Part 4 in the Story of Us: A Wedding Story

6 years of Married Bliss... and maybe a few marriage bumps...

But this guy…

Is still the only one for me =)

Part 4: A Wedding Story

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Our wedding day was awesome, but it wasn’t completely void of mishaps…

1. Me and the girls went to get our nails done, on the way there my maid of honor left her wallet on the trunk of her car while getting gas and drove off without it. Then, somehow the rest of us did not have cash or credit cards… longstoryshort… we got our nails done with NO way to pay for it… I am pretty sure there was a frantic phone call involved and someone rushing up to the nail salon…

So we were already off schedule…

2. We went to get our hair done. We drive ALL the way there and realize, I don’t have my veil… which was supposed to be fixed into my hair… whoops! get hair done without veil, we deal with that later….

3. My mom calls in the MIDDLE of getting my hair done and says this,

“yeah Lily, the table centerpieces (which we had put together the day before) are blowing all over the tent… what do you want me to do?”

“ummm let’s see mom, probably NOT call the bride 4 hours before the wedding and make her FREAK OUT… Just FIX it!!”

4. I forgot to buy shoes. (I told you I was bad at being a girl, who forgets their wedding shoes???) I realized this like an hour before the wedding- Thankfully, my Aunt Tanya wears close to the same size as me and had a pair of white shoes that I could borrow at the last minute. =)

Regardless of the mishaps we had a sweet, fun wedding that was exactly what I wanted… a little unconventional, but it was definitely “us.”

Wedding Location: My Aunt and Uncles back yard- down by the river. Reception in a rented tent.

Theme: Rock-n-Roll- black and white

Music: Goose’s band, Anthem, played and we had other dance music.

First Dance: Anthem’s version of “Can’t Help Falling In Love” by Elvis

Food: ummmm...who cares?

Send-off: Instead of bubbles, we gave out lighters with hearts on them. To go with the “rock-n-roll” theme, we had everyone light their lighters as we walked through- then my Uncle set off some huge –probably illegal- fireworks… We drove away in my aunt’s convertible and went to the Westin in Atlanta for our wedding night…

Everything went by sooooo fast.

My in-laws ~ Love all of them!!!!

My beautiful siblings =)

6 crazy, hectic, amazing years...

Can't wait to see what else God has in store for us!

....and I also can't wait to see where goose is taking me tonight. ;)

Part 3: An Engaged Story

If you want to catch-up on the first 2 parts, click here: A Dating Story and The Proposal

After our “we’re getting married” announcement over the holidays in 2003, me and Goosers had no idea what we were getting into...

Now as I have mentioned before, I am kind of terrible at being a girl… and I didn’t really think I would be getting married…

like.

ever.

So I didn’t have this “dream” wedding idea in my head and I was without a giant, pink notebook of magazine cut-outs and cake designs.

But what I did have is a very large, creative group of women in my family who started coming up with crazy ideas for location, theme, reception, all that.

I think our first wedding date was Sept. then it changed to August. then I moved it up to July. See I didn’t really give a crap care about the wedding, I was just ready to be married! (I’m a little impatient that way)

I found these pictures of when I went to try on dresses with Jess and my sis-n-law Brit.

I laughed and laughed… (they probably aren’t that funny, but you should have just seen me at the time, I was sooooo out of place…)

Here was a nice night-gown wedding dress??? (and what is up with my mushroom haircut?)

Trying on wedding dresses- not my idea of a good time…

The Cinderella dress… I felt like a little girl playing dress up:

This was one of the only ones I liked- it was sooo pretty, but it had so many beads and details it weighed like a 1000 lbs and I was getting married outdoors in July… wasn’t tryin to have a heat stroke on my wedding day =)

And I am sure they will love me for posting these- but look at my bridesmaids faces!

these dresses were all terrible- blech!

My dress and their dresses ended up looking NOTHING like these…

When my mom seen the dress I bought, she actually said, “Oh No Lily, you can’t wear that”

The dress was the only thing my mom and I fought about the whole wedding. But I think once she seen the bridesmaid dresses and everything else, she realized my dress wasn’t going to look that out of place. =)

The next 6 months flew by. I wanted a simple outdoor ceremony. I didn’t want traditional, no wedding “etiquette” books for me…

There was the shower (Egyptian theme pool party-tons of fun)

And all my Chilis girls (where I worked at the time) threw me a bachelorette party at one of their houses.

SOOO much fun- Some of these girls i haven’t seen in a long time! – miss them!!

Then there was the rehearsal dinner, which was on my 20th birthday. Goosers got me a guitar for my birthday… I think that is the only birthday present he has ever bought me. Ha! …. no seriously. I usually just go shopping for my bday and pick out my own gift. =)

My bridal breakdown happened a few days before the wedding- basically we were working on flowers and seating for the wedding ceremony and I just lost it...

started bawling my eyes out for NO reason whatsoever...

I think everything was just overwhelming, I went from just wanting a little ceremony somewhere and a party with friends and family to inviting 200 people and worrying about a bunch of nonsense. But I got over it and went on to really enjoy everything!

So are you wondering what my bridesmaids dresses ended up looking like, and why my mom almost fainted when she seen my dress? I'll show you on Friday (which is our 6 year anniversary) with the Final Part of our beginnings...

A Wedding Story =)

We are Fam-i-ly

Big things are coming next week: Birthdays- Anniversary- Blog changes-

but for the next 4 days I am GAME LEADER for VBS at our church. Last night was our first night and I was exhausted, but we had so much fun! (BTW, any game ideas for kids K-5th?)


So I might not be the best blogger this week- but I will post this picture for the Happiness Project:

My older brother and sister, me, and our better halves last weekend at my niece's bday party =) I love my family and it makes me happy that we all get along and enjoy our time together!