wedding story

I really suck as this whole writing thing right now.

Ok so we got married almost two weeks ago.  Not that much has changed, just a whole lot of late bills since I wasn’t working for a couple weeks but I did just work 8 hours of overtime this week so that will help out a lot.  We have both been super busy with work and just catching up from the wedding.

It was great to get home for a visit but going for the wedding was not a visit and I WANTED to visit.  We ran around quite a bit getting this and that.  My first day there my mom and I drove into Anchorage (45 miles away from where we live) to get a Cake topper and a few other crafty things.  I know that we did more than that and what not but I forget most of it all just because there was so much going on.  I got there the morning of the 27th.  My maid-of-honor got there the morning of the 3rd.  Alaric and Ben, Alaric’s family, my brother, my grandma, nephew, cousin and his friend all came the afternoon and evening of the 5th.  We had 10 people at my parents’ house.  My sister and her friend staid at her friend’s house even though they both live at my parent’s house (her friend doesn’t want to live in her house until she her wedding which is Aug. 12th.) 

We had the Bridal shower on the night of the 5th.  That was fun.  They made me get blindfolded and then dress in what they had brought for me.  I had to wear a tool belt, mens tighty-whities, a scarf, kids swimming goggles, a visor, and socks.  I got a lot of great stuff like "goodies" nighties and many other items.

The 6th was the rehearsal, Rehearsal dinner and bachelorette Party.  My friend Karen (bridesmaid and high scool friend), myself, Robyn (Maid-of-honor and College roomie), Alaric, and Ben (Best man) went and had some drinks at one of the bars in town.  I think that was a bad move on our part because it was so expensive and the girls wanted me to get a blow job (shot) and they made me drink it but I could only drink a bit because it was nasty.  I am a fruity drinks kind of girl and the Crown that was in the shot was strong and nasty.  We then went to get some alcohol to take back to the house and party there.  We decorated Penis shaped cakes that Robyn and I had made earlier that day and which we had filled with Cream Cheese filling so that when you bit into them the creamed on you 😛  Penis ice cubes, pin the macho on the man, talked an hung out.  All I had really wanted was a laid back night to hang out with my friends after all the stress and before all the stress.  We also had my friends Danielle and Renee come over for the party too and sent the boys downstairs to play video games.  I supposedly had almost a whole bottle of Mango rum since I had 4.5-5 Mango bombs that were strong.  I was a bit loopy but that is what I get for agreeing to race Robyn to see who could finish their drink the fastest.  I won but that was it for me, if I would have had more I could have been sick and I don’t even want to get that drunk.  I did make it to my bed and changed into pjs, Robyn crashed on the couch upstairs 😛

The wedding was good.  We had about 56 people there.  There was a light shower but that was fine.  The whole yard was GREEN, it was beautiful.  I hate the fact that so much of California’s grass is yellow, yellow means dead to me.  The lush green grass is what I am use to and love.  Siri, my neice was my flower girl, supposedly she made it about halfway down the path and then threw the basket and marched to her mom.  She said later that she hated the music (normal wedding march music).  I hope that someone got a video because I want to see that.  We did the ceremony.  Alarid tried to put mine and his rings on the wrong hand 😛  I love him.

After the ceremony we did pictures.  We had a photographer for 4 hours during the wedding.  She was wanting to get into the wedding photographer business so she was cheap.  We also get 10 8X10s with her price.  Alaric thinks that she is spendy but she really isn’t.  Some of the shots were really good, others were just normal pictures.  There are pictures of Alaric and I dancing with Siri, one at a time and then a picture of the three of us, if she didn’t have red hair she sould be our child 😛  Just a few years too old for our liking (just turned 5).

The reception was great.  People danced, mostly the younger people as they were the ones that had control of the music.  For some reason my wedding play list got deleted so there weren’t any classics.  They had my dad and I dance to "The Hammer Holds" which is like 3.5-4 minutes and neither one of us likes to dance.  During that dance Alaric and his mom danced also.  She told him that we needed to change the "5 year plan" to 9 months.  I yelled a VERY loud NO at that and so did Alaric.  Crazy woman, she ment it too.  I don’t plan on having kids for another 2-3 years.  We would like some time together and time to be less in debt then we are now.

We staid at a hotel for a few hours that night and then came back to the house to take Robyn and Ben to the airport that morning.  We went back in that afternoon to Take my friend Heather as well.  We did a LOT of driving while we were there.

So that is it for now.  I’ll try to think of more stuff but it is getting dark and tomorrow I have at least half of the thank you cards to still do.