I Do......

Our wedding day......
It all began with me waking up to a loud crash at about 9:00 am. I had stayed at my grandmothers house the night before with my mom and thought that she must be up in the kitchen cooking or something. I got up to see what the noise was and realized I was home alone. So I decided I needed to investigate the cause of all the clatter. After searching the house I decided to peak out the window to discover my grandmother half in the driveway and cars lined up behind her. Apparently, as she tried to turn into the driveway a man decided to pass her in a no passing zone and they had a collision. Luckily, neither were hurt, a little bruised, but ok. So after all that was cleared up, I left to get my hair and nails done at my aunts beauty shop. When I arrived, I found my mother there getting her hair and nails done also. My aunt curled my hair and sprayed it with enough hairspray for about 10 little old ladies I think and then it was time for my nails. After hair and nails it was lunch time and then off to the church. When we arrived at the church the girls and I grabbed a sunday school room in the fellowship hall and the men stayed in the family life center. Makeup was done, dress put on, garters in place, more hairspray applied, and then it was picture time. I think we took pictures for about 2 hours before the wedding and by that time my cheeks felt like they were paralyed into a constant smile. Who knew smiling so much could hurt so much? Shaun and I didn't keep to the old tradition of not seeing the bride before the wedding. We're pretty new school anyway. We had all our pictures done before the wedding.
Our ceremony started promtly at 6:00 at Rayville United Methodist Church with Brother Ted Freeland marrying us. The sanctuary was decorated with flowers only in shades of purples. The church is already beautiful, there's not much you can add to it. The girls all wore purple and lavendar strapless plaid tops with ankle lenght purple skirts. The men were all in tuxes. I walked myself down the isle since daddy watched from heaven, I know he was probably breaking down since he was convinced I wasn't getting married, even after we ordered the dress, LOL! We finished our ceremony in a record 30 minutes and then had our reception to follow in the family life center. For our reception, Shaun and I built small wooden boxes that held our centerpieces for each table. Each one was filled with lillies and each had a small birds nest with eggs. We had also cut down a small tree that we placed into another very large "planter" we built and placed it in the center of the room. From here Mrs. Chris hung flowers and tea lights which were lit. We served mainly appetizer type foods like meatballs, roast with small buns, there was of course plenty of cake. We were there for all our pictures, the garter toss and bouquet toss and then Shaun disappeared. It was only after I recieved a note from the men that I realized he had been kidnapped by his groomsmen. I was told I must collect at least $100 to have him return. I started out collecting money and then my junior bridesmaid Bella decided she wanted to. Fine with me, I fixed a plate of food and kicked back to eat while she did the "hard" work. Once we had the money, which was well over $100, we placed a call and Shaun was returned unharmed, LOL. We changed and headed to my car to find it covered in, ahem, well, we just wont say what, lol. Anyway, we loaded up, said our goodbyes and headed for home where we packed up our cat and hit the road for Hot Springs!