5/17/2012
- Reserved a keg of Bud Light (cheap)
- Picked up Rick's Ice Chests and brought them home
- Got Booze from Laplace
- Purchased Soft Drinks Drinks
- Tried to pick up Tux with Josh & his fam
- Jacket was too small, had to order a new one
- Got booze pour things at Martin Wine Cellar
- Purchased hose valves for Rick's Ice Chests
- Stopped by mom's went through pictures
- Dropped up pics at Chris' to get scanned
- Cleaned Ice Chests & House til 3am
5/18/2012
- Got haircut from Claude's Barber Shop
- Told Barber I was getting married - He asked me "why I'd do that to myself", told me to get a chain and to nail it to the wall and "tell her if she acts up that you'll wear her ass out with it", and he told me a story of how a customer was blind for 25 years until his wife died. On the way out Claude the owner told me that it was ok and he was happily married for 65 years & and that my barber had "3 wonderful marriages"
- Picked up keg and ice from the Ice house
- Dropped off Ice Chests, booze, drinks, & ice at the Church (Norwegian Seaman's Church)
- Rehearsal
- Got DVD of pics from Chris
- Rehearsal Dinner
- Gave ushers (Ricky and Jonah) their presents ($25 Gamestop Gift Cards)
- Gave groomsmen (Josh, Rick, Shane, & Chris) their presents (Shop Vacs)
- Chris and Rick liked the shop vacs a lot
- Stayed up til 1am combing Natalie' pictures for the slide show
5/19/2012
- Met Videographer at Men's Warehouse.
- Regional Manager said we needed permission from the corporate office to film inside of the store
- They filmed me go inside to get a the tux and me leaving the store
- One of the video guys got in the truck with me to get the truck washed
- Arrived at the church
- Robby Joy and his friend was setting up the flowers
- Setting up slideshow on bedroom TV & Nat's laptop
- KT + Royce, Ms. Renee, Toria + Shelby eventually showed up
- Robby got Shelby on setting up ribbons
- Ate Rice Porridge
- Iced down drinks with Royce
- Hid from Natalie while doing various setting up of things
- Showered in the pool dressing room
- Put on the Tux with Chris and Kiki's help
- Took groom's pictures with Josh, Rick, Chris, & Shane
- Hid/hung out with Shane and Chris while Natalie and the Bride's Maids (KT, Leslie, Toria, & Kiki) while they went to take their pics
- Suddenly the wedding ceremony, tried to make Nat laugh, thumb wrestled
- Brass band showed up late
- Took pictures
- Brass band showed up while taking pictures
- I half-assed led the second line with Rita & Nat
- Came back to the reception & danced with Natalie
- Drank and ate a little
- Ronnie from work bartended, he ran out of vodka at some point, but Brett made a booze run
- Danced with Natalie to a Frank Sinatra song
- Nat did the twist with her dad (who dropped it like it was hot)
- Danced with Mom to Pink Floyd's Mother from the Wall
- Money Dance to November Rain by Gun's and Roses with Jennifer, Aunt Debbie, Andrea, Melanie, Gracie, Vicky, Brett (who paid $20 of all people), and (slightly after the song) Aunt Deanna
- Did the cake stuff
- Got out of the Tux & back into normal clothing
- Signed wedding certificate with Nat, Chris, & Hannah
- Checked in to Prytania Park Hotel
Here's a pic of my Groom's Cake:
Next: The honeymoon and stuff.