie, but didn't know how. Jacci finally grabbed me and tied it like a pro, even though she said she didn't know how to do it to begin with. So, yay... I had a pretty tie just in time to get on the boat.
It was a pretty decent dinner, but nothing too impressive. The dessert my mother brought was awesome, though. I guess the whole thing was more about looking off of the ship at the water and the sunset, and listening to music than it was really about the meal. There was dancing near the end, and lots of running in and out of the dining area to look out at the water. I'm glad Whitney's friends are so much fun, because if not for them I would never have gotten up to dance around, and probably wouldn't have had a good time at all. I got to talk with my grandparents a lot, and got to really meet some of Whitney's family I didn't know very well. I ate. I danced. I chatted. I watched the sunset over the water. It was all very pretty and fun, and I had quite a good time.
We left the boat a little after ten, and I rode home with my father, who dropped me off at my mother's. I couldn't sleep for quite awhile, but I didn't really do anything for the rest of the night.
On Saturday Philip called me not too long after I got up and invited me out to lunch with him and his friend Jason. So I got all cleaned up in a bit of a hurry and caught a ride with him to Breck's steakhouse for lunch. He paid for everything, which was very nice of him. I had a nice little steak and baked potato, and he had an awesome philly cheesesteak. Jason had a steak and shrimp combo which looked tasty, too. Apparently my father was really worried we wouldn't get to the wedding on time, even though we had like four hours. Philip got me home by one or so, and I had plenty of time to get ready and get out there by 2:30 when everything started to happen.
I rode with my mother, and we got there with plenty of time. I had most of my tuxedo on, but finished getting ready when I met up with everyone upstairs in the main building. I had to trade cufflinks with my brother, because for some reason mine were a different color from everyone elses. It worked out alright though, because the black ones went really well with Philips white vest, and the silver ones matched me with the other groom's men. When we were all there and fully dressed the crazy photographer girl showed up and dragged us all out for a bunch of photos. She was very bossy, and crazy artsy looking. She had redhair in dreds, and a nose ring... plus she wore all black like you normally only see in the movies. We got covered in pollen while we were out for photos, but it came off pretty easy so that worked out. When we finished we had to all sit in the office so no one would see the bride while she and the bride's maids had their pictures taken. We kind of ended up seeing them all anyways, except for philip because he was stuck up there when we had to go seat people.
It all got very mixed up with the seating, but there was room for everyone so it was okay. We started the ceremony around five o'clock by seating grandparents and parents in the front row (me and whitney's brother escorted the important people). Then we headed back to the clubhouse and came in with the music and the bride's maids. The music cutout halfway through Whitney walking down the aisle, but she just paused a second, smiled bigger, and kept on walking. She was very beautiful all made up and with a gorgeous dress! And my brother was awesome in a white vest with his tuxedo. Myself and the other groomsmen were in tuxes with, like, a fuscia tie. I think that's the right color. And the bride's maids dressed were the same as the ties (and very cute! I was suprised...) The vows were very nice, even though the bride and groom were being a bit silly with trying to repeat after the officiate. Only the maid of honor cried, and everything was perfect for the ceremony. It was pretty short, but beautiful and perfect!
We got back into the clubhouse and let other people show everyone where the dinner would be. Philip and Whitney ordered a drink as soon as they were out of view. That made me laugh! After a little bit we all went out to have pictures taken all together. Then there were family pictures, and finally we got to go in for dinner. They started the announcements and my father was nowhere to be found! and he was the best man, so that was bad! Apparently he had to take Hayden home to get changed for some reason, so it was okay... but sad that he didn't get announced. The dinner was Amazing. Grilled vegetables, a nice salad, lots of pastas and grilled chicken or italian sausage... and tiramisu!
There were pretty orange and pink daisies everywhere, and little lamps and tiki torches. I couldn't get over how pretty everything was. We all finished dinner and walked around talking to everyone who had come. Almost all of my family showed up, a lot of whitney's family was there, and tons of their friends... even a bunch that didn't rsvp! After most people had finished eating they turned the music up so people could dance dance dance! The father-daughter dance was very sweet. Philip and Whitney's dance was nice. And Philip and our mother had a nice dance, too. Then people were just dancing around having fun, or standing about and chatting for the rest of the evening. Jacci made me super awesome happy, and I felt very special. She grabbed my hand and got me to dance when they called the "ladies choice" dance. But then she was very embarrassed because we were the only two dancing for the first minute or so of the song. Finally other people showed up, and the dance floor never emptied after that.
We got to dance with the little kids, and I hung out mostly with the bride, bride's maids, and philip, since the rest of the wedding party hardly danced at all. I was very sad when it was time for philp and whitney to leave for the evening. We blew lots of bubbles for them as they left to the car, and everyone headed out about fifteen minutes after they were gone. I got home with my head all a-buzz, and couldn't sleep for much of anything I was so excited and happy about it all.
Today (Sunday!), I went out to breakfast with my grandparents, mother, greg, uncle craig, sue, and my cousin Beth. It was a pretty nice time. Philip and Whitney showed up about midday and we all went on a nice walk in the park. I then rode with my brother and new sister to her parents house to see what they had gotten for wedding presents. We left there at about three to have Easter lunch/dinner with my dad's side of the family, and that lasted for a few hours and lots of eating. We followed that by dinner (AGAIN!) with my mother and grandparents, though Whitney had left before then to go home because she had school tomorrow, and philip had to stay for an interview in the morning. Everyone finally left and I sat in here forever just thinking.
And now, after all the excitement and happiness.... I'm really not sure how I feel. I guess, maybe, a bit lonely. Being around all of those people, and having that much fun just left me wanting more, and it's not here. Meeting people like those in the wedding party really made me see what I"ve been missing out on. It's not the partying, just... the happiness, the enthusiasm, the... positive energy. I don't really get to be around the kind of energy very often, and I'm not sure why that is. So now I'm kind of sad because I don't know where to find more of that, or if it's even something that can be around me often. I hope it wasn't just because of the wonderful event. I really hope I can get that kind of feeling doing other thngs, too.
It was the most wonderful wedding I've ever seen, and they are a happily married couple now, yay! The honeymoon is in the Western Carribean the day after Whitney graduates in May. Philip is hoping to get this job in Charleston from his interview tomorrow. Their life seems pretty much perfect to me right now. I hope they know how wonderful they have it, and how lucky they are to have lives like that. I'm almost jealous of them.
I keep thinking that I will stay happy, thinking about all of this, knowing, or at least hoping that I'll have the same thing one day. I've never really thought about being married and living in a nice house, and having children, and settling down for a calm, peaceful, "normal" life. But since the bachelor party, it's pretty much all I've dreamed about. I can have that one day, too, right? Marriage to the perfect girl, children, a home of my own? At least I can keep dreaming, and maybe... maybe that can keep me happy until it really happens.
I love you Philip and Whitney, and I hope you have the best time together, and the most wonderful life possible!