Wedding: Reprise
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The wedding went swimmingly well with very few exceptions. My groom was happy-teary as I'm sure most of you noticed. Some had friendly non-monetary bets on if he was going to faint and the groomsmen were debating on the best way to get to and catch him if he did. I was just so happy to finally be marrying this man I've called my boyfriend and then fiance for what felt like an eternity.
We didn't get to eat much food. Not only were we emotionally drained and tired from all the planning, but friends and family kept coming up to us as we attempted to eat. I realize that this was a last time people we going to see us for a while, but being interrupted very 2 or 3 bites was a bit frustrating. Guess it comes with the territory. One person came up to us easily 3 or 4 times, even.
The waitstaff was exceptional, at least the head woman who was in charge of us. She made sure we were all set every so often in a way that was polite and didn't feel intrusive. My only complaint about the staff is that while Kenny and I were in the reception room saying goodbye to people at the end of the night, nobody asked us if we wanted anything off our table before it was cleared. We had 1/3 of our VERY EXPENSIVE (Thanks again, Mom and Dad for being okay with that) Dom Perignon champage left. Seems the staff put all of the bottles on one table there at the end. My Dad recalls seeing a small group of guys chugging from bottles off of that table. And it seems the Dom was included. (Not too classy, people. Not the kind of behavior I expected at my wedding honestly.) We weren't concerned about the table wines being drank. But we had hoped that maybe someone would notice that there was only one bottle of Dom... and maybe realize that its not cheap stuff and it was off OUR HEAD TABLE. I'd wanted to bring it back to our room so we could celebrate in private with that 1/3 bottle. Was more than a bit disappointing.
Also, a couple of people helped themselves to that empty Dom bottle and my bouquet. Not the throwing one. I mean the one I walked down the aisle with. And we had to ask for both of those things back. I'm not going to hate anyone for it, nor am I going to do anything drastic to their car or anything over it. But please know that it was in bad taste to take those things and then once you saw us, not think to offer them to us right away. This was our wedding. I know everyone wants momentos but uhhhh.... I was a little dumbfounded.
Kenny and I spent Sunday evening sitting on my parents' livingroom floor opening gifts and envelopes. Thanks a million to everyone for their kindness and generosity!
Kenny's already on his way back to Oklahoma to meet up with the crew and finish up the fields there. He's had some tough luck travelling. On his way here for the wedding he got little to no sleep. This time around his second flight was cancelled because of bad weather and Greyhound bus lines was his friend. The taxi got him to the bus terminal 10 minutes late for the bus he wanted to take and so he waited around for several hours.. probably 6 hours... for the next one. My poor honey!!
I'm out of brain power for now. Phew.
The wedding went swimmingly well with very few exceptions. My groom was happy-teary as I'm sure most of you noticed. Some had friendly non-monetary bets on if he was going to faint and the groomsmen were debating on the best way to get to and catch him if he did. I was just so happy to finally be marrying this man I've called my boyfriend and then fiance for what felt like an eternity.
We didn't get to eat much food. Not only were we emotionally drained and tired from all the planning, but friends and family kept coming up to us as we attempted to eat. I realize that this was a last time people we going to see us for a while, but being interrupted very 2 or 3 bites was a bit frustrating. Guess it comes with the territory. One person came up to us easily 3 or 4 times, even.
The waitstaff was exceptional, at least the head woman who was in charge of us. She made sure we were all set every so often in a way that was polite and didn't feel intrusive. My only complaint about the staff is that while Kenny and I were in the reception room saying goodbye to people at the end of the night, nobody asked us if we wanted anything off our table before it was cleared. We had 1/3 of our VERY EXPENSIVE (Thanks again, Mom and Dad for being okay with that) Dom Perignon champage left. Seems the staff put all of the bottles on one table there at the end. My Dad recalls seeing a small group of guys chugging from bottles off of that table. And it seems the Dom was included. (Not too classy, people. Not the kind of behavior I expected at my wedding honestly.) We weren't concerned about the table wines being drank. But we had hoped that maybe someone would notice that there was only one bottle of Dom... and maybe realize that its not cheap stuff and it was off OUR HEAD TABLE. I'd wanted to bring it back to our room so we could celebrate in private with that 1/3 bottle. Was more than a bit disappointing.
Also, a couple of people helped themselves to that empty Dom bottle and my bouquet. Not the throwing one. I mean the one I walked down the aisle with. And we had to ask for both of those things back. I'm not going to hate anyone for it, nor am I going to do anything drastic to their car or anything over it. But please know that it was in bad taste to take those things and then once you saw us, not think to offer them to us right away. This was our wedding. I know everyone wants momentos but uhhhh.... I was a little dumbfounded.
Kenny and I spent Sunday evening sitting on my parents' livingroom floor opening gifts and envelopes. Thanks a million to everyone for their kindness and generosity!
Kenny's already on his way back to Oklahoma to meet up with the crew and finish up the fields there. He's had some tough luck travelling. On his way here for the wedding he got little to no sleep. This time around his second flight was cancelled because of bad weather and Greyhound bus lines was his friend. The taxi got him to the bus terminal 10 minutes late for the bus he wanted to take and so he waited around for several hours.. probably 6 hours... for the next one. My poor honey!!
I'm out of brain power for now. Phew.