The Wedding!

Mar 31, 2009 19:35

So! I finally have pictures uploaded for everybody's viewing pleasure. <3 I'll link ya to the photobucket here: http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss321/krystalchriswedding/ and if you click on 'photographer' off to the left and a bit down, you'll see all the professional photographer photos-- the ones in the general area are those taken by family and friends (except the ones on Facebook which I haven't saved/transferred yet. xD)

Here are a few sneak peaks for those who don't want to click the link:






























Anyhow, here's the story (yeah, this'll be long. Get comfy. XD). Most of it was fantastic and awesome. Sure, there were a few minor things and a lot of people asking me where things went and what was right and me letting things go and such, but...well, the DJ was awful. Seriously awful. It wasn't soooo bad when he messed up with the wedding music and started playing the wrong song for our recessional. It wasn't too bad when he screwed up our carefully planned introduction (we were supposed to fight over the music, which happened, but then when the last guy came in he was supposed to switch to Indiana Jones because that's his theme song and we thought it'd be funny. This did not happen). It was pretty bad that he listened to some random girl who told him to go ahead and announce dinner even though we had JUST TOLD HIM TO DO THE INTRODUCTION FIRST so that the entire wedding party had to wait until EVERYONE ELSE WAS DONE EATING in order to get their dinner when they were supposed to be y'know, first. And so that my husband and I had to eat our dinner cold because we had grabbed it before the intro was supposed to happen and put it on our table thinking this way we could eat and then mingle while everyone was still getting their food and eating.

But then he completely ignored the songbook we'd sent in saying which songs we wanted and did not want to hear. AND he did not have OUR song, which we circled multiple times and starred and wrote down "HAVE THIS SONG" next to so that we could use it as our last dance. This, for my husband, was the LAST STRAW and while our friend who served as Day Of Coordinator had already chewed the DJ out, Chris was in -such- a bad mood and I was afraid that the wedding was going to end with that sour note.

But it was not to be. Our amazing, wonderful friends did EVERYTHING they could in order to make sure that it was not. As we were leaving (after the DJ made a very FAST exit) our friend had found our song on her ipod and pulled her car around to the front, doors open, and had it blasting out full as soon as we stepped out the door.

This is where that last picture comes into play. I had not cried a single tear during the rest of the wedding (though, I got a little choked up over Chris' vows, I'd managed not to actually cry). I SOBBED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL. Because we have such amazing wonderful friends that they managed to completely SAVE our wedding. Because there was so much love and support for us bursting out of the people we cared for most in the world. Because I couldn't imagine how I'd been worried about losing touch with friends and having no one behind me when there were so many who stayed and made this possible for us. I sobbed so hard.

We went down the stairs, danced in the parking lot, hugged as many of them as we could reach before we just had to LEAVE (or else they'd be stuck at the place forever and they still had to do cleanup) and just..I cried and cried. So happy. <3 It really was beautiful, and even with the DJ being such a fuckup (we will be calling to complain for certain) everything worked out so much better in the end for it. We could not have PLANNED a better ending.

And so, for all of you who have not yet had your weddings, I leave you with the immortal words of Mr. Rob Thomas (in the song we danced with our parents to, no less!) Let it go. Let it roll right off your shoulders...in the end we will only just remember how it feels.

Crossposted to Weddingplans.
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