Wedding Recap

Friday night I went to bed and I kind of slept but not really. Saturday morning I was fully awake right before 6 so I got up to run. I took Jack with me and we did a great run and then I gave him a bath since he starts to smell like a puppy dog when he goes running and it's hot.

I started getting ready only to realize I needed to write out my vows. My parents wanted to take one car and wanted to be at the church at 10 so I just threw my stuff in bags and finished my hair and makeup at the church. I should have probably practiced my hair at least once or not promised to wear it down. I always do my hair up, especially when it's hot.

My college roommate who I worked with at the bridal store came to help me get into my dress. She had me all laced up and I had requested that Mr. Clean and I be able to have a first look since I requested to have all pictures taken before the wedding. I was ready and had to wait forever while the photographer got pictures of Mr. Clean, finally we were able to see each other and then we started taking the group shots. Girl Clean was sick and really just wanted to be held. I'm really blessed that her mom was there to get her ready and hung out while everything was going on.

Once pictures were finished Mr. Clean and I walked down to see our cakes. The cake we cut was made for me by a family I used to babysit for. The mom is a caterer and when she found out when the wedding was she contacted my mom and said she wanted this to be their gift to us. For the cakes served we had sheet cakes that were also gifted to us by an incredibly sweet lady who used to make all cakes for wedding at our church. They are seriously the most amazing cakes ever and I LOVE them!!!! She has retired and no longer makes cakes but every once in a while you can convince her to make a cake for a special occasion.
After we looked at the cakes I wanted to hang out with Mr. Clean and everyone but instead I went upstairs for more pictures. The tension of my mom was palpable. She wanted everything to be perfect, her version of perfect, and if anything veered from what she had in her head then it was wrong. We didn't do a rehearsal and therefore everything that wasn't just so was faulted on not having a rehearsal.

Finally it was time for everything to start. I heard the music, my mom stood and Dad and I started down. We arrived at the front and went through the words of introduction and I kissed Mr. Clean at some point because that's just what we do. I didn't even realize until after the fact that we were supposed to hold off on it. The words were said and it came time to say our vows to each other. Mr. Clean went first and totally surprised me. I didn't expect much more then I will love you and I got so much more then that. While he was saying his vows to me I had to completely shut my mind off to the fact that I didn't have my vows. I gave them to the family friend my Mom had asked to direct the wedding to give to Pastor Tery and she did but then he didn't know what it was, because I wrote them on the back side of a piece of paper, and gave them to his wife. So once Mr. Clean finished his part Pastor Tery's wife had to come up to hand me mine. It was a moment that makes us laugh, I read mine to him and then we lit the unity candle and then we were done.

All day people were trying to make me eat, and I wasn't hungry and I was so hot! I was glad that we dismissed everyone row by row because that way I actually got to hug each person and remember who was there. We had to have a few more pictures taken after the ceremony and then we went down to cut the cake. After we cut the cake we had a quick toast and then I escaped upstairs to change. My mom had given instructions to pack a cooler so we actually did have food for the drive which was nice.

We exited through a cloud of bubbles and drove away.

Hailey posted wonderful pictures!! I was so happy to see her and so excited Noah joined us!! I don't have pictures, I've received some and I need to look at them again and get them posted but currently the house is a disaster and getting everything organized is a top priority. My other top priority is thank you notes!

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend!!!