Ohhh the wedding

Well, Teresa and Allen got married on Saturday. His sister and brother-in-law have a gorgeous house on Lake Tapps in South Central Washington State, and they hosted the wedding at their house. Picture if you will (at least until I can get pictures on here) the 3 story home built into the hillside overlooking the lake, you walk down to their boat dock on the lake.

We got there about noon so the bride and groom and family members could be there for the photographer. The bride wore a "Scarlett O'Hara" kind of dress, it was cream colored and had a long train and a corsett to enhance her bustline amazingly. The groom wore a very nice tux and both just shined for the day. After 2 hours of pictures and all that jazz, the bride was secreted away by car and was delivered to the ceremony in the hosts yellow jet boat. Her dad met her on the boat dock and escorted her to the minister and her husband-to-be. The entire ceremony took less than 10 minutes, and they were married by 4:30pm, then the party started. The families hosted the bar, catered the food, hired a band... the 200+ guests enjoyed freely until very late into the evening. Chris and I finally got out of there around 10PM and I was asleep on the couch by 10:30. Woke up with a terrible dry mouth, very dehydrated from the heat and lack of water... no, I don't drink. The bride and groom, however, showed up Sunday morning and they were both hungover!! They had a bridal suite for the night, and both drank a LOT at the party, and were drunk and hung over.. just made me laugh!!! We both tried to talk them into drinking a bunch of water and taking some sea salt, and hopefully they enjoyed our gifts: A Britta Water pitcher and filters, a container of sea salt, and a book about dehydration.. oh and some essential oils - lavender, myhrr, frankinsence, peppermint, and spearmint (plus information about the uses of those oils).

I was just so impressed with Allen's daughters - Elizabeth and Shelby, they ushered and did such an excellent job. They walked the mom's and grandmothers to their seats and handled the rings and flowers. Shelby did a toast, but she was so nervous by the crowd and the emotions that she flubbed it a bit, but considering she's only 12, I thought she did great.

One fun note, Christopher is a very accomplished guitar player and singer, and the family know this... and they tried very hard to get him to get up and play a song or two. Well, finally, the band leader invited Chris and said go ahead man, play... So, ok, Chris got up and played "Purple Haze" a Jimmy Hendrix icon song, and he did a pretty excellent rendition. Well, the guitar player for the band was heard saying that it never fails, you invite someone to play from the audience, and they outplay the band every time!!! I'm personally hoping that the band will contact Chris and invite him to play with them sometime soon, he's talented enough and needs the exposure to get his desired career off the ground. His cousin took pictures of Chris playing with the band and soon I'll have a CD of the same, to share around and put some on here to share too, hopefully!!

I was unhappy to not get to dance with Chris, this was to be our first opportunity to dance together. He did dance with the bride and with a drunken cousin of his, and I wasn't jealous, though he felt bad and tried to talk me into a dance, but with this cast on, it just wasn't going to happen.

There were lots of dancers and lots of fun to be had. I'm glad we went to the wedding, though I still think they should have eloped and saved all that hoo-haw. Thankfully, the bride wasn't a bridezilla... she smiled a lot and seemed to be soaking up all that attention. I wish them well and lots and lots of anniversaries.